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Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…me 420,000 people where it seems just about everyone knows everyone else’s business and generations of gay people lived undercover to avoid the moral judgment of neighbors and colleagues. To Mangion’s dismay, his party abstained from voting on a 2014 civil unions law because of objections to allowing same-sex couples to adopt children. Then, two months ago, Malta became the first European nation to ban gay conversion therapy… The “devoutly Catholi…

Might, Right, and White Privilege: It’s Morning in America, the Sequel

By Diane Winston

…ristian form, is a Sunday-only, simple piety, scripturally unsophisticated business. Conservative evangelicalism, like all other forms of religion, is entwined with all aspects of human existence. Religion is a vision that encompasses politics, economics, nationalism, gender, and race. Religious people don’t vote based on a candidate’s support of the Ten Commandments; they support candidates who promise to inch the world closer to their own vision…

It’s Bring Your Gun to Church Day

By Bill Berkowitz

…of emails: How is business since your January launch? Jeffrey Hawkins: Our business is building awareness, and providing training and education of the overall security for the Christian community; there is great interest and much work to be done in this area. Response to our mission, resources, and services thus far has been great. Will the Christian Security Network serve the security interests of religious entities other than Christian churches—…

Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…olved when one breezily pronounces upon marriage as such: “I am out of the business of trying to tell people what they should do,” Mr. Torode said. “I am out of that business for good.” Ah, but I know from my own conservative days the kind of itchy discomfort that sort of a demurral brings. Not telling people what they should do! Why, one may as well say that there’s no right and no wrong and no truth, and that it’s all just about me me me and my…

Supreme Court to Hear Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Cases

By Sarah Posner

…d be seen as a “form of evangelism,” effectively deeming them “faith-based businesses” entitled to free-exercise rights. That, Briscoe contended, “is nothing short of a radical revision of First Amendment law, as well as the law of corporations.” The stakes, then, are very high. Depending on how the Court rules, it may decide whether the precedent represented most recently by Citizens United v. FEC—that corporations have free speech rights—dictate…

Post-Orlando, Trump Reveals His Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…here, Greg Sargent explains, is on “Trump’s personal cruelty — not just in business, but also from the perch of his newfound media dominance.” It’s also a larger critique of what Trump presents as “strength.” To Trump being strong is being willing to offend you want and brutalize anyone who hurts you. It’s the core of a philosophy that justifies torture and advocates for the killing of innocent women and children. … This ad points doesn’t touch on…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…e, there’s an interesting backstory about how they started with the Quaker business meeting model and then, by force of Occupy Wall Street’s influence, switched to the anarchist assembly.) I would also like to interject that—and perhaps it is merely my rustiness with theories that makes me bring up a book both so (once again) obvious and so passe—I can’t help but think of Harvey Cox’s The Secular City. Big time. God dissolves into the occupation,…

Catholics for Choice Blasts New Proposed Contraception Coverage Rule

By Sarah Posner

…nd — it’s good that you get coverage if it all works out. The devil is in the details. But the fact that you [the Obama administration] have given that concession to the business of higher education and the business of Catholic health care, that doesn’t bode well for the future.” …

Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

…church and 10 percent of all Americans are former Catholics. If you were a business losing one-third of your customers, wouldn’t you want to make some changes? Sure, step one might be to put the business under new management. But that would only take you so far. At some point the management has to deliver the goods. Apart from the typos mentioned above, Gallicho pounces on my takeaway from the Pew poll that “Catholics expect Francis to do more tha…

The Tweets of the Christ

By Nathan Schneider

More and more, serious business is being done through Twitter, a Web site with a most unserious-sounding name. On Twitter, you tweet out a tweet, which everyone who is following your tweets can see. True to the name and its accompanying noun/verb, the site’s architecture seemingly confines it to the trivial. Every tweet must be under 140 characters (which this paragraph has already long exceeded). Even its built-in instructions emphasize triviali…