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“We Found My Father, Except for His Hand”

By Haroon Moghul

…out obvious hassle. We came down the side of a mountain, passed an outsize welcome billboard on which, for the first time, the Cyrillic and Latin scripts were flipped, and so knew we were in the RS. It’s the same country. Except it is not. The contrast between the two regions is unexpected—although I only passed through Serb areas around Sarajevo, economically unimportant to the shared national capital (shared politically, that is; demographically…

Evangelical Writers Take Homophobic Hipster Pastor to the Mat—Sort Of

By Elizabeth Drescher

…t the limits of acceptance in the Christian tradition: “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.” I’m hardly suggesting shunning Driscoll and his ilk (okay, I would indeed be down for that, but my better angels are pragmatists), but if the developing progressive voice of evangelical Christianity hopes to gain any sustained credibility it needs to develop a sustained zero…

Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?

By Sarah Jaffe

…eligious events at which his own gay and lesbian constituents would not be welcome. Most recently he spoke before the Family Research Council’s Watchmen on the Wall conference for pastors where he asserted that “if Christians ‘had provided for people in our community,’ then we ‘wouldn’t have needed a debate on health care.’” Asheville, the center of the 11th district, is a fairly liberal place known for its arts scene. Recently, Bothwell and a maj…

Ann Coulter and GOProud: In Bed Together Once Again

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…gays and lesbians in the pews, CPAC made it clear that they are more than welcome to come, spend their money, and participate as audience members. This is really what makes Coulter and GOProud such natural bedfellows—they are simply misunderstood. Try as they may to get us to just “lighten up,” we keep taking their words and positions seriously instead of winking and nodding at the inside joke. What Coulter and GOProud fail to get is that self-lo…

Southern Baptist Pres Denounces Gay Bashing in Favor of Eternity in Hell

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ty in hell for their “sin.” The homophobia he condemns is because that desire to “save” had meant by any means necessary, even shunning or shaming gays and lesbians. Now, he wishes to welcome them (but still with the same agenda to “save” them) not to accept them. Tell me again how that’s not just another form of homophobia?…

Obama’s Religion Problem, Marriage Equality, and a Bush Executive Order

By Sarah Posner

…the recent flap over Sojourners’ refusal to run the Believe Out Loud LGBT welcome ad. Obama’s hedging on the hiring discrimination issue is just like his hedging on marriage equality: the constitutional lawyer Barack Obama sees the issue quite clearly and fairly. But candidate and president Obama, faced with the advice of strategists and erstwhile supporters that “people of faith” might object, backpedals. For anyone who finds Democratic faith pa…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…our argumentation is by looking at the interminable debate over whether to welcome LGBT persons as full and equal members of congregations—not to mention as ordainable leaders, marriageable people, and members of normal families. Every poll and every wise observer points out that gay-affirming folks have not been winning on account of superior arguments, whether arguments from the Bible or theology or science. They aren’t winning on account of t…

Book of Mormon Musical Creators Do Owe Mormonism a Big Thank You

By Joanna Brooks

…. So, though many Mormons are too sensitive about The Book of Mormon musical to answer the “thank you” from its creators, I’ll say it: Trey and Matt—you’re welcome. *This post originally mistakenly stated that Smith died in a Missouri jail….

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…risible. This is a huge step, one that Church authorities should actually welcome. Their understated reaction to the musical suggests that they do. Popular Blasphemy Ultimately it’s disappointing that Trey Parker and Matt Stone—two of the best satirists around—should have chosen such soft religious targets: missionaries from Utah. The finale to season 14 of South Park (the censured episode about the propriety of depicting Mohammed in a bear costu…

Paul Ryan’s Bible, Jim Wallis’, Or None of the Above?

By Sarah Posner

…ressive Christians angered by his refusal to run the Believe Out Loud LGBT welcome ad. Never mind that religious feminists cringe when you bring up Wallis’ name. Never mind that he’s been no friend of the reproductive rights movement. Wallis is the leader of a “progressive Christian group,” according to the Nation’s George Zornick, who covered the Faith and Freedom conference. When these “faith leaders” stand up against Republican corporatism, pro…