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LDS Church Labels Same-Sex Spouses “Apostates,” Bars Children From Baptism

By Joanna Brooks

…y that all children are beloved of God, entitled to saving ordinances, and welcome to participate in the life of the church. Barring children of LGBT families from membership or baptism in the Church strikes at the very heart of Christian teachings about God’s special care for children and the essential role of baptism. It marks them as expendable. It also ensures that children of LGBT families will have virtually no opportunity for religious educ…

LGBTs in Philippines Reflect on Papal Visit; Francis Meets Trans Man Shunned by Parish; French Group Turns ‘Bar of Sodom’ into ‘Pub of Mercy’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Antonia Blumberg: Many advocates have criticized the church for failing to welcome LGBT members of their communities. Sister Monica, a nun who ministers to transgender people, goes by a pseudonym in her public communications for fear of reprisal by Catholic authorities. “While there is no public, official position of the Catholic Church regarding people who are transgender,” Sister Monica wrote in a blog on HuffPost, “it would be safe to say that…

Sisterhood is Islamic: an Interview with Daisy Khan

By Rene Rosechild

…t, we do not believe that we will be resisted. In fact we believe we’ll be welcomed, because the world needs it. It seems that in various different countries Muslim women are seeking specific change, and are making some big changes. What progress do you see being made on those fronts? The challenges for Muslim women in different countries are different. Some who are living in conflict-ridden zones are literally working toward survival threats; for…

Our Father, Who Art Our Mother: The (Open) Secret Queer History of God

By Mark Sameth

…ogian Mary Daly wrote, “If God is male, then male is God”). So too, we may welcome a way of speaking about God which affirms people who identify as non-binary, gender-fluid, transgender, or otherwise genderqueer. Moreover, reconceptualizing God in this “new-old” way (to borrow a term from the Zohar) may help disabuse us of the idea that our world is fundamentally dichotomous and hierarchal. Indeed, the metaphor may help us to appreciate the world’…

‘Landmark’ Speech From LDS Leader on LGBTQ Rights and Religious Freedom Was More Like a Sunnier Groundhog Day

By Aly Marino

…iverse voices, covering the usual rhetoric with a veneer of tolerance, and promoting the speech as completely new and different (including calling it “the most difficult address I’ve ever had to make”) is, what I call, argument laundering. And he does it because it works. The media love a kinder, gentler tone. Indeed, apart from the reactions noted earlier, in the hours following Friday’s speech, some outlets applauded Oaks and characterized the “…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…ng and seeking a space to heal. In the tradition of naming the deceased to welcome them to continue dancing with us in our ceremonial centers, we say the names we have learned aloud to remember their legacies—to remember their pilgrimage: Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34 years old Stanley Almodovar III, 23 years old Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20 years old Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22 years old Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36 years old Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22 years o…

Juan Williams Gets Fired

By Hussein Rashid

…let’s be serious. To be clear, Williams was fired for being insubordinate. Welcome to the world of corporations that have standard hiring and firing practices. His speech was not censored, nor is this a discussion about sensitivities. However, Jillian York is right, we shouldn’t let this end the conversation about how we talk about religion in America. We should make this the beginning. Williams is a sideshow; let’s stay focused on the main event….

“We Found My Father, Except for His Hand”

By Haroon Moghul

…out obvious hassle. We came down the side of a mountain, passed an outsize welcome billboard on which, for the first time, the Cyrillic and Latin scripts were flipped, and so knew we were in the RS. It’s the same country. Except it is not. The contrast between the two regions is unexpected—although I only passed through Serb areas around Sarajevo, economically unimportant to the shared national capital (shared politically, that is; demographically…

Welcoming the Stranger: Sister Simone Campbell of Nuns on the Bus Speaks Out on DACA

By Kaya Oakes

…immigration reform? It’s very clear that the teachings of our faith are to welcome the immigrant, to care for those at the margins, to respond to the needs of the stranger. All the gospel stories are about that whether it’s the Samaritan woman at the well or the Good Samaritan. Samaritans were strangers and aliens. It’s abundantly clear from our scriptures. The arguments don’t make a difference because the question is: Am I able to have compassion…

7 Problems with Trump’s Hastily-Tweeted Trans Military Ban

By Sunnivie Brydum

…state that those who meet the military’s physical fitness requirements are welcome to serve, regardless of gender identity: https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/890208254869078017 As with most of Trump’s regressive policy suggestions on “culture war” issues, Mike Pence and his allies have been pushing for this Foreign Policy reports that the Vice President has been “working quietly” to roll back the Department of Defense’s landmark policy all…