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Belize Overturns Sodomy Law Defended by Religious Right, Ugandan Officials Will Continue to Suppress Gay Groups, And More on the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…akers” who should receive much credit for helping Salt Shakers’ agenda: “I can categorically say that had it not been for Senator Abetz and his consistent stand for Christian values in the Parliament, the tide of evil would have moved much, much faster in Canberra. One day we may be able to tell the whole story, but now is not the time.” The conservative Christian senator has a long history with the Salt Shakers. In 2005, there were calls for Abet…

New Poll Reveals Jews May Be Open to Change in Israel Policy

By Benjamin Weiner

…hardliners are running neck-and-neck. The stakes are high. If President Obama attempts to take a harder line with Israel he risks alienating his Jewish base. At the same time, if American Jews are not willing to support the president, they risk a diminishment of their own political capital if he does it anyhow. The J Street data, if nothing else, indicates that there is at least the potential for collaboration between the administration and the Je…

Forget Right or Wrong

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ng richness of American spiritual life and its interactive balance with secular life. A publicly recognized, government sponsored observation of the complex religious and non-religious American landscape that doesn’t invite rigid polarization might well be something for which we could all give thanks… in whatever way each of us might do that….

Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…l Mero, head of the Mormon think tank the Sutherland Institute. The ecumenical call to arms extols a conservative lifestyle where fathers lead and women honor their highest domestic calling by becoming “prolific mothers” of “full quivers of children.” In service of that goal, Carlson, who has helped craft policy for ultra-right Senator Sam Brownback and Representative Lee Terry of Nebraska, hopes to involve the state in a pro-family welfare system…

For Buddhism, Science is Not a Killer of Religion

By Paul Wallace

…mental gymnastics. The Buddhist approach to the science-faith question is not the tortured intellectual affair as it can be for many, who strain to see how God’s action in the world can square with certain physical laws or with some detail of evolutionary theory, or who reject God altogether because God can’t be strapped to a lab bench and poked and prodded. It is so different from that. Buddhists spend their lives coming to see the world clearly,…

Why We Must Reclaim “Religious Freedom” from Christian Conservatives

By Bill Berkowitz

…go in restricting the availability of contraception and perhaps other medical care of which they do not approve, remains to be seen. The most visible implication has been the way that the Right then used the third party principle to try to allow conservative Christian business owners to deny service to married same-sex couples, or those intending to be married. The argument (which is disturbingly similar to arguments against recognition of interr…

A Reforming Tradition Struggles With Change

By Brent Hege

At the end of last summer the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted to amend its ordination policies to include gay and lesbian clergy who are in committed, monogamous, lifelong, publicly accountable relationships. The assembly also voted to recommend a process whereby those pastors who had either left the ELCA or been forced out for violating the now-defunct ordination policies could be reinstated to the active clergy roster. For p…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…e who knows me knows I’m a bit of a smartass and I make lots of mistakes because I can be stubborn or just clueless sometimes. That comes through in the book, I hope, not in an annoying way, but just in an ordinary way. Moreover, I wanted the book to have a certain feel to it, like you were meeting me for the first time and you, the reader, and I were stuck late at night in an airport somewhere while a storm grounded all flights and I just started…

The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…alled to live and be and act? In this present context, how do we make Biblical Anglicans for a Global Age?” But an earlier statement about the “differentiation” from the actions of the General Convention insisted that “our action is not to be construed as a departure from the Episcopal Church.” Opening the Doors Too Far? The approval of a number of other resolutions unrelated to gender, sexuality, and relationships drew little media attention but…

Trump’s Pathological Devotion to Border Walls Isn’t Political, It’s Theological

By Alana Massey

…his own Trump Tower in New York City, the 45-minute speech was a reliable cascade of derision aimed at President Obama and half-formed nonsense plans to Make America Great Again. It wasn’t the first time he had mentioned a border wall, but it was his most portentous delivery to date. “I will build a great wall—and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me—and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our souther…