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Pope Francis: Culture Warriors Out, “Collaboration and Consultation” In

By Patricia Miller

…rge raised the prospect of a future where “those who do not conform to the official religion” of approval of “all types of sexual relationships” that were once considered sinful will be driven from public life: It means that those who choose to live by the Catholic faith will not be welcomed as political candidates to national office, will not sit on editorial boards of major newspapers, will not be at home on most university faculties, will not h…

Richmond’s Religious Right Darlings Target Gays and Lesbians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lace in hundreds of institutions across the country. While there’s been no official reaction from the universities, students and others associated with the schools are understandably upset and confused. Student groups are launching Facebook sites and flooding their leaders with emails on the topic. Speaking to the Washington Post, Brandon Carroll, 21, student government president at Virginia Tech, said, “I’ve never gotten so many e-mails from stud…

Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…during celebrations of the country’s independence: But the visibly excited official went far beyond a prayer, giving a lengthy sermon which was full of Mugabe praises and never short of its own share of controversies. Pastor Chiriseri, sworn into the State rights watchdog in 2016, thanked Mugabe for “consistently acknowledging the power of gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ”. She also blasted unnamed nations that now worship Satan “under the so calle…

Long Before Lying to Congress, Barr’s Views on Church and State Should Have Disqualified Him

By Becky Garrison

…government is the platform upon which religious freedom rests. Without an official policy of secularism, our nation will drift toward theocracy. High government officials who criticize secular government should be asked what their alternative is—religious government? Barr does not seem to grasp that a decent distance between church and state is the only way to ensure the right of every American to engage in the religious activities of their choic…

Double Helix: Obama, Race, Science, and Religion

By Arri Eisen

…treated in black men even after the advent of penicillin) only received an official apology from the American government in the 1990s. Herrnstein and Murray’s 1994 book The Bell Curve, claiming that different races have different IQs and that this has important implications for social policy, is one of the more recent contributions to the long, and often ugly, history of science and race. These days, the conversation tends to be more subtle in sci…

Perhaps Islam isn’t the Only Reason Donald Trump Didn’t Recall Muhammad Ali

By Sean O'Neil

…senior year, a new coach appears to squash Rudy’s dream of getting into an official game, a despairing Rudy is admonished by a black groundskeeper named Fortune, who once played Notre Dame football but quit because he had assumed his lack of playing time was due to the color of his skin. He had lived with regret ever since and implores Rudy not to give in to pity. Despite all the pummeling the diminutive Rudy takes in practices, he arrives at his…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…past on U.S. and British religious conservatives’ efforts to stop Jamaican officials from repealing the country’s colonial era “buggery” law. This week, a joint select committee of the Jamaican Parliament began an official review of the Sexual Offences Act, a 2009 law that further criminalized same-sex relations. In a June interview, Jamaican LGBT rights lawyer Maurice Tomlinson had accused Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller of a “blatant betray…

Palin Cries ‘Blood Libel’: Can Words Harm Us?

By Susannah Heschel

…l, frequently receiving support from bishops, popes, and emperors. Yet the official declarations exonerating Jews from blood libel were often ignored and ritual murder accusations were brought against Jews by priests or laypeople seeking to stir up Christian passions against their Jewish neighbors. Blood libel cases spread eastward into Poland and Lithuania in the early modern period, and into the Middle East, Greece, Russia, Hungary, and the Otto…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…o gay rights activists last year after imposing a sanction on the U.S. Episcopal Church following its ordination and marriage of LGBT people. The Episcopal Church was banned from representation on key bodies and barred from voting on issues relating to doctrine or strategy for three years. But the sanction drew dismay among Liberal Anglicans. Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, lamented that the ban brought pain to those who h…

Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…ey are ready to take the law into their own hands to combat homosexuality. Officials are also inflamed. “It is detestable,” said Mohammed Tata, a senior official with the Shariah Commission here, which controls the Hisbah. He added: “This thing is an abomination.” According to the report, gunfire was required to disperse a rock-throwing mob that was angry at a judge who sentenced a young man to twenty lashes rather than to death, as the crowd want…