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In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…o longer consider trans people mentally ill. Jamaica: J-FLAG celebrates 18 years of activism J-FLAG celebrated 18 years of standing up for LGBT people. From Executive Director Dan Lewis: Although there continue to be incidents of violence and harassment against the LGBTQ population, we have seen the slow shift toward tolerance and respect for the population as is the sentiment expressed in many of our sensitization sessions and greater appreciatio…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…onvicted of Pride Parade Killing An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man who stabbed a 16-year old to death during last year’s Pride parade in Jerusalem was convicted on Tuesday of murder and attempted murder. Some LGBT activists have called for cancellation of Tel Aviv’s Pride celebration in protest against the disparity between limited government support for local LGBTQ groups and the nearly $3 million committed to a marketing campaign to attract tourists…

Evolution Challenged in ‘Textbook’ Case: As Goes Texas, So Goes the Nation

By Lauri Lebo

…he results may not yet be clear, one thing is evident in the tactics. Four years ago, near the conclusion of Dover, Pennsylvania’s First Amendment trial in which intelligent design was exposed as a religious fraud, plaintiff attorney Eric Rothschild asked in court, “Will we be back in a couple of years for the ‘sudden appearance’ trial?” Judge John E. Jones III retorted, “Not on my docket.” And McLeroy’s speech on standing up to the experts sounde…

Are Atheists The New Campus Crusaders?

By Katherine Don

…oppable Secular Students” compared SSA to Cru. Cru takes in $500 million a year, while SSA takes in $998,000; Cru has three paid staff members per 1 campus group, while SSA has 78 campus groups per 1 adult organizer. And yet Cru is growing at a rate of 16 per cent while SSA is growing at a rate of 116 per cent. The presentation concludes: “Cru has a massively larger budget, the majority of the U.S. population to draw from (76% Christian), an organ…

Arrests Made in Murders of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh, But Int’l Response to Violence Remains Anemic

By Murali Balaji

…amicize a country in which 10 percent of the population is non-Muslim. For years, beneath the loud and proud rhetoric of Bengali unity, Bangladesh has been increasingly radicalized, particularly in rural areas and villages just outside of major cities such as Dhaka and Chittagong. Even under the nominally secular Awami League, land-grabs against groups such as Hindus and indigenous tribes have gone up, and authorities have done little to deter vio…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…gin of Species would also challenge religious notions, not only of a 6,000-year-old world and a literal acceptance of Genesis, but about ideas of human exceptionalism. Even though Darwin never raised the issue of human evolution in Origin (that would come 12 years later in his Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex), the underlying point was not lost on the public. If man evolved from apes, how could we have been made in God’s image? Evol…

Ugandan Bishops Push Notorious Anti-Gay Bill

By Peter Montgomery

…Ugandan television channels. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill was shelved last year, but reintroduced this February by its sponsor, Member of Parliament David Bahati (the same month the government shut down a conference of LGBT activists). Some news reports at the time said the death penalty had been removed from the bill. But Warren Throckmorton noted that the death penalty in fact remained. A BBC report quoted Bahati saying the original bill was rei…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…otestants: Can’t Live With ’Em, Can’t Live Without ’Em! Fast-forward 1,500 years or so from that disruptive fire-signed Pentecost. I assume you learned your Reformation history in school (Hus, Zwingli, Luther, Calvin, et. al. and their important Humanist progenitors), so I won’t rehash it. Lots of fabulous religious art destroyed, lots of monasteries and abbeys looted, lots of beheadings and burnings at the stake on both sides as schism let to rep…

The Uses and Abuses of the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…or unrecognized and unsung heroes and heroines like Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old from Montgomery, Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the bus nearly a year before Rosa Parks. Within political discourse, however, King was still a powerful and potent weapon. On the right, Republicans were quoting King to oppose affirmative action, and anything related to continued expansion of civil rights on the basis of “the content of our character.” On…

For Love or Threat: Pro-Life Prayer Includes Names, Photos of Abortion-Rights Advocates

By Alana Massey

…erized much of the debate around abortion in America. In 1985, following a year during which there were 10 bombings and 16 cases of arson, the senior Scheidler famously called for “a year of pain and fear.” For over a decade he was a named defendant in the high-profile case, Scheidler v. NOW, in which the National Organization for Women argued that Scheidler and others effectively formed a criminal conspiracy to close clinics that provided abortio…