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Religious Opposition To LGBT Equality Softening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n, because the next step for the gay and lesbian community is victory. The most virulent opposition to gay and lesbian people enjoying equal rights in every area of life from housing, to employment, to service in the military, to marriage rights, has come from religious quarters. Recent trends, however, show even religious opposition is softening. The UK-based religious think-tank Ekklesia is claiming that a growing number of Christian groups are…

Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie

By Michael Schulson

…on is really, really difficult to define. But, look: they have a point. In most of the world, for most of history, cultures had very little notion of a discrete thing called “religion,” as something that you could then choose, reject, or petition for freedom of. The choice to constellate certain kinds of rituals, stories, propositions and epistemological modes into a single package called “religion” is a fairly recent, European, and Protestant phe…

Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?

By Michael Bronski

…follow Islamic law. In contemporary Uganda, legislators influenced by the most conservative versions of evangelical Christianity, especially versions imported from the United States, have been debating making homosexual sex a capital crime. (Homo-sexual acts are already against the law in Uganda.) And Russia’s government, looking to shore up its popularity, increasingly embraces the antigay theology of the Russian Orthodox Church by cracking down…

Boo! Trump’s Lead With Religious Voters Not As Bigly As You Might Think

By Daniel Schultz

…he Barna definition of “evangelical” is fairly restrictive, more like what most of us would call “fundamentalists.” Among the broader “born-again” segment, Trump still leads by eighteen points, 49-31. But then there’s this: Like her GOP opponent, Clinton claims the allegiance of several faith segments. Among them are notional Christians (i.e., people who consider themselves to be Christian but are not born again – the largest of the three Christia…

Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r distribution of goods, care for creation and concern for the weakest and most vulnerable. It is equally challenging for us in our ministry as priests and bishops.” Meanwhile, the Irish National Teachers Organization is calling for the abolishment of a law that allows a school to protect its “religious ethos” when making employment decisions, a law that is causing anxiety among gay and lesbian teachers as Ireland’s referendum on marriage equality…

Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

By Bradley Onishi

…munications, and outreach are all woefully off base concerning the party’s most cherished and loyal constituency. Asking white evangelicals about abortion in 2018 may have been like asking vacationers how important it would be for a fancy resort to provide running water in all their rooms. Most would assume that such establishments would provide this amenity by default. Thus, when asked if it were a priority over, say, a private hot tub or an ocea…

New Report: Angels & Aliens in Texas Schools

By Mark A. Chancey

…ly religious in nature, sometimes openly promoting particular beliefs. The most successful courses typically had several characteristics in common. They recognized that no single religious tradition had a monopoly on the Bible, but that Protestants, Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, and Jews all have very different collections they called by that name. Likewise, they taught students that different religious traditions approached the bi…

Single, But Married To Jesus

By Anthea Butler

…eant that they could not give their ultimate all for the number one man on most African-American womens’ lips, and it’s not Denzel. It’s Jesus. For many women in churches like COGIC, being in love with Jesus means that most other men, whether desirable as a husband or not, stood in the way of the number one relationship. One person I interviewed even had a name for it: “being loosed” from your husband to do the Lord’s work. “Being loosed” could ha…

Harry Reid vs. Islamic Cultural Center

By Joanna Brooks

…roud day for freedom of religion when a prominent member of the number two most disliked major religion in America effectively sides against a honest project by the number one most disliked major religion in America. Especially when Mormons have just recently come through our own years-long struggle to build an LDS temple in Center City Philadelphia after Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter tried to extract a six-figure sum from the Church, a deal t…

Mormonism’s “9/11 Mosque Moment”

By Joanna Brooks

…ssein Rashid pointed out in this must-read piece), Mormons, the number two most disliked religion in America, have no business contributing to public rage against the number one most disliked religion in America. Nor in trafficking in falsehoods like “Islam is an ideology, not a religion,” a line I’ve been hearing from a few Mormons in recent days. Islam is in fact a religion for which Mormon leaders from the time of George A. Smith and Parley…