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Honoring and Renewing Dr. King’s Other, More Challenging, Dream — 55 Years Later

…the core problem of violence and the promise of nonviolence. For the fifth year in a row, an amalgam of civil and human rights organizations and committed individuals calling itself the April 4 Coalition has organized regional and national events aimed at renewing awareness of King’s critique and leveraging that awareness for restorative action on a range of fronts: salvaging basic voting rights, avoiding environmental collapse, dismantling the pr…

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No Turkey for Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant

…of construction paper. We also know that this is not the only time of the year they will eat “Indian foods.” Americans throughout the year will eat Italian food made with tomatoes that came from Indian gardens. Over Christmas and Easter much of the Christian world will consume celebratory candies, pies, cakes, and soda made from chocolate and corn syrup which also originated from Indian gardens. Of course the pumpkins used for pie and Halloween,…

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‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

…ights bills has been introduced in the Knesset in honor of Shira Banki, the 16-year-old who died after being stabbed by an ultra-Orthodox man at Jerusalem’s Pride parade. Gambia: President threatens to kill nephew for supporting LGBT rights Alagie Jammeh, 25-year-old nephew of the country’s viciously anti-gay president, has been threatened by his uncle with life in prison or execution if he ever returns to the country. His crime? Saying on Faceboo…

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As the Right Peddles a Conspiracy About Trans People and Easter, A Reflection on the Spiritual Nature of My Gender Transition

…tual values is an act of breathtaking hypocrisy. Indeed, over the past few years, the Right has intensified its rhetorical and legislative attacks against transgender people to a fever pitch, introducing (and often successfully passing) many hundreds of bills each year in legislatures that aim to strip trans people of legal recognition, of life-saving health care, of the right to be out as a teacher (and not to be outed as a student), of the right…

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

…Sister Jeannine spread the message that she has been spreading for over 45 years: God has unconditional love for LGBT people and it is the church’s job to make that love real by working for justice and equality. Gramick, who has endured much resistance to her work from the church hierarchy, said she was pleasantly surprised by the amount of conversation about LGBT people and acceptance among Catholics, even priests. “They are beginning to understa…

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A Roundup of Conspiracies and Bad Ideas That Caught on or Gained Momentum in 2023

…n playing out before us for the past few years. Before we usher in the new year—an election year bound to give a substantial boost to even more dangerous ideas—we wanted to take a moment to provide an overview of some of the major (and a couple of lesser known) conspiracy theories that have not only captured the public’s imagination but also impacted policy-making and social dynamics. The Great Replacement Theory The Great Replacement theory argue…

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The Theological Roots of Akin’s ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment

…(emphasis mine). Actually there are more like 30,000 pregnancies by rape a year, but the OPC report goes on, inexplicably, and without documentation: “In Washington, no documented rape cases resulted in pregnancy over a 20-year period.” But acknowleding that indeed such pregnancies do take place, the OPC asked, “should she seek an abortion? We must reply in the negative. We are here weighing the shame, pain, and inconvenience of the mother against…

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Endangered Speeches: Why It Matters (For All of Us) That Conservative Seminaries Are Firing Professors Over Theology

…his rubric. I will therefore be leaving at the end of the 2015-16 academic year.” Both cases revolved around doctrinal issues where the professor and the institution did not see eye-to-eye. These follow the similar expulsions of Christopher Rollston and Peter Enns in recent years. There are actually many more; it’s easy to lose count. Professors lose jobs all the time, but these are special cases. Tenure was instituted in higher education to prote…

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Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…ic of homosexuality is taboo in conservative Azerbaijani society, and last year’s ILGA-Europe Rainbow Index ranked it the worst place in Europe to be gay, based on the number of violent homophobic attacks and discriminatory remarks by public figures. The CBC says the president of an Azerbaijani LGBT rights group, who now lives in Germany, “told CBC nes gay people in the oil-rich, mainly Muslim country have been subjected to occasional harassment i…

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Massacre of Jesuits in El Salvador: 20 Years Later

…war. Much has changed for the better in El Salvador during the past twenty years, but significant challenges remain. The FMLN, once an insurgency, has laid down its weapons and been incorporated into the democratic process as a mainstream political party; this past March Mauricio Funes, a former journalist, became the first FMLN candidate to be elected president, breaking a 20-year hold on the presidency by the rightist ARENA party. Funes has prom…

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