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Gay Marriage: Religious Right Cranks Up the Fear

By Bill Berkowitz

…e gender.” Earlier this month, the California Catholic Conference issued a statement strongly encouraging parishioners “to provide both the financial support and the volunteer efforts needed for the passage of Proposition 8.” “Same-sex unions are not the same as opposite-sex unions,” reads the statement. “The marriage of a man and a woman embraces not only their sexual complementarity as designed by nature but includes their ability to procreate….

The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment

By Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

…a Rejection of Reproductive Rights In Clinton’s reflections at the breakfast last week—a reprise of her description of the event in her autobiography Living History—she painted a softer picture of the tense moment: In February of 1994, the speaker here was Mother Teresa. She gave, as everyone who remembers that occasion will certainly recall, a strong address against abortion. And then she asked to see me. And I thought, “Oh, dear.” (Laughter.) A…

A Color-Blind America? Don’t Fall For The Okey-Doke

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…ed in the legacy of slavery, might be seen as a glimpse into the archaic past—a past that has little to no contemporary relevance. Am I exaggerating these possibilities? I think not. On Thursday, November 6, two days after the election, I led a discussion on “Religion and Race” in my Introduction to Religion course. (It was actually quite serendipitous how that component of the course occurred when it did–I wish I could take credit for that. I’ve…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…ng narrative of the movement. A couple weeks ago when I visited the #OccupySt*]}*Louis encampment on a Sunday morning, I talked with a small group of demonstrators about the intersection of faith and money and fair treatment of workers. Most of them hadn’t given it any thought. “Maybe we should occupy the churches,” one protester half-joked as we talked. It’s a notion I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. What would it mean for God’s people to…

“Guerilla Warrior of Judeo-Christian Political Commentary” Stars in Anti-Newt Video in Iowa

By Sarah Posner

…x City, Iowa pastor, prominent in the defeat of three Iowa Supreme Court justices last year for their same-sex marriage ruling, announced today that a hip-hop video calling Newt Gingrich “the GOP’s Kim Kardashian for his many infidelities on marriage—gay, straight and his own” would be delivered, via text messaging starting Thursday, to every registered Republican or non-aligned Iowa voter with a cell phone on record. . . . The video’s star is Mo…

The Great Cremation Debate

By David Marchese

…preference. “Duality is one of the main characterizations of the Jew in postmodern existence,” says Rabbi Bachman. “One can make the non-Jewish decision to cremate at the same time as making the decision to put out a shmear when sitting shivah. As much as I might disagree with cremation, I disagree even more with denying people the right to experience Judaism in the way that helps them feel closer to their religion.” That sounds like a wise idea—…

Thank You Breitbart, For The Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…itics” more like white, Christian, Italian-Americans or brown, Muslim, Pakistani-Americans? This isn’t really a question the essay sets out to answer, but it’s revealing, isn’t it? American Islam is tremendously variegated, as indeed is the conservative movement, as the essay itself reveals. But do all American Muslims cluster together, culturally and politically, because they are Muslim? Is their (our/my) Islam more important than anything else?…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…ans, German doctors, British pastors, and Norwegian anti-pornography activists; Christians from the UK, from the Faroe Islands, and from Barbados. Yet, while the bulk of the attendees hailed from Eastern Europe, notably nearly half of the 23 announced speakers were US-based. Every speaker was predictably affiliated with an anti-LGBTIQ Christian organization, the majority of which are evangelical (though some are Catholic). Some claimed to be scien…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…op of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN), “one of the largest Christian denominations in the country,” denounced same-sex marriage during a sermon in Windhoek: He said God has created marriage as a vehicle of generational renewal and childbirth, and it is from that perspective that ELCIN views marriage and will only allow a marriage between a man and a woman and not those between same-sex persons. “There is no procreation in same-s…

From Pastor to Harvard’s ‘Godless Church’ Planter

By Becky Garrison

…Atheist Convention? I was raised in the Deep South where my dad was a Baptist pastor. I always felt my calling was to be in ministry but the Baptist church didn’t allow women pastors. As I moved through my young adulthood, my theology became more liberal leading me into the Methodist church where I became a pastor. I’d always been a thinker so when questions relating to my faith began to pop up, I ignored them at first. You see, questioning and do…