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The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Reversal on Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…ther infallible nor irreversible, Pope Paul VI stunned the world on July 29, 1968, when he reaffirmed the church’s ban on modern contraceptives in Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life). He declared that “each and every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life.” The pope had deferred to a dissenting minority report prepared by four conservative theologian priests on the commission that maintained cont…

LGBT Christians Respond to Southern Baptists’ Call For Kindness, Understanding

By Mike Greer

…who disagree with us want the same things everyone else wants—companionship, love, and dignity—and think marriage redefinition will get them there. You and I disagree with them on this, but we cannot reach them if we don’t understand who they are and why they think the way they do. Moore pointedly confessed that “we are all too often mean and nasty when it comes to people who disagree with us,” and condemned anti-gay bullying, calling on Christian…

As Pat Robertson Retires, Here Are 10 of His Most Cringeworthy Moments

By Chrissy Stroop

…g anything, so long as it’s offensive right-wing nonsense. And on that note, no, Pat Robertson never said that performing oral sex on women is the root cause of Covid-19. What follows is my personal, and admittedly subjective, top ten list of horrific, outlandish, and, like, totally cringe things that Robertson actually has said, in order from least to most offensively absurd. *** Openly calling for the assassination of a foreign leader In 2005, R…

‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6

By Catherine Wessinger

…mpist version of the Republican Party. Some people may carry out revolution, or, if lacking a critical mass of participants, take terrorist actions in their attempts to create their desired collective salvation. On January 6, 2021, it probably seemed to a number of participants and supporters in the Euro-American Nativist Millennial Movement that they had finally achieved the critical mass of adherents to overthrow Congress. There are many varieti…

New Research Links Spiritual-Not-Religious to Mental Disorder

By Elizabeth Drescher

…but I’ll spare the reader a discussion of distinctions between correlation, causality, and selection. Really friends, though, since we’re all reading Pew, PRRI, and Gallup data on an almost daily basis now, it’s worth studying up here, here, and perhaps especially here.) As Professor King confirmed, the survey data cannot tell us whether those who are already “vulnerable to mental disorder,” through genetics, psychosocial trauma, or a mix of both…

The “Mormon Moment” Yields… Not So Much

By Joanna Brooks

…om themselves: down from 65% of Americans surveyed to 61%. Some measurable gains have been made among mainline Protestants: 28% surveyed in 2011 said they have “a lot in common” with Mormons; now, that proportion is 42%. And when asked to give a one asked to give a one-word descriptor of Mormonism, the number of respondents offering a positive word like “good,” or “honest,” increased from 18% in 2011 to 24% in 2012. All of these gains were conce…

White Evangelical Leaders Already Distancing Themselves from the “81-Percenters”

By Neil J. Young

…45 percent of all evangelicals in America voted for Trump.” Carter is right, of course, to point out that Trump’s poor showing among non-white evangelicals, particularly Latinos and African Americans, means that his total standing among all evangelicals likely came under 50 percent. But the whole weight of Carter’s argument depends on an inaccurate depiction of the media’s reporting on the election. News media did not report, as Carter asserts, th…

Pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Declare Shared View of Marriage & Family; Government & Muslim Officials Ramp Up Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in Indonesia; Australian Religious Leaders Ask Parliament to Act on Marriage Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ebiscite, on marriage Forty religious leaders, including Catholic, Anglican, Uniting, and Buddhist leaders, urged Prime Minister Malcolm Trumbull not to put marriage equality before the voters in a plebiscite, arguing that it would be unnecessarily divisive. They urged him instead to allow marriage equality to come to a parliamentary vote. “Polls have demonstrated that opinion on legalising same-sex marriage varies among people of faith. In fact m…

If You Liked The Martian You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts

By Andrew Aghapour

…which, in contrast to Scott’s previous sci-fi thrillers, Alien, Prometheus, or, arguably, the awful Exodus: Gods and Kings, is devoid of aliens, mysticism, and supernatural forces. Instead, The Martian is about smart people solving difficult problems. (How do you grow food on Mars? How do you send more food to Mars as soon as possible? How do you get water out of rocket fuel?) Scott highlights this pragmatic spirit with a visual gag: after Watney…

2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…broadcasting in December. From Japan Times: The outlet — set up by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender rights group Shams — aims to tackle deep-rooted hostility in the North African state, where homosexuality is officially illegal. The slogan of Shams Rad station is “dignity, equality” and its presenters include prominent activists, but those behind it have reported receiving threats. It intends “to sensitize the people of Tunisia, ordinary citiz…