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Global LGBT Recap: “Lavender Fascism,” Rage in India, Pope Francis Ousts Culture Warrior

By Peter Montgomery

…h Minister Edwin Poots to appeal a June court ruling that the ban violated European rights law. Northern Ireland’s Attorney General had also defended the ban. The Belfast Telegraph reports, “Adoption agencies – including agencies associated with church groups, which are opposed to gay adoption on doctrinal grounds – have been circulated by the department with advice on the new protocols which they must observe.” Australia: Marriage Equality Law…

Thanksgivukkah, With a Side of Christmas Envy

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ristmas trees and Easter bunnies are, after all, remnants of pre-Christian European customs. The emergence of Hanukkah as a “major” Jewish holiday in America was the result, in part, of the desire to keep up with the neighbors. As the 1947 United Synagogues guide How to Celebrate Hanukkah at Home put it, “Be mindful of the fact that your non-Jewish neighbor takes time and pains to make Christmas an occasion of gladness. Unless you take equal pains…

NOM’s Brian Brown Went to Russia to Push Anti-Gay Laws

By Peter Montgomery

…vent was a roundtable discussion on “Traditional Values: The Future of the European Peoples,” hosted by the St. Basil the Great Foundation – an Orthodox group run by Konstantin Malofeev, the head of a private equity group and spirited anti-gay activist – and also sponsored by the Duma’s family committee, the right-wing Center for Social-Conservative Policy, and a new multi-party group of Russian MPs formed, with approval of the Russian Orthodox Ch…

Reza Aslan’s Missed Opportunity

By Micha'el Rosenberg

…nities in which I participate, my Facebook newsfeed has a disproportionate number of people who are both passionately liberal and deeply religious. So it didn’t take very long—especially on a Sunday, when what else should a person do besides post videos on Facebook?—for this interview to spread like wildfire. The video was shared with the headline “The Most Embarrassing Interview Fox News Has Ever Done,” and was, in my newsfeed, invariably accompa…

Egypt and the Problem of Religion

By Asma Afsaruddin

…ns, said to number in the millions [for a fascinating take on the disputed numbers see Hugh Roberts in LRB–Eds], took to the streets—this time to register their disapproval of Morsi’s government. The military claimed to derive a popular mandate from these massive demonstrations and moved in to overthrow the Morsi government, imprison the deposed president, and launch a murderous vendetta against members of the Muslim Brotherhood. One might be just…

Gambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers

By Peter Montgomery

…result as “yet one more step in the rejection of the Christian identity of European culture.” The Orthodox Church’s statements were mocked by Russian blogger Rustem Adagamov, who, reports the Independent, “tweeted a picture of [heavily bearded] priests wearing full ceremonial robes with the message: ‘The ROC categorically opposes bearded men in dresses!’” Russian politicians and anti-gay activists had also slammed Wurst as the singer advanced in t…

Big Love, Saudi-Style

By Haroon Moghul

…oned traveling the Muslim world, include in those itineraries American and European Muslims. It’s pretty much a non-practice. Until someone comes along and produces the Big Love of the Middle East; there are, after all, substantive differences. The four wives cannot be related. There cannot be more than four wives. And they must all be maintained at the same standard. So when it comes time to upgrade from the apartment, it’ll be three upgrades all…

‘Nones’ ≠ Nonreligious

By Elizabeth Drescher

…onsistent, in religious or spiritual practice. To paint Nones as a growing European-style secular/atheist population is to misread the available data. Perhaps a more compelling reason that interest in the political (and other) leanings of Nones has not attracted wider attention is tucked into the preface to the Pew report, which many data-hungry readers are likely to have skipped on their way to colorful charts and graphs: Scholars of religion in…

Debating the “Nones” Part 3

By Katherine Stewart

…hy do I say this? Because the surveys show that the nones vote in decisive numbers for one side. (78 percent of all nones voted for Obama in 2012 according to the Public Religion Research Institute, while Pew had it at 70 percent.) These numbers are comparable to other groups that no one disputes are worthy of political analysis: Latinos and white evangelicals. Drescher asserts that because the nones are defined by their lack of association—they h…

Mormon Church Finally Notes Black Elders, Still Offers No Apology

By Darron T. Smith

…be pointed out that a version of this belief already circulated throughout European-colonial America and seems to have found its way into some strands of contemporary white mainstream Christianity. Just as the United States counted black Africans as 3/5 of a human being and treated them as such, Mormons saw black skin as an irreducible sign of God’s disfavor, and thus banned them from full participation. Insular writings by Church authorities lamb…