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Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…the only G7 nation that does not allow same-sex marriage or civil unions.” China: Court rules against anti-trans discrimination LMT Online reports a “small but significant” victory for LGBT people with a court in the city of Guiyang ruling in favor of a transgender man who had been fired from a job and declaring that workers whould not be discriminated against “based on their ethnicity, race, gender or religious beliefs.” …

Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nd colleagues. Some victims were detained after being lured to meet in the city by the police, who were posing online as gay or transgender people looking for dates, the activist added. Many of those affected lived in rented apartments, which their landlords told them to vacate after the raids, the activist said. Some fled for Turkey or went to hide in other regions of Azerbaijan. Eurasianet also reported on the “rising” persecution of LGBT people…

Jesus in 3D: The Shroud of Turin Meets the 21st Century

By Peter Manseau

…ressive collection Constantinople had amassed. So it was that in 1204, the city named for Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, became the victim of an intra-Christian crusade, and the Shroud associated with St. Helena vanished. Like most relics, the Shroud of Jesus was so popular during the Middle Ages that it was hard to keep track of how many there were. Some relics multiplied by being chipped apart, as happened to the True Cross. By the ti…

Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ttom right, from 1998) and many more, that have displayed similar New York City destruction, and made this collective vision of exploding buildings so much more forceful, but also confusing. As many news commentators suggested of the 9/11 events: “It’s just like a movie.” At first, that Tuesday morning, the billions outside the NYC area simply watched. And watched and watched and watched… the planes striking the trade towers. With a society full…

Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…rcent of the total population. Similar sentiments have been expressed by a number of other prominent politicians with Christian nationalist inclinations, including Florida governor Ron Desantis, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert, and Texas senator Ted Cruz. This fusion of religion and nation has created a fertile breeding ground for a culture of violence to take root. Of course, Christian nationali…

Newtown Tragedy: The Horror of No Future

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ls in Birmingham, Alabama. The children of the day care center in Oklahoma City. Our enduring image from that dark day is a fireman, soaked in blood, carrying a baby on the cover of the magazines. Youth move us because they bring to the light the existential horror of no future. Katniss is right. It makes no rational sense to bring a child into a world like this one. Her words will be prophetic, as her state destroys children under more than one r…

Reason for Cautious Optimism in the Mauna Kea Telescope Standoff

By Jean Rosenfeld

…rd, and Arm of the Lord to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. In other cases violence is avoided. The Garland Texas Police Department allowed a scholar of religion to advise them that the Chen Tao movement would not commit collective suicide once the date of their apocalypse, March 31, 1998, had passed without incident. In 1996 the FBI gave negotiators the authority to prolong the confrontation with an armed group in Jordan, Mon…

What’s Actually in Breivik’s “Declaration of Independence”

By Julie Ingersoll

…ff as his own), but presumably not their permission. The sources include a number of conservative organizations including one of the founding influences in the religious right, and architect of American “Cultural Conservatism:” the Free Congress Foundation. The sources also include well known promoters of Islamophobia Pam Geller and Robert Spencer (each referenced more than 50 times) and Andrew Bostrom (whom I wrote about here, and who is referenc…

Gay: The Superior Lifestyle

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ar, telling those gathered for a John Birch Society conference in Oklahoma City, that she has discovered the gay agenda. According to Kern, the book, written by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen and based on a musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, documents a “public relations campaign to have gays accepted by the general public — step by step — with the final goal being not just acceptance of gays by heterosexuals but eventual…

Is Norway’s Suspected Murderer Anders Breivik a Christian Terrorist?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…larities between suspected mass killer Anders Behring Breivik and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh are striking. Both were good-looking young white men, self-enlisted soldiers in an imagined cosmic war to save Christendom. Both thought their acts of mass destruction would trigger a great battle to rescue society from the liberal forces of multiculturalism that allowed non-Christians and non-whites positions of acceptability. Both regretted the…