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

By Kaya Oakes

…sus said about “Judge not.” I used to get more upset about these things until I realized a couple of things. Number one, not everyone’s going to like you. Number two, engaging with these people in arguments is often fruitless. Number three, a lot of times they refuse to listen. And number four, a very small percentage of them are actually crazy. There’s a great scene in a movie called The Trouble with Angels from the 1960s. It’s about a Catholic g…

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

…momentum to the equality movement globally, where homosexual activity is still illegal in dozens of countries. The Washington Blade reports that U.S. diplomats participated in many pride celebrations in the wake of the Court ruling. The ruling provoked response from both supporters and opponents. More from the Blade’s reporting: “It’s a momentous and important decision, and the United States joins a small but growing number of countries in the Ame…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…chieved. At least not right away. In the inevitable compromise, employers will still need to have a role. And so when the federal government says “Hey, we’re going to try to make sure that all Americans get the groceries they use, but we still need to work through the employers,” it becomes very complicated. Advocates for some Jain institutions say, “Wait, now we have to facilitate the meat-getting by our non-Jain employees? This is an outrage! We…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…the openly gay former US ambassador to the country. The New York Times profiled a number of everyday people, Muslims and Christians, who are taking part in legal challenges to the Trump administration overs its executive orders banning entry into the U.S. from a number of countries. Paul Harrison, an American man engaged to an Iranian man is among the individuals profiled: Like the other plaintiffs, the couple veer between dread and hope with each…

C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…with the Family, which he no longer wants anything to do with. But the Family will survive. It’s been around for 70 years. And it has plenty of defenders. Senator Jim Inhofe wants to boast of his involvement. Senator Lindsey Graham rushed to its defense. Rep. Randy Forbes, leader of the congressional prayer caucus, is proud of his association. Rep. Frank Wolf and former Rep. Tony Hall took to the pages of Christianity Today to publish such a disi…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e-sanctioned and publicly funded religious legal systems. In that light, while same-sex marriage is not actually illegal in Israel, there simply isn’t any institution empowered to perform such marriages. According to the LGBT association, the High Court has the authority to approve marriages in the civil courts if the rabbinical court does not recognize them. Norway: State Churches Will Perform Same-Sex Weddings The Church of Norway General Synod…

Can Faith-Based Organizing for Gun Control Work?

By Sarah Posner

…lls are actually ineffective at preventing abortion—but pamphlets that detail the number of gun deaths in America, the number of mass shootings, the number of accidents, the number of suicides. The movement would have more than these grassroots activists. It would have willing politicians, a legal strategy, and lots of money. All of these components would work in tandem to change people’s minds, to pressure lawmakers, to intimidate politicians run…

Why Do Evangelicals And Dems Want Immigration Reform?

By Daniel Schultz

…Their numbers will triple to 133 million by 2050 from 47 million today, while the number of non-Hispanic whites will remain essentially flat. Hispanics will double as a percentage of the population from 15 percent to 30 percent. The population of Asian Americans will also come close to doubling, going from 5 percent to 9 percent. The number of blacks, however, will grow only from 14 percent to 15 percent of the population, making them only half t…

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

By Douglas Harrison

…sus who appeals to the effeminate preachers and their female flock or the Billy Sunday-Billy Graham [version represented today by] Tony Evans? He is this black football-playing advisor to the Promise Keepers, and they stress that they’re excessively butch. In fact, one of my more playful lines is that muscular Christianity devolves into the image of Bishop Eddie L. Long posing on his smartphone. In recent gospel, [the trend has been toward] the mo…

Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…: Catholic Church Bans Gay-Themed Movie, Activists Protest Weakening of Civil Union Bill The Catholic Church in Italy has effectively banned Weekend, a movie by British filmmaker Andrew Haigh, by declaring it unfit to be shown in any of the theaters owned by the church, notes Andrew Potts at Gay Star News. More from AFP: In an unusual move that prompted accusations of homophobic censorship, the Italian Conference of Bishops’ Film Evaluation Commis…