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Catholic Bishops Throw Cold Water on Ice Bucket Challenge

By Patricia Miller

…cese of Cincinnati, which has been forcing all Catholic school teachers to sign a “morality clause” pledging to abide by all the teachings of the church in their public and private lives, told principals to give money from the challenge—which requires an individual to dump a bucket of ice water on their head or give $100 to the ALS Association—to another charity instead. He recommended the John Paul II Medical Research Institute, which does resear…

Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…iation for Sexual Health (LebMASH). As we noted earlier this year, a judge significantly weakened Article 534, the county’s anti-sodomy law. Officials have suggested that the men arrested this month might instead by charged with public indecency. Ireland: Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Marriage Equality A new poll conducted by the Sunday Times found that more than 85 percent of people in Ireland believe it is acceptable for gay and lesbian co…

Obama Won’t Allow Religious Exemption for LGBT Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

According to the Huffington Post, President Obama will sign an executive order on Monday barring federal contractors from engaging in employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The decision comes after pressure from religious, civil rights, and LGBT advocates that the president not yield to demands of religious conservatives to include the exemption. (Link to my prior posts) The president reportedly will not, howev…

Islam=Peace: What’s in a Slogan?

By Brie Loskota

…h neighborhood join a gang? Why does a high school student in a quiet town sign on to terrorism groups who preach supremacy? Why does a young woman abandon her family and future and become a suicide bomber? In the months that followed, Ndugwa and a friend who was with him that night in the stadium founded the UMYDF. He has been involved in trying to fight the lure of terrorist groups with what he describes as the true teachings of Islam. They work…

How Did the Buddha Become a Medieval Saint?

By Peter Manseau

…se tale, we learn, the Buddha keeps his genitals “hidden in a sheath” as a sign of his detachment from the world. Yet he seems far from detached when a group prostitutes taunt that he “lacks a functioning male member.” The fifth-century text continues: When the Buddha heard this, [his organ] gradually emerged like that of a horse king. When it first appeared it was like the bodily organ of an eight-year-old-boy, and it gradually grew into the shap…

Many Religious Leaders Oppose Religious Exemption in Anti-Discrimination Order

By Sarah Posner

…s exemptions to federal contractors. It’s true that many of of the figures signing the letter — organized by a former campaign and White House staffer who now runs a consulting firm that says it “advis[es] Christian leaders and organizations on cultural, political, policy and communications issues” — are “friendly” to Obama or worked for his campaign. But it’s also true that many more advocacy and faith-based organizations that support church-stat…

Jewish Leader Blasts Exclusion of J Street from Umbrella Group

By Sarah Posner

…nts to decide what our next steps will be. We may choose to advocate for a significant overhaul of the Conference of Presidents’ processes. We may choose to simply leave the Conference of Presidents. But this much is certain: We will no longer acquiesce to simply maintaining the facade that the Conference of Presidents represents or reflects the views of all of American Jewry. We want to be clear: The Conference of Presidents followed its own proc…

Can You Be Liberal and Catholic?

By Patricia Miller

…s like LGBT advocate Sister Jeannine Gramick. (For the record, a 2009 NCAN sign-on letter in support of a priest who was threatened with excommunication for supporting women’s ordination received the signature of well over 100 well known women religious social justice leaders, including Gramick, and Sisters Donna Quinn, Joan Chittister, Mary Ann Cunningham, Maureen Fiedler, Ivone Gebara, and Theresa Kane.) What bothers Carey besides the fact that…

The Agenda in Making John Paul an Insta-Saint

By Patricia Miller

…h are available, and the response was very clear,” Oder said. “There is no sign of a personal involvement of the Holy Father in this matter.” Supporters of John Paul’s fast-track canonization, like The Vatican Diaries author John Thavis, argue that the sex abuse scandal shouldn’t define the pope’s legacy. “One of the questions here is whether a pope can be a saint and also make managerial mistakes, and I think Vatican officials would say yes,” he…

The ObamaCare “Abortion Fee” Hoax

By Patricia Miller

…arate check’ for abortion, which pro-life dissenters might try refusing to sign, is apparently false,” which the bishops have known since 2012. The irony is that while the Bracys’ suit is generally hostile to the ACA and the individual mandate, they will only have to pay $2.63 a month for health insurance for a family of six because of federal subsidies. And while the suit implies they will have to make a separate payment for abortion, it admits t…