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Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, are setting up hotlines and safehouses, while “unfriending” people on social media and deleting website directories that could expose them to violence.” The intensity of the public campaign against LGBT people is unprecedented, Tang writes. Homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia, though some politicians have called for criminalization of gay sex. Sexual and gender minorities in Indonesia have historically lived amid a tense calm, with toleran…

Don’t Misread Russell Moore’s Disavowal of “Christian Nation” and Anti-Trump Stance

By Daniel Schultz

…e this: Moore’s tack also lets them hang onto the work they’re doing in racial reconciliation.* It also allows them to position themselves away from dead-enders like Kim Davis. Moore wants to project an image of the SBC as conservative, yes, but living in the same world as everybody else. I’m not sure it’s fair to say that this is Moore playing politics, exactly. As I say, his comments are part of a larger effort to steer the SBC away from evangel…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…following the shooting when 25 atheists, agnostics, Muslims, Pagans, Christians, Zoroastrians, and others met at the Humanist Community at Harvard to attend a memorial for the shooting victims at a gurdwara in Medford, Massachusetts. An atheist in attendance told me that he had never experienced anything like it before, but perhaps the most moving sentiment came from a Christian minister who said during the memorial: “Personally, I am embarrassed…

Why Religious Exemptions Matter

By Sarah Posner

…e exemption but for the fact that, for example, they provide charitable social services to persons of different religious faiths or employ persons of different religious faiths when running a parochial school. Indeed, this was never the Departments’ intention in connection with the 2011 amended interim final rules or the 2012 final rules.” (emphasis added) In other words, the administration claims it never intended to deprive a religious organizat…

Speaking for Hinduism in the Absence of a Conversation

By Murali Balaji

…tive, and in turn, the depictions of Hinduism in other realms—either in media or in educational materials such as textbooks—has been framed in accordance to such perspectives. As Jakob de Roover writes, this has had a significant impact on not only Hinduism, but how Hindus view themselves. More problematically, scholars—even those whose views were sympathetic towards Hinduism—were reluctant to engage with practicing Hindus, a departure from the s…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…io. And the fact that very few free blacks were ultimately settled in Liberia*]}*—despite the enormous prestige and influence of the American Colonization Society—has mainly to do with the failure of large-scale emancipation to actually materialize in view of the rapidly escalating value of slave labor following the introduction of the cotton gin at the start of the 19th century. Guyatt simply takes it as a given that a huge proportion of the would-be…

Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community

By Andrea Malji and Amarnath Amarasingam

…020, there have been 146 Covid deaths in Sri Lanka with a disproportionate number coming from the Muslim community; despite making up less than 10% of the population, Muslims account for nearly half of the reported deaths. A Muslim leader in Sri Lanka informed the authors that the number is actually higher, and that 82 Muslims have died, with over 70 cremations. The cremation of the victims was carried out by the state without the approval of the…

Breivik’s Religious Pluralist Vision: A COEXIST Bumper Sticker Without the Crescent

By Michael J. Altman

…ile it’s true that he borrows a lot of imagery and language from the Christian crusades, such a list of world religions indicates that Breivik also thought in terms of modern religious diversity. It wasn’t merely Christendom versus Islam, it was a world of peaceful religions defending themselves against violent Muslims. Combining the clash of civilizations thesis with historical narratives of Islam’s violence against the world’s religions, Breivik…

Record Numbers Voted for More Death and More Racism; Can We Really Just Come Together as a Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…ption, and more openly racist and exclusionary public policies. And a huge number of these voters identify as Christian. And we’re supposed to find a way to reconcile with them? I can’t, and I won’t. The only path forward I can see is the path of confrontation and struggle and relentless organizing for power—nonviolently, of course, but without the genteel gestures toward bipartisanship and compromise centrist Democrats are so fond of. Commentator…

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and Pro-Home Birth

By Katherine Don

…at home birth advocacy is “probably the only grassroots movement that includes roughly equal numbers of pro-life and pro-choice individuals. We often hear shock from legislatures, saying they have never before seen these two groups come together on the same piece of legislation.” Shaye Miller, previously the member chairwoman at Nebraska Friends of Midwives, says that the issue usually gets quickly “dropped” when abortion is brought up amongst mid…