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‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es that “in Francis’s new, more forgiving church, these otherwise familiar domestic arrangements were not considered an impediment.” No same-sex couples were included. Vatican watchers said the public marriages, the first by a pope since 2000, were meant to send a message, something Francis has done previously to soften the church’s image on social issues. During his return trip from World Youth Day in Brazil in July 2013, for example, the pope sa…

Gulf Oil Spill May be “Act of God”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…owed them offshore in California and the Gulf. My brother cannot count the number of back operations he has endured, and one of my most vivid memories of working offshore in California is seeing a good friend nearly cut in half when we were forced to “hurry up” and offload equipment from the platform (Platform A, by the way, the same one that blew out in the Santa Barbara Channel in 1969). We know that oil exploration and production is more danger…

Pussy Prophets & Nuns on Buses: Will Feminist Politics Get More Holy & Foolish?

By Beatrice Marovich

…that the Holy Virgin might kick old Putin to the proverbial curb of their domestic political scene. But foolishness isn’t anathema to Pussy Riot’s feminist politics. In fact, band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova argues that their protest was a kind of yurodstvo—some variant of “holy foolishness.” To the extent that Pussy Riot continues to infect, inflect, or influence feminist politics, I think it’s worth pointing out how novel and unprecedented th…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…pector emphasized, is criminal mischief, which is neither a hate crime nor domestic terrorism. Personal, Not Political The most serious threat to Mason’s claim is that police are investigating the case as a personal vendetta by fellow pro-life Christian activists; an approach that has nothing to do with the pro-choice movement. Despite last week’s conservative media frenzy, the Mason case is officially personal—it’s “coincidental,” not politically…

Evangelicals and “Orphan Care”

By Daniel Schultz

…ibe it as one of their “signature issues”—but their “Get Informed” page on domestic adoption consists of a downloadable brochure on “steps to adoption,” a guide to tax implications of adoption, and links to agencies working in Rwanda. Last year I asked Warren’s PR firm for comment on how his congregation prepares adoptive families and never heard back. To give credit where it’s due, though, some groups at least try to prepare parents. In an interv…

Just Give ‘Em a Little Jesus: Black Marriage Meets White Paternalism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…le; that they would marry at higher rates is likely the result of the high numbers of single black women who go to church seeking eligible bachelors. (Deborrah Cooper chronicles the downside of this phenomenon in her scathing critique The Black Church: Where Women Pray and Men Prey.) The moral argument that church converts “disreputable” black men into respectable, marriageable patriarchs assumes that being in a straight marriage is the most desir…

The Sacramental American Day of Thanks

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ncoln) and its sacred shrines (cemeteries at Gettysburg and Arlington, any number of memorials on the Washington Mall, and more recently, Oklahoma City, the Pentagon and Ground Zero in New York). Perhaps most important, the US civil religion boasts its own calendar of “secular” holidays. These days, actually constituting a quasi-sacred calendar, span the entire calendar year: New Year’s Day, the King Holiday, President’s Day, Memorial Day, the Fou…

We Are All God’s Got

By Emilie M. Townes

…of an evil swill of debt in the trillions, an economic perfect storm, and domestic programs like education, health care, reproductive health, and welfare looking more like the bobblehead dolls of carnage. As I anticipate these two days, and what I would like to carry with me in the days that follow, is that we recognize that we are being called to be the leaders who will change our world beginning yesterday, beginning now. We no longer have the f…

Latest Misogyny Wasn’t First Shocking Comment from Hannity’s Preacher Pal

By Katie Toth

…woman. God wouldn’t have her discard her marriage in order to promote the domestic abuse issue or any other phony cause,” Rev. Peterson said. 6) In support of a controversial statement by Newt Gingrich: “Many black women have had babies out of wedlock and passed that on to their daughters that if they have babies out of wedlock, they’ll get food stamps, free houses and your rent paid,” Peterson said. 7) On Katrina: “about five years ago … I state…

The Grand Old Homonationalist Party: The Issue that Keeps the Log Cabin Republicans, Republican

By Omar Sarwar

…lders. This speculation may have some merit, but it ignores the thoroughly domestic dynamics of which figures like Trump and Gingrich have taken advantage—namely, LCR’s various articulations of the freedom/gay rights versus oppression/Islamic extremism dichotomy. In that sense, the unsightly fragmentation of the GOP shouldn’t mislead us to the ways in which party officials and activists alike continue to cynically galvanize homonationalist impulse…