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Bishops Reject Proposed Compromise with Obama on Contraception Coverage

By Sarah Posner

…rence of Catholic Bishops. The National Catholic Register reports: [A] key official in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops says the Hawaii bill — repeatedly cited in media commentary — would not resolve the conference’s concerns and would, in any case, be overridden by the federal rule. “I’ve reviewed the Hawaii law, and it’s not much of a compromise,” said Richard Doerflinger of the USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities and the bishops’ ch…

Change, Not Charity: What Ails the New Left-Right Coalition Against Poverty

By Peter Laarman

…is—while parachuting to soft landings themselves. But if you listen to the official talk of the nation—the talk of the politicians and pundits—you will not hear much of that populist anger. Intermittently, and for the TV cameras, you might be able hear a Sen. Dodd or a Sen. Schumer raise their voices in indignation over the predations and the self-dealing of the moneychangers. But then you remember that this is the same Chris Dodd who accepted two…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…le traveled to Singapore, Taiwan and Sweden late last year. The Shepards visited Poland, Latvia, Estonia and Hungary in September 2012. UK: Protest Against Planned Deportation of Lesbian Nigerian Asylum Seeker Activists are planning a Friday protest against plans by the Home Office to deport 46-year old Apata Adejumoke, who claims she was subject to violence and her girlfriend was murdered in Nigeria and that she fears for her life if she is retu…

Presbyterians to Propose Historic Resolution for Religious Freedom and Against LGBTQ Discrimination

By Frederick Clarkson

…individual.” They also believed that the “Civil Magistrate” (or government official) should not “otherwise interfere than to protect them all in the full and free exercise of their several Modes of Worship….” “And that the Duty which we owe our Creator,” they concluded, “and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, and is nowhere cognizable but at the tribunal of the universal Judge.” Thus the Presbyterians of t…

Gay Rights Org Delivers 150,000-Signature Petition to LDS Church

By Joanna Brooks

…tactical shift from the Church strategy in California in 2008, when Mormon officials and operatives depicted the legalization of same-sex marriage as a direct threat to Church doctrine and practices and mobilized members in their defense, to a position more like that adopted by the LDS Church in Argentina last summer, when members were not officially deployed or pressured into anti-same-sex marriage political activism and were instead counseled to…

Virginia High School Says Students May Post Ten Commandments on Lockers

By Lauri Lebo

…t up by individual students expressing their religious views, but were the official government-sponsored displays of the Giles County School District. After the district decided to remove the Ten Commandments, the Giles County students hosted a walk out from school and said that those who didn’t agree with their version of Christianity should just move away. While the Giles County School District has not put back the displays, officials with Floyd…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…: Provides for state legal assistance if teachers or schools are sued over official religious practices. Preserving Religious Freedom in School Act: Provides for legal protection for a variety of religious expressions and activities. The principal bill mill for Project Blitz is the Chesapeake, VA- based, Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation (CPCF), an offshoot of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, both creations of former Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA)….

First Gay Bishop? Give Me a Break

By Peter Montgomery

…backlash from conservatives within the U.S. and global church, and the Episcopal Church’s decision at its 2009 general convention to continue to ordain gay bishops and to develop blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples. The film follows Robinson to England in 2008, where he was the only bishop in the Anglican Communion not invited to attend. Both his isolation and his indefatigable spirit are palpable as he chats with folks outside the gate, visi…

Trump Gives Davos Press Credentials to Racist Conspiracy Outlet. Again.

By Gordon Haber

…es are racist conspiracy theorists. TruNews, a paranoid Christian-right website run by pastor, “citizen reporter,” and former salesman Rick Wiles, never seems to have trouble getting White House credentials, or the president’s ear, despite Wiles’s solid record of antisemitism, racism, and homophobia. According to Right Wing Watch’s Kyle Mantyla: This is the same Wiles who, last November, dedicated an entire program to declaring that the effort to…

We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom

By Frederick Clarkson and Cari Jackson

…Congregationalists who were fleeing oppression by the Anglican Church, the official church of the British Empire. In 1620, the signers of the Mayflower Compact declared “we solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine our selves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation.” But soon, the supposed better order established by the colonists of Massachusetts Bay tended towards exc…