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Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…h Federation’s Master class in Tel Aviv. He has lectured academically at a number of institutions including The New York Public Library, and is proud member of Writer’s Guild and Dramatist’s Guild. Today he lives in Los Angeles with his partner, is pitching a new Muslim family sitcom, and is rarely beat up. Parvesh Cheena recently starred in NBC’s comedy series Outsourced as Gupta and is the voice of Blades on The HUB Network’s new cartoon, Transf…

The Silly Calls for Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…in debates about abortion (if you were, say, in the “personally squicked out, but not so keen on making it illegal either, but mostly don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about it” camp), how would you react to the claims made in Americans United For Life’s Planned Parenthood report? I mean, that’s one of the few undecideds, isn’t it? We know how the people with strong positions will react. The report will galvanize AUL’s constituency, while…

Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ful task, but it is an essential one—especially for what it can tell us about the future. The year began with the long shadow of January 6th of the previous year, 2021, hanging over the nation—and the continuous efforts by the Republican Party to try and discredit the committee tasked with investigating it. Their stance would not change over the course of the year, nor did they waver as testimony after testimony from Republican officials (whose ca…

I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple

By Anita Little

…dure more. My intention is for them to claim themselves and claim their beauty. To me, beauty is the body, so I want them to see the body as a temple and own themselves in public—since that’s where we are denied our presence. In that way, we become a mirror reflecting what is possible, and it gives us a sense of pride to move forward and rebuild communities and families. The Black Woman is God: Reprogramming That God Code will be on view at SOMArt…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…erent angle, evangelicals and Roman Catholics took note. Obama has staked out the rather sensible position that the way to diminish the number of abortions is not to legislate against the practice, which almost certainly will create a huge backlash and arguably represents an infringement of liberties. The way to diminish the incidence of abortion, he counters, is to diminish demand through sex education and the availability of contraceptives. The…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…sleep. In February, Birge’s father Tom, an attorney, wrote Archbishop Chaput, asking for resolution. He was told that, while Hernandez “had a different version of the facts,” he had nonetheless been relieved of his duties. However, at a hearing to renew the protection order in March, and again in June, Hernandez came to court accompanied by nuns who worked at the Archdiocese’s Centro San Juan Diego: Hispanic Institute for Family and Pastoral Care…

Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book

By Kaya Oakes

…last few months is that this ministry is not just about the LGBT person, but about a much greater population. It’s about their grandparents and parents and aunts and uncles and brothers and sisters and friends. I was giving a talk at the Catholic center at Yale on Jesus, and afterwards this woman came up to me who looked like she was out of central casting for grandmother roles. She leaned over, and I thought she was going to say, “My favorite sa…

International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nizers had predicted that 30,000 people would participate in the service, but the actual number appeared to number around 2,000. “Our prayers will open the sky and the homosexuals will fall, we will be blessed with victory,” said Lee Young-hoon, head of the leading organization in the anti-LGBT coalition. Mexico: Supreme Court embraces marriage, Church and some political officials resist As we have been reporting, the marriage equality movement ha…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…suage the critics of the practice. “Yes, that’s lovely that you think so. But outside of Pretend Happy Land, robbing women of the vote is disempowering, and I can’t even believe we’re having this conversation.” Anyway, the municipal government, for many compelling practical reasons, wants the church to serve as the polling place. The church insists that it cannot, in good conscience, allow its sincerely-held teachings to be violated on its watch….

Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…evangelicals tend to view transgenderism as a lifestyle choice,” said Chesnut. “But the fact that Santa Muerte is outside the orbit of both evangelical and Catholic Christianity makes her much more appealing. It’s much easier for followers to feel that she’s not going to be judgmental.” In contrast, many transgender women feel rejected by mainstream churches. … The Rev. Hugo Valdemar Romero, a spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Mexico City, said…