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Religious Hostility to Gay Nigerians; The Pope’s Visit To Africa; Ireland’s Religious Schools Can’t Discriminate Against Gays; Orthodox Church in Georgia Leads Anti-Gay Forces; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…al MP and the author of the controversial law, crashed the opening night on 19 November and tried to break into the cinema. A video appears to show him shouting “underage children could be inside!” at a policeman trying to hold him back. “We always have to have spare venues reserved for emergencies,” Sultanova says. “Spaces cancel on us because they get pressure from the above, or receive bomb threats, or just get scared of the consequences.” … Se…

Tim Tebow Takes a Knee, Cancels Appearance at Controversial Megachurch Celebration

By Joanna Brooks

…led appearance at First Baptist on April 28, a scheduled celebration of the 11,000-member church’s new $115 million home. In a series of tweets, Tebow told his public that he cancelled because he wanted to keep it positive: “I will continue to use the platform God has blessed me with to bring Faith, Hope, and Love to all those needing a brighter day!” But after talking to Jeffress—an outspoken antagonist of Mormons, Muslims, and homosexuals—the Da…

Mel Gibson’s ‘To-Do’ List

By Becky Garrison

…n 1. Pray for mom’s soul 2. Buy Revolve 2010 (Biblezine) 3. Get Promise Keepers application for Levi 4. Become a True Woman 5. Baby Making Time! 6. Refill prescription for Prozac Spencer Pratt 1. Get saved again by Stephen Baldwin 2. Buy soul from eBay 3. Cancel membership in Promise Keepers 4. Send in application to Army of God 5. Drinks with Mel…

‘Atheizing’ the Dead, Religious Doughnuts, & Tax-Free Witching

By Michael J. Altman

…of Body Modification has run into trouble with her school’s dress code. The 14-year-old is looking at a ten day suspension if she returns to school wearing her prohibited nose ring. In Roswell, New Mexico, a group of students have been suspended for giving their teachers boxes of doughnuts with religious messages attached to them. Romania has decided not to tax its witches and fortunetellers. One reason being that the witches and fortunetellers ar…

Polygamy Bus Tour, ‘Spiritual’ Healthcare for Christian Scientists, Baptizing an Alien…

By Michael J. Altman

…hurch-state separation watchdogs are calling for Fort Bragg authorities to cancel a Christian concert scheduled for Saturday. “Rock the Fort” is an evangelical concert staged by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and critics say it has no business on a government run base. Last Sunday, a group of pastors around the country decided to bait the IRS by endorsing political candidates from the pulpit during morning services. The IRS prohibits ta…

Landmark OC Megachurch Declares Bankruptcy

By Joanna Brooks

…rew up an Iowa farmboy, began his ministry in Orange County, California, in 1955, convening his first services at the Orange Drive-in Theater. In 1957, Schueller invited pop psychologist Vincent Norman Peale to speak, minting the brand of accentuate-the-positive-preaching that propelled him to the heights of his success in the 1980s. In those years, they bussed Orange County public school kids like me on field trips to the Crystal Cathedral, so we…

Netanyahu Recovers from Bieber Fever

By Sarah Posner

…on or Haaretz? A report that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled a scheduled meeting with Justin Bieber over Bieber’s refusal to meet with injured Israeli children: The prime minister was scheduled to host the young singer at his office in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, before Bieber’s Thursday night concert. Taking advantage of the PR opportunity presented by the meeting with Bieber, Netanyahu’s advisers invited a group of chi…

Gay, Black, and Quaker: History Catches Up with Bayard Rustin

By Leigh Eason

…He was himself a draft resister during World War II and was imprisoned from 1944 to 1947 as a result of his disobedience to the 1940 Conscription Act. In the 1950s, Rustin was active in the movement for nuclear disarmament and an end to testing of nuclear weapons. Perhaps most significant historically is the key role he played in bringing Gandhian nonviolence into the Civil Rights movement. During the Montgomery bus boycott, Rustin convinced King…

Atheists Support L.A. Pastor Who Faces “Tribunal” for LGBT Advocacy

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…alled to say church officials were giving him static and that we’d have to cancel it. Now, with the publication of his article in the Morningside Park Chronicle, church officials are demanding that he face a “tribunal” and respond to a laundry list of questions on homosexuality and biblical morality. The controversy at Zion Hill is emblematic of a national climate in which traditional black churches are increasingly being challenged on their homop…

Cardinal Warns Women Against Marrying Muslims: Would Bring “A Pile of Trouble”

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…ries. While the fact that women heads of state and business magnates don’t cancel out violence that women and girls face in the same countries, it degrades the dignity of Muslim women to be a warning to non-Muslim women: “Don’t marry a Muslim man, you’ll end up like them.” (cue scary music) It’s also a blow to interreligious and interracial marriages between Muslims and non-Muslims that have worked. I’m not saying bad things don’t happen (look at…