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Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rous for the “social peace.” Estonia: Confusion Over Implementation of Gay Partnership Law The Associated Press reported on New Year’s Day that a law allowing gay partnerships has gone into effect in Estonia, but that “same-sex couples are being advised to hold off on getting hitched until a series of legal issues have been worked out.” Estonia in 2014 became the first former Soviet republic to approve gay civil unions, but Parliament has not yet…

An Open Letter to Kim Davis From a Gay Pastor

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n to build our lives. That right means that if one of us becomes sick, our partner is considered next of kin, not family members who may, like you, disapprove of our lives together. That piece of paper means that I can inherit my wife’s property and have access to her social security and her health care. That piece of paper means that in the eyes of the law we are no longer strangers, but legally recognized as family. That piece of paper confers d…

The Pope and the Culture Wars

By Patricia Miller

…On the eve of the Pope’s address to congress, RD Senior Correspondent Patti Miller spoke with NPR partner station KPCC about the effect on the culture wars of “[t]he most politicized pontiff in contemporary history.” https://soundcloud.com/religion-dispatches/papal-politics-how-pope-francis-stirs-the-culture-wars-in-dc…

Archbishop Drops the Girl Scouts Amid Alarmist Rhetoric and Fake Accusations

By Patricia Miller

…h F. Naumann said Monday that the Girl Scouts were “no longer a compatible partner in helping us form young women with the virtues and values of the Gospel,” and that the organization’s programs and materials are “reflective of many of the troubling trends in our secular culture.” The Girl Scouts have been the victim of a long-term assault by right-wing activists who have exploited the organization’s membership in the World Association of Girl Gui…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…rican” as a new type of man. Indeed during the 1660s the colonists who now numbered in the many thousands were traumatized by both the collapse of the godly Republic in Commonwealth England, and the almost apocalyptic violence of the King Phillip’s War with the Wampanoag Indians, necessitating the construction of a new identity separate from that of their mother country. It’s around this time that men like Cotton Mather began to refer to white set…

Will “Religious Freedom” Be the Issue That Finally Unites the Religious Right?

By Eric C. Miller

…aders contended some Catholics might be Christians that evangelicals could partner with to tackle the nation’s social ills. This new understanding proved critical to the rise of the Religious Right. You explain that, for a long time, abortion was considered a “Catholic issue.” Evangelicals, in particular, were hesitant to embrace pro-life activism for exactly this reason. But by the end of the 1970s, evangelicals and Mormons had joined Catholics i…

Hating Liberally: Why We ❤️ Zombies

By Haroon Moghul

…, and our ethnic group the good guys. Imagine if your prospective romantic partner speaks the foreign language the bad guy threatens America in. Netflix minus the chill. Unless it’s a zombie movie. These days we (rightly) care a lot more about respecting gender, color, and creed than maybe we ever have before. Some of this is moral. Some is just financial; we’re more careful about how we portray peoples, cultures and places because we’re aware of…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…e need transformative fusion coalitions where relationships with coalition partners are transformative, not transactional, because we understand the connectivity between the issues that each partner focuses on and embrace them as our own. We must build relationships that are long-term, not based on one issue or campaign. The greatest myth of our times is that extreme policies only hurt a small subset of people, such as people of color or the poor….

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…re gay couples to prove they had not used a surrogate. If they cannot, the partner who is not the biological father would not be allowed to adopt the child and a judge would be entitled to have the child placed in care and put up for adoption. At the Times, Tom Kington writes that Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is up against the Catholic Church in the civil union fight, calling the church a “far more resilient group” than the “business lobbyists and…

The Loneliness of Men: A Father’s Day Reflection

By Rita Nakashima-Brock

…s intense and close friendship with a man while he has sex with his female partner of seventeen years who bore his son but was not his intellectual equal. He longed for a holistic intimacy of profound friendship that united body and soul. Since men in male-dominant societies are taught to think of women as lesser and other men as competitors for dominance, such love and friendship can be close to impossible. The women in our summer program were al…