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Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

…phers, indiscriminately taking in whatever was fed to them by intelligence officials, police, and local politicians. Journalists seemed to become the medium through which any analyst and former official with a view on Tibet and China could fire a cheap shot. The Indian government’s assertiveness vis-à-vis China is refreshing (though achieving it at the expense of refugees and Buddhist monks who fled China at 14 to get an education smacks of bad ta…

Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Keeps Faith Despite Church Pressure

By Joanna Brooks

…eir votes to deny other people marriage?” Her two-minute video made the website, then the local news in Salt Lake City, and within days an official at LDS Church headquarters placed a concerned phone call to Melanie S.’s local clergy. Three times her bishop met with Melanie to discuss the video. Because she had affiliated with “Mormons for Marriage,” he questioned whether or not Melanie and her husband should be allowed to keep their temple recomm…

Dreaming Beyond the Madman: Reflections on the Revolution in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…are would provide for his comfort in a mental hospital. He has refused any official title, going by “Brother Leader” and “Guide of the Revolution” and other such vacuous and pretentious false humilities; in his decades in power, he’s been busy producing a new flag (the only monochromatic flag in the world), writing an incoherent work of philosophy (the Green book, green like the flag), and producing a new kind of state. It is, officially, the Grea…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…ligious people, they tell us. The other kind.” Dominican Republic: Vatican Official Backs Down in Diplomatic Standoff with Gay Ambassador We previously noted that a diplomatic event in the Dominican Republic was cancelled after the Vatican’s ambassador and dean of the diplomatic corps Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo told U.S. Ambassador James “Wally” Brewster that he would not be allowed to attend with his husband. The Washington Blade’s Michael La…