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Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…ican nominee, and Trump’s lead increased throughout the state. On election day, Donald Trump won Utah easily, as his vote total nearly doubled those received by McMullin and Hillary Clinton. The extent of Mormon support for Trump is debatable. Pew found that, nationwide, 61 percent of Mormons voted for Trump, which was higher than any other category outside of white evangelicals; the Utah College Exit Poll, however, with a much higher number of Mo…

Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g-wen also reportedly reaffirmed her support for marriage equality on Saturday. Legislation to revise the civil code to include marriage equality has been submitted with the support of 40 lawmakers, reports the Taipei Times. The China Post reported that the Protect Family Alliance, a coalition of religious groups, had organized more than 2,000 calls to the city government to condemn the march. According to the Taipei Times, a couple of days before…

Paranoia and the Progressive Press: A Response to WaPo’s Religion Columnist

By Peter Montgomery

…franca among the religious right, forming the basis for Janet Porter’s May Day rally on the mall last year as well as the National Day of Prayer and Jim Garlow’s Pray and Act campaign. The Family Research Council and prominent religious right figures like Harry Jackson and David Barton all use the language. In other words, this is not a movement dreamed up by people with no understanding of Christianity who simply want to stir up fear of conservat…

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…atholic population. Among them, Arecibo Bishop Daniel Fernández called the day marking the onset of mass gay weddings on the island “a sad day for Puerto Rican society.” “Moved by love and compassion for our neighbor, it is necessary to remember to all that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. They are contrary to natural law,” Bishop Fernández added. On behalf of the Puerto Rican Bishops Conference, San Juan Archbishop Roberto González-N…

Amid Anticipation of Government Disclosure, ‘We Are Not Alone’ Follows Those Who Claim Alien Contact Through Meditation

By Joseph Laycock

…e hinted that something was coming in the next few weeks and, indeed, just days after our interview, Congress passed a “UFO disclosure bill.” Unfortunately, the bill was stripped of any language requiring documents to be declassified. It merely directs the National Archives to collect reports on UAPs. Claims of imminent disclosure start to seem like Charlie Brown constantly running to kick the football only to land on his face. In 2002, Greer clai…

Why Conservatives Really Oppose Federal Aid for the ‘Undeserving’

By Daniel Schultz

…m, choosing Easter must have been like selecting Independence Day or Arbor Day or Groundhog Day — a useful date on which to hang a ploy. Likewise, Paul Waldman is baffled by Lindsey Graham’s attacks on nurses: “You know, the ones who right now are risking their lives to treat coronavirus patients, and are in some cases forced to wear trash bags because their hospitals have run out of protective gear.” John Stoehr is equally befuddled by Graham, wh…

Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…oing back. I felt no emotion. I didn’t see anything of Minnesota until the day I showed up for work. Peru: Bishop Calls Lawmaker ‘Faggot’ as Civil Unions Bill Killed On Tuesday, civil unions legislation was rejected by the Peruvian Congress’s Justice and Human Rights Commission. The day before, Chimbote Bishop Emeritus Luis Armando Bambarén Gastelumendi reportedly called Bruce a “faggot” (“maricón”). Anti-equality religious leaders celebrated. The…

Liberal Religion is Not Just Compromise

By Rebecca Ann Parker

…justice causes from women’s rights and the abolition of slavery to present-day struggles for marriage equality and ecological stewardship. Additionally, progressive people need a renewed commitment to building and sustaining communities of faith—houses of hope—that can nourish our values and empower us for the long-haul change needed to establish a just and sustainable society. Is there anything you had to leave out? We love the 19th-century progr…

Ironies & Bright Spots for Gays in the Christian College World

By L Marston

…t a faculty member (read Scoutmaster) cannot. “One day you’re in; the next day, you’re out,” to use Heidi Klum’s ominous phrase on Project Runway. The controversy receiving the most attention this fall occurred at Azusa Pacific University in California, a Christian university with an undergraduate enrollment of 5500. In September, a faculty member who had been in the theology department for 15 years came out as transgender, to be known as H. Adam…

A Journalist in Church, Hiding in Plain Sight

By Andre Tartar

…olic grade school and a Lasallian Christian Brothers’ high school. To this day I retain an enormous respect for the religious mentors I met there, men strengthened and not shackled by their vocations. There was a time, hard to imagine now, when I confessed regularly and earnestly, attending Sunday Mass religiously—I still (warmly) remember those warm summer mornings in my childhood church, listening to the fatherly, white-haired priest’s baritone…