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Scott Lively’s Crimes Against Humanity Aren’t Conservative Christian Outliers

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ed the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed the case on behalf of Ugandan LGBTI advocacy organization Sexual Minorities Uganda (bizarrely noting that CCR’s New York offices are located at 666 Broadway), then turned its ire to Judge Ponsor, claiming that he “let his personal bias against pro-family values and support of the LGBT agenda slip into what should otherwise have been a straight legal opinion.” In that same release, Liberty Counse…

Electionpocalypse, Part II: The Mythical Jewish Vote

By Sarah Posner

…ho hold this view (the RJC, after all, is not supported by Adelson alone). Detroit Free Press religion reporter Niraj Warikoo reports on Twitter that hundreds of Detroit-area Jews have signed a multi-page advertisement by Michigan Jews for Romney/Ryan to run in the Detroit Jewish News. It declares, “Four years of failed economic and anti-Israel policies demand we choose a new direction for our country.” And Roger Cohen reported in the New York Tim…

Donald Trump visits a black church. It goes about as well as you would expect.

By Daniel Schultz

…he party of Lincoln. Then he left before the halfway mark to cruise around Detroit with Ben Carson. RD’s Anthea Butler argued in the pages of the Washington Post that Trump was probably getting used by Greater Faith Ministries’ Bishop Wayne T. Jackson and other prosperity gospel preachers just as much as he was using them. Maybe more. Butler started her close with this alarming kicker: It is also worth mentioning that this recent black church visi…

“Kill the Gays” Bill May Pass Ugandan Parliament Within a Week

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ty’ would potentially punish even lawyers who defend LGBT people in court. Uganda’s legal fraternity is expected to point out that the proposed law would be completely unfair. To them. With the world’s eyes turned upon Japan as it recovers from its natural disasters – and works to prevent an all-out nuclear disaster – the Ugandan Parliament may finally succeed in passing this draconian measure without much international notice. Many on the religio…

How Much Did Jesus Care About Sex?

By Peter Laarman

…cost of true discipleship. The price it was called upon to pay was all too cheap…We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale; we baptized, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation unasked and without condition…Was there ever a more terrible and disastrous instance of Christianizing the world than this? It’s regrettable, I think, that “cheap grace” has turned into a kind of meme that Rod Dreher can toss into his debate with Andrew Sullivan without…

South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sia where over 94 percent of the population view homosexuality as deviant. Uganda: Prominent Activist Seeking Asylum in US We reported last week on political maneuvering in Uganda around the prospects for re-passage of the Anti Homosexuality Act or a revised version of the controversial law, which was overturned by the Constitutional Court on a procedural question. This week, a Massachusetts based legal group, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ding of a gay couple should be blacklisted and isolated from the Church of Uganda. Mr Museveni said that homosexuality had become a ‘danger’ to the young generation. There’s more from the Uganda Monitor, which reports that the remarks were made at the consecration of a bishop, and that the speech declared that the wedding of a gay couple is counter to both biblical teachings and African norms and customs. Africa: Experts Hope Botswana Court Ruling…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

…a random sample size and therefore isn’t statistically representative. The number of individuals reporting victimization in Episcopal spaces is alarming nonetheless. However, I would argue the data is more likely to under- than to overestimate the scope of the abuse that occurs. To see why, the survey results must be interpreted in light of the Episcopal Church’s larger culture of inaction around sexual violence. See no evil, hear no evil… LGBTQ+…

Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

…d be representing anti-gay activist Scott Lively in a lawsuit brought by a Ugandan LGBT rights group, charging he incited persecution of sexual minorities there. The lawsuit, Liberty Counsel’s founder and chairman Mat Staver said, “is a gross attempt to use a vague international law to silence, and eventually criminalize, speech by U.S. citizens on homosexuality and moral issues.” Last year RD Senior Editor Sarah Posner, wrote about Staver and his…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…ability of cell phones to be used for impure activities, some Jewish cell-phone users have requested so-called “kosher” phones. The idea is to offer conservative Jews a phone that is free of “corrupting influences” of the sort that are already avoided by ultra-orthodox Jews through a ban on television and some radio. Reuters reported in February 2008 that Bezeq Israel Telecom launched a new “kosher” landline phone service, which will block calls…