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

By Peter Montgomery

…e violations from entering the United States.” Indonesia: Muslim Political Parties Push ‘Propaganda’ Law as Wave of Homophobia Builds We have been reporting for weeks on a wave of anti-gay rhetoric and actions by religious and political leaders. In a review of recent developments in Indonesia, the Global Law Monitor at the U.S. Library of Congress notes, “Homosexuality is not outlawed at present in Indonesia, except in Aceh Province, which operate…

Is Torture Utilitarian?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…eate physical pain, just reflex action. And if it does not create physical pain, then it does not create mental pain. This logic beggars description. The expressions of outrage were intense and immediate. Surely someone needed to be prosecuted for this. But who? President Obama was very clear that he wished to look forward, not backward, eager to close the book on this embarrassing chapter in US foreign policy. Persons acting in good faith, believ…

Why We Must Reclaim “Religious Freedom” from Christian Conservatives

By Bill Berkowitz

…residential candidates remain prominent and the movement has increased its numbers in the Congress and in state governments and functions as a major and sometimes the dominant faction in the Republican Party in many states. The Christian Right remains one of the most powerful movements in American history. I should add that the implications of these things are broader than may meet the eye. Donald Trump’s calls for restricting Muslims from traveli…

Liberty University’s In-House Conversion ‘Therapist’ Retires, But Will the Christian School Cease This Discredited Practice?

By Lucas Wilson

…duate, explained his involvement with and thoughts on Emerick this way: “I participated in his porn groups, and I honestly think that he is a perfect example of how great intentions and a kind heart can be destructive as hell when your beliefs are wrong. I think Dane genuinely thought he was helping people, but his theology was inherently harmful.” As is suggested by Grubbs, who’s now an Assistant Professor of Psychology and an expert on porn cons…

Who’s Scared of Polygamy? A Restrained Case for the “Slippery Slope” Argument

By William E. Smith

…e has undergone a simultaneously rapid yet sustained change in history. In particular I see the Protestants’ reformation of marriage during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a particularly relevant historical analog. That reformation is important for, among other things, planting seeds inside the Christian tradition that may bear fruit in the form of pro-polygamy theology and practice. The Protestant Reformation is famous for, in theory,…

Republicans “Evangelizing” Catholic Voters

By Patricia Miller

…aning Catholics over the next few months. The irony is that Bush, an Episcopalian convert to Catholicism, is in many ways the most traditional Catholic of the sizeable number of Catholics jostling for the GOP nod. Bobby Jindal has labeled himself a “Catholic Evangelical” and even hosted “The Response,” a prayer extravaganza that amounts to a full-out paean to Christian nationalism. Rick Santorum has long courted the Christian right with his anti-a…

The Great Secret of Constitutional Law: Why Proposition 8 Will (and perhaps should) Be Upheld

By Bruce Ledewitz

…that the courts found anti-miscegenation statutes unconstitutional in the past on precisely that basis. Supporters have often compared bans on same-sex marriage to prohibitions on interracial marriage. But again, the analogy from interracial marriage to same-sex marriage is not inescapably clear. It convinces me, but does it have the sort of obviousness that a judge can point to in the face of strong public opposition? No Constitution, only a Con…

Awakening, Counter-Awakening, and the End of Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…icized, rigid, past. We are not passive observers, Bass writes, but active participants in shaping what’s to come. Bass herself has been at the forefront of the emergent spirituality movement, with books like Christianity for the Rest of Us (2007) and A People’s History of Christianity (2009). In an interview with Religion Dispatches, Bass talks about how this seemingly crazy, religion-infused GOP primary race is actually part and parcel of an awa…

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Overthink the New Pew Data’s Impact on Politics

By Sarah Posner

…ith, Associate Director of Research at the Pew Research Center, called the pace of the continued growth of the religiously unaffiliated “really remarkable.” The number of Americans identifying with no religion grew by 19 million from 2007 to 2014, and now the religiously unaffiliated are “more numerous,” said Smith, than either mainline Protestants or Catholics. Much of the rise of the “nones” is attributable to religious switching, mainly from Ca…

More than Half of Mississippi GOP Primary Voters Believe the President is Muslim

By Sarah Posner

…entified as evangelical. Like in Alabama, where only 25% identified as tea partiers, only 24% of Mississippi voters identified as tea partiers. Again, the candidates are splitting the evangelical vote with Gingrich showing a slight advantage with 33% to Romney’s 28%, and Santorum’s 29%. Of all the respondents, only 12% believe President Obama is a Christian, and 52% believe he is a Muslim. These numbers, like in Alabama, are more pronounced among…