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Its the Spiritual Economy, Stupid: Why the Gay Marriage Fracas Isn’t About Either

By Nick Street

…of words—as thoroughly test-marketed as a Viagra commercial—represents the latest in a decades-long series of efforts by religious conservatives to thwart the steady advance of public acceptance of gays and lesbians into the mainstream of American life. According to an analysis of polling data published by CBS News, Americans are becoming more “gay friendly” at a rate of about one percent a year. Still, that means that only 45 percent of Californi…

Reason for Cautious Optimism in the Mauna Kea Telescope Standoff

By Jean Rosenfeld

…and languages that require expert decoding while the clock is ticking. The latest religious standoff occurred July 21, 2019 at the foot of Mauna Kea, a mountain held sacred by Hawaiian sovereigntists on the island of Hawaii. The mountain’s protectors (kia’i) blocked the road to the construction site of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). Their legal suits against the project had finally ended and the court had allowed construction to proceed. The go…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…erican values and with international laws Washington has taken the lead in promoting.” China: Filmmaker sues over censorship A documentarian is suing the Chinese government over censorship: Beijing-based film-maker Fan Popo has sued the agency responsible for television and internet content. Fan’s recent film, Mama Rainbow, documented Chinese mothers reconciling with their LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) children. After thousands…

More Pressure on Obama to Fix His Religious Freedom Legacy

By Sarah Posner

…rcumvent legal prohibitions on discrimination in hiring. The letter is the latest push in a seven-year effort to persuade Obama to reverse this Bush-era policy, put in place during the zealous days of Bush’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. Last year 90 organizations joined the call for reversing the memo, renewing calls that had begun shortly after Obama took office in 2009, and that have proved to be an exercise in futility. But the issue has…

The Ryan Report on Child Abuse in Ireland

By Eugene C. Bianchi

…Controversy over releasing names of perpetrators slowed its progress. The latest exposé of child abuse in Ireland landed like a huge aftershock following the American quake felt in Boston a few years ago. In the US, court settlements for victims cost billions and have forced bankruptcy on dioceses and religious orders. Similar seismic activity threatens in the Los Angeles area where Cardinal Mahony and his lawyers are fighting lawsuits. Thomas P….

Anglican Communion Gets Anti-Gay Secretary General; Black Gay Christians Challenge Conservative Evangelicals in Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…der calls the world’s most progressive gender identity law. The law is the latest in a series of LGBT rights laws ushered in by the Labour Party after taking power in 2013, a dramatic about-face for the country which has aconstitution establishing Catholicism as the official religion. Catholic teachings have long held great influence over Maltese family law; Malta was among the last countries in the world to approve to divorce, which voters did by…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…rise in GDP in the last ten years, repaired relations with Israel, and the latest news suggests he’s even worked out a peace deal with the Kurds. If Erdogan can make Turkey a truly multicultural democracy, he’ll have resurrected the best characteristics of the Ottoman Empire, which last held the Caliphate, conveniently enough in modern Turkey. The Bad: Erdogan may actually already be the Caliph, which kind of ruins our brackets. Also, his peace wi…

New Yorker on Banking Corruption: Suck it Up and Stop Whining

By Peter Laarman

…rns wayward bankers, so best not to go there. Rage is not a policy. 3. The latest Geithner deal to subsidize the hedge funds that purchase bad bank assets is deeply flawed—it will probably deliver staggering bonanzas to the fund managers and may not work at all—but going this route is politically easier than taking a rational approach (short-term bank nationalization). So we should just shut up about it and let Obama spend his political capital on…

The Other, Forgotten Apocalypse of 2011

By Jason Bruner

…ific concern. Camping has been buried by subsequent news cycles and is the latest member of a cadre of religious leaders whom the Apocalypse passed by. But while May’s Apocalypse seems to have skipped over most of the world, it did land squarely on a hilltop in north-western Vietnam. It would behoove us to take notice of the complex and unexpected ways in which this spring’s apocalypticism rippled across the world—in short radio waves, to be preci…

The Abortion Debate, Texas Style

By Dhawn Martin

…he day, but the politics were just getting started. While checking out the latest update from Stand With Texas Women on Facebook, I heard Texas Sen. Donna Campbell on the local news declare that “Democracy was traded for mobocracy” during the successful filibuster. Mobocracy, really? Needless to say, the proverbial line was drawn in the sand, yet again. The orange-clad were directed to arrive at the Capitol the following day, July 2, ready to regi…