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Soldier Hot Line Draws Calls Over DADT Repeal

By Lauri Lebo

…standard, she said, is that the person must be conscientiously opposed to participating in war in any form, based on a sincerely held religious, moral or ethical belief. And the person must have had a change of heart since joining the military, when the person signed a form saying he or she was not a conscientious objector and did not intend to become one. “In the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ situation, they’re not opposed to participating in war, the…

Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

…our aversion to female leadership, we don’t have women in places to offer pastoral care. So I have been investing deeply in my friendships with people of color, in particularly other queer people of color who are all over the country because that’s the only way I can survive this desert. *** NOVEMBER 2017 What’s happened since we last spoke? I stopped attending services in March. I know you wrote about how I walked out of a service. Well, that ke…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…ds to Spiritualism, New Thought, and New Age mysticism, Goodchild seems to participate in the eclectic, combinative spirituality typical of UFO faith; Wojcik notes that UFO believers draw on sources as diverse as theosophy, Asian religions, science fiction, Scientology, Mormonism and Christianity. Certainly, the October 14 prophecy seems to have resonated with the broader UFO community. A Google search for “Blossom Goodchild” yielded 50,200 hits a…

Is Bart Stupak As Marginalized As He Claims?

By Sarah Posner

…andate coalition, it has enabled the growing anti-choice contingent in the party. Stupak was elected in 1992 — before anti-choicers were explicitly sought out by the party leadership. According to the Times piece, “In the primary, he beat a candidate who supported abortion rights. But when he tried to hire Democratic political consultants for the general election, they refused — with expletives, he says — to work for a candidate with his views.” H…

The Rundown Truth: Scientology Changes Strategy in War with Media

By Hugh B. Urban

…nd disappointing that fellow journalists would take money to investigate a paper “while they’re being paid to ask these questions by the very subjects of [its] reporting.” It remains unclear what will become of the study commissioned by the church, whether it will be invoked in some future lawsuit or simply filed away. In either case, it is telling evidence that strange things continue to happen to people who write about Scientology; but they are…

Black Masses Continue to Titillate Conservative Catholics

By Joseph Laycock

…cedented attention. Mayor Mick Cornett has already received 450 emails and phone calls opposing the event. Archbishop Paul Coakley has also condemned the event and called on Catholics to protest if it moves forward. Daniels, naturally, has expressed delight that his antics are finally provoking Church officials. This newfound energy has nothing to do with Daniels and everything to do with the events of last May. An online petition features footage…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…morning, I woke up and I told her, I said: I feel that I’m being called to pastor a church. And she said, Well, you are pastoring a church. And I said, No, another church, away from here. And I cried again. Because I didn’t want to go. I was doing fine. I intended to be an old lady wheeled down the aisle of that church. About a year after that, in 1991, we started City of Refuge. We were about fifteen people when we started, being intentional abou…

Denying Communion to Prochoice Politicians

By Frances Kissling

…can Life League were so furious with this position that they took out full page ads in the Washington Times and other papers calling on the Vatican to discipline McCarrick in 2004, even picketing his retirement Mass. The Cardinal thus got a very slight taste of what women who go to abortion clinics face when they meet a wall of rosary-praying, placard-carrying screaming anti-abortionists on one of the most stressful days of their lives. Duin wonde…

Planned Parenthood ‘Stung’ By Lila Rose

By Bill Berkowitz

…Reality Check, “are actually just a continuation of massive anti-choice campaigns against contraception, family planning, annual exams and pap smears, STI checks for low income women (and men!). It’s stunning, really, to wage a campaign against PPFA as they are the most well known reproductive health provider.” Indeed, Rose’s work “is an update of an old tactic invented by Mark Crutcher of the Denton, Texas-based group Life Dynamics,” adds Frederi…

How Do We Break the Cycle of Religious Violence in South Asia?

By Sunita Viswanath

…y. Law enforcement will often turn a blind eye, or in some cases, actively participate in the violence. Finally, violence in one country ignites retaliatory violence in another. We saw this recently, where attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh led to attacks on Muslims in Tripura. Similarly, the demolition of the Babri Masjid, a medieval mosque, by a Hindu mob in India in 1992 triggered violence against Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as many…