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Even Conservative Pollsters Find Growing Support for Gay Rights

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of millennials said they saw nothing wrong with it. Drilling down into the numbers reveals the same sort of divides among millennials as other groups. Men, blacks, and those living in the traditionally conservative South are less accepting of gays and lesbians; but even there, the numbers are encouraging. Fifty-five percent of men said they strongly or somewhat agree that there’s nothing wrong with same-sex marriage, while 47 percent of blacks sai…

Gambian Voters Reject Anti-Gay Strongman Jammeh; Activists Ponder Trump Impact on LGBT Human Rights; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tical-cum-cultural challenge. The classic case is the variety of laws in a number of countries derived from the colonial era which still criminalize same-sex sexual conduct, even when and where the colonizing power discarded such laws a long time ago. On another front, while care, kindness and consideration are at the heart of religions in their common humanity and linkage with human rights , various interlocutors misconstrue or resort to less tha…

Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

By Ed Simon

…n Station. “There flashed through his brain, clearer than ever before, the blue of Adriatic water, the yellow of Algerian sands,” Cather writes. “Then, because the picture-making mechanism was crushed, the disturbing visions flashed into black, and Paul dropped back into the immense design of things.” The train, Cather writes with auspicious significance, was bound for Pennsylvania. With good reason “Paul’s Case” has been read as a queer encomium,…

Magic v. Science: Doctor Who Part III

By Gabriel Mckee

…ve got a justification for why this time machine looks like a battered old blue box with all the wonderful panels. But the explanation doesn’t matter so much as the aesthetic of it. It makes it feel like a wizard’s box. For whatever reason, we enjoy stories involving vampires and other scary monsters. And so perhaps the question is why some of us find the story more satisfying if the vampires are really aliens, and the magic deep down is supposedl…

What Should the Vatican Say to the (Last Generation of) Nuns?

By Peter Manseau

…o this day. I could usually tell the nuns from the ex-nuns by their shoes: blue canvas sneakers for the former sisters turned actual mothers, sturdy black leather for the lifelong nuns they might have been. Whether or not they remained in the religious life, I see their faces now in the “Nuns on the Bus” currently touring the country to highlight the social justice work of women’s religious orders. I see them also in Sister Margaret Farley, the…

Sex Work: In Bed with the Religious Right

By Dagmar Herzog

…can Party How do you feel about the cover? It’s great. The red, white, and blue makes clear this is about national politics–but also the style has a whiff of ’60s pop art. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? I have huge admiration for Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage, A History. I think it’s brilliant–ethically thoughtful and empirically rigorous at once. What’s your next book? I just finished an edited collection, Bruta…

The New “Values Voters” Mantra

By Sarah Posner

…has called the pro-gun rights Democrats endorsed by the NRA the “deceptive blue dogs.” On the surface, the GOA, like the FRC, seems to share the “government=tyranny” ideology with the tea party movement. But it shares far more with the religious right (and indeed shares far more with the religious right than the NRA does). “Big government”=”tyranny,” for the GOA and many others on the religious right, is code for government is supplanting God’s wi…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…acceptance of sexual and gender diversity and lives.” Pant, along with the Blue Diamond Society, a rights organization that he founded has been at the forefront in championing the LGBT rights movement in Nepal and had played a key role in the Supreme Court of Nepal’s 2007 verdict nullifying discriminatory laws against the LGBT community. India: New Political Party Puts LGBT Equality at Top of Agenda Andrew Potts reports for Gay Star News that the…

There’s no Legal Reason for Churches to Receive Quarantine Exceptions

By Chrissy Stroop

…rictions on large gatherings organized by houses of worship. While solidly blue states including Washington and Oregon, where I reside, have explicitly mandated that restrictions include “faith-based” gatherings, some other states, including Ohio, have, like Michigan, explicitly clarified that churches may continue to hold in-person services. Indeed, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s executive order includes “religious facilities, entities and groups an…

A Link to Jewish History, RBG’s Iconic Collars Were a Beacon for the Marginalized

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ched by member Bonnie Bacich. It depicted Justice Ginsburg against a vivid blue background. Behind her glasses, her eyes were blank—like the bound eyes of Lady Justice. Around the edges, Bacich’s friend Arlene Spector added a biblical quote to the design: “She speaks with wisdom and the law of compassion is upon her tongue.” (Proverbs 31:26). When the museum posted a picture of it on social media, what drew my eye was Ginsburg’s signature lace col…