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More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e group did not get a private meeting with Pope Francis, but was given VIP tickets to the pope’s weekly audience in St. Peter’s square. Religion News Service reports that several bishops, including “San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone – point man or the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ battle against gay marriage – had written a letter to the Vatican on their behalf.” A group of LGBT Catholics from London who met up with the New Ways…

Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the ruling ranged as high as 80%, and 64% said they also support reserving seats in the legislature for transgender people the same way there are seats specifically allocated for women. (This idea was not included in the court order.) But responses in our survey suggest that Indians are still conflicted about the place of transgender people in society. The long history of transgender communities and religious beliefs that they bring blessings is r…

DNC Zombie Lie Count: 4

By Daniel Schultz

…the antiabortion Stupak amendment to the Affordable Care Act; 88% of those seats went to Republicans after Democrats were tied to the assertion that Obamacare funded abortion. Former Democratic Rep. Jim Oberstar of Minnesota, who lost his bid for reelection, noted that antiabortion voters didn’t stop sending people to Congress: “They just stopped sending Democrats.” This takes completely the wrong lesson from the history. For one thing, the Republ…

Will Millennials Forge a Future for the Progressive Black Church?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…became electric. People were standing left and right. Attendees had their phones out recording it for all its wealth. People began moving from their seats and crowding the edges of what felt more like a boxing ring during a title fight rather than a makeshift pulpit in a large conference room. And what was most apparent was that the loudest call-and-responses were coming from the millennials. The dynamic of this call-and-response shows that the p…

Big White Evangelical Turnout for Midterms

By Sarah Posner

…Carolina—in which those demographic changes could help either keep Senate seats in Democratic hands, or tip Republican-held seats to the Democrats. 2014, Jones wrote, “may be the year that the underlying demographic trends finally exert enough force to make themselves felt.” I was skeptical, pointing out that turnout and intensity matter more than these numbers. (Religion News Service’s Tobin Grant disputed Jones’ claim that white evangelicals ar…

Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

By Blain Auer

…new Islamism emerging across the Middle East. Youth Protest, Islamists Win Seats But the Arab Spring did not begin as an Islamist movement. It began on 17 December 2010, when a Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, was harassed by local police who prohibited him from selling his merchandise and added insult to injury by slapping and spitting at him. Following that incident, he doused himself with gasoline and publicly set himself on fire. He d…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…members of the community.” Northern Ireland: Marriage-blocking party loses seats In Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party has repeatedly blocked marriage equality legislation with a mechanism known as a “petition of concern,” which requires that a measure get majority support from both nationalist and unionist groups of lawmakers, rather than simply a majority. But in recent elections, the DUP lost seats, bringing their total below the 3…

The Auspicious Timing of Glenn Beck’s Zeal for Zion

By Shalom Goldman

… Courage won’t have trouble drawing a crowd as all 600 of the $5,000 prime seats have all sold out. On the July 11, Beck visited Jerusalem to lay the groundwork for this year’s events and to speak with Knesset members allied with the Christian Right. In his conversation with Likud Party members (including Danny Danon, the MK who invited him to address the group of Israeli lawmakers), Beck referred to the ancient areas of Jerusalem as “the original…

“We (some of) the People” Florida Governor Rick Scott and the Tea Party

By Julie Ingersoll

…tea party turnout for the event was not impressive, even though some Scott supporters seemed to believe that God’s hand was at work. But with all the empty seats, Scott would have looked better letting those “protesters” fill the empty seats….

Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…y planes, but this is the first time I’ve been on a plane where 50% of the seats are business- and first-class. Sorta gives you an idea who comes to the Kingdom, among Muslims and non-Muslims alike: big business. Okay, so the flight is not exclusive to hajjis, but when we arrive they announce for us hajjis to remain on the plane and disembark last. Let the other passengers, many whom will transfer to domestic flights, get off first. Well, if the r…