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Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…less of what we look like or how we pray or who we love,” he said. Obama’s comments come against the backdrop of rampant anti-LGBT discrimination and violence in country that includes reports of a gay teenager who was recently stoned to death. Jamaica is among the Caribbean nations in which consensual same-sex sexual acts remain criminalized. As we have noted previously, American evangelicals have traveled to Jamaica repeatedly to shore up support…

The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…cluded in the ad, and that’s exactly what I’m addressing.” https://twitter.com/martynlenoble/status/880285143105118208 https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/880287503265280000 Most Americans root their moral precepts in faith, or at least they say they do. And Americans are practical universalists in some important senses. They like to think that “God is bigger than those things which seek to divide us,” as Rev. Traci Blackmon preached today; that…

London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nt Islamists. Government institutions, including the National Broadcasting Commission and the National Child Protection Commission, issued censorship directives banning information and broadcasts that portrayed the lives of LGBT people as “normal,” as well as so-called “propaganda” about LGBT lives. England: ‘Big Gay Iftar’ planned during London Pride The Evening Standard reported on plans by Muslim and LGBT community groups to celebrate Ramadan w…

Open Letter to Pastor Judah Smith on “Inclusion”: Just for Immigrants, or LGBTQ Too?

By George Mekhail

…church who will now assume his City Church small group is a safe place to come out, only to be rejected by his friends and given an ultimatum to repent if he wants to continue in community. And I wonder how many more couples my friends at EastLake will baptize through tears, because they were told ‘no’ at The City Church for being gay. In light of this confusion and the hurt that I’ve watched it create, I’m hoping for public clarity on The City C…

Anti-Gay, Anti Catholic Evangelical Sworn In As Mayor of Rio; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, prejudice and bullying will end.” He continues, “In this sense, the LGBT community has led the way ahead of faith communities – which should be inclusive, but sadly aren’t.” Human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar and actress Emma Thompson also support the campaign along with faith leaders Reverend Kelvin Holdsworth of the Scottish Episcopal Church and Islamic scholar Amanullah De Sondy. Philippines: Bill to Boost Police Protection for LGBT People Advan…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…elopments, Cardinal Pell, has a page on Xt3.com, and invites Catholics to “come online and become one of my friends.” This year’s World Youth Day also included a new feature, a “digital prayer wall,” to which participants could text-message from their cell phones and post their requests for others to pray with them in public view. GodTube, a non-denominational Christian answer to YouTube, also includes a digital prayer wall, available online at an…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…. Yet when they accepted that day, there were told the park was busy. From comingoutsbp.com via Google translation: The scheme worked like this: LGBT action organizers reported that on July 9 at the entire territory of the Champs de Mars (including the area of Hyde Park) is planned carrying out of mass event “St. Petersburg reserve” a military equipment exhibition. The Committee suggested that an alternative date – 10 July. LGBT activists agreed o…

Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…minatory laws – especially those that criminalize homosexuality. The first comment on the news story comes from a pastor arguing that homosexuality should be criminalized as a “crime against God and against the Holy Bible.” Columbia: First Same-Sex Couple Registers Overseas Marriage Two men made history this week as the first same-sex couple to officially register their marriage, which was celebrated in Spain in 2013. They men had been turned down…

Despising the Holidays: When Christians Led the ‘War on Christmas’

By Ed Simon

…drink-ware. (This rather than a boycott, apparently.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti629wLy4vU The so-called “War on Christmas” has been a staple of right-wing culture warriors for generations now, seemingly so incensed over people saying “Happy Holidays” that they can’t help but resort to hyperbole so bizarre that you can’t tell if it’s parody or not. It’s this perennially aggrieved attitude that allows a writer at Breitbart.com to claim that…

Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…ady in place in some European nations and the U.S.” According to In-Cyprus.com, “His comments followed sermons read out in Greek Orthodox churches throughout the island during Sunday mass, calling on believers to ‘disapprove of civil unions’.” The law was scheduled to go to a vote on Thursday but parliamentary leaders decided at the last minute to postpone the vote until September. LGBT rights advocates praised the delay, suggesting that last-minu…