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Jeb Bush’s “New Way” Of Talking About Gay Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…y a new way to talk about same-sex marriage?” the Washington Post asked in January. “Bush said people should accept court rulings that legalize same-sex marriage and ‘show respect’ for gays in committed relationships, while reiterating his long-held belief that ‘marriage is a sacrament’”—a message the Post declared “more welcoming” than that of the old GOP. But this month Bush appears to have had a change of heart. After receiving plaudits from in…

Why James H. Cone’s Liberation Theology Matters More Than Ever

By Daniel José Camacho

…blackness as a zero-sum statement is a mistake. In an interview this past January, Cone told HuffPo’s Paul Rauschenbush: “God is red. God is brown. God is yellow. God is gay…I don’t use blackness as a way to exclude anyone.” Liberation theology is for the liberation of all creation and all people but not in a way that erases concrete injustices, inequalities, and power differentials in society. Cone says that oppressors “never recognize that the…

Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t young Spaniards likely are unaware that this was the case as recently as January 1979, when the laws making homosexuality a criminal offense were repealed. This is understandable given that, according to a 2013 survey by the Pew Research Center, Spain is now among the most tolerant countries in the world toward homosexuality; 88 percent of Spanish people consider homosexuality to be socially acceptable, compared with 60 percent of Americans. As…

Government: Little Sisters Have No Case

By Sarah Posner

…ivity at the end of the year, just before the regulations went into effect January 1, a district court in Colorado denied the Little Sisters’ motion for a preliminary injunction; the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed that decision; and Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted Little Sisters’ emergency application for a stay of that decision, ordering the Department of Justice to file a brief in response. The Little Sisters case is one of a ha…

When It’s OK to Ignore the Pope

By Patricia Miller

…Things article, Princeton natural law scholar Robert George wrote back in January, “The Pope has the right and responsibility to teach and even bind the consciences of the faithful on the truth of proposed moral norms, including those norms pertaining to our obligations concerning the natural environment.” However, he said: The Pope has no special knowledge, insight, or teaching authority pertaining to matters of empirical fact of the sort invest…

The Theology Behind Alabama Official’s Demand to Flout SCOTUS

By Sarah Posner

…ear the case. When Moore objected to the federal court order in Alabama in January, he wrote a letter to the state’s governor, Republican Robert Bentley, claiming the federal court “has raised serious, legitimate concerns about the propriety of federal court jurisdiction over the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment.” Moore warned that local clerks who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples will be “in defiance of the laws and Constitution…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…ct passes the Senate and is signed by the president, it will become law in January 2016. Mexico: Congress calls on states to get in line with marriage equality Mexico’s federal Congress, following up on a recent opinion of the Supreme Court of Justice, called on state legislatures to reform their civil and family law to ensure recognition of the right of same-sex couples to get married. On July 10, 20 same-sex couples were married on the beach i…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rst third-gender passport issued The country’s first third gender passport has been issued, a move first announced in January. …

Watch John Oliver Satirize IRS’ Lack of Church Oversight

By Becky Garrison

…te accountability structures. Even though the church formally dissolved in January 2015, the distribution of their assets remains buried beneath a myriad of LLCs. (For more on that, go to wenatcheethehatchet.blogspot.com.) Even should a church be reported for financial misconduct it would hardly matter since the IRS hasn’t investigated a single church case in over five years. Furthermore, as reported by Americans United, pressure from religious ri…

Did the Church Create or Co-Opt Human Rights?

By Austin Dacey

…abor Prime Minister Peter Fraser, New Zealand had made common cause with a number of smaller countries and civil society organizations in pressing for recognition of human rights in the Charter. Oddly, Moyn credits the political theorist Charles Beitz with the “remarkable discovery” of Gildersleeve’s contribution, although Gildersleeve described the events in a memoir published in 1954 (the fact even appears in an otherwise meager Wikipedia entry,…