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Trump Considers Pulling USA Out Of Human Rights Council; Indonesian President Blames Democracy For Rise of Militant Islamism; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nder people had a high degree of acceptance in Malaysia. But this began to change with a series of state legislative initiatives, beginning in the 1980s, that criminalized transgender people and forced them underground. Under these discriminatory laws, transgender people can be arrested simply for wearing clothing deemed not to pertain to their assigned sex. In a 2014 report, “I’m Scared to be a Women: Human Rights Abuses Against Transgender Peopl…

For Love or Threat: Pro-Life Prayer Includes Names, Photos of Abortion-Rights Advocates

By Alana Massey

…te But Equal” Has Become the New Standard in Women’s Health and How We Can Change That. In addition to writing about the activities of anti-abortion groups in legislatures, clinic escort and abortion rights activist Katie Klabusich chronicles in real-time the tactics used outside of facilities that anti-abortion activists often refer to as “sidewalk counseling.” Producing videos and live-tweeting their methods—in combination with her frequent and…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…far beyond “Blackout Tuesday” or it will never work. So what does genuine change look like? Truthfully, no Black person should ever be expected to describe in totality the ways in which they wish to be treated fairly. It’s exhausting to explain and tiring to unpack. After all, we don’t exactly have a racism-free America to compare it to since, sadly, such a nation has never existed. Besides, how does one person teach another to treat human beings…

God at the Gay Pride Parade

By Peter Montgomery

…in Thousand Oaks, California, a seat he has held since 2000. Following the policy change allowing clergy in same-gender relationships, Dr. Erwin was ordained on May 11, 2011. Predictably, religious conservatives did not cheer Erwin’s election. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, announced that the ELCA no longer qualified as evangelical or Lutheran or even as a church. Not that a lot of Lutherans look to Mohler for h…

Conservatives Accuse Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Misconduct

By Elizabeth Drescher

…r efforts against these changes through their ACC chapter. The recent name change allows members to distance themselves from the AAC and claim status as active Episcopalians who can make disciplinary complaints against clergy, including the Presiding Bishop. The name game may have been a cunning tactic in fanning the embers of a controversy in which public interest has waned considerably as support for LGBT equality, including marriage equality, h…

Are Mormons Changing Their Stance on Homosexuality?

By John-Charles Duffy

…hat LDS opposition to homosexuality is cracking. Rather, this position is a savvy retrenchment that actually makes the prospects for future change in church policy and doctrine even more bleak….

New Study: Motivation Doesn’t Improve Group Success

By Arri Eisen

…ore enjoying what is a potential feast of ways to improve the way we do things: (1) collective intelligence is an emergent and apparently powerful property of interacting humans, and (2) it’s much easier to change groups to adjust for the factors that predict higher collective intelligence than it is to change single individuals to improve their intelligence. Think about it with some friends….

As Irish Flee the Church, a Push For Reform

By Diane Winston

…, would be solved by addressing vexing issues of economic justice, climate change, and social inequality. And, by recognizing the rights of women and married men to ordination, the looming shortage of priests would be averted. Yet these kinds of substantive changes would require the Pope and the Curia to cede their power and undo more than ten centuries of authoritarian rule. For those who say the outcome would look a lot like Protestantism, Butle…

Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…o the extent that it loses sight of its purported aim—healthy, substantive change in evangelical church culture and practices. Such transformation would require more truth-telling on the part of the enablers, apologists, and organizations, including Christianity Today, that elevated Driscoll’s brand name for profit despite the endless stream of scandals that he orchestrated to tangible harm. Still, the guy saved a lotta souls In 2007, the year tha…

Gay Marriage Measure Dies in Maryland

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ons. Del. Cheryl Glenn (D-Baltimore City) presented an amendment Friday to change the language of the bill to replace “marriage’’ with “civil unions.’’ Glenn said she had promised activists supporting same-sex marriage she would be lead sponsor of legislation providing protections, but only if those protections are legally termed “civil unions,’’ not marriages. “It’s all about the word of God,” she said. “It truly is.” Another concern was just how…