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Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…ict. “I’ll be the guy in the Ben’s Chili Bowl hat,” Merritt told me on the phone. Merritt, 42, was inspired by the movement’s goals of confronting structural economic problems, a tack that he says has largely been ignored by progressive religious activism. As to why there isn’t more of a religious presence at the Occupy protests, “I think about that a lot,” said Merritt. “I think: exactly what happened? What happened? Why aren’t there 50 clergy?”…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…NO vote by USUN that supported the death penalty for gay people. We have always fought for justice for the LGBT community.” State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert explained the vote this way: “We voted against that resolution because of broader concerns with the resolution’s approach in condemning the death penalty in all circumstances,” Nauert said. “The United States unequivocally condemns the application of the death penalty for conduct s…

How (and Why) A Determined Sit-In Worked

By Daniel Schultz

…argue that a collapse in civic norms created this situation; it’s the only way Lewis and his allies could get a hearing. That collapse also presented the Democrats with the opportunity to stage this protest. It’s a measure of what trouble the GOP is in this year that Dems decided they could get away with the sit-in. I don’t know if the Democrats think re-taking the House is within their reach, but it looks like they’ve decided every seat matters….

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…Kuyper award at all. Institutions with storied histories such as PTS are always walking a tightrope between paying tribute to their legacies but also respecting a diverse student body. “I saw this award as an attempt to be ‘all things to all people,’” says Jasmin Figueroa, a PTS student in her final year and the Intersectionality Chair of the seminary’s Women’s Center, via email. “It wants to honor its history, but that often means honoring the le…

When Mormons Mobilize: Anti-Gay Marriage Prop. 8 Effort ‘Outed’?

By Joanna Brooks

…ians. Says Laura Compton, spokesperson for Mormonsformarriage.com: “I’ve always said that it’s a coalition and the Mormons are Goliath.” Documents compiled by Mormon supporters of same-sex marriage—including campaign time lines and donor profiles—show that LDS Church ecclesiastical structures, resources, and relationships were fully mobilized to generate the majority of volunteers and donations for the Yes on 8 campaign, even as Church members wer…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…at they should not be physically attacked: “These people should be stayed away from. There shouldn’t be any physical attack against them, since the attacks will push them further away from the accepted path of logic.” OutRight calls the ruling “significant from both religious and political perspectives,” as Sadr “is a populist clergy man with great following in Iraq, and has been considered a political and military powerhouse in the post-Saddam Ir…

Christian Atheism: The Only Response Worth its Salt to the Zimmerman Verdict

By J. Kameron Carter

…e convenience store with Skittles and a soft-drink and talking on his cell phone with his friend. Instead, all that Zimmerman could see was a hooded threat. And so, he deputized himself to be the police, and in that capacity shot Trayvon Martin dead. But more than just deputizing himself to act with police power (and this is the crucial point of Dr. Butler’s reflections), he deputized himself to stand in the place of god, to act in god’s name and…

The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment

By Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

…ion of watching Hillary’s support for abortion as a fundamental right give way to an acceptance of it as a “tragedy”—one that should be made as “rare” as possible. In the long run, Hillary turned a public scolding into a highly visible friendship with a figure whose widely accepted moral bona fides came with an explicitly anti-abortion imprimatur from the Christian Right. Clearing the Way for a Rejection of Reproductive Rights In Clinton’s reflect…

Facebook: Internet Highway to Hell

By Anthea Butler

…ies, television, radio, dancing was seen to be sinful, drawing Christians away from their first love: Jesus. So I am not surprised that the pastor is demanding all of his leadership cease and desist from Facebook. After all, looking up an old flame or your teenage dream à la Katy Perry is just the first step down the road to perdition — especially if your home life isn’t exactly what it used to be. What is interesting to me is that the conservativ…

Electionpocalypse, Part I (Christianity)

By Sarah Posner

…nting boys with long hair at Cranbrook, and his Church was still 15 years away from lifting its ban on black men serving in the priesthood. Romney was still nearly half a century away from pronouncing his contempt for the 47% at a Boca Raton fundraiser, which, when you think about it, is kind of like King’s last speech to the Memphis sanitation workers, right? Pastor Robert Jeffress, who just a year ago endorsed Rick Perry over Romney in the Repub…