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The Role of Faith in the Lives of Abortion Providers

By Sarah Posner

…prayed at that God is not supporting this. This is nonsense.” The growing number of crisis pregnancy centers are “applying the principle that women should not enjoy sex, that women are on a pedestal like the blessed mother.” For the doctor, her faith is “an important part of my life I think it still helps me find balance and determine what actions to take. I do feel like I have a calling for certain things, including the work I do, and that come…

Did North Carolinians Vote Against their Own Beliefs?

By Peter Montgomery

…, head of the state’s NAACP chapter, who vigorously opposed the effort to write discrimination 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 b…

Mormons Prepare to March in Seven LGBT Parades this Weekend

By Joanna Brooks

…a request that church members should lobby governments to deny same-sex marriage rights (and rites) via legislative actions. – LDS rhetoric about same-sex marriage rights is shifting to focus on the need to protect religious freedom, rather than the need to protect families. – The LDS Public Affairs office actually used the term ‘gay’ to describe individuals, rather than-sex attracted or same-gender attracted in its response to HRC’s criticisms of…

“Split at the Root”: Adrienne Rich and (Religious) Identity

By Ryan Harper

…rrect. Less named is Rich’s profound sense of religiosity. By a number of criteria, she was not a religious poet or a religious person. Those who believe religious identity reduces to unqualified assent to the right doctrines, possession of the right genes, or endorsement of the right state will find little religious in Rich’s life and work. But Rich has something to offer any person who wrestles with a tradition, and all of its tangled roots and…

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: America’s Enduring Fascination with the Ten Commandments

By Jenna Weissman Joselit

…age-old biblical passages: an edgy cover that might feature, say, Keith Haring’s stridently colored, extravagantly scaled and idiosyncratic renditions of each of the commandments. Alas, that was not to be. The cost of using even one of the artist’s images turned out to be far too prohibitive even for Oxford’s deep pockets. The cover that the design folks came up with is clean and striking, if rather tame. Is there a book out there you wish you ha…

Warships, Animals, Pubs Eligible For Blessings From Church of England, But Not Same-Sex Couples; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…homosexuality is not an issue in Gambia, and that the economy is a bigger priority. defeated and replaced strongman President Yahya Jammeh, who called homosexuality “anti-God” and called gay people “vermin.” Jammeh had signed a law that includes a sentence of life in prison for “aggravated homosexuality.” Jammeh’s fall was welcomed by LGBT Gambians. A despot for more than two decades, he not only advocated violence against LGBT people but also pro…

Growing Catholic Resistance to Bishops’ Crusades

By Peter Montgomery

…Catholic Reporter: McCaulley, who is retired after serving 46 years as a parish priest in the Pittsburgh area, said the idea for the meeting with Zubik first came as members of his group talked with others and decided “we owed it to the people… of the church to let the bishop know that not everybody out there agrees with the bishops.” Pointing to a number of studies that show that about 90 percent of Catholics don’t follow the church’s official te…

Pope Francis Praised for ‘Civil Unions’ Comment, But Justice Begins at Home—In the Vatican

By Mary E. Hunt

…afraid to speak to his own brothers, afraid to dismantle the cult of a patriarchal priesthood and open the doors of the church to real community, one in which women are granted full rights and full freedom.” Justice, like charity, begins at home. This is the background in which the words in the film about civil unions must be read. The whole statement took about thirty seconds (of a 117 minute film). It was connected to a vignette of a man who ha…

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

…erns Citing security concerns, police have cut in half the length of the Paris pride parade scheduled for Saturday, July 2, spurring complaints by some activists that officials were “giving in to fear.” Police, who have had their hands full with the Euro 2016 soccer tournament, had asked organizers to postpone the event until September Nepal: Ministry says it will to more on rights of LGBT children Pahichan reports that the Ministry of Women, Chil…

Ministries of Presence: A Report from Nepal

By Cathleen Falsani

…s. We brought western theology, not Christianity.” As Mendies sees it,the priorities of old-fashioned evangelism—where a premium was placed on the number of souls that were “saved”—have been supplanted in recent years by those of the social gospel, in which Christian ethics are applied to societal issues such as poverty, violence, preventable disease, ecological concerns, gender issues, and human rights. “More and more you are beginning to see peo…