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Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ranking officials in the Church of England, came out as a lesbian. Trevor Grundy at Religion News Service reports that Ozanne revealed that she had subjected herself to various forms of conversion therapy, including one “where clergy tried to case out a sexual orientation they deemed demonic.” “God is a God of surprises,” said Jayne Ozanne, 46, as she took up her new job as director of Accepting Evangelicals, a network of Christians who believe th…

Strangest Hot Take of the Day: Why Evangelicals Like Trump

By Sarah Posner

…ls on this issue.” But, Brody laments, “we find out later that the guy who orchestrated the whole thing, campaign manager Ken Mehlman was a homosexual who really didn’t believe in the whole effort but it sure was good for political business.” To seal the deal, Brody has some breaking news: Trump is for a 20-week abortion ban. He’s for defunding Planned Parenthood. Sure, he used to be pro-choice, but he changed his mind on that in 2011—when he was…

Beinart’s Indictment And The Evangelical Right

By Sarah Posner

…e potential to create an intellectual earthquake. The former editor of the New Republic and liberal hawk who supported the Iraq war may very well rock the Jewish world with his well-argued, fact-laden essay laying out how the American Jewish establishment has been complicit in creating an Israel that is an anti-democratic, racist state — and that in the process, has contributed to the decline and impending death of liberal Zionism. That the “estab…

Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

By Nabil Echchaibi

…ideology, ‘Islamism,’ is surprisingly descending.” It’s not that satire is new to the Arab world or that Islamist-bashing is a recent phenomenon. But, the proliferation of this kind of defiance in the wake of the Arab uprisings must be read in a dramatically different light. If there is such a thing as a defining paradigm, or at least an enduring spirit, of the Arab Spring, it has to be the fact that it never was a total revolution or a drastic hi…

Violence of the Lambs: The Legacy of Anti-Choice Extremist Father Norman Weslin

By Kathryn Joyce

…an army specialist who had been in control of nuclear defense systems for New York City, Weslin became a priest in 1986, six years after the death of his wife Mary, for whom he created a namesake series of homes for unwed mothers. In 1988, two years after ordination, he put his military training to the test when he joined hundreds of other anti-abortion protesters to blockade three Atlanta clinics during the Democratic National Convention, result…

Doubting Ourselves Through the AZ Shooting

By Julie Ingersoll

…who is worse. Enough already. As leaders and pundits call for civility and mutual respect, it occurs to me that the enemy of civility might not be lack of respect at all. If you really believe your opponents are evil and ruining the country, does it makes sense for someone to tell you to “respect them?” Not really. Maybe the enemy of civility isn’t disrespect but certainty. A healthy dose of doubt—about our own convictions about what is best, as w…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…ocacy and even participation in social clubs. According to a report by the New York Times’ Adam Nossiter: Activists said the mob violence was a sign that the new law appeared to have given mobs license to act on widespread antigay sentiment in Nigeria. “The government has given a go-ahead authority to mob jungle justice,” said Mr. Orazulike of the International Center for Advocacy on the Right to Health. “This is unacceptable. You can’t attack peo…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…cers were engaged, generating both support and religious denunciations. In New York, one of the grand marshals for the pride march was Subhi Nahas, a “gay Syrian refugee who’s faced threats from both ISIS and President Bashar al-Assad’s regime,” reports the New York Post. In America, a magazine published by Jesuits in the US, James Martin, SJ, offers a “meditation for LGBT Catholics” in which he encouraged those “who feel excluded from the church”…

Why Christians Should Have a Passover Seder: A Rabbi Responds

By Evan Moffic

…rost once said, make good neighbors. To apply his insight to the religious world, we might say boundaries between faiths help us preserve the integrity of them all. A Christian seder, some suggest, crosses over those boundaries. The way to address this concern is not to condemn the seders. It is to bring in rabbis and other knowledgeable Jews who can help facilitate them. A church seder should not be led by a youth minister who printed out an arti…

Setting a Low Bar: Religious Entities Praised for Treating Covid Religious Exemptions Responsibly

By Chrissy Stroop

…reby normalizing extremism and eroding the public’s ability to get at the truth. Civil society can’t function without easy access to good information. As I wrote recently here on RD, “Post-truth politics is a powerful tool for authoritarians.” By neutralizing damaging facts with bogus counter-narratives, corrupt individuals who already have power, money, and privilege can more easily exploit those advantages to maintain their ability to oppress th…