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Catholic College Won’t Reveal Insurer; Yet Another Contraception Accommodation in the Works?

By Patricia Miller

…ege to tell the government who its insurer is. The Obama administration in August crafted an accommodation to its original accommodation to the mandate because religious nonprofits complained that having to fill out a form to notify their insurers of their intent to opt-out would make them complicit in the provision of contraception. The new accommodation required nonprofits who objected to the mandate to send the Department of Health and Human Se…

Where are the Blessed Peacemakers?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…home, where in the space of just a bit more than a month, from July 20 to August 24, 33 people were killed and another 99 were wounded in a series of mass shootings—a summer of the gun. On each deadly occasion, there have been passionate, if woefully brief, conversations about the need to reexamine gun regulation in the United States, particularly with regard to the lapsed ban on assault weapons and laws protecting interstate and, by extension, o…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…protests in Ferguson, Missouri erupted after the shooting of Mike Brown in August 2014, Twitter feeds lit up—but Facebook’s News Feed reportedly failed to prioritize coverage. “…at the very moment when digital capitalism is exacerbating class inequality, social media is catalyzing attitudes of racism, sexism, and nativism among those who fear losing the socio-economic privilege they once enjoyed.” That discrepancy is perhaps unsurprising, given Ma…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sistance, an extreme anti-gay organization based in the U.S., announced in August that the leader of its Nigerian chapter has “published a ground-breaking book exploring and dissecting the homosexual movement through African eyes.” Its author Dominic Ido describes it as an “attempt to awaken African consciousness towards resisting the fast-ravaging homosexual revolution that sets to redefine and destroy the ideals of the traditional family.” Accor…

Tony Perkins Will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…I was during the entire Bush administration,” Perkins told reporters last August. “There’s not a Sunday that goes by that I don’t have people in the congregation that will grab me and say, ‘How’s the president doing? Did you see him this week? I’m praying for him every day and I’m just so angry at the media and how they’re attacking him.’” This sense of the president and his evangelical supporters as part of a beleaguered faithful remnant to Amer…

Global LGBT Recap: Mandela and Equality; Elton John Defies Russian Ban; Fake-Healing of AIDS

By Peter Montgomery

…table for actively encouraging systemic anti-gay persecution in Uganda. In August, Ponsor denied Lively’s motion to dismiss the case. Lively has asked a federal appeals court to order Ponsor to dismiss the case and wanted the judge to keep the case from moving forward while that appeal was being considered. Ponsor denied that request on December 10. Peter LaBarbera in Jamaica Another anti-gay American religious activist, Peter LaBarbera (of the…

New Theory for Tucson Tragedy: Blame the Atheists

By Lauri Lebo

…ll seek to fill the void.” And who is Shoebat? As Sarah wrote in a post in August: …(He) is the son of “ex-terrorist” Walid Shoebat, an over-exposed figure in Christian Zionist circles and a tool of the a-good-Muslim-is-an-ex-Muslim mentality of the right. The elder Shoebat, whose claims to have engaged in terrorist acts as a Muslim have not withstood scrutinty, says he abandoned his life as a PLO terrorist because he found Christ; now he’s a dieh…

Senator Brownback Says Other Senators Aren’t “Real” Catholics

By Frances Kissling

…th Karl Rove and gate keeper to seats in the convention sky boxes until an August 2004 National Catholic Reporter expose disclosed that he had “resigned” his faculty post at Fordham University in 1994 after an 18 year old student accused him of getting her drunk and having sexual relations with her. Hudson was forced to resign his post as editor of the conservative Catholic magazine Crisis, but friends in the conservative community set him up in t…

It’s Not a Debate: The Christian Century Fails to Advance Discussion on Abortion

By Daniel Schultz

…by the “pro-life” movement. And that’s just what was reported — the actual numbers are probably much higher. This, you may say, is not conversation; it’s violence. Precisely. It’s well and good to call on “both sides to show more civility and respect as we continue to talk about the issue,” but without acknowledging that that conversation goes on against a campaign of violent intimidation directed at women who seek abortions and their providers, s…

Mormons Condemn Anti-Gay Violence in Utah

By Joanna Brooks

On August 26, Dane Hall, a 20-year-old man, was assaulted outside a Salt Lake City gay nightclub. His assailants yelled the word “fag,” then hit, kicked, and curb-checked Hall, holding his jaw to the curb while kicking the back of his head. He lost six teeth in the attack. His jaw broke in three places. A shard of bone remains lodged in his brain. On September 7, it was Cameron Nelson, a 32-year-old gay man, attacked late at night while taking th…