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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

…“a ‘well-known’ member of the country’s governing National Party.” Who had participated in last year’s conference on LGBT activism in Latin America and the Caribbean that was co-sponsored by USAID and the Gay and Lesbian Victory Institute. Martínez lived in the city of San Pedro Sula, which has been called “the murder capital of the world.” Lavers cites another Honduran activist saying that more than 150 LGBT people have been killed in the country…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…ot about reality television’s most charismatic Christian, ex-Run-DMC rap star, Reverend Run. In MTV’s Run’s House, the Rev lives with his big, blended family in New Jersey. It’s part hip-hop, part Brady Bunch. And he sermonizes from the bathtub. Bet he would have given a heck of an inaugural invocation too……

Women’s Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism Is Born

By Kathryn Joyce

…tarian matriarchs, such as Dorothy Kelley Patterson, who with her husband, Paige Patterson, created the homemaking degree and curriculum introduced at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2007 and P. Bunny Wilson, author of anti-feminist Christian books such as Liberated Through Submission. In her introduction to the collection, DeMoss wrote of her culture-transforming ambitions: I began to wonder what might happen in our day if even a sma…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…e founder’s Emerald level—a level less than 1/25th of one percent of Amway participants are able to achieve—before they uncovered company fraud and deception, and were hounded out of the organization. Scheibeler explains how Amway operates in his book Merchants of Deception: An Insider’s Look at the Worldwide, Systematic, Conspiracy of Lies That is Amway/Quixtar and their Motivational Organization. As the company grew, the DeVos and Van Andel clan…

The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies

By Michelle Lelwica

…ral years, postponing surgery partly out of fear that I could be that rare patient for whom something goes wrong, partly out of concern that my life was too busy to take time out for the procedure and recovery, and partly out of sadness stemming from my perception that an artificial hip signaled an irreversible loss of physical integrity. During those years, I wasn’t just frustrated that I couldn’t control the constant hurt, I was also mildly emba…

What Irish Marriage Vote Means for Catholic Church; The Lonely Fight for Equality in Belize; Progress and Backlash in Tunisia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…pride parades that have nearly become national holidays in which everyone participates and by the many draft laws that have been submitted with the aim of securing equal civil and economic rights for LGBT Israelis. While many of them have yet to become law, they are nonetheless paving the LGBT community’s way into the heart of the national consensus. It would not be going too far to say that in 2015 Israel, the recognition of LGBT rights is the p…

Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act

By Peter Laarman

…and neoliberal economists—technology, globalization, and outsourcing—tell part of the story but only part. The story that doesn’t get told is a bit uglier; it is the story of brutal union suppression by employers who figured out that it’s much cheaper to take the penalties currently handed out for labor law violations (which are extremely weak and rarely delivered) than to allow workers to unionize without interference in free and fair representa…

The Incredible Shrinking Catholic Church

By Paul Gorrell

…resurrection of the Tridentine Mass, shows that in the eyes of the current papacy, orthodox belief in traditional dogma is more important than the church’s relationship with other religions and the rest of the world. Put simply, these men think like Benedict when it comes to the church’s relationship to the world. This is underlined by Benedict’s revision of the documents of the Second Vatican Council, a move that mirrors the thinking of Marcel Le…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s proposed inclusion of contraception in the stimulus package, in part by denouncing her as a bigot and a racist who wanted “to reduce the number of children [born] to the nation’s poorest economic groups, which tend to be persons of color and other minorities.” The Pro-Life Action League made a similar criticism this week against the Guttmacher Institute, claiming that the Institute’s call for publicly-funded birth control “t…

‘Murder Among the Mormons,’ Latest True Crime Doc From Netflix, Highlights Issues of Faith, Skepticism, and Authenticity

By Benjamin E. Park

…e was now movement for a more nuanced, complicated, and honest assessment. Participants later referred to this period as Camelot. It was in this context that Hofmann, still an undergraduate student, created his first forgery, a transcript that Joseph Smith had supposedly copied from the gold plates themselves. Upon examination, history experts declared it the earliest holograph from the prophet, and church leaders posited it as a clear vindication…