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Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…rly sees in the defeat of the PRI the influence of the “protest vote” that pro-family and pro-marriage advocates called for in the country. After Peña Nieto announced he would promote a constitutional reform to recognize gay marriage throughout the country, as well as amendments to the Federal Civil Code to allow homosexual adoption, more than 1,000 organizations joined together to form the National Front for the Family (FNF). Heading up this fron…

Mike Huckabee, meet Amy Schumer. And, for that matter, Tony Orlando.

By Sarah Posner

…nt and the separation of powers so very central to our Constitution. The Supreme Court is not the Supreme Being, and they can’t overturn the laws of nature or of nature’s God. Huckabee has not simply gone full religious revanchist. He has also wasted potential wells of political acumen: he’s a musician, but for warm-up entertainment today he chose a performer anyone under 40 will have to Google. More to the point, he’s a politician, but he chose a…

Orlando Massacre and ISIS: The Illusion of Power

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…or liberation. Moreover, volunteers are not streaming to the region in the numbers that previously had supported the movement. Although their online presence continues to be active on Twitter and on secret sites on the dark web, volunteers seem hesitant to join a losing operation. In this context ISIS needs the illusion of power. There is no doubt that this is what the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks were meant to achieve. ISIS has also encou…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…gning pedophile priests. Lynn was recently incarcerated at Curran Freehold Prison, the prison that Pope Francis will visit in Philadelphia—but the priest was moved at the end of July 2015. When there is a possibility of the Pope visiting Catholic clergy in the clink, that can’t be good. On top of it all, the current leader, Archbishop Chaput, has clashed with Philadelphia’s Catholics over parish and school closings and, more recently, with the fir…

After Orlando: Love Wins, But When?

By Daniel Schultz

…ve some for him as well. How could you let this happen to first graders, a prayer circle, social workers, dancers in a club? It is too much, too much. Then the silence will fall. Like all of God’s silences, it will be both kindly and uncomfortable as the truth seeps up from the ground like Abel’s blood. We have failed the innocents. We have broken covenant with the dead. If our nation had any self-respect we would declare those killed in Orlando m…

Emanuel’s Pulse: A Plea for Black Church–LGBTIQ Solidarity

By J. Kameron Carter

…targeted Emanuel’s Pulse. They tried to stop the heartbeat, stay the hope, preempt the practice of emergent non-exclusionary life together, halt the “undercommons,” stop the vigils of “black gathering,” close down the “dark communions,” the “luminous darkness” of churchical blackness. They tried to silence the music, (cardiac)arrest the pulse, that queer heartbeat, the breath of life. They wanted to stop the rapturous dance on the dance floor, the…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…as where we can heal our hurts. I caution the mainstream media to not misappropriate our anger and sadness as anti-religious or Islamophobic. We are mourning an attack on the sanctity of our community. We are in pain as we have lost our fellow healers. The warriors and healers of our past and present are with us as we march forward in pursuit of whatever it is that defines our new home at the end of this painful journey. We have lost mythical hero…

Post-Orlando, Trump Reveals His Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…ms to be the case here. You don’t need an AR-15 to shoot up a nightclub to prove your masculinity, or the power of your morality. To paraphrase Pres. Obama, the nation doesn’t need to water the tree of liberty with the blood of children, or of club-goers in their place of sanctuary. Nor does it need to show its strength by carpet-bombing, torture, and bullying political adversaries. None of this is strength, not in the eyes of the God I know. Grac…

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Orlando Massacre; Legal Gray Area in Jordan Amid Rising Fundamentalism; Push and Pull on LGBT Human Rights at UN; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…equality debate in each country was inevitable, and second, that it was appropriate to that country. The resolution of the marriage equality debate followed established patterns in the search for a decisive victory in a religious-moral controversy, and has close parallels with the abortion debate in each country. The fact that the legislative route has been used in every other country where marriage equality has been introduced, and navigates a m…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…lesser status as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accommodations—in the back of the airplane. I fly frequently and while I have never witnessed the above situation I have seen many circumstances in which people have moved to accommodate others. I have seen people give up their aisle seat to a senior citizen and take his middle. I have watched passenger…