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American Sin: Why Pope Francis’ Mercy is Not Our Mercy

By Kaya Oakes

…mingly Catholic country with a dominant Spanish influence. With a dizzying number of languages, economic classes, ethnicities and cultures represented in American Catholic churches, American Catholics resist singularity. And it follows that they are going to be inconsistent in how they define mercy, as the hierarchy of the American church is often wont to demonstrate. Even the variety of American “Mercy Doors” found online defies comparison to the…

Prosperity Gospel and Foreclosure

By Sarah Posner

…make a “Passover offering.” Seven is a biblically significant number, the number of completion and perfection, and in this spring of 2007 the Praise-a-thon began on Easter Sunday, the seventh day of Passover. If you make the Passover offering, Munsey claims, God will give you seven blessings: God will dispatch an angel to lead miracles; rid you of your enemies; bless you with prosperity; heal you; give you longevity; give you an inheritance you k…

Authoritarian Populism Vs Human Rights, The Campaign Against ‘Gender Ideology’ and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…In an interview with the Washington Blade, outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said the struggle for LGBT human rights “has to be waged internationally and a very efficient way to touch a lot of countries in a concerted way and in an aggressive way is the United Nations.” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a formal apology for discrimination against LGBT employees during the “Lavender Scare,” which included decades…

Religious Leaders Pressure Congress To Support Religious Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…get money because so much of the federal funding is in the sponges of the United States Catholic Conference and World Vision.” Lynn added that “my fear is that this argument” — that without funding the poor would left high and dry — “is what’s making the administration nervous. They don’t like to hear it, but I think it’s simply a red herrring.” While under federal civil rights laws religious groups can legally discriminate in hiring if they are…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…trans-person and activist who was brutally murdered in Istanbul in August. United Kingdom: Marriage equality reaches inhabitants of Guernsey; Lord Mountbatten comes out The States of Guernsey approved marriage equality on Wednesday, which after similar votes in Jersey and the Isle of Man, leave Northern Ireland as the only jurisdiction in the British Isles without marriage equality, reports BuzzFeed’s Patrick Strudwick. Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a co…

Perry To Accuse Obama of Appeasement

By Sarah Posner

…” playbook, and in particular, that of Perry’s fellow Texan and Christians United for Israel founder John Hagee. At Perry’s prayer rally, The Response, in Houston last month, Hagee spoke and brought a sizable contingent of congregants from his San Antonio church. Perry has prayed at Hagee’s church, and agreed with him that non-Christians are doomed to hell. The appeasement accusation is as old as Neville Chamberlain, and deployed with frequency by…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed for our Parliament to legislate complex provisions protecting religious freedom and expanding the freedom to marry.” …“Given the increasing number of children being brought up by same sex couples, it is desirable that the state take away any social stigma against same sex parents. “Given the ageing population, the state has an interest in recognising and protecting long term relationships of same sex couples who care for each other. “Given the…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…close portals” to demons causing homosexuality and “transgenderism” in the United States. Burden’s resume doesn’t end there. Active in the “stop sexualizing Texas kids” campaign, he (just days after Trump’s conviction) waved the “Appeal to Heaven” flag for his congregation while declaring the subjugation of earthly courts to the courts of Heaven and shouting “don’t tread on me,” a well established anti-government slogan. The foreword to Burden’s r…

Global LGBT Recap: Mandela and Equality; Elton John Defies Russian Ban; Fake-Healing of AIDS

By Peter Montgomery

…od in the way of same-sex families being able to travel as a family to the United States.” Thinking Strategically At least two gatherings in the past week focused on the strategic promotion of LGBT equality abroad. On Friday, December 6, in Washington, D.C., the Center for Transatlantic Relations, which is part of the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, hosted a presentation called “LGBT Rights: A Geost…

The January 6 Select Committee Cannot Ignore This Christian Movement

By Andrew L. Seidel

…es opposite Hodges, they carried that Christian flag onto the floor of the United States Senate. They attacked, they conquered, they paraded their flag on the vanquished ground . . . and then they said a prayer to Jesus in that senate. Thank you for allowing the United States of America to be reborn. Thank you for allowing us to get rid of the communists, the globalists, and the traitors within our government. We love you and we thank you. In Chri…