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United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

…. Yet when they accepted that day, there were told the park was busy. From comingoutsbp.com via Google translation: The scheme worked like this: LGBT action organizers reported that on July 9 at the entire territory of the Champs de Mars (including the area of Hyde Park) is planned carrying out of mass event “St. Petersburg reserve” a military equipment exhibition. The Committee suggested that an alternative date – 10 July. LGBT activists agreed o…

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LDS Church Launches New Website Calling for Greater Openness and Understanding on LGBT Issues

…with its explicit call for improved treatment of LGBT people within Mormon communities, the mormonsandgays.com site opens new horizons of possibility. Kendall Wilcox, a gay Mormon and maker of the documentary Far Between, “I am encouraged by the fact that the Church is promoting the value of listening to and empathizing with the lived experiences of gay people as they reconcile faith and sexuality.”  “Up to now so many families have been torn apar…

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Dialogue or Demonization? Where Gays are Concerned, Focus on the Family Wants it Both Ways

…do well to ask a few fundamental questions upon which our very ability to communicate with one another is predicated: Question #1: With whom are we engaging in dialogue? This is perhaps the most important question of all. When entering dialogue, how we construct the “other” (our dialogue partner) will determine just how much dialogue is even possible.  Ultimately, it is the way we conceive of the “other” that is at the root of physical violence a…

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“Far Too Extreme For America To Accept,” Hamas “Endorsed Obama,” “Forced Abortions,” and More

…of the religious right who, in his recent “Open Letter to the Black Church Community,” wrote that the black community is in the “death grip” of the Democratic Party, which “has become a Coalition of the Godless, supported by abortionists, homosexual activists, pornographers, casino gambling, activists calling for legalization of marijuana and the anti-Christian ACLU.” Some of Wheeler’s recent columns at the conservative site Townhall have included…

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London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

…nt Islamists. Government institutions, including the National Broadcasting Commission and the National Child Protection Commission, issued censorship directives banning information and broadcasts that portrayed the lives of LGBT people as “normal,” as well as so-called “propaganda” about LGBT lives. England: ‘Big Gay Iftar’ planned during London Pride The Evening Standard reported on plans by Muslim and LGBT community groups to celebrate Ramadan w…

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The Papal Prayer Machine

…le @pontifex, along with its variants in eight languages, might be retired completely now that Bednedict XVI has become Pope Emeritus. More likely, the handle will be taken up again by whomever fills the empty chair. Indeed, shortly after he left the Vatican by helicopter last week, the former pontiff’s social media footprints (all thirty-nine tweets) were unceremoniously deleted (and archived here), as if to leave a clean slate for his successor….

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Anti-Gay, Anti Catholic Evangelical Sworn In As Mayor of Rio; More in Global LGBT Recap

…, prejudice and bullying will end.” He continues, “In this sense, the LGBT community has led the way ahead of faith communities – which should be inclusive, but sadly aren’t.” Human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar and actress Emma Thompson also support the campaign along with faith leaders Reverend Kelvin Holdsworth of the Scottish Episcopal Church and Islamic scholar Amanullah De Sondy. Philippines: Bill to Boost Police Protection for LGBT People Advan…

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Rep. Kinzinger Rejects Judgmental Family Letter But He’s No Cure for Evangelical GOP Authoritarianism

…e egregiously mismanaged, Kinzinger may be “asymptomatic”—at least when it comes to willingness to commit outright violence to overthrow an election as opposed to working within the forms of democracy to deprive the marginalized of power and equality. He seems to me to be no more willing to interrogate the root causes of extremism in his evangelical beliefs than his fellow “respectable” evangelicals Michael Gerson, Ed Stetzer, and David French are…

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Trump’s Lawsuit Amounts to ‘a Tweet With a Filing Fee,’ But That’s Not the Whole Strategy

…e to count it up. If states didn’t publish any numbers until the count was complete, the outcome would be exactly the same but without the horserace narrative and a President subverting the will of the people. Once the polls close on Election Day, nothing can change the outcome. Except litigation. It’s tempting to think that Trump only wants to freeze the numbers at a time when it might be favorable to him. That’s part of his rationale, but he’s a…

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Spiritual, But Not Religulous

…efs, especially when they insert these beliefs into public life. Beliefnet.com – which Maher has parodied with his Disbeliefnet.com – wisely doesn’t dismiss Religulous (actually it’s crawling with ads for the film) but instead implores its readers to “prove Maher wrong” on its discussion boards by explaining “how faith, or your spiritual practices, has made you a better person or your world a better place.” If Maher can’t succeed in converting ext…

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