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Why The Church Can’t Stop Gun Violence

By Daniel Schultz

…. In mainline Protestant churches, “pastors tend to follow denominational teaching,” but lay leaders in the church are not well-informed about these denominational stances, said Lydia Bean, a sociologist and executive director of Faith in Texas, which organizes churches for social justice. … Another obstacle for faith-based gun control activists is the intensity and homogeneity with which white evangelicals view guns. While the congregants in main…

How Are the “Nones” Raising Their Children?

By Christel Manning

…zed religion with those who are less engaged, ignoring people who have replaced religion with something they find better, such as faith in humanity, nature, or oneself. In the few studies that attend to this, children have very positive outcomes, sometimes better than their religious peers (e.g., they are more resistant to peer pressure and more sensitive to cultural differences). From what we know now, it appears that both religious and secular u…

The Pope and the Culture Wars

By Patricia Miller

…On the eve of the Pope’s address to congress, RD Senior Correspondent Patti Miller spoke with NPR partner station KPCC about the effect on the culture wars of “[t]he most politicized pontiff in contemporary history.” https://soundcloud.com/religion-dispatches/papal-politics-how-pope-francis-stirs-the-culture-wars-in-dc…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…anity which ‘does’ little in practice, while incessantly ‘explaining’ its teachings, is dangerously unbalanced,” Francis told dozens of churchmen from around the world. “I would even say that it is stuck in a vicious circle.” At the start of his 30-minute talk, Francis made a brief reference to the legalization of same-sex marriage that the American bishops have made a centerpiece of their public ministry and policy battles, with many of them cast…

Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rientation. He highlighted that Islam is about ‘giving love and caring for each other’. This was a welcome perspective for camp participants. Asked about the persistence of discrimination against sexual minorities, one YIFOS leader says, “religious leaders are often considered to be faultless, like they’ve never done anything wrong, but we forget sometimes that religious leaders are also humans.” The article concludes: Through creating a safe spac…

God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

By Sarah Posner

….” (Barbour is also not offended by the Confederate flag.) Moore has elicited comparisons to Alabama’s segregationist governor George Wallace, following his pledge to defy a federal court ruling invalidating Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage earlier this year. Moore ordered probate court clerks, who issue marriage licenses in Alabama, not to issue them to same-sex couples. The BuzzFeed report includes copies of the Council newsletter, which inclu…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…h, IGLHRC’s program coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa. “By reaching Iranians in the human and familiar setting of family, our ultimate hope is to encourage greater acceptance as the starting place for a change in attitudes in the wider society.” … The choice of the names Yousef and Farhad for the characters was intentional, as both are timeless names from Persian literature. By bringing them together in a same-sex love story, the no…

Watch John Oliver Satirize IRS’ Lack of Church Oversight

By Becky Garrison

…Oliver’s recent segment on televangelists, Oliver illuminated how these preachers exploit the special tax exemptions granted by the IRS to churches and church based organizations. As churches aren’t required to make their financials available for public view, they can avoid the financial transparency and accountability required of 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. Through the creation of his own “church,” aptly titled “Our Lady of Perpetual Exem…

Unbeknownst to Richard Dawkins the Feminist Revolution in Islam Has Already Begun

By Jerusha Tanner Lamptey

…ter equality, such as female-led and mixed congregation prayers; and provided education to multitudes of Muslim women around the world. Statements such as Dawkins’ also vividly highlight the multiple tensions Muslim women face in our struggles for equality and egalitarianism. We not only have to contend with patriarchal and androcentric interpretations, laws and practices that are found within Muslim traditions, but we also have to deal with negat…

Justice v. Revenge: The Question Beneath the Question of Prison Reform

By Xarissa Holdaway

…inclination is to blame and punish out of all proportion to the offense, reacting with what Locke called “the passionate heats” of our will. There’s some evidence that even thinking about revenge activates the reward centers of our brains, which makes the admonition “an eye for an eye” in Hammurabi’s code sound less like savagery and more like a way to keep everybody in check. To punish more than the guilt deserves has been a legal problem, appar…