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Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Rick Estridge, the vice president for overseas finance for Catholic Relief Services, is gay and married. “It is increasingly difficult to take CRS seriously as a Catholic organization,” Lepanto Institute president Michael Hichborn said in a press release. Hichborn may be the organization’s only member; no other names are listed on the institute’s website, and posts to the organization’s Facebook page are written in the first person. Tom Price, the…

Bishops, It Is Nobody’s Fault But Your Own

By Kate Childs Graham

…set goals that remain unfulfilled” by the Catholic News Service (the “news service” created by the USCCB) suggested that while the anniversary of the document has gone uncelebrated: …that doesn’t mean the bishops’ core messages — challenging the world’s nuclear powers to rid their arsenals of nuclear weapons and discussing the importance of peacemaking in everyone’s life — has been lost, according to some of the country’s leading peace advocates……

Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ebrants’ right to refuse to marry same-sex couples. At the moment, wedding service providers such as civil celebrants, or businesses such as florists or caterers, cannot legally refuse to provide their services to any couples seeking to marry. But 49% of Australian Christians oppose a law change that would allow civil celebrants to refuse their services to same-sex couples on the ground of conscientious objection. Conservatives in the ruling coali…

John McCain: No God But Country

By Kathryn Lofton

…er to flourish their claims of political power. Yet in his years of public service prior to 2008, John McCain’s speeches are models of secular aridity. He doesn’t just occasionally speak of God or faith or America’s Christian promise; he never does. Indeed, John McCain does not like to talk about religion. “I’m unashamed and unembarrassed about my deep faith in God,” he has said, “But I do not obviously try to impose my views on others.” When pres…

Catholics for Choice Blasts New Proposed Contraception Coverage Rule

By Sarah Posner

…est for exemption, exempt organizations can now include schools and social service organizations, operated by churches, that nonetheless employ and serve people of other faiths. Organizations that do not qualify for the exemption will likely include institutions of higher education, large social services organizations, and Catholic hospitals, said Hutchinson. The new proposed rule permits these organizations, she said, to self-certify that they ar…

Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…veryone.” Catholic Church grappling with Amoris Laetitia The Catholic News Service reported this week, “Three months after the publication of Pope Francis’ exhortation on marriage and family, bishops and bishops’ conferences around the world are studying practical ways to apply it. Some still disagree on what exactly the pope meant.” Some conservatives have criticized the pope’s letter saying it could cause “doctrinal confusion.” In the first week…

Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…he issue was about “providing equality in the way that the public receives services from the state” and civil marriage was not a matter for churches. “I have my own beliefs as a member of a church, as to how the church role fits in,” he said. “But in terms of civil society, the services which are provided, I don’t believe that it is for those of us who are in the heterosexual majority to tell people who are in the homosexual minority that they’re…

Conservative Christians Struggle With Christianity

By Lauri Lebo

…prison reform to immigration justice. Many of the people who came for the service were from American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, where Larry Frankel had spent all but the last year of his ACLU career, before becoming a D.C. lobbyist for the organization. Frankel died Aug. 28 in D.C. of natural causes. He was 54. It was a standing-room only crowd of mixed faiths and non-believers. Except for the program’s translation of the Jewish Mourn…

Obama Quietly Declares June “LGBT Pride Month”

By Nick Street

…of human suffering. (I count myself in the latter camp, by the way.) This center-left politics of the possible draws deeply from the theological lineage of Martin Luther King Jr. and Reinhold Niebuhr, which is abundantly evident in the language of a ballsy speech that Obama delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on MLK Day, 2008, when he was still a candidate in the Democratic primary campaign. “For most of this country’s history,” Obama…

Pretty Girls Like Trap Church: A Movement at 2 Chainz’s Atlanta Pink House

By Anita Little

…ith other community organizers collaborated with 2 Chainz to host a church service that focused on local activism and social justice. “The trap” is typically a place where drugs are sold, but has more generally come to mean where people gather or where something is accomplished. Though in recent years, it’s become widely commodified and commercialized, trap culture has often signified a lifestyle of drug dealing, gangbanging, street violence and t…