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

By Aliyya Swaby

…is in a predominately Catholic country. Her son attends a public school in Panama City, which consistently educates him on the tenets of Catholicism. “We try to teach him Islam, but school confuses him,” Gobea told me. In a group of several Muslim children, he was asked to name the last Islamic prophet, and eagerly yelled out the wrong answer: “Jesús!” Until recently, Gobea felt she had nowhere to go for consistent support. But in early November,…

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

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…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 promote respect for diversity #CeroDiscriminacion.” Armenia: Justice Ministry says couples married in other countries should be recognized The Justice Ministry has confirmed that a same-sex couple married abroad should receive the same benefi…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…n the town of Holden, Massachusetts, and who are now living in Guanacaste. Panama: Two legal challenges to legal ban on same-sex couples marrying La Estrella de Panamá reports on two challenges to the constitutionality of the legal provision that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. The story by Marlene Testa suggests that there has not been a major political push for such a change and that religious beliefs are an obstacle [clumsy Engli…

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

By Eboo Patel

…ssivism I encountered in college helped me take pride in my color and ethnicity. I believe identities matter a great deal, and that expressing those identities in public is necessary and natural. But I think there are challenges, contradictions and blind spots in the broader movement of cultural progressivism which ought to be raised. The airline example reveals some of these. First of all, there is a religion-shaped hole in the worldview of cultu…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…nts at the Supreme Court of Justice for and against marriage equality. The Panamanian Alliance for Life and the Family and the Evangelical Alliance of Panama argued against the idea that restricting marriage to a man and a woman is unconstitutional. La Prensa quotes a lawyer for the Panamanian Alliance for Life and the Family saying that marriage equality proponents are trying to “implant” a U.S. theory into Panama. The attorney for the Evangelica…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ys Castillo, activist and representative of the Network of Human Rights of Panama. Panama’s First Lady, Lorena Castillo de Varela, announced that she would attend a gay pride march this summer. France: National Front reaches out to gay voters; still reportedly harbors anti-Semitic leaders Associated Press reports on the far-right National Front party’s growing appeal among gay voters. Motivated in part by the deadly Islamic extremist attacks at ho…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…

Yes, Let’s Talk About Kermit Gosnell

By Sarah Posner

…allowed to operate, in spite of numerous complaints made over the years to city and state agencies, and numerous malpractice suits against Dr. Gosnell. Indeed, it was only because authorities raided the clinic due to suspicion of lax practices involving prescription drugs that the conditions facing abortion patients came to law enforcement’s attention.” Joffe noted, as others had, that the Gosnell horrors demonstrated what happened in the pre-Roe…