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Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rges under the anti-sodomy law in 2012 but that prosecutors refiled them almo*]}*st immediately. “I maintain my innocence,” said Anwar, 67, inside the courtroom, according to the Associated Press. “This to me is a fabrication coming from a political conspiracy to stop my political career.” Rupert Colville, a spokesperson for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also criticized the verdict. “We are disappointed by the Federal Court ruling today…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…ountry giving talks about Muslims after 9/11, but the safest, warmest, and most trusting I ever felt was in New York. That was my country, that was my faith. We do not turn away in ignorance. We do not turn ignorance to fear, and fear into hate. Returning to my city, I was welcomed once more. And I encountered the vibrancy of faith that I missed so much in my time away. The symphony of the Sh’ma, of the Lord’s Prayer, of the Fatiha, of Om Namah Sh…

“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence

By Spencer Dew

…raphy to personal and national trauma,” calling the book “easily among the most inventive and successfully performative works to appear in living memory.” Dramatic words for the Gray Lady. Giving Godhead Dylan Krieger Delete Press August 2017 And a shock, surely, to the small press that had produced the volume. Orders placed in the wake of that review’s publication were filled just this month, an interval that only furthered expectation regarding…

Trayvon Martin and American Exceptionalism

By Anthea Butler

….” Trayvon’s trip to the 7-11 was not just a run to the store, but another statistic in the long arc of racialized violence in America. George Zimmerman, who shot Trayvon in his role as neighborhood watch captain and executioner, is, according to his father, “half Hispanic with black friends.” Really? Having a black friend makes it okay to shoot a black person? Zimmerman, a serial 911 caller, decided to hunt and kill Trayvon after muttering “These…

Yes, It’s Worse To Be Gay in Russia

By Chrissy Stroop

…hat was going on in the wider world on this issue. I wasn’t surprised that most of my students were against same-sex marriage and that it fell largely to me to lay out the arguments for same-sex marriage. Although there was at least one student in my class who was under 18, no students or parents complained about my pedagogical methods in Vladimir. But if I were to do the same thing today, I could be arrested, detained for up to 15 days, deporte…

Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard

By Wendy Norris

…the Western United States. In less than a decade, Haggard built one of the most influential megachurches in the nation. Not Everybody Loves a Comeback Story Today, Haggard and his wife Gayle jet set nearly every weekend to speak at emergent churches across the nation with a well-worn script about forgiveness and redemption. “Out of Hebrews I know I am forgiven past, present and future,” he tells me during our living-room chat. “Out of John, I know…

Heterosexual Martyrs and Gay Saints: Did AIDS Coverage Clear the Way for LGBT Equality?

By Diane Winston

…n that claims to provide just the facts. From the 1960s through the 1980s, most news outlets stigmatized, sensationalized, or ignored homosexuals (the straight world slowly adopted the term “gay” in the 1980s). In 1963, when the New York Times ran a front-page story on the growing presence of homosexuals in the city, the subtext was hostile, citing the “growing concern of psychiatrists, religious leaders and the police.” Soon afterward, when homos…

Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ources to do so may prefer to provide their ministers with housing directly, since Crabb’s ruling leaves subsection 107(1) intact. But that’s an option that less well-endowed congregations, which already struggle to meet the financial needs of ministers and their families, will almo*]}*st certainly find unfeasible. Will lay leaders shrug their shoulders and remind their ministers that the only certainties in life are death and taxes? Or will they find…

Malta Adopts Marriage Equality Over Objections of Catholics and Evangelicals; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ty rally while trying to physically block the march. Their presence is the most visible display of intolerance towards sexual minorities in the tradition-bound society, where religious belief is widespread and many homosexuals stay in the closet due to fear of discrimination and social isolation. . . . Even left-leaning South Korean President Moon Jae-In—a former human rights lawyer—said he “opposed homosexuality” during a campaign debate in April…

Milquetoast Liberal Religion Won’t Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson

By Sheila D. Collins

…s the fault of the jobless has returned today in the assumption, shared by most Republicans, that the unemployed can be prodded into getting a job by the withdrawal of the “crutch” that extended unemployment insurance supposedly provides. Many liberal Democrats share a less pejorative variant of this belief, of course, attributing joblessness to a “skills mismatch,” lack of education and training, or the excessive demands of unions, all of which p…