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Narco-Violence and the Failure of the Church in Mexico

By Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…offered for public display his stripped, bullet-riddled body, adorned with dollars, rosaries, and small religious medals they had taken from his pockets. For more than twenty years, in the 1970s and 1980s, this same city was one of the most important centers for Roman Catholic Liberation Theology in Latin America. Now, today, after two decades of a conservative turn orchestrated by Rome, the Diocese of Cuernavaca, and the Mexican Church more gener…

Where’s Obama’s Faith-Based Office?

By Sarah Posner

…imination call it? Religious freedom. Late last month, I reported on how a number of evangelical individuals and organizations reiterated their support for permitting what they call “co-religionist hiring” and what otherwise is known as hiring discrimination. I began thinking what an odd time it was to throw that particular question into the limelight: in the midst of the frenzy over Park51 and heightened anti-Muslim rhetoric, these Christians dec…

The Eddie Long Scandal: It is About Anti-Homosexuality

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…e making of these monsters. For this I have repented more times than I can number! It is from my own sense of passionate responsibility and love for neighbor and the oppressed that I have moved from being lachrymose to dissident.” Could it be that the African American community in larger numbers than ever before finally wants to talk? Are the members of our community and the American public willing to hear from African American LGBTQI persons or m…

Mormons, LGBT People Respond to Packer’s Talk

By Joanna Brooks

…marriage. That position has been dearly bought and paid for in millions of dollars and thousands hours donated by US-based Church members from the community’s multigenerational Mormon core. And it is grounded in a uniquely Mormon theology that sacralizes marriage as a rite necessary to salvation. But it’s the tone of the talk—which I’ve heard described as “bruising” and “scolding” by observant LDS Church members—that seems to be really getting to…

Getting Back into Blogging

By Amina Wadud

…the tourist kiosks near the White House, with big signs “T-shirt 3 for 10 dollars.” In America, any tee shirt at that cost is nothing to write home about. I remember trying to suggest to them that they could do better; even if only in the airport. But then the dream was over and the sleep returned. At the time I woke up and saw that I had actually slept for 5 hours, I was tempted to get up and get going. It’s not that I felt so well-rested, but t…

Nonviolent Resistance in the West Bank: A Review of Budrus

By Ira Chernus

…ed US support for Israel’s occupation policies, support given with our tax dollars and the consent of our body politic. In the U.S., Budrus is a mirror, showing us what we are doing every day in the West Bank. It is easy to forget that truth, to walk out of Budrus with a warm glow in our hearts, admiring the courage we’ve just seen, cheering for the Palestinians to commit themselves more fully to nonviolence. It may well be their wisest tactic, th…

Elections Show Growing Support for LGBT from People of Faith

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…eir partners. “You’d be able to take a portion of your Social Security tax dollars and put it into a personal savings account that you could leave to your partner or really anyone that you wanted to – something you’re barred from doing today,” Barron said. Gay and lesbian couples can already invest their money in private retirement accounts. There’s no need to dismantle Social Security using “equality” as a red herring. Speaking of marriage equali…

Did The God Gap Cost the Democrats in 2010?

By Daniel Schultz

…g to go out on a limb here—I think the GOP pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a nasty, “us-versus-them” referendum on the economy may have played a role this cycle. As Christopher Hayes says, the way Democratic incumbents voted doesn’t seem to have made a difference. So why should some piddling church outreach? It’s also worth pointing out that the DNC faith outreach program was slashed along with other outreach programs—under faith guru…

Gay Republicans Ask for Social Issue Cease-Fire

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…support for the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, eliminating taxpayer dollars from funding embryonic stem cell research, or defunding Planned Parenthood—the signers of the GOProud letter have a problem with.” Actually, GOProud, like most fiscally conservative voters, are, according to their website, concerned with cutting capital gains and corporate tax rates, free-market health care reform, and privatizing Social Security. Oh, they want “Don…

Gays Attacked in Uganda After Mag Publishes Info

By Jody May-Chang

…n Churches over the years that significantly contribute to the billions of dollars that flow into Uganda from the United States. “Ugandans,” Sharlet suggests, “are only too happy to return the favor, providing for their American allies examples of the policies too extreme to be implemented in the United States.” The bill’s author, Member of Parliament David Bahati and the Ethics Minister, James Buturo are affiliated with The Family. Then there’s R…