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Outrage Outs Closeted Pols Opposed to Gay Rights

By Nick Street

…Tribeca Film Festival in New York and opens in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Washington DC on Friday. Much of the commentary surrounding Outrage will inevitably focus on outing—the practice of reporting on the private lives of supposedly straight public figures to uncover “closeted” homosexual activity. That may invite the complaint that Outrage is taking a tool from the kit of tabloid journalism. But in an interview with Reuters,…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Latter-Day Saints; and Charles Chaput, the ultraconservative Archbishop of Philadelphia. Also participating will be Nicholas Okoh, the Anglican Archbishop of Nigeria, who has called homosexuality a manifestation of the devil and praised Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s “courage” in signing a harsh anti-gay law last December. Meanwhile, Catholic bishops have publicly slammed Catholic Universities that have decided to offer benefits to same-se…

Would Tea Partiers Consider Jefferson a Heretic?

By Lauri Lebo

…not to sign on. As Ed quotes from the book: If there was little debate in Philadelphia over the “no religious test” clause, a veritable firestorm broke out in the country at large during the ratification conventions in each of the states. Outraged Protestants attacked what they saw, correctly, as a godless Constitution. The “no religious test” clause was perceived by many to be the gravest defect of the Constitution. Colonel Jones, a Massachusett…

Anti-Immigrant Fervor Is a Part of America’s Story

By Robert Bartholomew and Anja Reumschussel

…ed fears that resulted in riots in several cities. In 1844, the streets of Philadelphia ran red with blood as thirteen people died and Catholic homes and churches burned to the ground. Catholics were the subject of vile rumors, harassment, discrimination, protests, and vigilante attacks. The most incredible claims centered on convents and accounts of priests taking out their sexual fantasies and perversions on nuns. Stories of nuns serving as sex…

Doing Political Theology In an Election Season: Howard Thurman on Deception

By Andrew Wilkes

…capital repairs for public housing communities in cities like New York and Philadelphia, despite widespread knowledge that local housing authorities do not have funds available to make long overdue upgrades. And affirmative action for people of color is abhorred while what Ira Katznelson named affirmative action for white folks is forgotten. The nation witnessed post-Great Recession Wall Street bailouts while people of color, especially black folk…

The ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Worldview of Trump’s Conspiracy Doctor is Part of a Transnational Movement

By André Gagné

…g the cities of Atlanta, Baltimore, Berkeley, Chicago, Fresno, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Oakland, Sacramento, and San Jose, just to name a few. Dr. Immanuel’s blog contains numerous references to DKO’s ministry, books and teaching. To summarize briefly, DKO’s teaching emphasizes the idea of destiny and preventing evil supernatural forces from destroying one’s life. Some of the major spiritual opponents one encounters are witchcraft (operating thro…

The Battle for the Meaning of Religious Freedom Day

By Frederick Clarkson

…it through the legislature in 1786. The following year Madison traveled to Philadelphia and served as the principal author of the Constitution. Two years later, he was the principal author of the First Amendment. The idea that religious beliefs belong to individual citizens and not to powerful religious and governmental institutions lies behind the most important words in the Virginia Statute—specifying that one’s religious identity should be neit…

Jews and Muslims Join Forces for Academic Freedom

By Rebecca Alpert

…as destroyed. His response? He invited my family for dinner at his home in Philadelphia for an evening of food, laughter, lament, and forgiveness. A year later, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) sought to honor Professor Ayoub upon his retirement with an endowed chair named in his honor. As department chair, I worked with the University’s development office to arrange the gift. We verified the group’s legitimacy, and their agre…

My House, My Rules: 3 Women Speakers “Rejected” From Women’s Day Event at Vatican (on Full Inclusion of Women in the Church)

By Mary E. Hunt

…uld be a more inclusive gathering than the session held three years ago in Philadelphia where LGBTQ Catholics were made to feel as welcome as the flu. Alas, new, recently released materials from which all traces of happy, good, healthy and moral same-sex families were erased have superseded the earlier ones. The WMOF2018 promises to be another contested space. What’s more, Ireland will have a May 2018 referendum on abortion. It’s difficult to pred…

Reconsidering Reagan’s Racism: Trump is the Culmination of The Gipper’s GOP

By Neil J. Young

…icians regularly gathered to spout off racist diatribes that took place in Philadelphia, the town where Klansmen had murdered three civil rights workers in the bloody summer of 1964, as evidence of the racist undertones of Reagan’s historic win. Even still, that event has often been treated as a sort of historical oddity when it comes to assessing Reagan—proof more of the lingering manifestations of the Republican Party’s “Southern strategy” than…