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Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…the growing demand. There is no discrimination in the Muslim community in Panama City, Bhattay said. “Maybe ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, there was.” People move fluidly, attending events at whichever mosque they prefer. Others tell a different story. Samima Patel converted to Islam twelve years ago and is married to an Indian man. Though Jama Mosque is more inclusive of converts now than before, she doesn’t feel completely welcome in the Ind…

Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

By Rob Shryock

…s fellow Christians to hell. His new book, A Call to Resurgence, follows that script arguing that only 8% of Americans are “true evangelicals,” while simultaneously, and apparently without a hint of irony, calling on Christians to “stop fighting and unite.” Driscoll’s nose for controversy has earned him a consistent presence in the news cycle, perhaps comparable only to Pat Robertson’s. But unlike Robertson, who’s generally regarded as a kook, D…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

…ldren won’t learn these basic facts now. We urge the publishers to ensure that other children still will. Gaddy offered to stand by any publishers that refuse to write textbooks to meet the revised standards. I realize times are tough in the publishing business, so I’m really curious whether publishers will resist this push to whitewash history. I have a feeling, however, that they will decide, perhaps, to try to strike a compromise and meet Texas…

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

…s. It’s not so much that he advertises a book telling his life story, nor that he claims that faith was an integral part of his recovery from addiction. It’s nothing that a hundred other writers—this writer included—haven’t told. No, it’s the sheer giddy, delirious enthusiasm with which he makes his sell that really sets this apart. It’s like a warm, friendly bubble bath at the end of the day, except all the bubbles are formed of lysergic acid and…

In ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Hopper Needs to Leave His Christian-Reaganite Indy Jones Hat Behind

By Jason Bartashius

…ana Jones, the character he was only somewhat inspired by. It’s no secret that the police chief’s hat and gruff personality are nods to Harrison Ford’s Jones. Actor David Harbour has even promised “Indiana Jones-type action” in Stranger Things 4. This doesn’t mesh well with Gunning’s optimistic theory that Hop’s much-anticipated dark backstory will again show his vulnerable side. Whatever The Duffer Brothers have in store for Hopper, one thing’s f…

BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

By Joanna Brooks

…the protection of University officials. So accustomed were we to the idea that BYU athletes partied that many of us scratched our heads when the Brandon Davies story broke. Why would the honor code be enforced this time? Smith’s damning story argues that enforcement on Davies must be understood as part of a racially-hierarchized enforcement of the honor code, where white athletes enjoy more protection than their Polynesian and African-American pee…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…eels all is not lost. ‘We don’t care if a politician is religious or not, what matters here is that this politician can differentiate his particular beliefs from his obligations, to govern for all people,’ says Troya. St. Thomas & The Virgin Islands: Column explores losses in former LGBT ‘mecca’ At St. Thomas Source, Edward Benfield sees losses for LGBT communities in the Virgin Islands but also some reason for hope: For many Virgin Islanders, it…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Muslims. Aceh’s LGBT population is also vulnerable to Aceh’s 2014 Criminal Code that bars liwath (sodomy) and musahabah (lesbian sexual action). Aceh province imposed the Sharia punishment of multiple lashes of a cane against 339 people in 2016. The New Zealand Herald reported that the couple was filmed being beaten by a group of “vigilantes” who had become suspicious of the men and “set out to catch them” having sex. More from the Herald: Under a…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…: Independent justice reform group criticizes Aceh’s harsh anti-LGBT legal code The Jakarta Post reported on April 1 that the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform “has lambasted the Aceh administration’s Islamic criminal code bylaw, or Qanun Jinayat, saying it could potentially provoke discrimination and over-criminalization of LGBT communities and other vulnerable groups.” The Aceh province is governed by the conservative Islamist legal code. No…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…upport the LGBT cause, as well as to events which are organised to oppose that cause.” Panama: First Lady attends Pride celebration and makes video Journalist Rex Wockner reports that First Lady Lorena Castillo de Varela, “marched in Pride, then made a fabulous video, and tweeted it, and you should watch it.” The Panama City twitter account joined in, declaring, “The City of Panama belongs to all those who live in it. From the Mayor’s Office we pr…