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

By Peter Montgomery

…attack on a Baghdad brothel, thought to have been carried out by the same militia, killed about 34 people, most of them women. Turkey: A Country Divided on LGBT Issues Rev. Irene Monroe writes this week about Turkey being a conflicted country, both a safe haven for LGBT people in the Middle East – “the ‘go-to’ country for LGBTI Muslims feeling other Islamic countries for their safety” – but also a country where LGBT people face persistent religiou…

A Jewish Perspective on Reparations

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher

…and repent. And pay. America’s crimes were drawn out over centuries. And while the Civil Rights Movement forced certain improvements to be made, America has never really had to reckon with its past and dramatically change course as a result. (One need simply walk around the hallways of public schools in any major American city to interrogate the extent to which segregation has truly been abolished in that venue.) But there are meaningful similarit…

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

By Andrew Marin

…post in the Washington Post’s “On Faith” section, the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins railed against what he describes as the opportunistic evils of the gay agenda. He did so under the auspices of addressing the recent epidemic of gay teens who have committed suicide. I find it awfully clichéd that the post’s title began with the phrase “Christian Compassion,” but let me be blunt: There was no Christian compassion in that post. There was, h…

It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More

By Daniel Silliman

…ferent kind of peace and a different kind of justice. A different kind of millennium. While African Americans were having their own theological discussions among themselves, they were also aware of developments in the white evangelical community, but they were not engaging directly with white theologians. For them it was a different kind of discussion. For them, thinking through apocalyptic theology was happening in the context of a long black lib…

The Religious Right Goes Global with “Demographic Winter”

By Kathryn Joyce

…government incentives for mothers staying in the home and raising large families of children. I’ve just written an article, “Missing: The ‘Right’ Babies,” published in the current edition of The Nation on this supposed threat, the coalition promoting it, and the implications of such arguments across Europe. Here’s an excerpt, or you can read the entire article here: Steve Mosher is telling me about wolves returning to the streets of European towns…

It’s Bring Your Gun to Church Day

By Bill Berkowitz

…orkplace shootings still outpace all others. Do you support legislation—similar to the bill that is winding its way through the Arkansas legislature—that would allow churchgoers to carry concealed weapons into their churches? JH: The Christian Security Network has never taken a stand endorsing or condemning churches that allow weapons as a means of protection. We totally support people’s second amendment rights and respect our constitution and tha…

“Real” Evangelicals Don’t Support Trump? Not So Fast…

By Neil J. Young

…ves. But that interpretation only underscores the larger point: Trump is still the one candidate who coalesces the largest number of evangelicals—even the weekly churchgoers—around him. Those numbers would likely shift should Trump face a two-man race with Ted Cruz. But if survey data still show what they have revealed so far—that Trump will continue to win at least a third of the most frequent church-attending evangelicals—it undermines anti-Trum…

Aliens in America

By Amir Hussain

…ow Little Mosque on the Prairie, along with Aliens in America in the United States, are among the few shows to present some of the ordinariness of North American Muslim life. Until Muslims become more involved in television and film, we will leave the telling of our own stories to others. As such, while we can and should protest against inaccurate descriptions, we also cannot expect others to tell our stories in the ways that we would like them to…

Refusal of Interracial Couple Shows How Slippery the Slope of LGBTQ Refusal Really Is

By Heron Greenesmith

…censed child welfare agencies to refuse to place and provide services to children and families, including LGBT people and same-sex couples, if doing so conflicts with their religious belief; it permits state officials to decline to marry couples of whose marriage they disapprove; and it likewise permits medical professionals to decline to serve LGBT clients. Now, federal and state laws that create a distinction based on race are subject to the hig…

Pope Francis Praised for ‘Civil Unions’ Comment, But Justice Begins at Home—In the Vatican

By Mary E. Hunt

…n order before its maximum impact can be felt outside. American theologian Ilia Dilio pointed out this dynamic in reference to the recent papal encyclical Fratelli Tutti (“all brothers”). Its unfortunate title simultaneously ignores women qua women and reinforces gender binaries despite its lofty prose about human community. She asked: “How do we make sense of this in a church that does not regard women as equal? A church that will not allow the o…