Religion Dispatches
International Activism and Advocacy The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights…
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Africa: Religious leaders criticize Obama comments on LGBT human rights A story from the Catholic…
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The blinding glare of whiteness, the slap of social conservatism hamstrings the GOP. Is the same true for the Anglican Communion? For global Christianity?
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The crowd favorite at the DC screening I attended was the filmmaker’s interview with Bishop Barbara Harris, whose 1989 consecration as the first female bishop in the Anglican Communion also shook up the church. Harris is memorably direct. About the idea that Robinson is the first gay bishop, Harris snorts, “Give me a break.” In response to some of the rhetoric at the bishops’ gathering, she says, “if assholes could fly, this place would be an airport.”
Not so fast.
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