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In Sexual Abuse Hearing UN Calls Holy See on Girls’ Reproductive Rights

By Angela Bonavoglia

…she asked. And that was not an isolated situation. As reported by Amnesty International, a media survey found that of girls raped who became pregnant in Nicaragua from 2005 to 2007, nearly 90% were between the ages of 10 and 14. Tomasi ignored the girl in Nicaragua, but addressed “the child forced to abort in Brazil.” Regarding the stepfather’s not being excommunicated for raping a child, he said, “The father should be treated like the mother and…

California Inmates Protest the Abuse of Long-Term Solitary Confinement

By Sarah Sentilles

…on, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International. That same year, the US Senate held its first-ever hearings on solitary confinement. In May of 2013, according to Wired, “the US Government Accountability Office criticized the federal Bureau of Prisons for failing to consider what long-term solitary confinement did to prisoners.” In 2011, the United Nations called on all countries to ban solitary confinement…

Conservative Christian Leader Attacks Commission on Conscience in War

By Rita Nakashima-Brock

…also those who subscribe to moral or religious principles of Just War and international law. Together, Commissioners from pacifist, Just War, and many other traditions will receive personal testimony from veterans and expert witnesses on the moral and religious questions facing soldiers, criteria of just war, international agreements governing the justification and conduct of war, and the limits of military regulations on Conscientious Objection….

“Kill the Gays” Bill May Pass Ugandan Parliament Within a Week

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…liamentary Affairs Committee after its introduction in October 2009 caused international outrage. Now, with the eighth Parliament in its lame duck session, sponsor David Bahati appears to be working to move the bill from committee, and finally into law, as early as next week. Stephen Tashobya, Chairman of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee told NTV: “The Anti-Homosexuality Bill has generated a lot of debate and interest in our populatio…

Transforming America’s Israel Lobby

By Dan Fleshler

…e blame and shame rule the day. When Israel’s defenders point out that the United States firebombed Dresden and Tokyo, NATO bombed civilians in Serbia, and US bombers tried to obliterate Baghdad—and therefore armchair American moralists are in no position to criticize Israel from the comfort of their suburban homes—it is hard to come up with a persuasive response. If pro-Israel doves object to almost anything Al Jazeera decides to transform into y…

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…phobia to Uganda, as well as Che Ahn, president of the charismatic Harvest International Ministries. Both men were among Covenant Life’s early leaders. Five years after its founding, in 1982, the church launched what would become its overarching ministry, Sovereign Grace, originally called “People of Destiny International.” The grandiose name reflected the group’s aspirations to greater influence as a ministry, a vision that would only begin to be…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…ustice. On matters of same-sex love, this is not as easy as it sounds. The United Methodist Church in its Book of Discipline holds that “no self-avowed, practicing homosexual shall be ordained or appointed in the United Methodist Church.” The Reconciling Ministries Network and many individual Methodists oppose this policy. To date, there has been no church-wide General Conference agreement on changing the policy. But in 2008, the Methodists entere…

Crossing Denominational Lines to Reprimand “Freaky Fraus”

By Kathryn Joyce

…vid Runnion-Bareford, Executive Director of the Confessing Movement in the United Church of Christ, in rebuking one of his fellow churches in the UCC for hosting the ordination of several Catholic Womenpriests, an international initiative to ordain women priests that is unrecognized by the Catholic hierarchy, on July 20 at the Church of the Covenant in Boston, a church associated with the UCC and the Presbyterian church. The womenpriests did not p…

Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…of men who led a slavers’ secession from and waged violent war against the United States is essential to an understanding of post-Appomattox existence as, rather than one of surrender and defeat, a state of ongoing truce. This Confederate civil religion, crafted during Reconstruction and continuing to the present day, has served to keep the country tenuously united. But as this Confederate civil religion has allowed the Civil War to continue in a…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…broke social norms in a way so shocking that they were forced to flee the United States to what was then the wilderness. These early Mormons practiced polygamy, of course, but equally shocking was their following of the United Order—a short-lived communal sharing arrangement that while not eliminating private property altogether nevertheless substantially redistributed land and output for the benefit of all. Considered God’s plan for his children…