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It Is About the Hijab: Wheaton College and the Narrowing Criteria for Evangelical Belonging

By Hollis Phelps

…nti-Islamic sentiment and rhetoric in the wake of the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, especially when polls have shown that a substantial majority of evangelicals have negative perceptions of Islam. It also demonstrates a deeper problem. The decision by Wheaton strikes me as part of a larger trend among evangelicals to isolate a person’s beliefs from other social, political, and cultural practices. Last month the National Association of Evang…

Are You Doing Your Part in the Baby War?

By Katherine Stewart

…rds, transferring even more public money and power to religious entities. Sandler asserts we now have “two Americas,” who “confront the same dire challenge of parenting without state support. The unchurched do it increasingly by having one child, or none. And the churched do it by depending on the resources provided by their faith community.” Eric Kaufman, author of Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? (Profile, 2011), believes that this trend…

‘Dog-Cat’ Incumbent Reelected to Texas Board of Education

By Lauri Lebo

…ve another four years on the Texas Board of Education last week. Mercer, a San Antonio Republican, remains one of at least five far-right conservatives who will be reviewing new material over the next two years. Nonetheless, the election results spell cautiously good news. The far-right Christian voting bloc on the 15-member board has dwindled. Voters have rejected several of them, including Don McLeroy, who was the chief architect behind the rewr…

RDPulpit: Religious Right Censors Austria’s Gay Jesus

By Kittredge Cherry

…Austrian media to dub the controversy “Vienna’s version of the Mohammad caricature row.” Protests sparked by American fundamentalists caused Vienna’s Roman Catholic Cathedral and Diocesan Museum to pull the main picture from a retrospective exhibit by Alfred Hrdlicka, a celebrated Austrian artist who turned 80 this year. After a week on display, the homoerotic “Last Supper” was taken down recently at the request of Austria’s Cardinal Christoph Sc…

Michelle Shocked Show Shut Down After Anti-Gay Rant

By Kathryn Joyce

…homophobe. Ask God what He thinks,” she said, before shutting off her microphone to complain, “There is always someone who wants to catch me.” Shocked, who somewhat famously came to Jesus through a black evangelical church she began attending for its gospel choir, spoke in 2008 to the Dallas Voice, a gay paper, about reconciling her image among fans as “an honorary lesbian” with the anti-gay sermons she heard at her new church. He said he preach…

Tell It All, Sister! NJ Female PCUSA Pastor Gets Married—To Another Woman!

By David Gillespie

…rtantly, however, the announcement — and the recent case of Lisa Larges in San Francisco Presbytery — focuses attention on that pesky “fidelity and chastity” clause. Not only does it raise the issue of conflicts between state definitions of marriage and ecclesiastical ones, it raises the issue of what exactly “chastity” is. It also raises fundamental questions of sexual ethics for those who look to the collection of documents we call “The Bible” f…

Judgment Day is Coming; Wear Clean Underwear

By Lauri Lebo

…the World won’t be for another six months, according to Harold Camping, a San Francisco-area radio host and the owner of Family Radio. His web site, wecanknow.com, says that Oct. 21 will be the day “when He will destroy the world and all that is therein.” Camping’s followers around the country have been promoting the big day by putting up billboards and driving vehicles with placards. But this is not the first time Camping has predicted Judgment…

Yo, Gays, Stop Bogarting that Rainbow!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…sbians give up their grip on the rainbow. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of the San Diego-based Ruth Institute [a project of the National Organization for Marriage] rightly argues that the rainbow is a sign of God’s covenant with man, and she says proponents of Proposition 8—California’s measure that passed in 2008 to define marriage as between a man and a woman—are the original “rainbow coalition.” “Proposition 8 was passed by a great grassroots coali…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and President Bashar al-Assad’s regime,” reports the New York Post. In America, a magazine published by Jesuits in the US, James Martin, SJ, offers a “meditation for LGBT Catholics” in which he encouraged those “who feel excluded from the church” to remember “that you have as much place in the church as the pope does, of your local bishop does—or I do.” The International Day for the Victims of Torture falls on June 26; a group of human rights exp…

New Resource for LDS Families with Gay Children Links Acceptance and Health

By Joanna Brooks

Last week, the Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State University released new materials designed to provide LDS families with a clear picture of the connections between family acceptance or rejection of gay young people and the kinds of health outcomes and life chances those young people will experience. The booklet has been designated as a “Best Practice” resource for suicide prevention—the only one of its kind for LDS people—by the Su…