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Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ironic that an African dictator wearing a three-piece suit, caressing an iPhone, speaking in English and liberally quoting the Bible can dare indict anything for being un-African.” In a report from South Sudan, the Guardian’s Antony Loewenstein reports on the anti-gay agenda often connected to evangelical churches’ missionary work. He cites American evangelist Franklin Graham as an example: Samaritan’s Purse, run by Franklin Graham, son of the Ch…

Richard Cizik Questions Franklin Graham On Islam

By Sarah Posner

…peated his claims that Muslims don’t worship the same God as Christians to USA Today last week, and threw in a little mockery of Hindus as well. And oddly — while many on the religious right are attempting to reach out to African-American conservatives — he told the newspaper’s religion reporter, Cathy Lynn Grossman, that “Obama pays attention only to black charismatic and Pentecostal pastors, such as his spiritual adviser, Joshua Dubois.” Partisa…

Bruni on Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…on and politics. What’s more, as Cathy Lynn Grossman reported last week at USA Today, “Unbelief is on the uptick. People who check ‘None’ for their religious affiliation are now nearly one in five Americans (19%), the highest ever documented, according to the Pew Center for the People and the Press.” One final note: in a democracy, and one in particular that protects religious freedom, it’s a risky business defining who are the “real” Christians,…

Can a Church Split Truly Be Gracious?

By Adam J. Copeland

…’ve flirted with Lutheranism and interned in the Church of Scotland, the PCUSA has always been my true home. It’s through the PCUSA that I received a seminary education and found my pastoral voice. It’s in the PCUSA that I learned the hymns of the church and fell in love with Reformed theology. It’s the elders and members of the PCUSA who taught me God’s grace in word and deed. Because of this foundation, I was more than happy to champion the PCUS…

Lesbian Panic Reaches Apogee With Kagan Rumors

By Susan Henking

…ation on April 20, 2010. The story was reported elsewhere as well (such as USA Today). As Inside Higher Education puts it, the newly hired University of Missouri basketball coach opened her remarks by saying: “I’m a Christian that happens to be a coach,” Robin Pingeton—who was hired away from Illinois State University—said as her husband and three-year-old son looked on. “My values are very important to me.” “I’m very blessed to have my staff here…

Euthanasia Billboards, Post-Rapture Pet Care, Can You Tell a Burqa from a Hijab?

By Michael J. Altman

…pens to Fido or Mr. Boots after you’re raptured? Eternal Earth-bound Pets, USA is a group of atheists willing to take care of your pet after you’ve been taken to glory. Tuesday marked the 41st anniversary of the moon landing. What did evangelicals think about it, at the time? NPR offers a view into religious life in China. So far, the series has profiled women imams, Protestants, and Catholics. Sufis from Pakistan brought ancient devotional music…

Santorum and the New Catholic-Evangelical Alliance

By Sarah Posner

…has taken his mission onto Meet the Press and to CNN. He’s preached it in USA Today and inThe New York Times. More famously, he has brought into Catholicism several members of the conservative elite. McCloskey personally baptized Judge Robert Bork, political pundits Robert Novak and Lawrence Kudlow, publisher Alfred Regnery, financier Lewis Lehrman, and US Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, whose baptismal sponsor was another senator, Rick Santorum…

The Right Wing Slant on Religious Freedom is a Slippery Slope

By Frederick Clarkson

…instance of religious discrimination by a child-placement agency. In 2019, USA Today reported on Aimee Maddonna, a Catholic woman who was denied the opportunity to volunteer at a state-funded evangelical agency in South Carolina. She had hoped to use the experience to learn what it would take to become an adoptive parent. But that was not to be. Americans United for Separation of Church and State now represents four families who were turned away b…

Vatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline

By Mary E. Hunt

…all of the bishops were allegedly forced to tender their resignations, the numbers are plummeting. Ten years ago, 73% of Chileans called themselves Catholic. Today that percentage is 45 with reports that in Latin America as a whole numbers are down 20% in the same period. In Switzerland in November 2018, six prominent progressive Catholic women left the Church by filing the requisite papers that relieved them of contributing church taxes. Four are…

Man-made Breasts, Or, Grace in Graceless Times

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n has a spotty past – including a breast enhancement, paid for by the Miss USA contest itself, and now, topless pictures. Alicia Jacobs, Entertainment Reporter at KVBC in Las Vegas, has seen all six of the photos and says some are much more revealing. Alicia believes the flicks may have been taken after Carrie’s pageant-financed breast augmentation about six weeks ago. Liberal blogs have exploded with the news, chastising Prejean for her apparent…