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Open Letter to Pastor Judah Smith on “Inclusion”: Just for Immigrants, or LGBTQ Too?

By George Mekhail

…t of people before it was deleted. I’ve tried various means to make direct contact with you with no success. I also understand that you do not make yourself available for appointments, per your website. I have gone back and forth on whether or not to publish this letter, until a recent conversation with a friend compelled me to check and see if I could find the full message. It was back! So I watched. But the section posted in the tweet appears to…

An Open Letter to Rabbi Dov Linzer on Modesty and Jewish Law

By Shaul Magid

…en and make it a normative legal principle that casual non-sexual physical contact between men and women is permitted, saying to the men, “The Talmud says: It’s your problem, Sir; not theirs.” To instantiate your reading of the Talmud would require you to act decisively to abolish all the legal mandates that objectify women’s bodies and put the onus on the men to take full control of their libido and desire. The ultra-Orthodox in Beit Shemesh sure…

What a Forgotten 19th Century Suffragist Can Teach Us About Women’s Rights vs. The Religious Right

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ght the vote for white, native-born women. The WTCU joined forces with the American Woman Suffrage Association, and in 1890 merged with the National Woman Suffrage Association, founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in 1869. The big tent merger meant an acquiescence to “Christian principles” that Gage found so problematic for true freedom; suffrage on their terms would only come about with a set of other restrictive laws and belief…

The Deafening Silence of “Religious Freedom” Defenders on Trump’s Muslim Ban

By Sunnivie Brydum

…rganizations exist to appease the long-simmering victimhood complex of the American right wing, which is now and has always been a tribalistic campaign to allow one particular group of American Christians to discriminate based on their reading of Christianity. This battle has never been about genuine “religious freedom,” because it has never attempted to protect a citizen’s right to reject religion entirely, and has always dedicated the vast major…

Gambian Voters Reject Anti-Gay Strongman Jammeh; Activists Ponder Trump Impact on LGBT Human Rights; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ation] advocates a set of values that are at odds with the majority of the American people.’” United Nations: Independent Expert on SOGI Addresses ILGA World Conference Thai diplomat Vitit Muntarbhorn, who is filling the independent expert position created by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate discrimination and violence against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, gave the keynote speech to the opening session at t…

Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation

By Wil Gafney

…was asking myself, “Wait a minute—when did they get separated?” I think we Americans mostly think about the American Revolution and the French Revolution when we set up a secular government. But there were people in the ancient world that tried to create a secular relationship to government where nobody else did—and those people were Jews. Because the government of the nations that conquered them—Egypt and Babylonia and Syria and the Hellenistic E…

‘Catholic Feminist’ Isn’t an Oxymoron, and Other Tales From a Beleaguered Tradition

By Celia Wexler

…, now Catholics for Choice. But in these pages you’ll also meet an African-American convert and theologian who did some of the first research on Georgetown University’s slave-holding past, as well as a Latina sexual ethics professor who found that guiding her struggling students helped her come to terms with her own rape as a teenager. One of my subjects—now a gifted and prolific writer—spent her childhood with a mentally ill Catholic mother, cycl…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…ter. Seized with what was perhaps the instinctive desire to be in physical contact with her again, I asked to see them. When the box was opened for me, I was overwhelmed. Here in a box on the counter was what was left of the body of someone I loved, someone I used to stay out all night dancing with, someone who I had spoken to just a week before on the phone, her laughter weakened but still familiar. When I thought about her ashes being scattered…

“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…itism often focus on Jews: what about Jewish history has brought them into contact with so much hate? Was it the money-lending? The refusal to convert to Christianity? Published in 2013, Anti-Judaism takes a different tack. The book is concerned less with Jews than with the idea of the Jew—a concept that has been deployed as a foil to Christian love, a symbol of global commerce, and much else. Nirenberg aims to provide an “account of the labor don…

Forget “Nasty,” Trump’s Got a “Disgusting” Problem

By Karen E. Park

…ose who were too disgusting to touch, and brought themselves into intimate contact with the physical realities of infection and cancer. They understood that disgust for human beings has no place in the Christian life. Donald Trump seems to live in a near permanent state of disgust. He finds not only the human body but human beings “disgusting” and “nasty.” Disgust is part of what allows him to revile and dehumanize people regularly. It fuels his h…