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Obama Says His Faith Informed His Support for Gay Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…I believe is that is between a man and a woman. What I believe, in my faith, is that a man and a woman, when they get married, are performing something before God, and it’s not simply the two persons who are meeting.” In 2010, he told progressive bloggers, “I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage.” Obama didn’t just endorse same-sex marri…

The Gospel Church and the Ruining of Gay Lives: An Interview with Anthony Heilbut

By Douglas Harrison

…with the other. Is it an underlying straight assumption about wealth as a sign of masculine virility? Oh, that’s an excellent idea… I have two theories: One is the great dialectic in American culture between Jesus the meek and humble lamb and Jesus the warrior, the man’s man. In other words, is it the Jesus who appeals to the effeminate preachers and their female flock or the Billy Sunday-Billy Graham [version represented today by] Tony Evans? He…

Welcome to Alabama’s Most Biblical Town

By Sarah Posner

…iff said he “was guilty of sexual misconduct, improprieties and harassment, as well as being in violation of the DeKalb County Commission’s policy on sexual harassment.” Before his firing and resignation, news coverage of the sign controversy noted that “the entire message” of the welcome signs “was sealed with Mayor Mitchell Dendy’s stamp of approval.”…

Killing Love in North Carolina

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r children by forming a contract between themselves and their government designating each other as the guardian of the children they are raising together. Congratulations, North Carolina. Welcome to the 16th century. Take voter Joe Easterling’s twisted and tortured logic for voting in support of the amendment: “I know that some people may argue that the Bible may not necessarily be applicable, or it should not be applicable, on such policy matters…

Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating

By Beatrice Marovich

…ding the consumption of food in The Laws of Manu. What she finds, in these codes, is not only an attempt to deal with the old, and apparently always agonizing, moral pain of eating animal flesh. She also spoke of references, in these ancient texts, to the “screaming silence” of vegetables. Doniger finds, in other words, a long history of reflection on the basic brutality of eating, rooted in a reflection on this concept of ahimsa. But, interesting…

For Anti-Gay Conservatives, Grenell Symbolized Romney’s Untrustworthiness

By Sarah Posner

…was supposed to be a spokesperson for the campaign. That, of course, was a sign that the campaign, and Romney in particular, were made queasy by the pressure from anti-gay Republicans. Grenell, to be sure, was not a perfect spokesperson—but not because of his support for marriage equality and LGBT rights. As his tweets demonstrated, he did have what could charitably be called a tact or diplomacy problem. But that’s not why, by all accounts, he res…

Bryan Fischer’s Homophobic Attacks on Romney’s Spox

By Sarah Posner

…ue with Grenell over his criticism of the Bush administration’s failure to sign a December 2008 U.N. resolution that called for decriminalizing homosexuality across the globe. While at the United Nations, Grenell fought unsuccessfully to have his partner, Matt Lashey, listed among the spouses in the United Nations’s Blue Book, a personnel directory. “It’s concerning that you would have somebody tapped to be potentially in an administration that wo…

Chuck Colson, Watergate Felon and Evangelical Leader, Dies at 80

By Anthea Butler

…n would go on to become a major figure in Evangelicalism like his mentors, promoting conservative values in Prison Fellowship, and also influencing the Evangelical mainstream. Colson would start the Justice Fellowship, a criminal justice based reform group in 1983, and would later win the Templeton Prize in 1993 for Progress in Religion. The other facet of his work, however, was in declarations and statements. Joining with Richard John Neuhaus of…

New Study: Three-Quarters of American Giving Goes to Religion

By Jay Michaelson

…hment. Maybe the secular social-justice commitments of American Jews are a sign of Judaism’s success. So, most religious people are equally generous; they only give more than non-religious people because they give to religious organizations; and they, like the rest of us, give to overwhelmingly religious organizations. For better or for worse. Like this story? Your tax-deductible $5 or $10 will help us pay writers, coders, interns, and editors. An…

Conservative Rep Grills Oklahoma Personhood Sponsors

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…r a floor vote, and despite the likelihood that Governor Mary Fallin would sign it into law, I think SB-1433 is in danger of becoming a political hot potato. The die-hard “personhood” position—which holds that not just life, but legal rights, begin at some poorly-understood “moment of fertilization”—is not a position all pro-life people are comfortable with. And it’s not hard to understand why: What of women with life-threatening pregnancies? Does…