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Science, Syphilis, and the Evolution of Ethics

By Arri Eisen

…cience were going on in post-WWII Germany, the United States Public Health Service was intentionally exposing Guatemalans to the bacterium that causes syphilis, so that different therapies for the disease could then be tested on them. First, infected prostitutes were identified and made freely accessible to ‘volunteer’ prisoners for sex. When this didn’t work so well, attempts were made to infect patients in an asylum for the mentally ill, through…

Rev. Barber: A “Moral Center,” Not a “Religious Left,” Will Save Us in 2017

By Peter Montgomery

…d in Washington, D.C.’s historic Metropolitan AME Church for a Watch Night service led by the Rev. William Barber, other clergy, and activists. He and his colleagues are calling for a new Poor People’s Campaign, 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King announced plans for the original. Barber, head of the North Carolina NAACP and its Moral Mondays movement, has become a focal point for those who hope that a prophetic religious vision can inspire a re…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…their status in the country’s many Catholic schools, hospitals and social services. The change came as the worldwide Catholic Church debates loosening its traditional rejection of remarriage after a divorce and of gay sex, reforms for which German bishops and theologians have become prominent spokesmen. “The new rule opens the way for decisions that do justice to the situations people live in,” Alois Glueck, head of the lay Central Committee of G…

3 Reasons the SCOTUS Challenge to Contraceptive Mandate is a “Religious Liberty” Stalking Horse

By Patricia Miller

…ealth insurance plans cover no-cost contraceptives as a basic preventative service. While the case is being widely portrayed in the media as the plaintiffs challenging the mandate, they are actually challenging the exemption from the mandate that they have already been granted. [See Kara Loewentheil’s post for more on this.] The Little Sisters and the other plaintiffs charge that merely notifying the government that they are opting out of providin…

LGBTQ Equality Pendulum “Abruptly” Swinging Back as Religious Exemptions Gain Victories

By Patrick Hornbeck

…oyment and Housing v. Cathy’s Creations, Inc., involves a baker who denied service to a same-sex couple. Two women asked Cathy Miller’s bakery in Bakersfield, California, to create a custom cake for their wedding reception. She declined, citing her Christian faith and opposition to same-sex marriage. There is this one substantial difference between the cases: unlike Jack Phillips, the baker in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Miller has arranged for another…

Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform

By Andrew Aghapour

…ite to join the ranks of Mail A Spud and Send Your Enemies Glitter— a cute service designed to make easy profit. Yet Dumb Cuneiform seems somehow different. The profit margins can’t be high on hand-stamped cuneiform tablets (they sell, shipped, for $20— only twice the cost of a mailed potato). Dumb Cuneiform is also making a sly bit of commentary about online speech. It juxtaposes tweets, which are effortless to write, with a labor-intensive writi…

As Gays More Accepted, Religious Opponents More Vocal

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…in religious communities. “There are very few things that have changed in American public opinion as dramatically as support for gay and lesbian rights. Since 1994 the numbers really pop off the charts over a 20-year period. These trends occur across all religious communities. So the white evangelical fundamentalists today are far more accommodating to gays and lesbians than they were twenty years ago. So are Catholics and mainline Protestants.”…

How Mormon is Mitt Romney? Over 50 Jokes For Trump

By Joanna Brooks

…hef to rotate the food storage. Mitt is so Mormon he’ll replace the Secret Service with the Danites. Mitt is so Mormon his Secret Service codename will be Mahonri Moriancumr. Mitt is so Mormon he thinks Harvard is the BYU of the east. Mitt is so Mormon he thought the debt ceiling was something that could only happen in a temple. Mitt is so Mormon, he doesn’t campaign: he “fellowships.” Mitt is so Mormon that he’s installing two basketball hoops at…

You’re Either Committing Ethnic Cleansing or You’re Not

By Haroon Moghul

…is her captor. Danijel, we then learn, is a Serb commander whose military service, and possibly his rank, is due to his father: a gruff general overloaded with nationalist bile who has only to slap his son a few times to change his mind about virtually anything. Danijel is a contradiction; popular among his men, including rapists, drunks, and sadists who laugh hysterically when they shoot civilians, he is also a tender protector of Ajla. How can…

Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…— met with Pope Francis on Friday, reports David Gibson for Religion News Service. According to a report by Agence France-Presse, Francis initiated the meeting. The meeting came just one month ahead of a highly anticipated global meeting on family life at the Vatican, which the Church’s more liberal members hope will result in a softening of the centuries-old institution. “I don’t want to ask anything of you, I told the pope, but a whole people o…