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Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org

By Deborah Jian Lee

…the organization supports reparative therapy, Jao said, “We don’t have any official position on that.” When asked whether they approve of advice given to gay people to date members of the opposite sex, he said, “We don’t have a standard care or practice. We are trying to change that.” But to what, he would not say. How does one of the largest and most influential campus ministries in the country, with over 1,000 chapters across 667 campuses that r…

The Gaines Brouhaha, BuzzFeed’s Gift to the Religious Right’s Martyr-Making Machinery

By Peter Montgomery

…ics support reproductive choice and LGBT equality even though the church’s official positions are vehemently opposed to both. Sometimes there’s a nugget of truth to the right’s persecution stories—as when a school official wrongly limits a student’s religious expression—but more often, persecution claims evaporate under the slightest examination. The BuzzFeed story about the Gainses’ pastor was, in my opinion, a mistake—but not part of an ongoing…

Why Feminism’s Big Tent Isn’t Big Enough for the Anti-Abortion Movement

By Patricia Miller

…“pro-life feminists” by refusing to allow one of their organizations be an official co-sponsor of the Woman’s March on Washington. The dust-up started after Emma Green reported in The Atlantic that a Texas-based group called New Wave Feminists had been granted partnership status in the march in the interests of promoting “intersectional feminism” according to Bob Bland, one of the march’s co-chairs. Green painted a portrait of “pro-life feminists”…

Humiliating “Kim Davis Bill” To “Protect” Anti-LGBT County Clerks Passes Texas Senate

By Sunnivie Brydum

…who dare to ask their elected officials to perform a key function of their official capacity, and legally recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex. While several county clerks offices have already implemented procedures to allow clerks to hand off marriage license duties to another clerk if they have a religious conviction, SB 522 goes much further, the Tribune notes. The bill goes into great detail about the chain of recusal, layin…

In “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures

By Hussein Rashid

…on the plight of the Armenians, who are being killed by the Ottomans. The official wonders if the ambassador’s sympathies come from his being Jewish. The ambassador responds that he is Jewish, and he is American, and America is a nation of refugees. At that moment, you have to take a breath. The United States is a nation of refugees, not immigrants. If we wish to hold on to a founding myth, that the people who came to Plymouth Rock were seeking r…

Did North Carolinians Vote Against their Own Beliefs?

By Peter Montgomery

…scrimination into the constitution even thought the NAACP does not have an official position on marriage equality. In spite of the big loss at the polls, equality advocates are not going to curl up in a ball. Tomorrow morning, more than 40 couples taking part in the WE DO campaign are reportedly planning to apply for marriage licenses in eight counties, accompanied by supportive clergy, elected officials, family, and friends. In each community, th…

Growing Catholic Resistance to Bishops’ Crusades

By Peter Montgomery

…ies that show that about 90 percent of Catholics don’t follow the church’s official teaching on birth control, McCaulley said the group thought that since the bishop is “always willing to meet with priests,” they could raise the issue with Zubik and ask him to meet with laypeople, as “we didn’t feel competent to speak on women’s issues.” In Washington State, meanwhile, “A growing number of Seattle’s Catholic parishes are saying ‘no’ to Archbishop…

Catholic Sex Teaching is No Laughing Matter

By Marian Ronan

…? Trouble is, this stuff really isn’t funny. In point of fact, a number of official Catholic statements on sexuality—it’s invariably sexuality and gender they’re riled up about—are downright dangerous. Take, for example, the Ugandan Catholic bishops. As Peter Montgomery reported in RD this week, they joined recently with Anglican and Orthodox bishops “to speed-up the process of enacting the Anti-Homosexuality Law.” This is the bill which, when it…

The Gospel of Contradiction: An Interview with Mary Gordon

By Nathan Schneider

…mmunity that I can lead them to more familiarity with a very great text. A number of times you bring up Thomas Jefferson’s abridgement of the Gospels. He seems to be someone who, in some ways, you’re identifying with but also making very different choices from. I don’t have the luxury of just snipping out the parts of the Bible I don’t like. Whereas I greatly admire Jefferson and the Enlightenment figures for their courage in blasting through so m…

Growing Up Cult: A Memoir of Life with Sri Chinmoy

By Brittany Shoot

…them. Anyone whom we believed was out to present a view of the guru that posited him as anything other than as a perfect being and living saint—we were outraged. Because I know their perspective, I am not surprised by it. I would be so interested to hear their true reaction to Cartwheels in a Sari because if they read it, they would see that the book explores the complicated realities that encompassed Sri Chinmoy and his mission. What is your spir…