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A Story in Which the Gay Mormon Does Not Die

By Joanna Brooks

…iction between the policy and Jesus Christ’s unequivocal and unconditional welcome to children in the New Testament has left even conservative and moderate Church members doubtful, defensive, or confused. According to some reports, a good number of rank and file Mormons are simply choosing to disregard and outlast the policy. Saving Alex celebrates the spiritual capacity to outlast the darkest and most abusive elements of a religion. What helps? C…

New Report: More Sex in the Pulpit

By Jeanne Carstensen

…ionships, rather than particular acts.” It also urges faith communities to promote sex education, reproductive rights, and full inclusion of women and LGBT people in religious life and society at large. “We need to move religion away from saying homosexuality is wrong, or masturbation or abortion, or oral sex, or sex outside marriage,” Haffner explained in an interview with RD. “The point is, what is the quality of the relationship?” While recent…

#WeStandWithIsaac: A Movement for LGBT Inclusion in the Mennonite Church

By Scott Schomburg

…“a fleeting education in how to love.” A wonderfully boring home page will welcome you there, and, among other things, you’ll find an archive of sermons over the years from the dozens of people who have participated in one of the more beautiful literary traditions I know—a preaching tradition based more on communal conversation than personality. So when the powerful moment of #WeStandWithIsaac fades, the experiment of CHMF will remain a place for…

Female Bishops in Church of England is a Good Step… But it’s Just a Step

By Jacqueline Small

…women more power gets points for liberality, but it seldom has to address deeper issues of patriarchy, like male language for God, permissive attitudes toward gendered violence, and expectations that women must prevent men from lusting. Nor does such a Church necessarily affirm LGBT lives, or welcome non-white people. The solution to institutional bigotry isn’t some kind of “lean-in feminism” where the women who are best at politics move up the ra…

Mosques and Welcoming LGBT People

By Hussein Rashid

…to worship, regardless of sexual orientation. To be clear, the ad did not “promote” homosexuality, advocate for churches to perform weddings for gay couples, or endorse any activity that church might find objectionable. The ad, in my reading, says that anyone who believes in God is welcome in a house of worship. As Muslims living in America, we too will be faced with a similar issue: how welcoming will we be? Like the ad, I am not advocating for a…

For Trump Admin, Immigration is About Race and Identity

By Aryeh Cohen

…Africa. The common denominator of these institutions is that they did not rely upon political boundaries to relieve suffering. The religious traditions of hospitality, refuge, and sanctuary created the vibrant multiform culture of diversity, welcome, and innovation that many of us claim as American. However, religious traditions of exclusion and purity rear their heads at regular intervals to demand higher walls and harder hearts. We are now at a…

Anti-Gay Ugandan Bill Set to Pass. Warren Silent.

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ting. Fighting, and even losing, a battle for marriage equality would be a welcome luxury for them. Despite international pressure against this despicable and inhumane law, Reuters is reporting that it will likely pass, with some modifications. Spero News reports that the terms of the bill currently are: “[L]ife term in prison for one homosexual act. Option of the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”, which includes relations with a minor…

Armed with New 2020 Election Data, What Should Democrats’ (Non-)Faith Outreach Look Like?

By Chrissy Stroop

…d like one, and the party needs to make clear that nonreligious people are welcome, along with their ideas and priorities.” Expanding on that thought, Levin told RD: It’s a bit of a chicken-or-the-egg situation, which is why I think progressive nonreligious activists and the party need to meet each other halfway. The party needs to provide a space for secular Democrats to feel included and valued, but secular Democrats also need to rise to the occ…

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

By Frederick Clarkson

…btle” she observes, “and it suggests that if you don’t agree, you aren’t welcome and you even may be un-American. That’s a lot of pressure when you’re in elementary school.” Measures in Category 2 are framed as “Resolutions and Proclamations Recognizing the Importance of Religious History.” The only one of these to be introduced in 2018 was the Proclamation Recognizing Religious Freedom Day. But while the measures in this group may be subject t…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…number of celebrated figures and other possible means. The objective is to promote and solidify homosexuality. Al-Azhar, in a previous statement, reiterated that the amoral and satanic propaganda launched by these various, vicious, parties has the purpose of destroying the human moral order respected by all religions and schools, because this moral order is in line with humanity’s innate quality (fitrah) created by Allah. Promoting homosexuality a…