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Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n), opened an office in Nairobi, around the time that Kenya was debating a new constitution that included controversial addendums to its penal code regarding abortion. The ACLJ pledged when it opened in Nairobi to lend financial support to help defeat the constitution. It has also supported the criminalization of same-sex intimacy. Ann Kioko, president of African Organization for Families and one of the main organizers of the gathering in Nairobi,…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…et times but Kyrgyzstan, an impoverished country of 5.5 million, adopted a new criminal code in 1998 that made it legal. Kazakhstan and Tajikistan have also taken similar steps but the two other ex-Soviet republics in Central Asia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, have not. Kyrgyzstan would, however, be the first of them to ban “gay propaganda” among minors… “We supported this bill, because it reflects the hopes and expectations of our voters willing…

The Pope in My Pocket; We Are All Dilettantes Now

By Michael A. Elliott

…pe in my pocket. Released in late May, the H2Onews iPhone app is the first news application approved by the Vatican. With a touch of my phone I can now get excerpts from the sermons of his Holiness, news from the Vatican, and even the Sunday Gospel. Sporting a sleek interface and a choice of eight languages, the Pontiff has gone 2.0. This might sound like the Vatican is out on the cutting edge, but H2Onews was actually a little slow out of the gat…

Conservative Evangelical Eric Metaxas, Doing Twitter Theology, Claims ‘Jesus Was White’

By Eric Vanden Eykel

…r deeply controversial or profoundly ignorant (or both). In short: Twitter users have pushed back on Metaxas, and they’ve pushed back hard. In response he’s deployed a Trump-ian combination of backpedaling and doubling down on his initial claim. When one user pointed out that Jesus was Jewish, Metaxas responded: “Exactly! Which shows how arbitrary and self-contradictory racial categories can be. Many consider Jews ‘white’ and accuse them of having…

Steve Jobs (1955-2011): Death of a Human Tech God?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…tage industry of scholarship has emerged to track the religiosity of Apple users in particular, much of it focusing on Steve Jobs as the stone once rejected that became the cornerstone, not just of Apple’s tremendous success, but of a new technological culture that placed people, their needs and desires at the center rather than geeks and their way cool, geeky ideas. Jobs made technological devices the extensions of human experience that Marshall…

Wikipedia Rules Censor “The Lord”

By Katie Meier

…ite that any schmuck can modify.” A web 2.0 community is only as useful as users make it. Trust is key. User corruption erodes these communities. Revolts ensue. Users flee. Lament is widespread, however not for the vandalism endured by the compromised piece of information but instead for the vandalism of an ideal: collaborative knowledge is pure. Collaborative knowledge should be a land of milk honey. At the end of the day a web 2.0 community is,…

An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…the streets, not the sanctuary—has set the nation on fire. Courtesy flickr user Bosco d’Anjou via Creative Commons Moreover, it is a movement led and informed by queer black women, many of whom are single mothers. They embodied Jesus—while clergy send them to hell Sunday after Sunday. In kind, the holiest place in St. Louis City is not a church but rather a coffeehouse on the corner of Grand and Arsenal—where a white lesbian and her children feed…

‘Stand Up For Jesus’: Accessibility in Churches Means More than Ramps

By Samir Knego

…m into props. Rev. Zoe Heming, a Church of England minister and wheelchair user, recounts the not-uncommon experience of nondisabled people forcing prayers on disabled people: “I’ve been in situations where I’ve been talking to another wheelchair user in church and somebody was so determined to pray for us and we just kept ignoring them because we were in the middle of a conversation. In the end he just put his arms on both our shoulders and just…

ESPN Commentator says BYU Not Guilty of “Institutional Racism”

By Joanna Brooks

…mer athletes of color who had a positive experience with BYU and the Honor Code: “If Darron Smith wasn’t so hell bent on exposing BYU, the Church and the honor code office as racists, he’d find out that for every Thomas Stancil, Tico Pringle and Ray Hudson, there’s a Brandon Davies, Reno Mahe and Brian McDonald, the latter of which recovered from an alcohol-related probation, joined the Church and served a mission to Washington, DC.” Sikahema’s fu…

Was Prof Wrong to Ask Students to Not Thank God?

By Hollis Phelps

…, and in what manner to express or not express these rights. It’s when the code that translates these rights for us somehow ceases to function properly in the background that problems result. I want to suggest that often when problems crop up around religious or religiously-motivated speech in the United States, they often have less to do with rights per se than with the unwritten code that determines how these rights are to be taken. At least tha…