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UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…shmi notes in the Washington Post: Some members of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party have supported decriminalizing homosexuality. Ram Madhav, the general secretary of the party, hadsaid in 2014 that even though he does not endorse “glorification of certain forms of social behavior,” he finds it questionable that homosexuality is treated as a crime in “this day and age.” But the lower house of parliament voted twice in the past s…

Obama Signs Executive Order Making Changes to Faith-Based Office, but Frustrations Remain

By Sarah Posner

…ntal principles of the Executive Order; Requires agencies to post online a list of entities that receive Federal financial assistance for the provision of social service programs; Clarifies the principle that organizations engaging in explicitly religious activity must perform these activities outside of and separately in time and location from programs supported with Federal financial assistance, and that participation in any explicit religious a…

Is the Episcopal Church a Bain Capital Investor?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…he firm’s nearly $9.5 billion portfolio. CPG’s 2012 annual report does not list individual investment holdings. But, with executive staff and trustees (who are elected by delegates and bishops at the Episcopal Church’s triennial General Convention) with deep ties to the investment community that has certainly lived well outside of the ethical standards one would expect for a Church-affiliated financial organization, it’s certainly fair for Episcop…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…se by the stated claims of wanting to be a synodal church; that is, a more listening and dialogic church than its ancestors. ‘Synod’ is insider vocabulary meant to signal dialogue, listening, and ‘walking together’ (synod) toward love and justice. Good luck with that when this, the official statement on morality, reflects neither participation nor openness to new sources and new voices. The dissonance makes obvious that the power structure hasn’t…

Was Student Who Claims She Was Suspended For Saying, “Bless You” Mimicking God’s Not Dead?

By Joseph Laycock

…astised by her teacher for saying, “Bless you.” (“Bless you” appeared on a list of words that were considered distracting or inappropriate for use in the classroom, alongside words like “boring” and “hang out.”) According to Turner, she was told that “Godly language” would not be tolerated in school and that her Constitutional rights didn’t apply in the classroom. When another student stepped in and told the teacher she couldn’t “trump God,” Turne…

Evangelicals Looking for Walker to “Do Nothing” in 2016 Election

By Sarah Posner

…to use “‘God and country’ talk borrowed from a 1980s-era television evangelist.” Moore “has a good feel of the pulse of evangelicals” and “represents a wide segment” of them, said Tobin Grant, a political scientist at Southern Illinois University and blogger on religion and politics for Religion News Service. Unlike his predecessor, Richard Land, known for inflaming the culture wars, Moore’s “focus is more on religious and social concerns than di…

No Turkey for Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant

By Johnny P. Flynn

…he years Indian militants have also been called communists, fascists, socialists, and radicals bent on destroying America. In fact, those names—which cancel each other out in any logical mind—have been applied in recent months to another tribal man, Luo of Kenya, who occupies the Oval Office at the moment. As an Indian militant I am discouraged, but not surprised, that the mainstream media has so far failed to recognize the stomp-down amazing fact…

Is Sport Worth Dying For? Lessons From the Vancouver Olympics

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…eflection, was what things were worth risking one’s life for. On any short list of such things, one’s city, one’s honor, one’s lover, and one’s gods would enjoy a place pf prominence. The contests at Olympia were dedicated to Zeus, those at Nemea were dedicated to Poseidon, those at Delphi were dedicated to Apollo, and so on. It is worth recalling and acknowledging that every culture has the forms of violence it sanctions, especially when that vio…

Queer [Theory]-Bashing by Georgia Republicans; The New Know-Nothingism Creeps

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…y taxes, the wisdom and justice of which are debatable.) After mistaking a list of faculty created specifically for media outlets for a university course guide (in fact it identified their areas of research expertise), these state legislators began calling for an investigation of colleges throughout the Georgia state system (27 four-year campuses in all), in order to weed out courses that should not be taught, and quite possibly, to downsize furth…

Wiesel to Romney: Stop LDS Baptisms of Holocaust Victims

By Joanna Brooks

…ses the LDS “Family Search” genealogy database today must scroll through a list of policies including the proviso that names of “Jewish Holocaust victims” should not be submitted by non-family members, and then must indicate that they are in keeping with policy when they submit names for proxy rites. But violations continue, and they are a source of great shame and embarrassment. Perhaps more can be done. Listening in on conversations among Mormon…