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Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…he story quotes Vsevolod Chaplin, “an Orthodox archpriest responsible for relations between the church, which feels gays are ill and in need of divine forgiveness,” and the Kremlin. Chaplin is “very happy” that Putin is “speaking about the moral dimensions of society.” Meanwhile, the Principal 6 campaign we wrote about last week has been invited, and has agreed, to sponsor the Australian men’s and women’s bobsled teams, a move that should give it…

Mormon “Martin Luther” Causes Stir by Uploading LDS Church Handbook of Instructions to Internet

By Joanna Brooks

…call it “Kremlinology.” (Not that the LDS Church is, well, the Soviet regime.) But a Church that prizes the opacity of its inner workings is experiencing an unusual level of uninvited transparency. And there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle. Information wants to be free. Stories want to travel. And our Mormon faith teaches us that over time, at the intersection of multiple processes human and divine, new truth is revealed. As long as t…

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

By Ed Simon

…ws a writer at Breitbart.com to claim that the decision of a massive privately-held corporation (normally the heroes in conservative morality-plays) indicates that “Starbucks Red Cups Are Emblematic Of The Christian Culture Cleansing Of The West.” That at this very moment ISIS is trying to actually ethnically cleanse entire regions of Christians makes the faux-outrage over a cup that happens to not have Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer on it all the…

First Gay Bishop? Give Me a Break

By Peter Montgomery

…mplex, somewhat lethargic institution,” could change so dramatically in a relatively short amount of time. The church, he says, in a significant way “risked its life for us.” The film also makes clear that Robinson and those around him risked their lives in very literal ways. Robinson was asked to give an invocation opening inaugural weekend festivities for Barack Obama in 2009; that weekend, police stopped a man with a sawed-off shotgun, pictures…

The Mistaken Assumption Behind Employers’ “Right” to Not Cover Contraception

By Mary Barker

…the argument makes sense. I mean, we’d understand a Quaker grandmother’s reluctance to help her grandson buy an assault rifle, regardless of how much he pleaded or how big the occasion (birthday, graduation, etc.). It makes sense because we all agree that the money doesn’t “belong” to the grandson. For Locke, however, God gave the world to us in common, and we appropriate a part of it to ourselves for private use through our labor. (We sowed th…

The Religious “Right” to Denounce Homosexuality

By Sarah Posner

…dership to share their religious beliefs on homosexual behavior.” ADF counsel Daniel Blomberg, the group’s main spokesperson on the DADT issue, recently argued that DADT repeal could lead to gay or lesbian servicemembers filing complaints for harassment or discrimination: (1) unclearly defined regulatory boundaries will push chaplains toward self-censorship to avoid even specious complaints, (2) the proposed complaint resolution system—where the l…

Liberals Enabled Bishops in Contraception Battle

By Sarah Posner

…weakened the GOP’s hand by showing they were actually less interested in religious freedom than in being anti-contraception zealots. Inevitably, though, the developing inside-the-beltway non-wisdom is that Obama demonstrated, once again, that he is insensitive to religion and is clueless about handling issues involving the intersection of faith and politics. (For examples, see these pieces in The Hill and Politico.) While Marcotte is right that t…

Is New Park51 Advisor Any Better Than Feisal Abdul-Rauf?

By Hussein Rashid

…state cannot interfere, nor can any individual punish another, for their religious beliefs. Adhami is arguing that the state can intervene if the individual starts preaching, which can arguably be considered sedition in the context of autocratic Muslim states. However, once you accept that the situation is political, then adaptation and transformation become much easier. On homosexuality, I found some of the best coverage on NY1. They got Adhami…

When Is Hosni Mubarak?

By Haroon Moghul

…the diplomatic skill and flexibility to handle this charge. If we ask ourselves, who else would the Egyptian people trust, we would find ourselves forced to admit that in the last week we have lost what little leverage we may have had. Unlike in 1989, it isn’t America standing for freedom, but a neighboring Muslim democracy that has taken the lead. Shortly before Mubarak issued yet another underwhelming and entirely inexplicable speech, Turkish P…

Neither Christ Nor Antichrist: A Reflection on the Election of Barack Obama

By Edward J. Blum

…state of Guatama Buddha has led countless to seek enlightenment. I do not believe President-Elect Obama is a mystery, but I am certainly frightened by those who do and those who want a mystery to have control over the United States army and have access to nuclear weapons. Mysteries can be dangerous and days of Jubilee do not always end with eras of sublimity. In the United States, there have been alleged days of Jubilee before. On January 1, 1863,…