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Obama Administration Won’t Defend Federal Defense of Marriage Act in Court

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e of the Constitution.” The Department of Justice appealed the decision in October, but now apparently will abandon that appeal. It’s good news for supporters of marriage equality, even if the future of DOMA remains unclear. At least we won’t have to read briefs from the DOJ in support of DOMA that compare same-sex marriage to incest and child rape. It’s bad news, apparently, for those opposed to gays and lesbians getting married. National Organiz…

Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…conferences attended by U.S.-based religious right leaders. Keynoting the October 12-13 conference will be The Anglican Primate of the West Indies John Holder. Writes Tomlinson, “We hope the conference will be the start of a dialogue to end these unjust laws wherever there is a Christian presence because ‘Until we are all free, we are none of us free.’” Anglican Communion: Gay couple’s church wedding expected to rile Communion’s conservatives The…

Are We Seeing the End of the ‘Good Arabs’ in Israel?

By Shaul Magid

…erased from Arab Israeli history, nor could the massacre of Kafr Qasim on October 29, 1956 when Israeli border police murdered 46 Arab workers coming from the fields after a curfew they never knew existed. This is because these weren’t simply events. They’re part of the very lives of these communities and continue to be so. As Peter Beinart argues in his recent essay “Teshuva: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return,” how is it that Jews, wh…

Indonesian Volcano Update: Yes, it’s a Religion Story…

By Mark Woodward

…. Word of people in need spread on Facebook and by text messages on mobile phones. People collected money or “in kind” contributions, bought what was needed, packed it into any vehicle they had or could borrow and headed off into the countryside. Most of these aid shipments included bottled water, rice, personal hygiene items and of “nasi bungkus” — packaged prepared meals including rice, vegetables and some combination of meat or fish eggs and to…

The Vatican’s Columbuses

By Kate Childs Graham

…hurch prepares to celebrate the Feast Day of the North American Martyrs on October 19. These two “celebrations” could not complement each other more perfectly. About 150 years after Columbus “discovered” America and initiated the widespread genocide of indigenous people living in North America, eight Jesuit missionaries were killed during the wars between the Huron and Iroquois tribes in Canada and Upstate New York. They were: Jean de Brébeuf, Noë…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…fused to issue them marriage licenses, citing her religious objections. In October, the evangelical non-profit Liberty Counsel arranged for Davis to travel to Romania, where she called marriage equality an attack on religious freedom and used her own story to urge voters in an upcoming national referendum to support a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman. Despite the fact that more than two dozen countries hav…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…e white supremacist shooter who wreaked havoc at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October reminds us that these hate-mongers also don’t give a damn about Jews, except maybe as the sovereign guardians of the land where Christ will return to save Christians. Egged on by Trump’s racializing protectionism, white nationalists continue to commit atrocities against not only people of color but also non-Christians regardless of race. They rely on fake history th…

With Christian Schools At Risk In Israel, Crickets from American Christian Conservatives

By Sarah Posner

…hosted, with Mike Huckabee, a Stand With Israel rally on Capitol Hill last October, where speakers touted a Jewish-Christian alliance based on a shared recognition of God’s “plan for Israel.” The “support” for Israel might explain why Israel is exempt from these activists’ claims about infringements of religious liberty at home and around the world. Israel is so important—part of God’s plan—that drawing attention to any mistreatment of Christians…

Voices From the Womb

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…hington, D.C., “Voices From the Womb” will launch its national campaign in October “to let the children of America ‘speak’ for themselves about ending abortion,” according to a statement. No word on whether the mothers will be referred to as ‘models’, or whether grown-up women will be prevented from actually speaking (sans scare quotes) about how their own health would be endangered by anti-abortion legislation, as happened during deliberations on…

Both the Joy and the Uproar Over the Pope’s Blessings for LGBTQ Catholics are Small Potatoes Compared to this Age-Old Church Problem

By Mary E. Hunt

…personal exchanges in the Aula (where the in-person sessions were held in October 2023), set the parameters for the blessing blow-up. The final synod document didn’t even include the terminology ‘LGBTQ+,’ which had been used in its working document—much less anything else queer-related. That term of art was replaced, presumably under pressure from conservatives, with “people who feel marginalized or excluded from the Church because of their marri…