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Yet Another Survey Shows ‘Nones’ Growth at Record Levels

By Elizabeth Drescher

…& Public Life on the rapid growth in the population of Nones, especially among adults under age 30. According to the report, the demographic tipping point in religious unaffiliation occurred in the 1990s, when the percentage of Nones grew dramatically from previous levels, jumping to 8% in 1990 and nearly doubling to 14% in 2000. Though unaffiliation tapered off slightly from 2000 to 2002—after 9/11—the robust growth trend continued, reaching 18%…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ut there were no Kenyan films on offer. The award winning production, Stories of our Lives, which tracked the lives of members of the LGBT community in Kenya, was banned in 2014 by the country’s film board after it claimed the documentary “promotes homosexuality, which is contrary to national norms and values”. The film sparked a debate among young activists who argued that the country’s gay rights movement could gain credibility by joining in sol…

How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes

By Patricia Miller

…me irremediable by the mere tools of legislation and public policy. So today’s Republicans, who elevated policy questions about the delivery of health care into the great moral cause of our time, shouldn’t be surprised when they find that no amount of negotiations will find a solution….

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…ndly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King (R-NY), minus 45 years f…

Are Conservative Churches Really Winning by Being More Orthodox?

By Daniel Schultz

…showing a “kinder, gentler version” of the faith. The Catholics might have more to lose in a more abstract sense, too. At a certain point, you have to ask the questions Scott Simon didn’t: how orthodox is too orthodox? At what point does the pursuit of moral structure go from coherence to exclusionary for its own sake? In fact, Simon didn’t ask a lot of questions. None of the points I’ve outlined here are obscure—religion journalists here and else…

More Thoughts on Media Coverage of Liberal Religion

By Sarah Posner

…ts and liberals revile religion. It’s because (practically speaking) the Democratic base is far more religiously diverse than the Republican base, and includes a far more significant (and growing) number of unaffiliated voters, avowed secularists (who are both non-believers and religious people) and religious minorities. And because more of those people like the Establishment Clause and would shudder at religiously-directed public policy. Given th…

Fusion Politics: A Way Forward for Bernie Sanders?

By Daniel Schultz

…North Carolina had the Sanders campaign built a careful coalition with the Moral Mondays movement. Given Hillary Clinton’s deep reservoir of support with African-American voters, it might not have made much difference, but it’s an interesting counter-factual to contemplate. Barber himself seems to have thought along similar lines, suggesting at one point an alliance with the liberal netroots community Daily Kos, long a bastion for support for Sand…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…many jobs as possible. M.T.A. conductor Sujatha Gidla’s gut-wrenching testimony “We Are Not Essential. We Are Sacrificial” describes admonishing passengers every 15 minutes to wash their hands while not having access to soap and water themselves. Amanda Null’s exemplary reporting on “Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice” documents that state’s efforts to force its residents to choose between the risk of death at work or financial destitution at…

How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture

By Christopher D. Cantwell

…ns into the racist admission policies of evangelical colleges as it was by more moral concerns like abortion. Other scholars, meanwhile, have highlighted race’s centrality to American church history, noting that the evangelical involvement in the institution of enslavement as well as the ardent opposition of evangelical institutions to movements for racial justice have made evangelicalism central contributors to America’s racial caste system. Yet…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ment, Lambda pointed out that, under the current laws, any group of ten or more Mozambican citizens, over the age of 18, can form an association, and legal registration should not take more than 45 days. But Lambda has been waiting for seven years, and still “the Mozambican state remains silent”…. “Our primary interest”, Lambda added, “is to precipitate a change in society so that it becomes more favourable to the free expression of sexual orienta…