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William Barber And The Religious Left Join Forces. Will It Work?

By Daniel Schultz

…d Texas finding that those states’ voting laws disproportionately affect African-Americans and other minorities, and the stark racial divides between the two major parties. I’m about as pessimistic as Martin Longman on Democrats’ ability to address racial differences while avoiding white backlash in the very districts they need to pick up. Like him, I’m convinced that they need more than just better messaging if they’re going to take rural seats….

The Only Religion Question Reporters and Debate Moderators Should Ask Presidential Candidates (Kim Davis Edition)

By Sarah Posner

…out biblical supremacy over civil law. It’s an argument over who has “authority” or “jurisdiction” to decide matters relating to the United States citizenry. To say that Huckabee or Davis seek to erase the separation of church and state misses the point. What they mean to say is not that the government should endorse a particular religion. They mean to say that the government should step aside for a particular religion. While Huckabee may be the m…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…s like Tim Keller are unworthy of honor and deserve to be marginalized, American Christianity is in serious trouble. He kept using that word “marginalized,” but to quote Inigo Montoya, I don’t think it means what he thinks it means? He later walked back his eyebrow-raising choice via Twitter, saying different wording “might have been more appropriate.” But the blunder was evidence of a growing trend to cry “oppression” when the opinions of influen…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rights of gays and lesbians to the back burner, arguing that it was not a priority. The bill would have legalized same-sex civil marriage in the Philippines, where the Catholic Church wields substantial political influence. The church successfully blocked until 2012 the passage of a family planning law that called for free contraceptives, and it is still in the forefront of efforts to stymie talk of legalizing divorce. Apart from the Vatican, the…

Maybe The Question Is: Should Shabbat Be The New Yoga?

By Michael Schulson

…th century rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel explicitly presented Shabbat as a critique of industrial civilization, and his writings about Shabbat practice chafe against modern notions of time, ownership, and labor. In the early 20th century, Jewish activists drew on Shabbat to challenge labor practices and help advocate for a two-day weekend—one of the great labor victories of the century. One high-profile rabbi, Abba Hillel Silver, went further, fram…

Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Gay Attendees, Waffles on White Supremacists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…t-right,” it apparently has no such equivocation over the place for LGBT Christians at its annual gathering: gays and those preaching tolerance for them are not welcome inside the Convention’s annual meeting. At least, that’s the message sent loud and clear to a small group of activists who tell RD they were “forcibly removed” from the convention this morning in Phoenix, Arizona. All told, five people were removed and had their conference registra…

Eclipseville, USA: The Birthplace of ‘Little Green Men’ Proudly Hosts The Point of Greatest Eclipse

By Matthew Bowman

…fasts and cell phone towers to transform the eclipse into a comfortable tourist experience, there is a fundamental strangeness to the whole affair that no amount of merchandizing can fully defang. That it’s hard to reduce the weirdness of things like the eclipse hasn’t stopped Hopkinsville from trying. More than a half-century ago, on Monday, August 22, 1955, news media around the country reported that the previous night, several Hopkinsville resi…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…imates in 2019. Chechnya: ‘Long Arm of Retaliation’ Follows Gay Refugees Boris Dittrich of Human Rights Watch writes about Chechnya’s “long arm of retaliation” against gay men. He spoke with two gay men from Chechnya who are living in refugees in Western Europe. “We were abducted, tortured in Grozny. The police extorted us for money because we are gay. They threatened to disclose our sexual orientation to our families. We paid them a lot to avoid…

‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tivist writes of decision to leave At DailyXtra, LGBT activist Kristi Pinderi writes about the decision to flee Albania. “By the time we left, we were receiving doens of death threats on social media every day—threats we couldn’t ignore. The false sense of security we had built around us started to crumble.” Pinderi explains how his public activism started: It was the summer of 2009, when the right-wing Democratic Party of Albanahad won the electi…

Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

By Peter Montgomery

…cent. The Guardian’s David Marr writes that for political reasons, “the cleric warriors” are muffling their “contempt for homosexuality” and their teaching about sin and damnation in favor of “talking marriage and freedom.” Writing that clerical opponents of marriage equality share a theological position—“no sex ever for gays and lesbians”—he quips about their marriage campaign messaging, “it’s the hate that dare not speak its name.” It’s a strate…