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Why Do Evangelicals And Dems Want Immigration Reform?

By Daniel Schultz

…avorable party to immigrants. In the same Gallup analysis quoted above, Hispanics’ party identification was 53 percent Democratic to 21 percent Republican, a 32 point pro-Democratic gap. The last survey from the authoritative Pew Hispanic Center, conducted in mid-2008, had a larger 39-point gap in the Democrats’ favor (65-26). Asian Americans, perhaps surprisingly, are now about as Democratic-oriented as Hispanics. They show strong support for Dem…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…o Obama’s pro-choice position on abortion and to his recent directive to expand the parameters of stem-cell research. John M. D’Arcy, the Roman Catholic bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, declared his intention to stay away from the commencement proceedings, and the Cardinal Newman Society, based in Manassas, Virginia, has collected petitions asking that the president of Notre Dame rescind the invitation to Obama. Such protests from hard-ri…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hops ended Saturday (Oct. 24) by endorsing ways that could lead to greater participation by divorced and remarried Catholics — a major source of friction here — while the 270 churchmen declined to take up the even more controversial issue of how and whether to be more welcoming to gays. The final document was an obvious compromise intended to gain support from both reformers and hardliners and achieve as much consensus as possible. The three-week…

Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do

By Shira Tarrant

…gh rates of conservatism and the volume of US Internet porn searches. This paradox may result from preoccupation with sexual content, presumably because of the taboo. It may also be the case that high rates of online sexual activity come from liberals who live in these sexually restrictive right-leaning states. In any case, the rhetoric and reality gaps when it comes to religion and porn use easily confuses the issues and leaves people at odds in…

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…CE, the multiverse is a way to sidestep theology: if there are an infinite number of universes that take on all possible parameters throughout eternity, then we don’t have to appeal to a god to explain the bounty or harmony of the world around us. Given an infinite number of universes, a few of them are bound to be life-friendly at some point, and we’re in one of them. The problem, of course, is that the price of getting rid of God is an infinite…

Can Faith-Based Organizing for Gun Control Work?

By Sarah Posner

…equipped with sidewalk chalk, which they’d use to draw a big heart on the pavement at the parking lot entrance, emblazoned with the words, “God loves you.” These words are designed to stop you from doing something you’ll regret. The activists would focus not on the customer’s sin—no one wants to hear about their own sinfulness—but on that of the people inside the gun shop and gun show: how they look the other way at straw men purchases, how they’…

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

…e are asking for. Vatican: Tensions mounting as World Meeting of Families, papal visit, approach We reported last week that Catholic officials in Philadelphia were refusing to allow advocates for LGBT Catholics to use church facilities for events during the Pope’s visit to the city for the World Meeting of Families. This week, David Crary from the Associated Press reports: The World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, the central religious event…

C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…years he’s acted as a de facto lobbyist for strongmen ranging from Haiti’s Papa Doc Duvalier to Indonesia’s Suharto. Disavowing the strident pulpit-pounding that makes headlines, Coe preaches a far more authoritarian message, advising congressmen to look to “evil men” such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao for insight into the nature of Christ’s power. Why did the much of the mainstream media—with the exception of MSNBC’S Rachel Maddow—lose interest in…

Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book

By Kaya Oakes

…f authority, so as not to mistake what your local parish priest says for a papal encyclical. Bishops are going to read this book too, and they’re going to want to know that the LGBT community can interact with them in a respectful way as well. But the basic answer is that those virtues are Christian virtues. One of the things that always comes to mind is Martin Luther King, and the way he counseled people who were facing persecution. And I think o…

Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…t. With a Republican-led House looming over the January 6th committee, the panel has published an 845-page-long report, summing up their investigations. The report serves as the foundation for their criminal referral of Trump to the Department of Justice, accusing him of conspiracy to defraud the government, inciting an insurrection and obstructing an official proceeding. As law scholar Aziz Huq from the University of Chicago writes: “In the end,…