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No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…e United States compared to white women. Though two recent studies by the Guttmacher Institute found that these statistics were due simply to a higher incidence of unwanted pregnancies among women of color—“No conspiracy theories needed,” remarked Guttmacher—anti-abortion activists continue to claim that providers are targeting black and Latino populations, and have leafleted inner-city neighborhoods with denunciations of “Klan Parenthood,” juxtap…

Evangelical Pastor Argues for Full LGBT Inclusion: “I Think It’s Inevitable”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…different stories. People from the church quietly asked me in the lobby about what I thought about this because they had a sister who was gay or a parent had come out as gay and many adolescent children were dealing with the question. My wife was a coach at the local high school and knew other coaches and some of them were lesbian. My daughter played field hockey and some of her coaches were a great influence on her life. It was just a whole diffe…

Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads

By Amina Wadud

…d Muslim medical treatises that led the world until modern medicine; or about Muslim contributions to building the foundations of math, astronomy, agriculture, and a host of other disciplines. It is clear that there is an important value in thoughts, in the world of ideas, or in ways of knowing. I see this theologically in two primary facets of Islam: first, it seems it was already pre-conditioned when the first word of revelation to the Prophet M…

Lessons from the Defeat of the Oklahoma Personhood Bill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…enly as he exhorted his fellow legislators to support the non-binding resolution. But HR1054 had no legal ramifications: it was not a bill to change the state legal code, as was SB-1433. It also stipulated that the bill would not apply to in vitro fertilization. Well, if any legislators believed this would give them cover, they were mistaken. The pro-personhood folks made it known that a a representative would be bringing a procedural motion to fo…

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…500 people attend Friday prayer services every week, most of them Indian. But the number of Panamanian converts is rapidly growing. Bhattay said about two or three new converts come to Jama Mosque every week. Six months ago, the mosque began offering classes in Spanish — instead of just in Urdu — to accommodate the growing demand. There is no discrimination in the Muslim community in Panama City, Bhattay said. “Maybe ten, fifteen, twenty years ago…

The Catholic-Evangelical (Non-)Coalition

By Patricia Miller

…h Catholics more closely “aligned with liberal values than Evangelicals.” But these numbers shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has bothered to looked at Catholic opinion polling for the past 30 years. The fact is, on most hot-button, sex-related issues, Catholic opinion has long been about the same as public opinion, and mainstream Protestant opinion, as a whole and significantly more liberal than Evangelical opinion. The turning point for…

Contrary to Claims of Anti-Trans Muslims, LGBTQ+ Acceptance is Widespread in the History of Islam

By Ali Olomi

…n brought up in the old traditional pattern have expressed anxiety to the authors about their homosexual practices in the university student hostels in Baghdad.” Clearly what today passes for sexual conservatism in regards to gender nonconformity and homoeroticism in much of the Islamic world has more to do with 19th and 20th century European sexual values than it does the Islamic sexual ethos. Despite this, there’s a concerted effort by some cons…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and Rights Abuses.” From IGLHRC: LGBT people in Iraq have long been persecuted. But the rising tide of turmoil today puts many at imminent risk of death. The Islamic State prescribes death for the “practice” of homosexuality. Furthermore, evidence gathered for two briefings by IGLHRC and its partners, MADRE and the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, demonstrate the direct effect of the collapse of the rule of law on LGBT persons, through un…

A Jewish Perspective on Reparations

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher

…ings, and as Jews. Combining two ancient Jewish teachings, the question about our collective future becomes this: if we cannot pursue justice with the stranger and the oppressed, who are we? Put differently, the imperative to do justice—not in some hypothetical, metaphysical realm, but here and now, where we stand—must be seen not as a suggestion for altruism or charity, but rather as an opportunity to reclaim and reinvigorate what is left of our…

No ‘Christian Compassion’ in Tony Perkins’ Response to Anti-Gay Bullying, Suicides

By Andrew Marin

…ges for the Kingdom. Reconciliation is a funny thing that takes shape in a number of forms within opposing communities. But one thing I know is true: it does not start or end with victory in mind. Reconciliation is best lived when Kingdom, on Earth as it is in Heaven, is the main goal of faithful establishment. I would remind Mr. Perkins to remember a few of Jesus’ direct words. First, in Matthew 22:18-22, Jesus reiterates to the religious gatekee…