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Federal Judge Declares Prop. 8 “Unconstitutional”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…real argument, launched a personal attack on Judge Vaughn: “The ‘trial’ in San Francisco in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case is a unique, and disturbing, episode in American jurisprudence. Here we have an openly gay (according to the San Francisco Chronicle) federal judge substituting his views for those of the American people and of our Founding Fathers who I promise you would be shocked by courts that imagine they have the right to put gay marri…

Gay and Lesbian Candidates Win Primary Victories

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…will “become the state’s second openly lesbian District Attorney, joining San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, a Republican who is unopposed in her reelection bid.” Perhaps the most surprising advancement came from Victoria Kolakowski, a transgender lawyer who has made it to the general election in her bid to become a Superior Court Judge in Alameda County, California. On her campaign website she’s very open about being transgender and not…

Healed of the Sin of Religion: At Church with Sara Miles

By Lisa Webster

…anted to ask you to say something more about that image of these beautiful sanctuaries, these worship spaces, that are empty, while a soup kitchen, massed with people, operates in the basement below. That’s a really interesting idea about what holiness is. Is holiness the thing that you don’t touch? Or is holiness covered with fingerprints? At St. Gregory’s we have the altar in the very center of the church—and we use it for holding coffee after s…

Cuba Opens its Doors to the Catholic Church

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…The significance of Wenski, Castro, and Ortega together at the Seminary of San Carlos and San Ambrosio, a symbolic trinity of Cubans’ and Cuban-Americans’ negotiations between identity, land, and religion, is not lost on me. For the Catholic Church globally, this opening is a public testimony of the survival of Catholicism in spite of increasing clergy shortages throughout other parts of Latin America. While many are heralding this as the beginnin…

Sex, the Body, the World: It’s R. Crumb’s Bible Now

By Naomi Seidman

…oween night in San Francisco—Michael Jackson on the MUNI bus, Barbara Streisand teetering on four-inch heels at Starbucks—was this one: comix artist Robert Crumb onstage at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center, headlining the Jewish Book Fest at its sold-out opening event. Basically it was the usual Jewish Bay Area crowd, coming out in droves for Crumb, who had apparently become an honorary member of the tribe by illustrating that tribal book…

How Should Mormons Respond to Leader’s Anti-Gay Comments?

By Joanna Brooks

…mons is organizing a “Stand Up to Youth Suicide March” at 6:30 p.m. at the San Francisco Civic Center. The march on Friday is in conjunction with Affirmation’s annual conference, which is being held in San Francisco this year and which will feature workshops on standing up to suicide, standing up for understanding and standing up for equality. With the prominence of LGBT suicides the past month, the march is sadly poignant and important. There’s m…

“The Call” Warns of Antichrist Legislation in California and Beyond

By Sarah Posner

…esus to get his bride as in Jewish custom, as Jews, as Hebrews did for thousands of years, that custom was the tradition that God is working in now.” “My theology is the Lord says ‘be ye ready when I come,’” added Antoine. “We have to be prepared, we should always be ready.” Engle unabashedly credits prayer for George W. Bush’s presidency and his subsequent appointment of Supreme Court Justices who upheld the ban on so-called “partial-birth aborti…

Only 5 Million “Real” Catholics in the U.S.?

By Marian Ronan

…line in the sand.” I’ve been thinking lately about a Catholic line in the sand, but it’s not the one announced by Cardinal Dolan. For me, and, I suspect, for a lot of educated Catholics like me, the line in the sand is the “doctrinal assessment” issued in April by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith against the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the umbrella organization for 80% of US Catholic sisters. The assessment acc…

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e country,” recently hosted a gay pride parade with little controversy. To Sanchez and other gay rights advocates, these changes are welcome. Many say they stem from young people knowing more “out” family members, friends, classmates and colleagues, and perhaps from Pope Francis’ more moderate tone on LGBT acceptance. An estimated 80 percent of Colombians are Catholic. “Now people can’t say anything publicly against LGBT people without a reaction,…

Holey Holey Holey: The Problem with a New Study Valuing Religion at $1.2 Trillion Per Year

By Michael Schulson

…f the total revenue of American religious congregations. To get that final number, the Grims took one estimate of the total number of congregations in America (344,894) and multiplied it by another estimate of the average revenue of each ($242,910). Depending on how you look at it, $378 billion is a lot of money, or it’s not very much money at all. It’s more than the net worth of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffet, combined…