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The Vatican v. Protestant Free Thinkers

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…for the Church in this period: namely, the fact of forced conversions—in a number of places, but especially in the New World). Next, Pope Pius V created the Congregation of the Index in 1571; it was designed to deal with texts, and became interested in scientific works, as I have said, mainly because their authors were believed to have displayed underlying Protestant sympathies. According to the editors, this new Office represented a Church’s cons…

The Anti-Trans Hate Machine’s Conspiracies Don’t Stop at the US Border

By Annika Brockschmidt

…. The authors furthermore claim that they’re supported by the “gay and lesbian interest group ‘LGB Alliance,’” which is actually a UK-based anti-trans, anti-queer organization spreading hate speech against trans and queer people. The five authors of the article belong to a group of originally 120 journalists, scholars (from various fields) and politicians who signed an open letter that calls for an end to the alleged “fake news distributed by the…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…Raelianism for the purpose of reversing female circumcision. Like the Raelians’s previous initiative Clonaid, Clitoraid has been mired in controversy since it began. Opponents of Clitoraid claim the project exploits the issue of female circumcision to gain financial contributions and converts and that it frames the issue in terms of sexual pleasure rather than the health and dignity of women. Some have called Clitoraid a form of neo-colonialism….

Religious Opposition To LGBT Equality Softening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ing. The UK-based religious think-tank Ekklesia is claiming that a growing number of Christian groups are now identifying as supporting gays and lesbians than in previous years. In a press release, Symon Hill, associate director of Ekklesia, noted that a welcoming religious presence has grown in gay pride parades around the world: The increasing Christian acceptance of same-sex relationships is highlighted by the image of liberal, evangelical, Cat…

Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…clear if they’d gotten the memo about not antagonizing religiously unaffiliated voters, or if they simply didn’t see much advantage in differentiating themselves against one another with faith messages. The big exception to the trend was Kasich’s answer to a hypothetical question about how he would respond if one of his daughters turned out to be gay: “God gives me unconditional love. I’m going to give it to my family and my friends and the peopl…

Harry Reid vs. Islamic Cultural Center

By Joanna Brooks

…t by the number one most disliked major religion in America. Especially when Mormons have just recently come through our own years-long struggle to build an LDS temple in Center City Philadelphia after Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter tried to extract a six-figure sum from the Church, a deal the Philadelphia Inquirer said “reeked of extortion.” Sigh….

Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie

By Michael Schulson

…other words, it’s not at all adapted for cross-cultural research that includes East Asia. Problem 2: “…and children’s altruism…” It’s unclear how well something like the sticker test measures the delicate, context-dependent applications of altruism within an individual child’s life. “One potential critique [of the study] is the artificiality of the situation” said Luke Galen, a professor of psychology at Grand Valley State University who reviewed…

Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g up support. Mejia is close to the notoriously anti-gay state Sen. Ruben Diaz. Blogger Andres Duque publicized comments Mejía made about a campaign advisor wanting him to sit like a “maritoncito,” which translates into “little faggot.” After he was criticized by New York City Counsil Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and LGBT groups in the Dominican Republic, Mejía apologized this week, saying his intentions had been isinterpreted. As we have previou…

Who Would the Buddha Bomb?

By Danny Fisher

…Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer, Tessa Bartholomeusz, Damien Keown, Brian Daizen Victoria, and Robert M. Bosco) have done much to detail the often quite complicated relationships that some Buddhist individuals and groups have had to physical force and militarism throughout history in different parts of the world. In the research, we find everything from theological justifications for national war efforts to instances of monastics taking up ar…

Union Busting for God: Catholic Colleges Invoke “Religious Freedom” to Violate Catholic Teaching

By Kaya Oakes

…ion. McShane explained that “organized labor has deep roots in Catholic social justice teachings,” and that Fordham has a “special duty in this area” due to its “historic connection to first-generation and working-class students.” Sister Aaron Winkleman, who teaches at Dominican University—founded by Dominican women religious in 1890—says that adjuncts at Dominican ratified their first collective bargaining agreement with the university last year….