Religion Dispatches
…much of the conservative infrastructure. Even if Palin is not viewing her trip through an electoral lens, she is, I suspect, far more comfortable with an evangelical approach to her trip. She’s a Christian Zionist, to be sure, and like many of her co-religionists, the Jews are adorable pawns in God’s plan. Spiritually speaking, she’d be far more at home with a Christian tour. And if she is trying to appeal to Jewish Republicans, I’m guessing she…
Read More…people would participate in the service, but the actual number appeared to number around 2,000. “Our prayers will open the sky and the homosexuals will fall, we will be blessed with victory,” said Lee Young-hoon, head of the leading organization in the anti-LGBT coalition. Mexico: Supreme Court embraces marriage, Church and some political officials resist As we have been reporting, the marriage equality movement has been movement forward in a long…
Read More…ion of sexual aberrations have caused great satanic infestation throughout Mexico.” He added: “The exorcism performed in San Luís Potosí is the first ever carried out in Mexico in which the exorcists came from different parts of the country and gathered together to exorcise the powers of darkness, not from a person, but from the whole country.” So far the exorcism does not seem to be taking hold, as courts and state legislators continue to push to…
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…atus to same-sex couples who have been legally married in other countries. Mexico: Long-delayed wedding takes place in Mexicali We have previously reported that city officials in Mexicali had repeatedly found excuses for refusing to follow a court order allowing a gay couple to marry. This week the couple was finally married, and it was reported that criminal proceedings could be launched against the mayor for having refused the order from the Sup…
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…a cartel leader who practiced a variety of esoteric traditions. In 1989 a number of bodies were discovered at Constanzo’s ranch in Matamoros, Mexico, some of whom had apparently been killed as sacrifices. The Matamoros murders were themselves connected to Charles Manson by conspiracy theorists attempting to prove the existence of a vast network of criminal Satanism. The effect of all these connections is to mold specific incidents into a monolith…
Read More…g across Mexico. This week saw the 5th anniversary of marriage equality in Mexico City, and saw continued progress. In Chiapas, a gay collected called Unidos Diferentes received a federal court injunction – known as an amparo – allowing them to celebrate weddings for more than 50 same-sex couples. The legislature in the state of Guanajuato began analyzing marriage equality bills introduced after two same-sex couples had received amparos allowing t…
Read More…a poll saying that a majority of people in Guam support marriage equality. Mexico: Marriage equality continues steady expansion The slow-motion marriage equality wave continues in Mexico. Federal courts have ruled in favor of marriage equality, but because of the structure of the Mexican legal system, a ruling requiring a state to grant licenses to a couple or individual couple – an amparo — does not automatically change state law for everyone, un…
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…way from the hard work of repentance, who tickle our ears with promises of cheap grace, and offer a vision of the cross of Jesus that has nothing to say to the crosses, and lynching trees, of history. But, if we do, we will be settling for the gospel of Caesar, not the good news of Jesus Christ. Perhaps it is time to put down the chalk, stop drawing pyrotechnical conspiracy theories that play into our worst fears and listen, instead, for the diffi…
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…Protestant and Catholic religious leaders, are planning a massive march in Mexico City next Saturday, September 24, building on rallies held earlier this month across the country. US anti-gay activist Brian Brown, who heads both the National Organization for Marriage and the World Congress of Families, announced this week that he will be heading to Mexico to lend his support. The National Organization for Marriage is also organizing an anti-marria…
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…ment of 50,000, as if the faithful at church. The devotion was audible, as tickets were distributed to friends of the Cuban government and not through a public sale. Here the religious nature of the Cuban sporting event is acknowledged only to be dismissed as inauthentic. The patriotic, quasi-religious crooning is suspicious because of its apparent production by the Cuban government, which distributed tickets to friends. Morosi recognizes religiou…
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