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‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the women’s rights movement has been pushing for change for more than 120 years. Most of the advances for LGBT people have come in the past decade. “That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily going to take another 100 years. But it does mean the battle isn’t over, and in some countries it’s barely begun,” Radcliffe told The Huffington Post this week. “A lot of work lies ahead to challenge oppressive laws, demand proper legal protections and to change peo…

Russian Politician Wants to Ban Apple CEO Who Says Being Gay is God’s Gift; Violence After Preachers Blame Liberian Gays for Ebola; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d the court in July. Offenders face mandatory jail terms of as long as two years. The city’s police advised attendees at this year’s annual gay-pride rally Pink Dot in June to “keep the peace” and avoid comments on race and religion. The warning followed Muslim and Christian groups calling on their followers to wear white on the day to signify “purity” and to oppose the event. While Singapore’s multiracial, multicultural, multilingual and multirel…

The Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain

By Cathleen Falsani

…he Grateful Dead. Maybe I have heard them before and didn’t realize it.” A year or so later, half-way through my freshman year of college in 1989, I went to my first Dead show near Chicago. I didn’t have a ticket (and didn’t care so much about the music, really) but wanted to see what all the fuss was about from a safe distance in the parking lot where the aromas and sights and sounds and colors and patterns and vibe of Deadhead central overwhelme…

Did the National Prayer Breakfast Create a New Conservative Superstar?

By Sarah Posner

…atisfy the group by using the occasion to prove he’s a Christian, but each year he is slapped in the face for it. Last year, Obama’s efforts to invoke religion as support for policy led conservatives to mock his “phony religiosity.” Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) walked out; his spokesperson later said he “was disturbed and offended by the president’s use of prayer and reflection time for partisan politics and class warfare,” and that “Rep. Gingrey enjo…

Howling at the Moon

By Amina Wadud

…ee to their needs on a regular basis. If you know you cannot help them all year round, maybe this is one time when you can. Also, unlike tithing the amount cannot go to the mosque, to build a mosque to pay for the imam or mosque leader. This is another kind of sadaqah, or gift-giving, distinct from zakah. You can give any amount you want at any time you want and to any number of causes, but to have this purification effect it must be under the pre…

Blood and Hammers: Elderly Anti-Nuclear Activists Sentenced to Jail

By Kristen Tobey

…their trials. Plowshares’ prison sentences usually fall in the one- to two-year range, though they also have been far longer. In an anomalous case in 1985, eighteen-year sentences were handed down to activists who used, instead of household hammers, a jackhammer on a missile silo cover — which, they argued, even had it not malfunctioned and stopped working almost immediately, was every bit as ineffective against the covers as household hammers wou…

No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…l sex or inappropriate touching. But what would you call it when you have a 16-year-old girl sitting by the side of your bed as you get out of bed in the morning, powdering your feet, and pulling on your socks? There is a sexual subtext to that, so yes, he was a dirty old man to that extent. In any case, all of us—not just the Messengers—saw him as a father. He never said those words to us, but it was the role he filled. All of us just wanted his…

The Ex-KKK Priest and the Subtle Terrorism of the Anti-Abortion Movement

By Patricia Miller

…controversial and largely discredited organization Priests for Life. Last year, Father Frank Pavone, the founder of the group, placed “unborn child’s corpse on the altar in Priests for Life’s chapel as part of two Facebook live videos urging people to vote for Donald Trump on Election Day.” The parish is deeply embedded in the anti-abortion movement. The current head of the largely Catholic March for Life is a member of the parish. Last year St….

Was George W. Bush the Last Hippie?

By David R. Williams

…tie together all that education, plus a PhD in American Civ at Brown, plus years of teaching, to the reality of lived experience, to make a new narrative if you will. I once hoped to get it published by 1998 in time for the 30th anniversary of that great year, but the trade publishers found it too academic and the academic publishers found it too trade. I despaired several times that I would never climb out of that great canyon between them. But I…

As the Right Peddles a Conspiracy About Trans People and Easter, A Reflection on the Spiritual Nature of My Gender Transition

By Ryann Croken

…tual values is an act of breathtaking hypocrisy. Indeed, over the past few years, the Right has intensified its rhetorical and legislative attacks against transgender people to a fever pitch, introducing (and often successfully passing) many hundreds of bills each year in legislatures that aim to strip trans people of legal recognition, of life-saving health care, of the right to be out as a teacher (and not to be outed as a student), of the right…