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London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lity is intimately linked to levels of social and economic development and rates of religiosity. The higher the religiosity, the lower the acceptance rate of homosexuality, and vice versa. The polling data also show that among the major religious groups, Muslims are the least accepting of homosexuality and gay rights, followed by Protestant–Evangelicals, Catholics, and mainstream Protestants. These findings would explain why the gay backlash has b…

New Survey: Catholic Women “Disengaged & Disengaging” — And Don’t Listen to US Bishops

By Patricia Miller

…family planning as a method of contraception, which is the second-highest rate following women born before the availability of modern contraceptives. Politically, the women who responded to the survey trended Democratic. Some 60% were either Democratic (41%) or leaned Democratic (18%), while just under one-quarter (24%) were Republican and 14% leaned Republican. Three-quarters of the Catholic women surveyed said they planned to vote in the 2018 m…

What Can Fascination With ‘Sister Cindy’ Teach Us About the ‘None’ Generation?

By Chad Bauman

…. On the one hand, this is the generation that began in historically large numbers to leave institutional religion behind and embrace the eclectic, episodic, “spiritual but not religious” life that Melinda Lundquist Denton and Richard Flory call “back-pocket” religion. And that, of course, is if they’re religious at all. Many no longer are, and are therefore in equally historic numbers flooding the agnostic, atheist, and “unaffiliated” (or religio…

20 Years for Giving Water to Migrants? A Religious Freedom Case of Little Interest to ‘Religious Freedom’ Industry

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…ressed over the arrest and charges against Mr. Scott Warren” for it demonstrates a threat to basic civil liberties. A communique released by Amnesty International demanded that “the U.S. Department of Justice . . . immediately drop all criminal charges against humanitarian volunteer Dr. Scott Warren, and stop criminalizing humanitarian aid.” As brown bodies continue to perish on our southern borders at a rate of five every four days, too many chur…

Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream

By Annika Brockschmidt

…caused societies to collapse. The opening scene alludes to declining birth rates. This is a favorite topic of white nationalists like Tucker Carlson, who for years has lamented the low birth rates of white babies. This demographic anxiety is overtly racist, since it’s contrasted within the narrative with an amorphous mass of BIPOC, who came to the country as immigrants and are reproducing at a much higher rate. It’s not a big leap from this to con…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…rvative policymakers, who today push anti-LGBTQ legislation at an alarming rate, were not prepared to implement some of the most revolutionary elements of the MAGA movement. Enter Project 2025. With eerie echoes of the NAR’s Seven Mountain Mandate, Project 2025 unabashedly seeks to take the reins of government via policies that would drastically change the landscape of American governance and, as the document says, “bend or break the bureaucracy t…

The Critiques of Evangelical Writers Opposing Christian Nationalism Fail to Recognize Evangelicalism’s Troubling History

By David Hollinger

…itely still in control of American Christianity. Catholics were smaller in numbers and had a much weaker class position. The mainline churches had growing memberships, media connections, and they dominated all three branches of the federal government. In 1963, mainliners were proud to publish Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” in their house organ, The Christian Century, while FBI strongman J. Edgar Hoover was the darling o…

As the Right Peddles a Conspiracy About Trans People and Easter, A Reflection on the Spiritual Nature of My Gender Transition

By Ryann Croken

…e results of this hatred have been devastating on multiple fronts, and the rate of trans people who have attempted suicide has risen to a staggering 42%. Rather than recognize that the moral course of action would be to reverse this crisis, many on the Right—and some on the Left—are doing whatever they can to make it even more agonizing and deadly. Transitioning in the midst of this cruel political climate has often felt like walking into a house…

‘Anti-Zionism = Antisemitism’ isn’t Just Wrong, It’s the Problem

By Shaul Magid

…onism, are indeed antisemitic. This is surely true and we should follow Socrates and make the necessary distinctions to reach accurate conclusions. What’s at issue here is the absolutist equation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism, which is where weaponization begins. The slide from “you are antisemitic because you deny the right of Israel to exist,” to “you are antisemitic because you protest Israel as it presently exists,” is often a sleight of h…

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Decadence, Sickness, and Death: Mourning and the Israel-Hamas War

By Shaul Magid

…ause it’s lost contact with many of its principles and substituted unadulterated hatred in its place. Destroying Israel, itself an impossible task, became more important than feeding its people, which is a more realizable goal, or even seeking a viable path to liberation. Like many (maybe all) countries, Israel is accountable for being fast and loose with its principles too. A society founded on the principles of solidarity and cooperation, a soci…