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Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…e in the Denver Archdiocese of the Catholic Church. But after a decade of explosive sex abuse scandals, most prominently involving minor children, Birge’s story doesn’t fit the recognized narrative. She was already an adult when it happened, and her alleged attacker is not an ordained member of the clergy. Both facts point to under-recognized trends in the Church that touch on its continuing problem with sex abuse: that adults are often its victim…

The Return of Government as “Idolatry” and the “Second Amendment Remedies”

By Julie Ingersoll

…arly presidential primary states (South Carolina, New Hampshire, and Iowa) promoting a creationist film called The Genesis Code, and holding fundraising receptions. The moralistic film follows an unbelieving hockey player and a Christian journalism student who struggle with “reconciling their scientific studies and what’s taught in the Bible” as he falls for her and she uses their relationship to “guide” him “toward God.” You can read a “pro-famil…

Obama at Notre Dame: A Chance to Talk to Catholics

By Michael A. Elliott

…tunity to address both the specific ceremony at hand and the historic context in which he presides. Instead of focusing on the role of service in American life—as some have suggested he will do—or the separation of church and state—as some progressives hope he will do—he might use his Notre Dame podium-cum-pulpit to address an audience both near and wide: American Catholics. American Catholics, if the polls are right, have not been a problem for O…

Religious and Political Silence on India’s LGBTQ Decision Speaks Volumes

By Andrea R. Jain

…religious beliefs, leaders across sections came forward in decrying homosexuality and expressing their solidarity with the judgment.” Several public religious and political figures issued statements, ranging from deceitful to abusive, in favor of the criminalization of LGBTQ people, which they deemed “against the order of nature.” Right-wing responses delimited publicly-sanctioned and state-protected sexuality to heteronormativity and modeled a r…

It’s Preposterous That We Can’t Question Nominees on Religion

By Patricia Miller

…ious practice to the right of religious imposition on others (via an ever expanding roster of religious exemptions). “Because so many religious people currently say they should be exempt from the laws, it is important for Senators to get all nominees to disclose just what their perspective of religion’s relationship to the law is,” Leslie Griffin, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Nevada School of Law who specializes in law an…

An Unholy Holy Week: Is the All-Male Rule of the Roman Catholic Church Self-Destructing?

By Anne Eggebroten

…elationships. But there’s no investigation of the reasons why widespread sexual activity by priests persists; whether it be child sexual abuse, affairs with parishioners, or “marriages” surrounded by a conspiracy of silence. In fact, the all-male rule of the Roman Catholic Church is self-destructing. Ordained men, from priests to the Pope, are proving that it wasn’t a good idea to leave Church governance to an old boys’ network. They have been foc…

The Democrats Got Religion, At Huge Cost

By Sarah Posner

…Michelman and our own Frances Kissling have an excellent op-ed in today’s New York Times, arguing that the setback for womens’ reproductive freedom in the Stupak amendment is a result of the Democratic Party’s pandering to religion as much as it is a product of religious right lobbying. In its quest to “get religion” and build a larger majority in Congress by recruiting anti-choice candidates to run in conservative districts, the party has craven…

Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s that members of the Homosexual Initiative Vienna (HOSI) said that same-sex couples are better off remaining in civil partnerships under current law than seeking to be legally married: ‘The now remaining legal differences are either, in practice, of very little meaning or expressly wanted by the HOSI Vienna,’ said Lui Fidelsberger, chairperson of HOSI, in a statement. ‘After step child and general adoption, as well as access to reproductive medic…

How (Not) to Understand Romney’s Time as an LDS Bishop

By Joanna Brooks

…adhering to the LDS Church’s conservative positions on gender is nothing exceptional for a Mormon bishop. Like most clergy, bishops typically uphold the policies of the institution they serve. This, of course, does not excuse Romney’s egregious incidences of coldness and disrespect towards women as reported in Salon and elsewhere. But it’s wrong to depict Mitt Romney as some kind of hardliner, because as far as Mormon men of his generation go, on…

Indonesia’s Anti-Porn Bill is Anti-Pluralism

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…traditions. And it’s much easier to focus on penalizing surface infractions (like punishing those who wear revealing clothing) than to seek out and deal severely with those who exploit women and children for the sex industry. The latter should be the main focus of the bill, not the attempt to define morality….