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Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…e end of 2014, joining England and Wales; marriage equality also spread in Mexico. In contrast, Slovakia’s lawmakers amended their constitution to ban marriage by same-sex couples. In 2015, marriage equality will become a reality in Luxembourg and Ireland is gearing up for a marriage equality referendum in May. In Chile, President Michelle Bachelet is a supporter of marriage equality, but her government plans to push first for passage of civil uni…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…e on abortion, Roe v. Wade.” One thirty-second ad—currently running in New Mexico and Ohio—is called “The Gianna ad” and features Gianna Jesson who is identified as an “Abortion Survivor.” “My name is Gianna Jesson, born 31 years ago after a failed abortion,” Genson states. She goes on: “But if Barack Obama had his way, I would’t be here. Four times Barack Obama voted to oppose a law to protect babies left to die after failed abortions. Senator Ob…

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

…announced that it has been providing materials to anti-equality groups in Mexico. Bosnia-Herzegovina: LGBT people challenged by ‘patriarchal and homophobic culture’ Maya Shwayder reports for DW that, while Bosnia-Herzegovina moves toward joining the EU, many LGBT people are “living in a patriarchal and homophobic culture.” The story recounts a series of attacks on LGBT groups and spaces in recent years, and reports that the country has accepted i…

The Next Generation of the Pro-Life Movement

By Bill Berkowitz

…national pro-life association with members born in Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, as well as the U.S.” “We made the statement that abortion is murder, it is a violation of the Law of God and is an extreme form of violence against women that MUST remain illegal in the DR!,” Storms wrote. He reported that the team “spoke” at three public high schools, “preach[ed] the gospel, show[ed] graphic abortion videos, talk[ed] about abstinence, purity until…

In Trump Era, Young Muslims Question Respectability Politics of Mosques

By Hebah H. Farrag

…ned to ramp up immigration enforcement and enable the building of the U.S.-Mexico border wall he promised during his campaign. Muslim and immigrant groups, especially youth, are mobilizing against these actions, with a major protest taking place last night in New York City’s Washington Square Park. To combat the continued vilification of Islam in the American public sphere since September 11th, American Muslim houses of worship and organizations h…

The Oil Spill and “Real Deathliness”

By Daniel Schultz

Efforts to put the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in a theological context are all well and good but honestly, I don’t think that comparing the disaster to abortion or reminding people that “the earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world” or asserting that it really is as important as abortion is going to cut it. The basic problem is that they don’t name “the real deathliness that hovers over us,” as Walter Brueggemann calls it, “the very fea…

Atheist Rock Fest, Buddhist Geeks, Megachurch For Sale, Church Bans Fried Chicken

By Michael J. Altman

…relics from Pope John Paul II, including a capsule of his blood, will tour Mexico this fall. Rev. Roy Bourgeois has been officially dismissed by his religious order, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, for his support of women’s ordination. “Don’t tase me bro!” When the head pastor at New Welcome Baptist Church in St. Elmo, Alabama told the church music minister that he was fired, the music minster responded with a taser. Problems continue to surr…

Will Evangelicals Vote for a Non-Christian Trump? If They Don’t, the Vatican May Fall to ISIS

By Hollis Phelps

…Referring to Trump’s “plan” to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, the Pope suggested that Trump is “not Christian.” In Francis’ words, “a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the gospel.” Trump was quick to strike back, calling the Pope’s remarks “disgraceful,” and adding: If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is…

Immigration Issue Divides Arizona Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…e last decade. The majority of Mormon converts in the US now come from Latino communities. And there are just about as many Mormons who live in Mexico and Central America as there are in the state of Utah….

What the National Council of Churches Should Say About Financial Reform

By Daniel Schultz

…h you can do in a single opinion piece, and what’s going on in the Gulf of Mexico looks like a nice fat target. But “the real deathliness” experienced by most Americans isn’t the non-disclosure of financial interests by extractive industries. I’m not even sure most Americans would know what that meant off the top of their heads. But average Americans damn sure know that their wages have been stagnant, the price of health care continues to go throu…