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Mormon Feminism is Back

By Joanna Brooks

…of this outreach is the new Mormon feminist organization LDS WAVE (Women Advocating Voice and Equality), which has just launched its new website. It’s a good time to be a Mormon feminist….

President Carter on Religion: Stop Harming Women and Girls

By Frances Kissling

…Carter resigned from the Southern Baptist Convention after it had issued a number of rulings on the role of women in the church and society. Women, it said, needed to be subject to men. We were responsible for the sin of Eve and we could not be deacons, chaplains or ministers in the church. It was a boost for all women working for women’s rights in the churches when Carter stood up for us. Now, Carter has joined with other world leaders and initia…

The Islamophobia Dodge of the Religious Freedom Pledge

By Sarah Posner

…sentiment in the U.S. generally, he declined. Taking a look at Open Doors website, I see that it promotes a “Muslim World Ministry” for which it raises money so “You can send light to dark places in the Muslim World.” You’re free to be Muslim, but it would be better to be Christian. What’s more, though, is how Christian candidates who’ve done much to promote a lack of religious freedom for other religions (e.g., Michele Bachmann’s worry that shar…

Coming Out on a Christian Campus, Then and Now

By Ed Madden

…llege’s daily chapel audience, that he couldn’t even state the name of the website, HUQueerPress.com, because the “address itself is offensive to me.” (Is it the word “queer” that offends him, or the linking of that word with Harding?) I want to ask: did you actually read it? I found the essays to be provocative, heartfelt, smart, thoughtful, and brave. These students are avowedly Christian, though it is clear they have to grapple with what that m…

Pope Francis Says Teaching Gender Is Nasty; Far-Right Religious Groups Helping Mexico’s Anti-Equality Movement; Colombia’s Peace Deal Killed by Anti-LGBT Campaign?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ngelical denominations), which has a Facebook page that lists its official website as a broken link with a URL hosted by the Apostolic Church of Faith in Jesus Christ. The Mier y Terán agency also lists past clients as multiple educationalinstitutions affiliated with Opus Dei, a Catholic order known for promoting doctrinaire church teaching in public policy. Several of the country’s Catholic bishops have been unusually outspoken in support of the…

“Love Them As Yourself”: God’s Words or IKEA Instructions?

By Marcia Pally

…t it’s hearing from its (Christian) constituencies. The organization has a website where people can inform governors of their support for refugee resettlement. The Jewish Anti-Defamation League favors refugee settlement, as does the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and The National Association of Evangelicals, whose statement reads, “let’s not punish the victims of ISIS for the sins of ISIS.” Religious advocates for resettlement base their positi…

After Embracing Female Bishop, Pope Spins Again on Women’s Ordination

By Kaya Oakes

…dic countries, Sweden is proud of its gender parity. Its official national website includes a page about this history of gender equality in Sweden, which includes birth control having been legalized in 1938 and paid maternity leave existing as far back as the 1950s. But when the pope flew to Sweden, the visit was to commemorate the actions of a man. When Martin Luther wrote his Ninety Five Theses in 1517, women were not exactly running the show in…

Anti-Gay Group’s Attorney Fired after Searching for Men on Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…the ACLJ has scrubbed all traces of Henderson’s bio and writings from its website, though his name continues to appear on numerous legal documents. The report was based in part on voluminous information gathered by two bloggers, which included posts from two Facebook accounts, Henderson’s and one that appears to be an alias he used to communicate with young men, some of whom may have been younger than 18, who he apparently provided with marijuana…

Wage Theft in America: Why Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid

By Kim Bobo

…available as a stand-alone text, downloadable free of charge from the IWJ website) is designed to encourage congregations to study the book in adult forums. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I am an organizer. I want people to get involved in stopping and deterring wage theft. To reach that goal, I must inform people and get people shocked about the extent of the crisis—but then outline concrete ways that w…

Trump Pulls a Huckabee on Religion

By Sarah Posner

…devil are brothers?” The same day his remarks were published on the Times website, Huckabee apologized, saying the comment was taken out of context. Trump, like Huckabee, denied that he was dog-whistling the GOP’s evangelical base. But just like Huckabee, Trump could deny that ill-intent all he wanted, and he could fudge the context all he wanted. But he was pressing a tiny seed into the ground, hoping it would grow into a narrative that Carson’s…