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Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…h’s threat of excommunication. That would have been unthinkable only a few years prior. Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, today hailed as a gay rights heroine for her fierce advocacy of marriage equality, all but welcomed the opposition to same-sex marriage by then Cardinal of Buenos Aires Jorge Mario Bergoglio (today Pope Francis). When Bergoglio branded the same-sex marriage bill “the Devil’s Project,” Kirchner delivered…

Not All Christians are Terrorists

By Reuven Firestone

…Center” at West Point counted an average of 6 terrorism-related plots per year carried out by Muslims since 9/11. These resulted in a total of 50 fatalities. The same study found that right-wing extremists averaged 337 attacks per year, causing a total of 254 fatalities. If you were to try to remember all the terrorist attacks in America since 9/11, which would come to mind? Probably many more perpetrated by Muslims than by Christians. That’s bec…

Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish

By Jay Michaelson

…out Y2K (remember that?) and New Age predictions about December 21 of this year are not different in kind from Harold Camping’s ridiculous (and widely ridiculed) “calculation” that the apocalypse would take place on May 21 (and then October 21) of last year. Nor, claims Landes, are utopian claims of a transformed economic or political order, such as Shimon Peres’ now nostalgic vision of a “new Middle East” or a jihadist’s vision of a purified umm…

The Uses and Abuses of the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…or unrecognized and unsung heroes and heroines like Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old from Montgomery, Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the bus nearly a year before Rosa Parks. Within political discourse, however, King was still a powerful and potent weapon. On the right, Republicans were quoting King to oppose affirmative action, and anything related to continued expansion of civil rights on the basis of “the content of our character.” On…

Secular End Times & Apocalyptic ‘Roosters’

By Gordon Haber

…y of Jesus’ thousand-year reign, perversely echoed by the Nazis’ “Thousand-Year Reich.” “Apocalyptic” refers to “a sense of imminence about the great upheaval and the scenario whereby we now go from this evil and corrupt world to the redeemed one.” Every millennial group, whether religious or secular, is marked by the transformation of “normal time” to “apocalyptic time”—when its followers eagerly anticipate the millennium, seeing signs and symbol…

Dispatches from the Election: The 2008 Election and the Soul of America

By Glenn W. Smith

…I think worries many people — is that Winthrop’s egalitarian hope is, this year, at risk of permanent eclipse by the authoritarian demand. It feels like the future of democracy is at stake. As I write this the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the now impossible-to-ignore economic consequences of our seven-year nightmare have brought the 2008 campaign back down to overheated earth. Barrack Obama can resubmit to the public his economic warnings and p…

Religion, Morality, and the Death of the American Soap Opera

By Katy E. Shrout

…fifteen daytime soaps on the air, with new shows continuing to debut every year. Forty years later, only seven soaps remain, all of them aging. (The newest of these is more than twenty years old.) More alarmingly for fans, timeworn favorites are being axed. As the World Turns vanishes this fall. Guiding Light (the longest running broadcast drama ever, after 57 years on radio and television), was cancelled in 2009. Obsession with the Past By defini…

No Buddhists in Washington?

By Danny Fisher

…ambhala Mountain Center, each of which attract thousands of visitors every year for programs of contemplative practice and study. Consider Maitri Compassionate Care in San Francisco, a very early North American AIDS hospice established by the late Issan Dorsey of the Hartford Street Zen Center. Consider the Prison Dharma Network and the National Prison Hospice Association, both founded by Sensei Fleet Maull of the Zen Peacemaker Order. Consider th…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…killer sentenced The man convicted in April of killing a teenager at last year’s pride celebrations in Jerusalem has been sentenced to life in prison plus 31 years. The convicted murderer, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man, had only weeks before the killing been released from prison after a ten-year sentence for stabbing three people during a pride march in 2005. Moldova: Human rights activists fight proposed propaganda law Human Rights Watch released…

Ann Coulter and GOProud: In Bed Together Once Again

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…parently already forgotten what her association with GOProud cost her last year: a gig at WorldNetDaily’s “Take Back America Conference.” WND’s editor and CEO Joseph Farah accused Coulter of “legitimizing a group that is fighting for same-sex marriage and open homosexuality in the military—not to mention the idea that sodomy is just an alternate lifestyle.” Coulter called the notion “silly” saying she gave speeches to a lot of different groups wit…