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Pope Praises ‘Complementarity’ & Resists Gay Ambassador; Irish Religious Leaders Spar Over Marriage; Colombian Atty Gen Cites ‘Bogus’ Study Opposing Adoption; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…by his anti-gay statements, has decided not to make a return appearance. Ireland: Religious leaders spar on marriage equality referendum Religious leaders publicly sparred over marriage and LGBT equality, with a pro-LGBT Church of Ireland bishop criticizing a Baptist pastor who had equated homosexuality with rape. The Irish Times reports that Shaykh Umar Al-Qadri, Imam of the Al-Mustafa Islamic Centre, while stating that Muslims “must believe in e…

Obama’s Pick Sotomayor Derided by Conservatives For Empathy

By Paul Gorrell

…r certain groups or individuals.” Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele argued that empathy gets in the way of justice, saying he does not want “some justice up there feeling bad for my opponent.” Understanding Empathy Empathy has been defined in multiple ways, and it is telling that conservatives favor “feeling”-based definitions that conflate empathy with the notion of sympathy. By shifting the focus to sympathy and emotion, conserv…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…n her intimate and nude scenes in the film, without using a body double. Leela tells The Hindu that she is not homosexual but worked hard to make the role “look truthful.” From the interview: Were you expecting the ban in India, considering how reactions to films on homosexuality have been? Not really! I knew there would be some controversy and opposition, given the conservative take on homosexuality. But I didn’t know it would be this dramatic. I…

Is God a Winning Strategy for Democrats?

By Andrew L. Seidel

…se he took Coons’ advice. Never mind the pesky facts that incumbents win reelection well over 80% of the time and that Brown had won his previous two races by an average of over 9%. Throughout history, religious, theological, and biblical arguments have been used to justify slavery, segregation, and the subjugation of women. Even Martin Luther King, Jr.—who some readers have already mentally invoked as a counter argument on reading this article—un…

Why is Liberty Institute Still Defending Phillip Monk?

By Rob Shryock

…port was released, Monk openly appeared (in possible violation of military code) at the Values Voters Summit for a panel. The Liberty Institute’s Jeff Mateer put his hand on Monk’s shoulder and praised him, saying, “We’ve gotten phone calls from military members who are undergoing discrimination…and with the exception of him, those folks that have called us have all wanted to remain anonymous. Sergeant Monk, to his credit, is willing to stand up.”…

Well, It Would Have Been a Good Religion Question…

By Sarah Posner

…lem police? Hoffman is the executive director of the Reform movement’s Israel Religious Action Center, and chair of the group Women of the Wall, which fights for the right of women to pray aloud at Judaism’s holiest site. “At the coercion of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox religious establishment,” Menachem Z. Rosensaft writes in the Forward: women are forbidden to read from the Torah or to wear prayer shawls or tefilin in the plaza in front of the Wall….

Progressive Christian: Wallis “No Longer Speaks for Us”

By Sarah Posner

…ious left reject Wallis as their leader. Still, though, Wallis’ knack for self-promotion, combined with a lack of imagination on the part of both politicians and the media, has led to Wallis being viewed as one of the preeminent figures on the not-right-hand end of the Christian spectrum. After all, he is against poverty (although who isn’t?) and his campaign to fast in order to pressure Congress to not to cut programs to the poor attracted the su…

Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ecommends compulsory registration of all marriages, something which the panel itself had recommended to the government earlier in the year. “In case of non-heterosexual marriages, the fact that the religious or customary practices do not permit such marriage or prohibit such marriage, will not be a bar and the registrar of marriages will have all such powers to ensure solemnisation of such marriage,” says the draft. … “All married couple and coupl…

McCain’s VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals

By Kathryn Joyce

…er judged a vehicle for courting the religious right in psalmic and hymnic code, Palin is delivering a very clear message to religion-savvy listeners, who hear in her call for “servant’s hearts” the message of twenty years’ worth of “complementarian” sermons, exhorting Christians to be “servant-leaders” and, among women, to view their highest calling in service to male leadership: willing helpmeets to their husbands’, fathers’ and pastors’ authori…

Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

…e has allied members of multiple faiths who recognize the call to support beleaguered workers in their religions. For example, Islamic scholars point out the Holy Qur’an exhorts employers to “Give full measure when you measure out and weigh with a fair balance. This is fair and better in the end” (17:35). A Manual of Hadith states “when you hire, compensate the workers and treat them fairly.” As Rabbi Jill Jacobs has written, Judaism also has a ro…