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Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s right in front of us, difference is on our iPads, in our laptops, in our phones. We hold a whole world of difference every time we open a phone. And the response to in the world around is at best insult, and so often violence, a reality which is the living experience of many you here. Welby also addressed a January gathering of Primates, which voted to suspend the Episcopal Church from questions on doctrine or policy for three years because of i…

Mormons Prepare for WA Marriage Equality Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…hington just a few weeks before gay marriage became legal in the state [in February 2012]. Because I had heard so much about what happened in California—how many members left the Church, how many wards became battlegrounds—I became really concerned about Church involvement. I called the group leading the charge against marriage equality and asked them if the LDS Church was getting involved, and the staffer on the phone said, “We’re meeting with ch…

The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…for Life President Jeanne Mancini told the Times: I don’t think that these numbers are the most important. The number most important for us is 58 million, which is the number of Americans that have been lost to abortion. But either they have the numbers or they don’t. And if they don’t, maybe the media should take a hard look at how it covers a predictable, lightly attended act of agitprop which claims to represent hundreds of thousands of people…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

…the dominant brand of today’s Republican Party. For good reason, a growing number of expert observers have begun sounding the alarm. I suggest it’s time we hit the panic button. The rally featured plenty of repugnant elements—from the relentless attacks on transgender youth consistent with fascist scapegoating, to the steady drumbeat of election fraud claims, to accusations that Dr. Fauci engineered Covid-19 in a Chinese lab to help a demonic caba…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…sion talking about the LGBT people being less than human. For example, the number two person in the state broadcasting company – actually now he’s the number one person – hosted a show devoted to the question of whether it was enough to protect our children to ban homosexual propaganda or whether more needed to be done. He argued that more needed to be done. He said and we need to outlaw blood and sperm donations by them. And if they die in car ac…

Resurrecting Marley at 70: Rastafari History in 5 Songs

By Darren J. N. Middleton

…dvocate for social change. To mark what would have been his 70th year this February 6th, the University of West Indies in Mona, Kingston, plays host to The Fourth International Reggae Conference, which organizers are describing as a four-day festivity exploring Jah Music’s global ambassador and his varied legacies. From February 11-14, participants will ponder everything from tribute concerts to political monuments; from documentary films to new n…

Women and Children First: Syria’s Day of Dignity

By Mohja Kahf

…like what happened to the still-imprisoned young Tal Mallohi (sentenced on February 5 to five more years for “espionage”), made a powerful moral statement to Syrians. This, despite the fact that the first thing security did in its assault that day was confiscate cell phones, so that footage of the indignities suffered that day is not available. Word gets around to the Syrian public, despite regime’s stifling of news. The indignities to which women…

Obamunism? The Traditional Values Coalition Coins a Term

By Bill Berkowitz

…over story about same-sex marriage, and it has devoted a good chunk of the February issue of its Citizen magazine to “answer[ing] the most egregious attack yet on marriage and the Bible”; the article by Lisa Miller “deceptively entitled ‘Our Mutual Joy.’” Citizen’s cover depicts a partial view of the Newsweek cover, and it is headlined “Setting them Straight: Citizen answers Newsweek’s distortion of what the Bible says about marriage.” In his intr…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…e Johnson Gathers Far-Right Christians to Cast Out Demons, Rolling Stone, February 6, 2024 Peter Montgomery, A New Guide to the Theology That Drives Trump’s Dominionist Prophets and Apostles, Right Wing Watch, February 6, 2024 Stephanie McCrummen, The Alabama Embryo Opinion Is About More Than Christian Nationalism: An insurgent religious movement is beginning to feel its strength, The Atlantic, March 5, 2024 Jaxon White, Conservative lawmakers,…

Billy Graham and the Gospel of American Nationalistic Christianity

By Anthea Butler

…of Prayer for the nation to be established, which is now celebrated every February with a prayer breakfast, starting in the Eisenhower administration. Graham’s friendship with Eisenhower would be the beginning of his relationships with many presidents, and presidential candidates. Graham could thus, at once, be the perfect Southern folk preacher from North Carolina and have access to the halls of power. His particular brand of fiery preaching wit…