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Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed it a moral issue. “An issue like same-sex marriage, which can radically change our society, if anything should go to the people as a referendum,” Mr Weeks said. Despite the placards denying any position of bigotry, campaigner Tony Brannon said he was at a loss to understand why “people from churches who claim they believe in God want to discriminate against marriage equality”… Allan and Mildred Hunt of Heart-to-Heart Ministries were among those…

LDS Church Acknowledges Past Racism, Repudiates Racist Remarks

By Joanna Brooks

…a collective process of “repentance”: “An unwillingness to call the former policy racist and, therefore, wrong, unjustified, harmful, un-Christian, and indefensibly regrettable is, however subtly, still fundamentally racist. The priesthood/temple ban is, at present, not just a symptom of a racist past. It is a thorn in the side, an unhealed open wound on the body of a still racist present. And the sooner we can collectively realize that our unwill…

Why is the State Department Opening an Office of “Religious Engagement”?

By Austin Dacey

…the efforts of a number of State Department employees including the former policy staffer Judd Birdsall, who in 2009 started an informal discussion forum that was to become known as the Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group. Last October, the working group submitted a white paper (posted by working group member Chris Seiple) proposing a permanent institution housed at State. “In many places around the world,” begins the Background and Rational…

From Kneel-Ins to the Condemnation of “Racial Sin”: The Meaning of the PCA’s “Overture on Pursuing Racial Reconciliation”

By Paul Harvey

…he 1960s felt that the denomination had forsaken the historic Presbyterian policy of the “spirituality of the church.” That policy, to dismantle “Negro” presbyteries and synods and desegregate the church, dated only from 1957, arising in part as a direct response to the Little Rock school episode. Many (not all, but a majority) of white southern Presbyterians resisted to one degree or another. Some eventually had a change of heart. Others connecte…

Jeffress is Both Right and Wrong on Religion & Politics

By Peter Montgomery

…them on women’s access to abortion, legal equality for LGBT people, or tax policy. Jeffress thinks it’s fine to interrogate candidates’ religious beliefs. “The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician’s values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.” Indeed there may be times when it is legitimate to ask whether a candidate’s religious positions would have a direct impact on policy. Rel…

Unreasonable Doubt: Vincent Bugliosi Defends Agnosticism

By Eric Reitan

…yond a reasonable doubt.” We might, as a society, have adopted a different policy. Not only might we have adopted a policy of presuming guilt, but we might very well have given juries a third option in their deliberations. We might have allowed a verdict of “we don’t know.” After all, it’s simply not true that we have to treat people as guilty or as innocent. While someone is on trial, we treat them differently from everyone else (we don’t put jus…

God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…nal injury lawyer in Florida, told me, “My personal worship experience has changed because of those people, and the way I see God’s active involvement in my life has changed because of that.” The law school at ORU was a first effort at creating a “Christian” law school that would teach the “biblical” foundations of the law—essentially substituting Rushdoony’s totalizing worldview for mainstream legal theory. His views are evident not only in the O…

No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…been safe because he would’ve been able to protect her. Everything in that policy points to blatant misogyny. This was originally a 20-page policy letter, and they were almost never that long. So it was obviously important to him. But it’s not the sort of sexism you might find in fundamentalist Christianity, in which women sometimes cannot take leadership roles. It’s more mainstream misogyny, wouldn’t you say? Yes, and in that respect, he was ahea…

There’s Nothing Wrong with ‘Prayer’; But There’s Every Reason to be Skeptical of Pence’s Coronavirus Prayer Circle

By Chrissy Stroop

…t generously. The man, whose Word of Life church is non-affirming in LGBTQ policy and doesn’t disclose its policy on the inclusion of women in leadership, once tweeted with evident pride that his congregation, in its “culture of kindness,” included both ICE officers and undocumented immigrants, thus putting the latter immediately at risk for his moment of performative kumbaya. https://twitter.com/BrianZahnd/status/1065753809715150848?s=20 https://…

Things the GOP Won’t Like about Ron Paul

By Julie Ingersoll

…a view he described as “dangerous.” He then said bin Laden’s death should change our foreign policy because we are doing what Bin Laden wanted: “He wanted us to stay there, drain our resources and bankrupt our country… the connection between our foreign policy and our financial problems is significant.” These days many Americans are war weary—and that includes Obama supporters who think he has not done enough to get us out. It might look like the…