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Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ather than saying something, no matter our religion. Costa Rica: Activists Promote Marriage Equality Bill Opposed by Evangelical Lawmakers Equality activists are promoting new marriage equality legislation, which is backed by deputies from different parties, though one of the lawyers supporting the bill acknowledged that it might be blocked by evangelical lawmakers who have to date prevented other attempts. Tunisia: Court Jails Students on Sodomy…

Religious Leaders Pressure Congress To Support Religious Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…tinued to urge the administration not to change the Bush policy. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State spoke out in opposition to the letter, with executive director the Rev. Barry Lynn calling it “disgraceful” that when so many Americans are out of work, “some religious leaders want to deny government-funded job opportunities on the basis of religion.” Lynn told me today, “this whole thing driven by the Conference of Catholic Bi…

The January 6 Select Committee Cannot Ignore This Christian Movement

By Andrew L. Seidel

…hen they said a prayer to Jesus in that senate. Thank you for allowing the United States of America to be reborn. Thank you for allowing us to get rid of the communists, the globalists, and the traitors within our government. We love you and we thank you. In Christ’s holy name we pray. Amen. The idea that “the United States of America [should] be reborn” and reborn “in Christ’s holy name,” which is how the prayer concluded, is central to Christian…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…d Chad Connelly a national Republican faith outreach operative. Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the powerful evangelical lobby led by John Hagee of San Antonio, Texas is also deeply involved with NACL. Rapert says the relationship goes back to 2012 when he filed a resolution in the legislature in support of Israel. The following year, Hagee took him on a junket to Israel. CUFI hosted a reception at the Dallas conference in July, and the agend…

Unintended Consequences: Overturning Roe v. Wade May Endanger This Cherished Evangelical Practice

By R.L. Stollar

…ling Movement.) The leading lobbying organization for homeschoolers in the United States, the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), often promotes forced-birth messages in their emails to their members. Additionally, HSLDA’s founder is Michael Farris—the same Farris who is leading the ADF as they fight to overturn Roe via Dobbs. Other individuals with significant influence and power in homeschooling, such as Gregg Harris, Brian Ray, and M…

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…rby Alachua is home to home of the largest Hare Krishna communities in the United States). In addition to participating in this event, the Gainesville Muslim Community is promoting a series of events that began on September 8. On September 11, the Gainesville Muslim Initiative will sponsor a free meal and a blood drive in the center of town and then an evening program featuring a variety of religious and community leaders. Muslim leaders are askin…

New Challenges to Gay Marriage Bans From Within States & Denominations

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nk there is no doubt that the advocates who are driving this effort in the United States want to see us end up in that same place,” Cruz said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network. He is, of course, not alone in his freak out. Certainly, it is only a matter of “when,” not “if,” marriage equality will eventually be the law of the land in the United States. Those who continue to stand in the path of the growing snowball of support…

From Here to Eternity: Of Mormons and Celestial Marriage

By Holly Welker

…irst marriage in Utah—Groom: 23 Bride: 21 *Median age at first marriage in United States—Groom: 26.8 Bride: 25.1 Marriages contracted so early face significant challenges, so it is good that the Mormon church does not forbid divorce, although the fact that Mormon couples often begin having children soon after marriage (and typically have larger families than the rest of the U.S.) does something to inhibit divorce. Even still, “Utah’s divorce rate…

It Is About the Hijab: Wheaton College and the Narrowing Criteria for Evangelical Belonging

By Hollis Phelps

…rather, assumed in advance that what constitutes evangelical belief in the United States ultimately has nothing to do with socio-political markers. Leith Anderson, president of the NAE, has said in relation to the definition, “Evangelicals are people of faith and should be defined by their beliefs, not by their politics or race.” That “should” is important, since I would suggest that it evinces more a desire to outline what some evangelical leader…

Blaming Young People For the Fall of Roe is Like Holding Firefighters Accountable for Arson

By Gillian Frank

…ry of the armaments used in the multi-decade war on abortion rights in the United States is woefully incomplete. It doesn’t do justice to the history of the conservative legal movement and its efforts to cultivate lawyers and stack courts with anti-abortion judges. Nor does it speak to how the current composition of the conservative Supreme Court came to be. It doesn’t address the ongoing social and economic pressures placed upon abortion clinics…