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UCC First Church to Sue State Over Gay Marriage Ban

By Peter Montgomery

…the blessings of God. We reject that notion. As all of God’s children are welcome to receive the sacraments of communion and of baptism, so all of God’s children should be able to receive the sacrament of holy union and marriage.” He also quotes Luke Largess, a partner at Tin Fulton Walker & Owen saying that current state law makes it a misdemeanor for ministers to conduct marriage ceremonies without licenses; it is also illegal for them to sign…

Episcopal Church Trades Cross for Seashell

By Alana Massey

…th a round of trust falls because some people find the ritual a lot of hocus pocus? A church can be welcoming without capitulating to popular culture. A church can welcome all people without being all things to all people too. You’re a church, start acting like one….

Religion at the Moral March

By Peter Montgomery

…and others were careful not only to include people of every faith, but to welcome people who claim no faith but share a moral vision of a just society. He’s also not afraid to apply a little humor to his scriptural interpretation. He read from Jeremiah 22, where God says to go to the house of the king (a precursor to Moral Mondays protesters confronting those in power) to tell the king to do what is right and just. “Do no wrong or violence to the…

Millennials Invent New Religion: No Hell, No Priests, No Punishment

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nicate them from your religion?” I asked. “No,” they said, “they’re always welcome to come back.” The tales of their “reformers” were not much more forceful. Other than tinkering with one or two doctrines or ideas, the reformers they imagined for the assignment were just as “feel good” about the religion as the original founders. I asked the class after the presentations why they all chose to eschew the idea of hell. “Religion today is so … judgme…

Public Prayer Verdict Shows Its True Colors

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…estraint from moderate Justice Kennedy, who voiced hope that Greece “would welcome a prayer by any minister or layman who wished to give one.” No such luck. With the Brevard verdict, it is Justice Kagan who looks prescient, when she wrote in her dissenting opinion, that the majority decision reflects an erroneous reading of religion itself: “I have no doubt that every member of this Court believes as firmly as I that our institutions of government…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…utin pledged a discrimination free Olympics; he said gay visitors would be welcome as long as they “leave kids alone.” A teenager who held up a rainbow flag as the Olympic torch passed through his hometown on January 8 was detained and arrested by Olympic officials as well as law enforcement officers. Meanwhile, lawmaker Alexei Zhuravlyov is proposing a law “that would deny custody to any parent who leaves a straight relationship to be gay.” CNN r…

The Pope, the GOP, and the March for Life

By Sarah Posner

…urse, has set the hair aflame. Conservatives are pouting that they aren’t “welcome” in New York; Sean Hannity even had a tantrum about moving elsewhere. Cardinal Timothy Dolan writes a litany of St. Patrick’s activities “respecting life,” asking at the end, “does any of this seem ‘extremist’ to you?” The March for Life is still a big deal. One of the nation’s two major parties supports it, and will later in the week that party will consider whethe…

U.S. Bishops’ 15–year Battle For ‘Conscience’ and Against Contraception

By Patricia Miller

RD is thrilled to welcome Patricia Miller as its newest blogger. Miller, whose book Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church is due out in May from UC Press, will write about the emerging issues related to the Catholic hierarchy and reproductive rights, as well as the Catholic Church and Catholicism more broadly. Read her first two blog posts here and follow her on Twitter: @patti_miller. –eds The 41st anniversary of Roe v….

RIP: Bishop Otis Charles and Rev. Robert Nugent

By Peter Montgomery

…ion from U.S. Catholic leaders in the 1980s. “His ministry was more than a welcome,” said Francis DeBernardo, the group’s executive director. “He had the wisdom to know that the real moral problem in the church was not the lives of lesbian and gay people, but the ignorance and fear out of which many church leaders and officials operated.” Nugent operated within church structures as well as outside them. Nugent served as a consultant for the U.S. C…

New Poll: ‘Faithful Catholics’ an Endangered Species

By Linda Woodhead

…g gather strayed sheep back to the fold. Reformists say the opposite. They welcome the initiative as a sign that Francis really cares about what ordinary Catholics think, and that Vatican II’s claim that the Church is “the whole people of God” is at last being made good. A closer look at the questionnaire supports the conservative view over the reformist one, for it’s not a survey in any sense that a social scientist would recognize. The 38 questi…