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Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…reproductive rights. The summer’s events proved that the framing shared by most media outlets —democracy and abortion rights vs. the economy and “kitchen table” issues—is deeply misleading. And no wonder: What could be more “kitchen table” than the rights of the people sitting around the kitchen table? It was one of the more uplifting moments of the year, one that the polls had foreseen quite accurately (even if no one believed them) since the eve…

I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple

By Anita Little

…here black women’s contributions may be stifled or silenced? First and foremo*]}*st, it’s not a matriarchal space, but it is a maternal space. It’s a space where anyone can come into it. It’s very important to me to recognize what it means to say that the black woman is God. She has the mitochondria that holds all of the human race in it, she’s the only one who has that. It’s called the Eve gene. Now what does that mean? It means she has given birth t…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…the number of abortions is not to legislate against the practice, which almo*]}*st certainly will create a huge backlash and arguably represents an infringement of liberties. The way to diminish the incidence of abortion, he counters, is to diminish demand through sex education and the availability of contraceptives. The only way truly to bring about meaningful reform on this issue is to change the terms of the conversation and alter the moral climat…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…f the Catholic Church. But after a decade of explosive sex abuse scandals, most prominently involving minor children, Birge’s story doesn’t fit the recognized narrative. She was already an adult when it happened, and her alleged attacker is not an ordained member of the clergy. Both facts point to under-recognized trends in the Church that touch on its continuing problem with sex abuse: that adults are often its victims, if rarely its public face,…

Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book

By Kaya Oakes

…le has grown, it has also included a focus on one of the Catholic church’s most marginalized groups, the LGBT community. Martin describes this as an “informal ministry,” conducted through articles, conversations and social media, and it expanded after the June 2016 shooting in Orlando, Florida when Martin was dismayed that Catholic church leaders failed to acknowledge the targeting of LGBT people in the Pulse massacre. His Facebook video posted th…

Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r women in Mexico: Violence against transgender women is common in Mexico, mostly because employment discrimination forces many to turn to sex work for money. The skeleton saint — with her female form and association with death — is particularly appealing to transgender sex workers, who face the persistent threat of violent clients and transphobic hatred. Unlike official church figures such as Our Lady of Guadalupe whose images are ethereal, Santa…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…e statement announcing the new requirement, the government points out that most people do eat meat, and that most doctors believe meat is good for you in the right amounts, since it provides important nutrients that are difficult to find in other foods. I see this analogy failing in a number of important ways, not least in the way it suggests that the two parties involved are, first, a large institution doing charity work; and, second, the governm…

International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…or the U.S.,” he said on RPP Noticias, a Peruvian television station. “The most serious thing about it to me is that it promotes a new structure, after centuries, that can only destroy what God wanted and what has worked normally.” From Russia, where Vladimir Putin has made anti-gay policies part of his government’s posturing as the defenders of Christian civilization against western secularism, both government and church officials responded harsh…

C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…know about The Family? Jeff Sharlet: The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious conservative organization in Washington, a “brotherhood” comprised mostly of politicians such as Senator Jim Inhofe, Senator Tom Coburn, Senator Sam Brownback, Senator Jim DeMint, and, now infamously, Senator John Ensign, Governor Mark Sanford, and former congressman Chip Pickering, all of whom turned to The Family to help cover up sex scandals th…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, compared with just 29 percent in the Americas. Some countries with the fastest growth — Uganda, Nigeria and Kenya — have or are considering laws that make homosexual acts punishable by long prison terms or, in some cases, execution. But the numbers can’t be ignored, and African bishops are leading the charge against the progressives and reportedly to a bigger role in the synod. Longtime Vatican observer John Allen, who covered the synod for Crux…