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Gays to Ex-Gay Movement: “Lift My Luggage”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…on for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) gathers next month in Philadelphia for their annual convention, they’ll be facing a lot of baggage—theirs certainly, but also luggage being brought to them in protest. Truth Wins Out, a group that works to expose the scientific quackery of groups like NARTH, will sponsor a “Lift My Luggage” protest on Nov. 6: The notorious “ex-gay” group is hoping that Americans have amnesia and won’t remember t…

Trump Support Will Harm Catholic Church in America

By Kaya Oakes

Catholics have some atoning to do. If the polling numbers are correct (will any of us ever be able to use that phrase again without cringing?), white Catholics voted for Trump at 52 percent to the 45 percent they gave Hillary Clinton. Effectively, this means white Catholics spit in the faces of the same Latinx Catholics they have long hoped would save the American church. It’s clear how this happened. The American church, particularly the USCCB,…

HitchBot Meets His Maker: What a Robot’s Murder Tells Us About Ourselves

By Michael Schulson

…nt to the goodwill of human beings. Instead, over the weekend, somebody in Philadelphia destroyed hitchBOT. Game over. The timing for hitchBOT’s destruction felt oddly appropriate. Late last week, the New York Times published a startling article about Xiaoice, a Microsoft chatbot that’s gained a major following in China. Xiaoice carries on a lifelike conversation with users. Millions of people chat with it every day. In a Her-like twist, many expr…

Again, Vatican Punishes Gender Equality More Swiftly Than Sexual Abuse

By Patricia Miller

…ed notorious dictators such as Gen. Manuel Noriega and was implicated in a number of human rights abuses in Latin America, including the murder of six Jesuits. In contrast to the relative alacrity with which the CDF moved against three elderly peace activists who celebrated mass with a woman, it took the Vatican 13 years to finally expel Michael Fugee from the priesthood in mid-March. Fugee admitted to fondling a 14-year-old boy in 2001 but his co…

Muslim Women “Warriors”

By Frances Kissling

…work. Some of the most prophetic among us have found some acceptance. The Philadelphia Eleven, Episcopal women who were “irregularly” ordained in 1974, ushered in regular ordination by 1976 and the consecration of the first woman bishop, Barbara Harris, in 1989. Roman Catholic women began ordaining themselves in 2004 after an initial irregular ordination by a male bishop in 2002. While these women (who number about 50 priests and five bishops) ha…

Op-Ed: Bashing Back: Queer Thugs?

By Ariana Childs Graham

…th chapters in Chicago, DC, Denver, Lansing, Memphis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, and Olympia. Anyone who accepts the Bash Back! “points of unity,” which include agreeing to “fight for liberation,” can start their own chapter and conduct any actions they deem necessary. Bash Back! Chicago describes itself as: Dedicated to eradicating heteronormativity, subverting binary gender norms, capitalism, and attacking intersecting oppressions includ…

CERN: Where Particle Physics Collides with Human Sacrifice (Apparently)

By Joseph Laycock

…ying out the work of the devil. By 1955, tales had begun to spread of “The Philadelphia Experiment,” in which a secret naval experiment had allegedly sent a battleship to another dimension, driving its crew insane. Even Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things is based on legends about the decommissioned Montauk Air Force Station in Long Island. The secret and restricted nature of government facilities allows them to function as a mythic realm in cont…

James Dobson and a Tale of Two Women

By Sarah Posner

…ty Check, the story known at least since 2005, when it was revealed in the Philadelphia City Paper.) Dobson’s little temper tantrum lays bare what’s at the heart of his decision-making process here: forget about salvation, forgiveness, redemption, pick the candidate whose wife most exemplifies those Biblically-ordained roles for men and women. That he could shock and anger even hardcore religious rightists who see gender roles through the very sam…

7 Religion Stories to Watch in the 2012 Battleground States

By Joanna Brooks

…evangelicals who some see as potential Democratic voters) to the polls in numbers Obama needs? Pennsylvania: Clinton Catholics for Romney? Obama is up by 7 points, but word has it that the Romney campaign aims to make a dent in the Philadelphia suburbs—or at least to force team Obama into dedicating resources there. Romney tends to run strong among Catholics, who make up 29% of the state, and he may have a shot at swaying the “Clinton Catholics”…

How “Race Tests” Maintain Evangelical Segregation

By Joshua L. Lazard

…ring slavery. In 1787, black worshippers at St. George Methodist Church in Philadelphia, led by blacksmith Richard Allen, walked out of the church when black members praying at the altar were forced to get up upon the arrival of white worshippers who were late to service that day. That group of free blacks went on to start the African Methodist Episcopal church. This is important in the narrative arc of American Christianity because historically w…