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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Bagnasco, “has given his blessing to a demonstration in Roe on January 30 promoting the supremacy of heterosexual family life and backing Catholic MPs within Renzi’s own party who plan to sabotage a gay unions bill on which the prime minister is staking his credibility.” The Catholic News Agency reported last week that Honduran Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga “has acknowledged the presence of a ‘gay lobby’ in the Vatican” and that “Pope Francis has adop…

Final Thoughts on Religion and the DNC

By Sarah Posner

…d at almost no point were nonreligious Americans mentioned or made to feel welcome in either party’s verbose orations. “Our nation, and our entire planet, face so many great challenges that demand a clear focus on what is true and what is not. Reliance on facts, science, and real data have never been more crucial to the formulation of policy and for helping voters decide which candidates will have the best programs to resolve our pressing crises….

It’s Not “Inappropriate” for Public School Teacher to Tell Class that Obama Isn’t Christian

By Joseph Laycock

…963), the Supreme Court has made it clear that education about religion is welcome in public schools but that proselytizing and indoctrination is not. The issue is not that everyone must feel “comfortable” with what’s being said about religion. Rather, the establishment clause of the Constitution requires the government to be neutral in its treatment of religion. Nancy Perry is free to hold whatever religious views she wants, but when she shares t…

The Queerness of Christian Ethics: A Conversation with Rev. Elizabeth Edman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ce floor. It would be amazing. Many mainstream or evangelical churches may welcome you into the pew but never into leadership or other forms of service. You’re calling the church not simply to affirm LGBT people, but to fully accept us. I’m asking the church to dismantle that binary of “us” and “them” that sees anyone coming through the door as an other. My hope would be that [churches] learn to do that not just by trying to understand the queer e…

Judge Denies Church Graduation Ceremonies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…now all Enfield Schools students and their families will feel included and welcome at the ceremonies,” said Daniel Mach, director of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. “No student should ever have to feel like a second-class citizen at his or her own graduation.” While I agree with that, I think the ACLU and the parents may be missing a teachable moment in all of this. My own high school graduation was held in the school’s auditor…

5 Take-Aways from the Newly Viral Romney End-Times Video

By Joanna Brooks

…r than you do.” Romney also goes on to explain that pro-choice Mormons are welcome in the Church, that there are plenty of Mormon Democrats, and that his own stance on abortion rights is “not a Mormon thing.” “I’m not running as a Mormon and I get tired of coming on the air and having it all be about Mormon,” he concludes. What to make of this video and its resurfacing now, just hours before the election? 1. Whoever pushed this video out again wan…

How the Logic of Law Enforcement Leads to Spying on Muslims

By Haroon Moghul

…had invoked canon law to defend his position. Considering the recent (and welcome) coverage of the New York City Police Department’s entirely inappropriate behavior, which as far as we know up till now includes the sustained use of blatantly anti-Muslim propaganda films and frequent spying on everyday college students outside of New York City, Rascoff’s op-ed is timely. But it is tackling complicated questions, for which it isn’t easy to find ans…

Who’s Smearing Obama?

By Svend White

…ve, one would expect them to be taken at face value and hailed as signs of welcome change. But that’s not happening. Pundits hold forth confidently (and often caustically) on the workings of a legal tradition in which they have little to no experience, while input from living and breathing Muslims to a debate over contemporary Islamic law is treated as superfluous, or worse, as some cunning new form of taqiyya, a curious state of affairs that spea…

Advice from a Disaster Pastor: Open Your Wallet, Not Your Closet

By Carlos Wilton

…early five years ago. The asset houses of worship and relief agencies most welcome, in the wake of a blockbuster storm, is money: undesignated money. They can use it to purchase the goods and services local survivors most need, at each stage of the recovery process. Yet, many high-minded and generous people shrink from writing such a check. They’d rather fill a shopping cart with items for the disaster-relief truck than contribute an equivalent am…

The Accidental Worshiper: Following the Music

By Tripp Hudgins

…issues and asks some of the questions that will guide this exploration. We welcome your stories. – The Eds _____________ I’m not quite sure when I first read about this kind of concert-going experience, but somewhere along the line some Christian fans started referring to rock concerts as if they were religious experiences, as if going to the coliseum to hear your favorite band was like going to a cathedral for worship. In this analogy, concert-go…