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US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to see all kinds of resistance,” Méndez said. “We’re going to have serious problems with protests in opposition.”… But even if a backlash erupts now, Méndez said, the cases they’ve already won make marriage equality all but inevitable. “Outside of Mexico, and even inside of Mexico, these advances are not widely known,” Méndez said. “It is very slow, it is very invisible — but it is irreversible. Dominican Republic: Religious, political leaders cri…

“Americans Hate Muslims, Too” (And Other Impediments to U.S. Advocacy for Religious Freedom Abroad)

By Chad Bauman

…ple waited. As if sensing my question, and after checking us in, the Hindu proprietor took us aside and quietly told us that he had detected our American accents on the phone, and had given us the room instead of others because “Americans hate Muslims, too.” Still today, when I travel in India, Hindus presupposing my agreement frequently make off-handed and derogatory comments about their Muslim neighbors. For those concerned about the effectivene…

Dispatches From the Beltway: Horton Hears Progressive Religion

By Robert P. Jones

…presidential campaign season, progressive religious groups have organized prominent presidential forums to address a broad range of issues about religion in public life. In June 2007, Sojourners convened top Democratic presidential nominees Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama (Republican candidates were invited but declined) at its Pentecost 2007 conference, where prominent faith leaders asked questions of the candidates. And just las…

Cross-Burning Hearing Ends, Trial Set to Begin

By Lauri Lebo

…Freshwater’s attorneys to turn over billing records related to time spent preparing affidavits related to an interview Freshwater was to have had with investigators. Apparently, the Freshwater team has been less than forthcoming at turning over documents related to discovery and appears to have gone to great lengths to avoid providing the material. R. Kelly Hamilton, Freshwater’s attorney, said he could not turn over billing records requested by…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…marriage as only between one man and one woman in order to avoid “misinterpretation” of a proposed law against anti-LGBT discrimination. “If passed, Georgia would join six other EU Member states with constitutional same-sex marriage bans, including most recently Croatia, which in December 2013 passed its ban. Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland also ban same-sex marriage.” South Africa: President ‘Respects’ Ugandan Law; Gay Judge Publ…

Sometimes Salvation Looks Like Rage: An Open Letter to “Non-denominational” Churches

By Yazmine Nichols

…mplicity. The truth is that Christians and disciples have—historically and presently—been co-partners in death-dealing theological practice and have failed to answer Jesus’ call to daily service to the suffering. “How are we defining what is radical? Are we only radical when it comes to sexual sin? Are we radical in our love for the poor? “ As I see it, there are three major points of potential reformation within the non-denominational, evangelica…

What Liberals Want: A Response to Susan Thistlethwaite

By Frances Kissling

…re 1958, would religious leaders who were racist as opposed to sexist be appropriate partners on health care? On the other hand, liberals have not eschewed single issue alliances in which differences on other issues bar a full scale partnership. We have worked with environmental groups, even when their positions on population control disturbed us or the lack of a justice frame that honored the needs of people of color was problematic. The fact of…

The Real Mormon Moment

By Joanna Brooks

…rise monitoring the on-line communications of its members—this is not a surprise to progressive Mormons who have populated those Facbook groups and web forums. And we have been waiting for this moment—waiting to see whether our religion could survive the insularity, militancy, and suspiciousness engendered by its nineteenth-century persecutions, and outgrow as well the highly centralized and controlling corporate-bureaucratic style of the twentiet…

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…dition to participating in this event, the Gainesville Muslim Community is promoting a series of events that began on September 8. On September 11, the Gainesville Muslim Initiative will sponsor a free meal and a blood drive in the center of town and then an evening program featuring a variety of religious and community leaders. Muslim leaders are asking their followers to ignore what they are calling the “Dove Outreach not-a-church” and its “not-…

Are All Religious Experiences Reducible to 16 Desires?

By Andrew Aghapour

…imately about our need to experience mystical states of consciousness. The problem with these approaches is that religion does a lot of different things for a lot of different people. The only way to force religion to fit a single fundamental desire is to make up your own rules about what counts as religion. This has political consequences. On the colonial frontier, for example, this logic was used to dismiss indigenous cultures as backwards, and…