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Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nated $1 million to the “no” campaign. Conservatives in the parliament are preparing to propose as many as 100 amendments to a draft marriage bill if the public votes “yes” and a draft bill is taken up in the legislature. “It is seriously inadequate, as parents, freedom of speech and religious freedom, along with conscientious objection, all need full protection,” said Senator Eric Abetz. Late-night comic John Oliver mocked the anti-marriage-equal…

We Declare You Restored: How Christian ‘Forgiveness’ is Deployed to Enable Abuse and Corruption

By Greg Carey

…wer, vouch for his reformation. Popular Christian piety contributes to the problem. American Protestant Christianity emphasizes a quick and easy forgiveness: tell Jesus you’re sorry, and you’re forgiven. Not only are you forgiven, your sins now stand “as far as the east is from the west.” That’s good news, and I believe it, but it has nothing to do with one’s qualification to hold moral responsibility in an institution. God may forgive a person, a…

Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…ing or unable to help him. In 2006, he was sentenced to over four years in prison for “destroying property” and “assembling a crowd for the purpose of disrupting traffic”—despite being under house arrest at the time. According to Amnesty International, Chen is a prisoner of conscience who has been jailed solely for peacefully defending human rights. After serving his full sentence, Chen was placed under house arrest in September 2010. On April 22,…

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ht to use the boy’s bathroom, after the school barred him from using the appropriate facilities on campus. A district court sided with the school, but the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that ruling, agreeing with the administration’s interpretation that Title IX protected the student’s right to have his gender identity respected. That case is currently pending before the Supreme Court, and could be heard by a full panel of justices — i…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…a White House staffer? Two years ago, Jacques Berlinerblau, the Georgetown professor and proponent of secular government, criticized Obama’s “platitude fest” at the National Prayer Breakfast and compared the faith-based office to the Kremlin. Instead of starting the president’s morning with scripture, Berlinerblau wrote, “I wish Mr. DuBois would start off my morning with explanations of what exactly that Office is doing—a never-ending source of co…

Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad

By Josiah Daniels

…23:5-6). This is the Messiah who, as womanist theologian Jacquelyn Grant expresses it, will liberate the oppressed from unjust “sociopsychological, psychocultural, economic and political” powers. Until then Kendrick—channeling Jeremiah—weeps and writes because he has to: “Two tears in the bucket I cry with you / I write ‘till I’m right with God” (Lam. 3:48 & Jer. 20:9). That UU was released during the Lenten season is no coincidence. Typically thi…

Postcards From the Edge: Crackpot Anti-Gay Crusader Goes Global

By Bill Berkowitz

…ld “not apologize for the fight against homosexuality because it is an inappropriate and harmful unnatural phenomenon, in both moral and physical, and psychological relationships.” The organization claimed that while “some hate homosexuals,” their group is not among them. “We see homosexuals similar to alcoholics, that is, as the unfortunate people who have been held hostage by their harmful lifestyles.” The task of WOW is to “merge with associate…

Fear, Guns, and the (Unwinnable) War Against Death: A Letter to My Fellow Americans

By Beatrice Marovich

…y, living in the midst of mass species extinctions and coping with the overproduction and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (which very much include guns), we face another kind of death entirely. We face what Rose called double death: a kind of death that can’t be metabolized, and incorporated back into life. The death just keeps proliferating until it’s more than life can handle or relate to. We’ve lost the ability to help weave them b…

Why Notre Dame’s Contraception Flip-Flop Undercuts Bishops’ Religious Freedom Claims

By Patricia Miller

…ding turn-about? In The Atlantic, Emma Green reports that some suspect bad PR: …several professors speculated that negative press attention scared the administration. “Bad publicity is about the only thing that forces Notre Dame to change,” said Shrader-Frechette. The faculty don’t have much power, she said. That may be so, but the whole situation seems parallel to what happened with sentiment over the ACA as a whole, where Republican efforts to d…

Can Islam Save The Economy?

By Nathan Schneider

…and risky speculation are off-limits too, as is investment in immoral enterprises like gambling, prostitution, and war profiteering. Transactions should be highly transparent and risk, as well as return, should be shared by all parties. You can’t trap people into owing more than they can pay. Basically, most everything that caused the current mess isn’t allowed. “Given their constraints, they actually don’t hold any conventional debt or convention…