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Christian Founder of Online Dating Site Wants to Ease Gay Pain

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Finance, the 78-year-old Christian co-founder and CEO of the online dating site eHarmony, said being gay or lesbian “has been a painful way for a lot of people to have to live.” But, he’s ready to pony up $10 million “and ask other companies to put up money and do a really first-class job of figuring out homosexuality.” I’m so glad that Warren is so concerned with my “pain” and is ready to start “figuring out” homosexuality. Never mind that scienc…

Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

By Nabil Echchaibi

…er political and individual rights, and narrow social expectations. The website describes its work as “a unique combination of investigative journalism, trendy reporting, arty activism, and impertinent satire”—all enshrined in the site’s slogan: “Democracy, Secularism, Fun.” There is no doubt that Free Arabs executes its mission with skill and creativity. Investigative reports cover the war in Syria, human rights violations in Bahrain, stalled pol…

Belize Overturns Sodomy Law Defended by Religious Right, Ugandan Officials Will Continue to Suppress Gay Groups, And More on the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ical “rehabilitation.” The Jakarta Post reported on Friday that government officials have not responded to requests from Human Rights Watch to discuss their findings. Australia: Christian lobby group shutting down; ex-gay movement promotes celibacy Salt Shakers, a Melbourne-based Christian lobbying group that is shutting down at the end of this year, praised conservative Senator Eric Abetz, saying he had slowed the “tide of evil,” reports Josh Tay…

Pledging Virginity to Dad: A New Doc Explores the World of ‘Purity Balls’

By Jessica Valenti

…ture that targets young women—but by defining girls so concretely by their virginity, they’re ensuring that young women will continue to be judged by what they do or don’t do sexually. The women who take virginity pledges and go to purity balls are promising that their bodies aren’t their own, but instead belong to their fathers and future husbands. But despite the radical evangelicalism and sexism the Wilsons promote, as I watched the film I foun…

Uncertainty About US Role In LGBT Human Rights Under Trump; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a: Writers and artists commemorate anti-gay law with anthology Pop culture site Konbini reported this month that Nigerian artists and writers had responded to the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act by creating a “safe space for resistance and expression” called 14, a reference to the 14-year jail term for homosexual acts included in the law. This month, on the second anniversary of the law, 14 launched We Are Flowers, an anthology of queer art, inc…

Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…as the inclusion of LGBT people in nondiscrimination and hate crimes laws. Australia: Poll shows government would improve standing if it allowed marriage equality vote Guardian Australia reports that new polling suggests that “71% of people would look more favourably on the Turnbull government if it allowed a free vote on same-sex marriage instead of holding a plebiscite, including 64% who lean to voting Liberal.” The new polling by Galaxy, commis…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sodomy laws; priest fights ‘gay panic’ defense The government of Victoria, Australia, offered “a full and formal apology” for laws that criminalized homosexual conduct. In a moving speech, Premier Daniel Andrews recounted the “profoundly ad unimaginably wrong” laws and actions that “turned thousands of ordinary young men into criminals.” For decades, we were obsessed with the private mysteries of men. And so we jailed them. We harmed them. And, in…

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…all those who, free themselves, speak out in our support. There are a vast number, I know. I know that a huge number of Orthodox people are standing up for us. They are praying for us outside the courtroom, for the members of Pussy Riot who are incarcerated. We’ve seen the little booklets Orthodox people are handing out with prayers for those in prison. This shows that there isn’t a unified social group of Orthodox believers as the prosecution is…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

…tion of 71 temples between 1998 and 2005. These included three at historic sites: the Palmyra New York Temple, the Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple, and the Nauvoo Illinois Temple, whose re-construction Sorenson called “one of the great spiritual experiences of this life.”Sorenson died at 81. Robert K. Larson A Catholic priest convicted of sexually abusing altar boys, Robert K. Larson died at 84. Ordained in 1958, he was a priest in the Wichita, Ka…

The Lady Vanishes: Trump’s Communications Team Tries to Topple a Monument

By Spencer Dew

…yet also late days of his short-lived job accused one upper administration official of psychological pathology and attributed to another freakish autoerotic skills). The administration now has a problem of having fallen on the wrong side of a central image of American civil religion. Ronald Reagan called her “everybody’s gal.” In wartimes she’s carried a sword, placed an urgent phone call for financial help, and even scolded her citizenry. As a ma…