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Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…liade western scholars have often patronizingly collapsed the distinctions between African, Indian, Asian, and Pacific “indigenous beliefs.” How will westerners react when finally forced to confront these religious systems on their own terms? Stephen Prothero has pointed out that the traditional African religion of Yoruba is one of the world’s largest faiths and in his brilliant new book One Nation under Gods Peter Manseau has shown how the crucia…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…daughter, was forced to give up her license to function as a priest in the South African Anglican Church because she married another woman in December. The Washington Post’s Max Bearak reports: South Africa’s Anglican church, where Tutu-Van Furth until recently practiced as a priest, isn’t ready to accept those with alternative sexualities as members of its clergy. Tutu-Van Furth was ordained at the Historic Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., and s…

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…ce began in the run up to the July 9 inauguration of the newly independent South Sudan. South Kordofan is a northern border province, and home to many supporters of the SPLM, the political movement aligned with the South, and the SPLA-North, one of its armed wings. History has left them behind, in the name of peace, to face the vengeance of a regime led by indicted war criminals. The ethnic Nuba, who are Black Africans, and predominantly Christian…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…parades while flying the rainbow flag. Tim Farron abstained on that one … South Africa: Paramedic faces punishment for blaming fires on gay marriage Afrikaaner Bossie Boshoff, a paramedic, is facing disciplinary action by his employer after publicly blaming recent wildfires on the Dutch Reformed Church’s decision to allow 12 same-sex couples to marry at a festival last year. “It dared god,” he said in a Facebook post. “They mustn’t cry now about…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…holic, and a recently formed national federation of Christian LGBT groups. South Africa: Profile of gay Imam with Hindu partner At the India Times, Shweta Sengar profiles Muhsin Hendricks, a gay Imam with a Hindu partner. Hendricks grew up in Cape Town in a very small Muslim community, which was very orthodox and conservative. His grandfather was a cleric at a local mosque, which was just a stone’s throw away from the house. “Homosexuality is a si…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s the continent. Essa challenges those who suggest homosexuality is an “un-African” western concept, saying that “to suggest that Africa has no place for homosexuals is to imagine the continent’s history as beginning when prude missionaries brought Bibles, long skirts and umbrellas as a marker of civilization.” The construction of sin and categorical notions of sexuality over the past four centuries on the continent are inextricably linked to colo…

South Carolina Rejects Christian Vanity Plates

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…States since the nation’s founding, Currie wrote. That law hasn’t stopped South Carolina from approving and promoting the tag. The idea for the tag came from Lt. Governor Andre Bauer, who has his eye on the governor’s mansion now that Gov. Sanford’s hiking trip in Argentina has made the state a national laughingstock. Bauer was quick to brand the judge as a “liberal judge appointed by (President) Bill Clinton,” who has it in for Christians. Bauer…

Mexico’s Religious Conservatives Seek Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment, LGBT Activists Defend Secular Government; Cash From Qatar Funds ‘Traditional’ Family Activism Worldwide; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Organizers say the gathering, “The Future is Now: Preserving Values for a Better Tomorrow,” will promote “a biblical perspective of family.” David Gibbs III, who takes an anti-gay stand, is not quite as controversial as his father David Gibbs Jr but he has nevertheless spoken out at many public religious events in recent years about what he believes is an agenda or conspiracy by the liberal left to promote gay marriage and alternative lifestyles….

Muslims Need Not Apply—To the White House or Congress

By Julie Ingersoll

…hould be impeached because he is a Muslim (complete with a promo promising free guns, paid for by “a millionaire” who wants you “protected against what’s coming.”) The video in the email is by evangelist Jack van Impe, known for his premillennial rapture theology and his disconnected rambling in Bible verses. It is entitled “President Obama’s Religion in Question” and argues that he is really a Muslim. Joan, who claims in an email to be “well-educ…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…l like scum and ashamed of who we are, we turn to things that make us feel better—drugs and alcohol perhaps. Being rejected by family, church and society can bring on depression or violence in acting out our frustrations. Early death, though, for our community can be caused by any of these problems … and sometimes violence from those outside our community who believe the world would be a better place without us. So, no, LGBT people are not addicte…