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Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…c priests as response to anti-equality organizing New Ways Ministry’s Bob Shine highlights a report from the Telegraph on the controversial decision of the National Pride Front to respond to church support for recent anti-gay rallies by publicly naming nearly 40 Catholic priests and religious as gay.” The Front said they were not condemning the relationships, but the double standards of church leaders in them who then forcefully oppose marriage eq…

Culture Wars Masquerading as Social Science: New Survey Illustrates Evangelicals’ Election Year Anxieties

By Chrissy Stroop

…cience that you could ever hope to find. It concludes that “Evangelicals, while exhibiting some hopeful movement in the direction of biblical fidelity, also seem to be influenced by the culture’s uncertainty about what truth is, who Jesus is, and how sinners are saved,” adding, “These results reveal an urgent need for clear biblical teaching.” Such sentiments are not atypical. For example, prominent never-Trump conservative commentator David Frenc…

Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

…effress’ First Baptist Dallas and the 2023 Moms for Liberty Conference in Philadelphia—whether it was a bible study designed to address grief in a Southern Baptist church, or speakers railing against LGBTQ “indoctrination” in schools in a hotel ballroom, the language of spiritual warfare was everywhere. Parker’s concurring opinion and his previous involvement with NAR figures—which Taylor has traced back as far as 2003—are a window into NAR organi…

Tea Party 2.0, Ready For Post-Election Launch

By Julie Ingersoll

…hey distributed “6 million voter guides, 8 million mail pieces, 15 million phone calls, 500,000 doors knocked on by volunteers, and radio advertising covering 56 congressional districts and 22 U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races,” they are now (apparently as I write this) surveying voters to learn “who went to the polls and why.” Instructive for those of us who follow the influence of the religious right on the tea party movement (arguing that it’…

Introducing the Dr. Who Media Club

By James F. McGrath

…e traveler. His time machine is the Tardis, which looks like a police box—think phone booth—but it’s bigger on the inside than the outside, can fly, and may actually be a living creature. He adventures through time and space, usually accompanied by one or more human companions who assist him in righting wrongs, liberating the oppressed, fighting alien menaces, and averting unspeakable disasters. His alien origins give him a sharp mind and extraord…

For Clergy Who Ministered Through the AIDS Crisis Covid is Both Eerily Familiar and Puzzlingly Different

By Lynne Gerber

…pidemics is “helping me to understand that the original lie of America is this white superiority and all the kinds of supremacy that allows some people to think that other people don’t matter. All of that has become so visible.” There are big differences in the physical and social trajectories of the respective diseases. In its early years AIDS was a very visible disease and, as Rev. Jim Mitulski recalled, an ugly one. Mitulski ministered with Nix…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…rs—“All are alike unto God;” “Jesus said love everyone;” “God loves all of His Children”—and hundreds of lollipops bearing “love one another” stickers to distribute to parade crowds. Just before the parade began, a member of the Mormons Building Bridges delegation offered an opening prayer through a megaphone. Then, the LDS contingent took its assigned place at the head of the parade and began to march. Some Bridges marchers worried how the crowds…

If You Were Faced With Him

By Amina Wadud

…what would it be And would you call it to his face If you were faced with him in all his glory What would you ask if you had just one question??” Well, that last line (and the whole song, thanks to a quick stopover to YouTube) has been playing in my head since yesterday. First let me share the news as it unfolded. My two youngest daughters have both recently married, and each has a new baby. I spend my time mostly as a doting grandmother, but rec…

Who’s Accusing Who of Mormon-Baiting?

By Joanna Brooks

…g campaign” against Mitt Romney. Deal wrote that one Catholic friend told him she had been called by a phonebanker who identified herself as Catholic and asked, “How can you support a Mormon who does not believe in Jesus Christ?” Hudson alleged (without evidence) that the remark came from a “script” and that “Catholics across the nation should be prepared to receive these deceitful and dissembling phone calls.” Catholic Democrats immediately res…

The End of Jewish Education As We Know It?

By Benjamin Weiner

…er sufficient to sustain only one of you, what should you do with it? Something like this situation is playing out in Boston right now. Combined Jewish Philanthropies, the Boston chapter of “Federation” (wait for it…), announced on Thursday that they are pulling their funding from the Boston Bureau of Jewish Education. As the CJP allocation represents over 90% of the BJE budget ($1.2 million out of a reported $1.4 million), the BJE is now facing a…