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In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…put increasing pressure on artists and entertainers, including a Siberian city’s ban on a planned performance of “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Malawi: Catholics and Evangelicals join forces to oppose decriminalization At the press conference announcing the formation of the International Organization for the Family, a pastor from Malawi denounced “cultural imperialism” and made reference to marches carried out earlier this month in all 28 of the count…

Sex and the (Hipster) Church—Just a Gimmick?

By Nicole Greenfield

…he is a “hipster pastor,” because he leads a young congregation in a cool city, because it remains difficult for people to come to terms with the fact that hip and theologically conservative can, and do, coexist. If, by virtue of his shock-value ways, Driscoll is indeed a wannabe, to use McCracken’s language, then the Youngs are double wannabes. But their attempt at a shock show worked at Hillsong NYC, the bright-lights and big-worship year-old…

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…w pages of the novel, the surviving characters—I won’t say who—come upon a city, and we are unsure what it’s supposed to be. I have a few guesses, but I’d like to hear how your ending means to escape the trap of us (an American superpower) or them (an Arab superpower), if you follow what I mean. I think the answer to your question is contained in the title of the epilogue—“The City of the Future”—and in the line that reads, “If [this] is a new wor…

First Gay Bishop? Give Me a Break

By Peter Montgomery

…its of Robinson’s theology come through. Speaking to members of a New York City congregation who are preparing to distribute glasses of water to people marching by in the Gay Pride Parade, he talks about the importance of showing hospitality to those who have been hurt by the church. Talking after the screening, he says, “If Jesus is about anything, it’s that love trumps rules.” Regarding current political struggles around marriage equality and ef…

An Atheist Hero is Something to Be

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…my Carter and do the hands-on work he does. Instead I live in an expensive city, and I can’t get far enough ahead so that I can do that. I have a friend who is a parole officer and he takes me all over the city to homeless shelters where a thousand men live in a dormitory, each with all of his possessions in a small metal box. They have nothing and you just can’t believe it; it’s Dickensian London. I will write about it, but I do feel guilty for n…

How the Logic of Law Enforcement Leads to Spying on Muslims

By Haroon Moghul

…films and frequent spying on everyday college students outside of New York City, Rascoff’s op-ed is timely. But it is tackling complicated questions, for which it isn’t easy to find answers. On what basis do we determine how to engage Muslims, if we are engaging them as Muslims? How do we possibly avoid religion, when we are identifying them (us) by religion? In fairness, Rascoff’s op-ed only skims the surface of his research; look to his Stanford…

Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…st gay pride marches in Taipei on Saturday, while a rainbow flag flew over city hall for the first time. Nicola Smith reported for the Telegraph: This year, more than any in Taipei Pride’s 14 year history, the LGBT community had something to celebrate: same-sex marriage may finally be within their reach, making Taiwan the first country in Asia to grant full equality to LGBT couples. On the eve of the parade, Taiwan’s Justice Minister, Chin Tai-san…

Tyler Perry’s Museum of Blackness

By Sevonna Brown

…ago I drove an hour from my small town in Massachusetts to the closest big city, Albany, NY, to take my student Sevonna to see Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection. I had thought she was well-prepared for what I call “the Perry film experience”—she had seen several of Perry’s previous films in the theater, and from her time in two of my courses (“Sacred Cinema: Black Religion and the Movies” and “Womanist/Black Feminist Thought”) I expected sh…

Pam Geller’s Latest Subway Ad Inadvertently Attacks Hebrew Bible

By Hussein Rashid

…use this image. We were, and remain, deeply traumatized by that day. If a city could suffer from PTSD, NYC does. The text of the ad is ostensibly meant to reveal how, in her words, “savage” Islam is. The fragment of the verse she’s referring to reads in full: We shall cast terror into the hearts of the faithless because of their ascribing to Allah partners, for which He has not sent down any authority, and their refuge shall be the Fire, and evil…

“He Got Away With It”: Conversion Therapy Survivor on Dr. Joseph Nicolosi’s Legacy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ative therapy” practitioners used. As a fact witness for the San Francisco City Attorney’s office, Kendall’s 2010 testimony in the case known as Hollingsworth v. Perry was so pivotal that (now-retired) U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker cited Kendall’s story as proof that sexual orientation is immutable in his landmark decision. That ruling, which overturned the California proposition that revoked marriage equality in that state, was ultimately aff…