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Bangladesh’s Atheist Blogger Still Wants to Talk

By Austin Dacey

…e we connected, it was close to midnight in Azimpur, an old quarter of the city where he had sought out a secret location for internet access. Earlier that day, August 25, he had returned home from a court hearing at which his trial was again delayed. Originally arrested on April 3, he was granted one month’s bail on health grounds in late June but then taken into pre-trial custody again from July 29 to August 7. Charged with “hurting religious se…

UK Atheist Church Invasion

By Becky Garrison

…g Epstein and Chris Stedman have spoken at the Sunday Assembly in New York City. Greg has been so helpful to us as a sounding board, and advice giver. He is great. We are going to Boston on November 5th. There is a local team who are organizing it who are hungry and keen. How do you address concerns that by calling this church, you may be giving people the impression that Sunday Assembly is equipped to provide actual pastoral care? Jones: We have…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he Nunciature to greet him as he prepared to leave Washington for New York City. Such brief greetings occur on all papal visits and are due to the Pope’s characteristic kindness and availability. The only real audience granted by the Pope at the Nunciature was with one of his former students and his family. RD’s Anthea Butler summarized the situation as a Vatican Game of Thrones. Liberty Counsel has continued to insist that Davis met privately wit…

Thanksgivukkah, With a Side of Christmas Envy

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…’re not running from the Red Scare. In fact, the mayor of a major American city—Boston’s Mayor Thomas Menino—issued a proclamation in honor of Thanksgivukkah. I have deeply ambivalent, uncomfortable feelings about state displays of religion, but you have to feel a bit of awe: the city that won the World Series this year (fear the beard!) is also acknowledging our minor festival. Combining traditions is not a new thing in any religious tradition or…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…unicipal LGBT Community Center in Meir Park (Gan Meir) which serves as the city’s main hub of activity for the LGBT community. The monument will be shaped in the form of a pink triangle, reminiscent of the pink triangles LGBT community members were required to attach to their clothes in the concentration camps, and will feature short texts in Hebrew, English and German…. In statement on Monday, Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai said, “This monument remind…

The People’s Temple, the Black Church, and the Tragic Legacy of Jonestown

By Anita Little

…t being a movement organizer in social justice and a provider of social welfare—but also the breach caused by the decline of the Black Power movement and Civil Rights movement. There was also the family dynamic that the People’s Temple fostered where there would be several generations of a family connected to the Temple. You had all of these elements pushing African-Americans into the movement and anchoring them there—and that made it more difficu…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

…ke McDonalds and Coca-Cola. The mayor of Sochi, by the way, said that his city has no gays that he’s aware of. Nigeria: Anti-Gay Law Fomenting Mob Violence; Islamic Court Trials Suspended We reported last week on the surge in arrests and trials in Shariah courts in the wake of President Goodluck Jonathan’s January 7 signing of a draconian anti-gay law there. Last Thursday, Associated Press reported, “Thousands of protesters threw stones into the…

Forget About #HotJesus, Material Objects Speak Loudly in Son of God

By Paul Harvey

…ted Jesus to change rocks into bread and that if Jesus would bow down, the city and all its materials would be his. The release of Son of God and the exceptionally successful Bible miniseries from which it was born, have left film critics and media outlets once again focused on the story of Jesus, mostly emphasizing the actors who play the roles. Among the trending topics on Twitter is #hotjesus, which refers to the Portugese model-turned-actor Di…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…on the Rights of the Child only within the geographical limits of Vatican City and not globally through their power over the Roman Catholic diocesan hierarchy.” Church officials and their conservative allies are angry over the report’s suggestion that the Catholic Church’s opposition to homosexuality had contributed to anti-gay violence and is call for the Church to change its teachings on sex and contraception. Silvano Maria Tomasi, a Vatican’s…

Conservative Bishops Headed For Synod Victory?; Indonesian Sharia Official Says Gay Caning Law Meant To ‘Safeguard Human Dignity’; Slovenian Court OK’s Referendum on Marriage Equality Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…an know from my experiences, from my sentiments, my desire to love, my capacity for relationships with others.” Charamsa told the Blade he took particular issue with the 2005 edict against gay priests. “It was a real offense to me,” he said. “I am a good priest with my homosexual sensibility, with my homosexual outreach, with my homosexual capacity to sacrifice me to other people.” “We have horrible language of hate, language of violence, stigmati…