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#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…ork. 65% of members believe homosexuality should be accepted by society. African Methodist Episcopal Church (Historically Black Protestant) Members (as of 2009): 2,500,000 Homosexuality “clearly contradicts [their] understanding of Scripture” and same-sex unions are “contrary to the will of god” 61% of members believe homosexuality should be accepted by society. Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (Evangelical Protestant) Members (as of 2010): 2,…

Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…Africa representative Theresa Okafor, who supports harsh anti-gay laws in African countries as necessary to protect the family against the “Trojan horse” of the sexual revolution. At last year’s WCF gathering in Salt Lake City, Okafor denounced “the West” for pressuring African nations to legalize abortion and “yield to sexual orientation and gender identity and what-have-you.” Conservative Catholic and Orthodox church officials and activists fin…

The Irony of Trumpism: A Turning Point for Muslims in American Politics

By David Krueger

…in the U.S. are not exclusively immigrants. Abdul-Jabbar and Ellison, both African Americans, converted to Islam when they were young. Furthermore, speaker after speaker ranging from Jesse Jackson to Andrew Cuomo condemned the anti-Islamic rhetoric of Trump as fundamentally un-American. The United States has a history of intolerance toward religious minorities, including Catholics, but history has also shown that members of disenfranchised groups…

Country Trumpkins

By Daniel Schultz

…rea in the Wisconsin State Senate before he moved north to push a moderate Republican out of the 6th Congressional district. Trump’s people got what they wanted in West Bend: no interruptions and polite applause. The whole thing was weird. Beyond his evident confusion about where exactly he was speaking, Trump was on the Teleprompter again, which always makes his speeches disjointed and confusing. And he kept coming back to the problems of the inn…

Power in a Union: How the Working Class Shaped Religion in America

By Matthew Pehl

…mong the largest working-class religious communities in Detroit—Catholics, African-American Protestants, and white evangelicals from the South—a set of new, more “worker-centric” idioms began developing in the 1930s, linking religious and class identity in defense of the CIO and the general thrust of the New Deal. This “proletarianization” of religion produced a conservative counter-narrative. Lacking containment within any single ideological bott…

Mexico’s Religious Conservatives Seek Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment, LGBT Activists Defend Secular Government; Cash From Qatar Funds ‘Traditional’ Family Activism Worldwide; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sake of the little ones. Many little ones will fall into this sin if LGBT promoters push them. And we also protest for the sake of the LGBT promoters themselves. For their sin will be multiplied by every abused child that they push into sodomy.” Orozco discounts the likelihood of such an appeal, since Belizean law generally bars “interested parties” from appealing if the parties themselves decline. Rather, his focus is on understanding the decisi…

How AIDS Changed the Way American Christians Talk About Sex

By Anthony Petro

…eyliger’s What Would Jesus Do?, a more recent play about how members of an African American church in Harlem deal with HIV/AIDS in their congregation. I was excited about the possibility of looking at cultural production in my epilogue, including how theatre in particular has served as a political and even religious site for so many gay men affected by the AIDS crisis. I left this discussion out because, again, it took away from the cohesion of th…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…now why Jedis and Sith look that way—their robes are a reflection of North African culture. The lightsaber, unfortunately, was not our idea. “Hospitals” by Emory Banker 12. Hospitals The first hospital was founded in Cairo, and Muslim hospitals once even included wards for patients with mental illness, and used innovative techniques like music therapy to improve moods and aid in recuperation. 13. Half of American Socialism President Obama’s dad wa…

Charleston Killings: This is What a Sin Against the Holy Spirit Looks Like

By Peter Laarman

…when it was discovered that long-time church member and class leader (and free person of color) Denmark Vesey had been preaching insurrection there. And now, in a distinctively American drama that never ends, the historic and brave Emanuel (“God with us”) African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston has been violated yet again, almost 200 years later, by murderous anti-black hatred. Very often shooting rampages in this country are described…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…ociologist and author of “The Global Sexual Revolution: The Destruction of Freedom on the Name of Freedom,” is one of the campaign’s prime movers. Kuby, a Catholic convert, says “gender theory” will lead to tyranny. She says communism protect Eastern European countries from the sexual revolution and hopes they will now “become a stronghold of resistance in the European Union.” Kuby’s daughter Sophia runs the socialconservative group European Digni…