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America’s Savior: Lincolnolatry’s Hidden Cost

By Peter Laarman

…ap about George Washington’s flawless character, but our sense of who this Washington was remained distant and blurry. We already knew that GW’s story had been carefully burnished beyond credibility. E.g., we knew that the attributed line, “I cannot tell a lie,” was itself a lie. But Mr. Lincoln was different. He was much closer to us in time, obviously: my immigrant great-grandparents were around to witness his rise, his struggle, and his martyrd…

American Buddhism: Beyond the Search for Inner Peace

By Joshua Eaton

…means to you? Interestingly, back in March or April 2010 a group based in Washington D.C. announced plans to launch a major movement modeled after Egypt’s Tahrir Square uprising. The movement was scheduled to begin in October with an occupation of Freedom Plaza in central Washington. The organizers included Margaret Flowers, a pediatrician who has led the campaign for single-payer health care, and Kevin Zeese, a social activist. I had signed on t…

Roe & “Safe States”

By Tom Davis

…As late as 1958, an interracial couple who had been married in Washington DC returned to Virginia where they were convicted of violating this law. They were sentenced to a year in the penitentiary unless they were willing to leave the state for 25 years. They moved to Washington, D.C. and sued the state of Virginia. Their suit—with the wonderful ironic title Loving v. The State of Virginia— resulted in the Supreme Court’s overthrow of all such st…

Conservative Catholics Try to Domesticate Laudato Si

By Patricia Miller

…Catholic Bishops’ eagerly anticipated presser on the encyclical last week, Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl and other leaders seemed to go out of their way to tone down Francis’ message: Where Francis denounced ‘an efficiency-driven paradigm of technocracy,’ Wuerl talked about his gentle ‘invitation to everyone to join him in conversation.’ Where Francis demanded a a swift reduction in carbon emissions, Wuerl talked about the beginning of a long p…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…zekiel College of Theology after accusations of homosexuality, reports the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers: Ododo Sylvester sent the Washington Blade a copy of an Oct. 28, 2014, letter from the Ezekiel College of Theology that claims he confessed to Rt. Rev. Williams O. Aladekugbe, who was the dean of the school, inside his apartment with his wife present that he “had practiced homosexuality before while you were in the secondary school” and tha…

In Marriage Arguments, Scalia Frets Over Clergy Religious Freedom

By Sarah Posner

…n would trump any state law granting an exemption. Scalia even used a real Washington example, contrasting the National Cathedral, which performs same-sex marriages, and St. Matthews, a Catholic parish in Washington, which obviously does not. “You could have ministers who conduct real marriages that are civilly enforceable at the National Cathedral, but not at St. Matthews downtown, because that minister refuses to marry two men, and therefore, ca…

2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges

By Donovan Ackley III

…gal experts and secular journalists in mainstream publications such as The Washington Post and USA Today also have examined the dynamics surrounding LGBTQ issues at Christian schools. The consensus seems to be that religious conservatives are pushing back harder due to recent legal and cultural advancement of marriage equality for same-sex couples and extension of legal gender equality protections to include people who are transgender. Just as the…

Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…not ours.” …Eric Gitari, a Kenyan LGBT rights advocate, on Sunday told the Washington Blade that Ruto has hosted a number of anti-LGBT American Evangelicals in the East African country. These include John Eastman of the National Organization for Marriage and Sharon Slater of Family Watch International. On Monday, anti-gay protestors at a march organized by the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya chanted that US President Barack Obama should not talk abo…

The Invention of a Corporate Christian America

By Andrew Aghapour

…not to the Soviet regime in Moscow, but to the New Deal administration in Washington, DC. In the 1930s and 1940s, they popularized a new language of “freedom under God” (as opposed to what they saw as “slavery under the welfare state”), which finally took hold nationally in the 1950s. You track the emergence in the 1940s and 1950s of “Christian libertarianism,” a blend of conservative religion, economics, and politics. How did this Christian libe…

U.S. Bishops (Who Lit Religious Liberty Fuse) Urge Civility

By Patricia Miller

…holics to pray and become politically active. A conservative think tank in Washington, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, hired a state policy director … and created a program to work the statehouses and advise elected officials interested in sponsoring religious rights acts…Conservative leaders held conferences, drawing into the coalition Mormon leaders and a small showing of Orthodox Jews, Muslims and Sikhs, along with legal advocacy groups, a…