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Declaring a Theological State of Emergency: Trump’s Ignorance Must Not Be Ours

By Mary E. Hunt

…s. Because the content of these statements is focused on a specific world religion, I believe that scholars and activists of many religions need to step forward in concrete, educational ways. Theologians must be among the first responders on this one. And we need to start at the beginning since Mr. Trump’s ignorance of the Muslim faith mirrors that of many Americans. “Islam” has become a code word for terrorism. In fact, it is the name of a monoth…

Touch Me, Man, I’m Healed, I’m Straight

By Ted Cox

…researchers called a “successful heterosexual shift,” and that they “viewed themselves as heterosexual and denied distress with regard to periodic experiences of same-sex desire.” Of those eight with successful heterosexual shift, seven provided ex-gay counseling themselves; four of those eight were paid to do so. So, are these successfully straightened men more likely to practice ex-gay therapy? Or are these formerly-gay paid therapists just more…

Does ‘Criss-Cross Apple Sauce’ Make Yoga Secular? Opponents of Yoga in Public Schools Have a Point

By Candy Gunther Brown

…), reasoning that it is possible to strip yoga’s religious “trappings” by relabeling poses such as “lotus” as “criss-cross applesauce.” In 2016, however, the Pennsylvania Board of Education ruled that a yoga-based charter school is legally impermissible because the curriculum retained language used in “religious instruction.” These rulings, like Alabama’s recent legal wordsmithing, reflect a Protestant-derived, Word-centered understanding of “reli…

Why South Korea (and the US) Use Amusement Parks to Push Creationism

By Andrew Aghapour

…, Hayes demonstrates, are “myths,” or paradigmatic models of reality that help us code our visions of the world and inform our social vocabularies, conceptions of self, and varying personal relationships. One’s views about the origins of humanity signal special allegiance, at the moment, to a broad social collective and a general worldview. In short, whether you are a die-hard secularist or an adamant creationist, you subscribe to a large and comp…

Authoritarian Populism Vs Human Rights, The Campaign Against ‘Gender Ideology’ and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…equality and reproductive choice around the world, announced that it has selected veteran Religious Right activist Mike Farris to be its CEO and president as founder Alan Sears steps down. Rex Tillerson, incoming U.S. President Donald Trump’s choice to be secretary of state, declined at his confirmation hearing to say specifically whether gay rights are human rights, but he did say that “American values don’t accommodate violence or discriminatio…

Pope Calls Out “Bad Shepherds” as Conservatives Prepare to Fight Change

By Patricia Miller

…o accused conservatives of having “an ideological understanding of the Gospel that the Gospel is like a penal code.” The hardliners on divorce were backed by an open letter to the synod signed by 48 conservatives, including prominent Catholics like natural law scholar Robert George and former US ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon, but also conservative protestants like Rick Warren and signees from the Heritage Foundation and the Family Re…

New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…erty); and even campaigning with Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate and fellow election denier Doug Mastriano. One of the early apostle-prophets, Bill Hamon, who was close to Wagner, believed that the restoration of the biblical offices of the apostle and prophet would be a gradual process. But Hamon and everyone involved probably knew it would be a bumpy road to radically challenge the structure of established churches and change the face of Gl…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ognized the sovereignty of the Romanian people to define marriage for themselves, as well as the supremacy of their choice over and above the dictates of pro-homosexual forces in Europe and beyond.” The European arm of the American Center for Law and Justice also filed a memorandum in the case Indonesia: Will LGBT content be banned from TV? As we have been reporting, religious and political leaders have been responsible for a wave of anti-LGBT rhe…

Sullivan v. Gallagher: Catholics Debate LGBT Rights At Georgetown

By Sarah Posner

…in the religious anti-gay movement, is that LGBT equality spells a lack of freedom for religious people, an effort to “repress and marginalize” them. Yet her own most unseemly moment — and there were many — was NOM’s distribution of a sheet of paper about Catholics for Equality, “In Their Own Words,” intended to smear the group as an anti-Catholic tool of evil liberals. Its most telling portions: two mentions of associations of groups that work wi…

Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

By Joanna Brooks

…from New Hampshire, where, Pew data shows, Romney actually won among evangelicals: 31% of self-identified evangelical Christians voted for Romney, 23% for Rick Santorum, and 21% for Ron Paul. It is also worthy of note that in South Carolina Mitt Romney actually improved his share of self-identified Protestant voters. In 2008, Romney won about 13% of South Carolina Protestants; in 2012, that number grew to 27%. Certainly, data shows that anti-Morm…