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Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ds that this promotes homosexuality. Supported by the churches, the prison service promotes abstinence as its main prevention approach. Lithuania: Conservative manifesto calls LGBT movement tyrannical A coalition of religious and intellectual leaders released a manifesto that condemned the 2016 Baltic Pride celebration “as an attack on human nature and the public good that follows in the path of the Soviet Union’s assault on the traditional family…

A Catholic Sister, a Buddhist Nun, and Two Rabbis: Friendship That Goes Beyond “Interfaith”

By Matthew Gindin

…e, it is a very rich and multi-layered experience for me.” She now attends services about twice a month as well as Torah study classes. “Often,” she says, “when doing something for others, one finds surprises for oneself along the way.” Sister Mary Margaret first heard of the synagogue at a jazz concert where she met a Jewish man named Abraham who told her about Rabbi Shohama. “I don’t talk about religion,” she explained, “I’m too busy trying to c…

Pope Denounces Gender Colonization; Indonesian Court Considers Islamist Request To Criminalize Homosexuality; Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says No One Has Right to Harm Homosexuals; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ight wing and hate each other. I will not hate Christians. I will not hate Americans. I will not hate English people because they are not from the European Union anymore and going right. Our generation really wants peace. I think that the first step is to say no to this whole system, to the government, to the people who are trying to separate us by our ethnicities, colors, and I don’t know what. Turkey: Gay Syrian refugee murdered A gay Syrian ref…

Trump In Colorado: When the “Facts” Are No Longer Checkable

By Paul Harvey

…bject to Trump’s visit per se. After all, the university leases its events center to all sorts of events, political and otherwise, as part of its public service and mission. And frankly, as an obscure branch campus of a state university, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Rather, the point was, of course Trump has the right to come here and speak, but we have the right to speak back. Various other political candidates–of both parties as well…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…with what they regarded as the grave challenge posed by “degraded” Native Americans and African Americans living in close proximity to whites. Guyatt’s book is divided into three sections, each treating a major theme or phase in the white reformers’ efforts. He devotes four of his chapters to “degradation,” three to “amalgamation,” and four to “colonization.” To be clear, most of the white civic leaders who fretted about “degradation” did not bel…

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts

By Natasha Lennard

…or, or to Senator Tom Cotton urging the military be deployed against Black American protesters—these all enact, even if not explicitly, the permissibility of oppression in the environment in which they’re spoken. The perlocutionary effect of Trump’s racist speech act—that is, the attendant huge spike in white supremacist hate crimes— never mind the storming of the Capitol, should make this clear. And again, conversations are asymmetrically pliable…

White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

By Stephen Young

…nservative media. There’s a double forgetting at play: a forgetting of the American tradition of violent White Supremacy and a forgetting of—as historian Kellie Carter Jackson argues—the long tradition of Black violence in the service of freedom (i.e., emancipation). Instead what gets remembered in our society is imaginary violence that victimizes innocent whites. This stuff matters! When it’s the norm that White Supremacy gets to excuse itself fr…

The Queerness of Christian Ethics: A Conversation with Rev. Elizabeth Edman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…f you could take the energy of an evangelical church experience or African American church experience, and marry that to the dynamism of the queer experience of that dance floor. It would be amazing. Many mainstream or evangelical churches may welcome you into the pew but never into leadership or other forms of service. You’re calling the church not simply to affirm LGBT people, but to fully accept us. I’m asking the church to dismantle that binar…

Christianity Today’s ‘Humble’ Hindu-to-Jesus Conversion Story is Still a Story of Christian Triumphalism

By Murali Balaji

…ed to his next question: would I like to go to a non-denominational church service after the game? When I politely told him I was a Hindu and not interested, he left me—in mid-set—and walked away. The weights fell on my chest, and as I felt the oxygen leave my body, I turned the barbell enough to ask for help. A person nearby came over to help lift the weights off. That memory resurfaced when I read Kamesh Sankaran’s “The Humbling of a Proud Hindu…

‘Cancel Culture’ Is as Old as Religion, And It’s Only a Thing Because of Who’s Doing the Cancelling

By Shaul Magid

…. To take an example straight from Durkheim, a 2017 poll found that 60% of Americans believe that professional athletes should be required to stand during the playing of the national anthem. Groups are able to hold deep-seated convictions like this one, the rejection of which is a kind of secular heresy meaning they are excluded from their discourse. Protesting that norm is an act of “heresy” to counter a norm. If successful it can change the norm…