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Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hink same-sex marriage is going to cause a Holocaust, that’s ridiculous. “What I’m saying is that when you’ve got harmful ideologies there are consequences, and future generations will think how did this happen, why are children being taught that gender is fluid in schools? “When people don’t speak out and oppose harmful ideologies there are bad consequences.” He added: “I was making the point about people being silent when bad ideologies are give…

How to Prevent Ethnic Cleansing in Syria

By Haroon Moghul

…cient hatreds, or to imply inevitability. It is simply to suggest instead that what is happening is far more complicated than mere battles of ‘good Arabs’ versus ‘bad Arabs,’ usually mapped out over religious and secular (except that, in this fight, we are allied with conservative Turkey, along with religious Saudi Arabia and Qatar, against a secular, autocratic Syria, even as we worry about Islamists. Come again?) While we are correct to consider…

‘Religious Freedom’: Constitutional Principle or Electoral Politics?

By Frances Kissling

…h regard to the provision of a conscience clause for religious hospitals, that whatever the nuns in Baltimore who had cared for her mother wanted they would get. Nuns are especially popular today after the Vatican foolishly attacked them for caring more about the poor than about opposing gay rights and abortion. Catholic and non Catholic columnists alike praised them to the skies. The sisters, whose claim to oppressed persons status is that the Va…

Despising the Holidays: When Christians Led the ‘War on Christmas’

By Ed Simon

…rary American fundamentalism, from its pre-millennial dispensationalist eschatology to its free-market economic ideology is at odds with the actual ideology of American Puritanism. The reductionist ‘culture wars’ obscure the nuances of history and culture, while failing to recognize the full complexity of both secularism and religion. This year’s tempest in a coffee cup has provided us all with an unintended lesson in semiotics. That someone might…

Soy Story: Atrocious ‘Reporting’ on Insular Religious Groups

By Eli Federman and James Moxness

…ment and no one in the justice system is saying there’s any basis in fact that there are events occurring consistent with what I understand the show portrays.” In other words, the show is a fabrication. “Breaking Amish,” despite having the trappings of a docudrama, is also a misleading portrayal of the Amish people. People who knew the characters of the show took to a Facebook page, “Breaking Amish The Truth,” to share photographs demonstrating th…

Romney’s Debate Coach and his Religion Answer

By Sarah Posner

…t choose people who represent us in government based upon their religion, that this would be a nation that recognized and respected other faiths, where there’s a plurality of faiths, where there was tolerance for other people and faiths. That’s bedrock principle. As I wrote at the time, Romney had a conundrum: needing to defend free exercise of religion (an in particular, his religion), but realizing that the Republican base demands the “Judeo-Chr…

Turn On The News: This Isn’t a Split, It’s a Tiny Sliver of Conservatives Walking Out the Door — Introducing A New Media Criticism Column

By Daniel Schultz

…on is necessarily a positive force in society. Why this is, I don’t know. What I do know is that it’s a disservice to readers, to truth, and to the democracy which relies on it. While that point is valid regardless of who makes it, remember: I’m an ordained minister. If I can get comfortable with the idea that religion shouldn’t be given a free pass, reporters can surely get there. Which brings us, unfortunately, back to Kathryn Post’s piece. I’m…

“Pregnancy is Not a Disease”: Birth of an Anti-Contraception Rallying Cry

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…t-ish I think it’s more interesting—and possibly more fruitful—to look at what makes the claim that “pregnancy is not a disease” compelling, right now. Why does it have cultural traction? Where does it come from? I suggest that this idea is idiosyncratic and particular to our own day. Precisely because it’s such a timely notion, it’s predictable that this would be the anti-contraception rebuttal. At the same time, it’s a claim that’s full of tensi…

Searching in Vain for a “Pure” Elie Wiesel

By Martin Kavka

…God in whom I no longer believed,” they must face their own ignorance. At that moment, they learn that not even God can be exempt from critique. Wiesel never wrote that God answered his prayer, or that God revised God’s ways as my students have to revise theirs. But if Wiesel could not teach God, he could do the next best thing. He could teach Oprah. Redemption is always around the corner for her (and for us, the audience). Trauma can always be pu…

Joe Miller’s Anti-Gay, Anti-Islam Advisor

By Sarah Posner

…eligion of peace.” Did Miller — who has called unemployment benefits and federal minimum wage laws unconstitutional and claims to be a constitutional purist — pay Moffitt for his constitutional, uh, expertise? In the lawsuit against UNC, Moffitt and his co-plaintiffs alleged that the assignment of the Sells text violated both the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment — charging that UNC, a public institution, was not only…