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Ebola and Us: The American Roots of Liberia’s Trauma

By Peter Laarman

…be more strategically helpful in the Ebola crisis rather than pretend that Liberia is a place we know nothing about. To engage with an aggressive disease-containment plan in Liberia should be more a matter of realism than guilt, although a certain amount of guilt is warranted in this case. Liberia owes its existence to Christian perfectionism gone badly wrong. It owes its existence and the primary arc of its history to an ambitious enterprise call…

Russian Politician Wants to Ban Apple CEO Who Says Being Gay is God’s Gift; Violence After Preachers Blame Liberian Gays for Ebola; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n by telephone from Monrovia. According to Reuters, Earlier this year, the Liberian Council of Churches said in a statement that God was angry with Liberians “over corruption and immoral acts” such as homosexuality, and that Ebola was a punishment. In May, Archbishop Lewis Zeigler of the Catholic Church of Liberia said that “one of the major transgressions against God for which He may be punishing Liberia is the act of homosexuality,” local media…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

As President Obama signs the health care bill into law today, we are watching the first draft of history. But imagine what students a generation from now will be taught about the most significant overhaul of this nation’s health-care system since Medicare if the conservative activists on the Texas Board of Education are successful at their long-range goal of using the public education system to rewrite history. If publishers kowtow to the board a…

You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

By Daniel Schultz

…It might as well be as old as Moses, given what a commonplace it is for right-wing Christians. The rest of it is a chestnut of its own. We ought to just be grateful that Lindell isn’t enforcing coronavirus rectitude with a hatchet. (Carrie Nation was also an unabashed self-promoter, by the way.) It’s a strand that goes back to Wesleyan perfectionism and Calvinist propriety, some of the deepest roots of American religion. It may look like faith se…

Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

By Rob Shryock

…ownright bizarre things “Cussing Pastor” Mark Driscoll says, usually while promoting a new book, as well as the ensuing negative publicity and essays critical of Mark Driscoll, which somehow increase the popularity of Mark Driscoll’s new book. Mark Driscoll has a new book coming out, and with suspiciously good timing, he’s managed to initiate back to back controversies. First, he showed up at John MacArthur’s “Strange Fire” conference uninvited a…

Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…therwise.” Heterosexual polygamy was legalized in Kenya earlier this year. Liberia: Christian Leaders Blame ‘Homosexualism’ for Ebola Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced a state of emergency, warning that “‘ignorance and poverty, as well as entrenched religious and cultural practices” are exacerbating Ebola’s spread. The Independent reports, “Religious leaders in Liberia are claiming God has unleashed the deadly Ebola virus as a pla…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ons; officials have said his claim to be gay and is fear of persecution in Liberia are not “verifiable.” But the 22-year-old Nagbe said that everyone in Liberia now knows that he is gay. “In prison I’ll be beaten and raped every day until I am released and leave the country again,” he said. Turkey: Prominent trans activist murdered The murder of prominent transgender activist Hande Kader has drawn unusual attention even in the midst of the governm…

Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

By J. Terry Todd

…n between the rich and poor didn’t play prominently, either in the event’s promos or at the stadium rally itself. PK did offer a “pay what you can afford” program to woo low-income rally-goers, and it also urged attendees to bring food donations for the Denver Rescue Mission. At the rally itself, there was no sustained talk about the spiritual or political effects of the global financial crisis, but there was a call to support something called the…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t information on refugee rights and resources and Dutch asylum procedures. Liberia: Essay on ‘tacit tolerance’ and backlash to public pressure for LGBT equality Baba Sillah, a Liberian post-graduate student in the Graduate School of Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, published an essay in Front Page Africa Online examining “tacit tolerance” and Liberian resistance to pro-LGBT activists from the U.S. and U.K. “The essay concludes with ob…

Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

…related business, I learned a lot about child soldiers in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and I wanted to do something with reintegration after war ends. Liberia and Sierra Leone were not safe enough, though. I designed a course in 2008 to focus on the rehabilitation and integration of child soldiers and sex slaves in the Lord’s Resistance Army war in Uganda. I went to Uganda, and it was an incredible experience. I came back, and a number of Mormon femi…