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His Holiness, Inc.: The Dalai Lama as a Spiritual Mega-Brand

By Elizabeth Drescher

…n Monday to Santa Clara University, in the heart of Silicon Valley—land of high octane wheeling, dealing, wealth-making, and, it seems to turn out, existential woe—would focus on “Business, Ethics, and Compassion.” Sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics* and the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research (CCARE) at Stanford University, the event aimed to enlighten alumni, students, faculty, and others from the surrounding business co…

Op-Ed: Ramadan and Religious Freedom

By Sumbul Ali-Karamali

…did; but we’re all different in some way, right? When I started fasting in high school during Ramadan, I had to explain to my friends what I was doing, and—although they didn’t quite understand it—they didn’t care unless it impinged on something they desired (“Why can’t you come on our hike? Can’t you have just a little water?“). For Muslims, Ramadan is the month of fasting. Every morning, before dawn (not sunrise) we eat something light and then…

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

…situation in my country, where there are low levels of xenophobia, even as high numbers of immigrants have arrived from different regions of the world over the past few decades; where there is a positive climate of religious tolerance; and where clear progress has been made in the struggle for effective equality between men and women, although there is still some way to go. Costa Rica: Family court judge gives same-sex couple common-law marriage T…

Raising Children the Right Way

By Jeffrey Feldman

…of teaching one’s children to hit back at school—a point that he claims is highly controversial. Dobson then uses this starting point to introduce a hitherto unheard of distinction in Christ’s famous “turn the other cheek” lesson. Since childhood is brutal, according to Dobson, the key for children is to learn first to fight back, and only then, after they are old enough to understand that fighting back against aggression is the right thing to do,…

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nce Date At Catholic Schools Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart told Catholic high schools in Victoria that they should “be sensitive and respectful to students who wanted to invite a same-sex date to the biggest night of the year,” according to Marika Dobbin at The Age. “Students in a secondary school are growing up and in developmental stages where relationships are more like strong friendships and are not usually permanent, they are not in a situa…

Could This Supreme Court Undo Marriage Equality?

By Andrew L. Seidel

…a man credibly accused of sexual assault—a man who raged his way onto the high court while threatening political retribution. Kavanaugh’s non-answer on the sanctity of marriage equality was as good as a promise. That shifts the court 5-4 the other direction, against marriage equality. Then Barrett replaced Ruth Bader Ginsburg, another shift in the wrong direction, 6-3. Both Justices Thomas (another man on the high court credibly accused of sexual…

Church-State Separation Advocate calls Grassley Staff Recommendation “Breathtakingly Wrongheaded”

By Sarah Posner

…king. This investigation got under way because of allegations that several high-profile TV preachers were abusing non-profit status by living high on the hog while raking in millions tax-free every year. The answer to that would seem to be more accountability and oversight. Yet Grassley’s staffers have just recommended doing away with the ‘no politicking’ rule, which would only turn these same ministries loose in the world of partisan politics to…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…s for gay people exercises them mightily, and anti-abortion fervor remains high. But when is the last time you saw white evangelicals raising legitimate questions about our hypersexualized mass culture? Perhaps more telling, when is the last time white evangelicals spoke out forcefully against the cancer of a casino-based economy—or against state-sponsored gambling in the form of ever-growing state-run lotteries? In Mississippi following Katrina,…

Gorsuch Confirmed… But Don’t Get Too Bent Out of Shape

By Sunnivie Brydum

…mit that I would much rather see a Justice Garland completing the nation’s high court than Justice Gorsuch. But, given the almost comically disastrous news flooding out of the White House daily, the nomination of an experienced, well-regarded, if right-of-center jurist feels like a less-than-ideal hill to die on. The real battle will begin when there is another vacancy on the court, which truly does have the potential to shift the balance of power…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…scrimination regardless of how unpopular such rights are and how small the number of people who hold those rights may be.” While the proposed partnerships would offer couples “most of the rights afforded to traditional marriages,” there are significant differences. Chile: Debate on marriage equality bill begins as presidential election approaches An estimated one hundred thousand LGBT equality backers marched on Saturday in a massive show of suppo…