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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

…t’s efforts to impose “gender ideology.” Serbia: Activists plan protest at Turkey’s embassy Activists in Serbia are planning a protest in front of the Belgrade embassy of Turkey on Monday in response to the recent murder of trans activist Hande Kader in Istanbul. Organizers also said the gathering would focus on frequently unpunished attacks on LGBT people in Serbia. Demonstrators also protested Kader’s death in Istanbul last Sunday. Pakistan: Hum…

Iftar: Breaking Fast

By Amina Wadud

…. Even having iftar together was par for the course. He just got back from Turkey and went right into teaching a weeklong 8-hour-a-day intensive course. I couldn’t get a word in edgewise, including to just invite them over for fast-breaking as I had intended. Then yesterday afternoon we were finally able to talk and created a rough ad hoc iftar plan between what was left in my fridge and what he picked up (some fried chicken from a fast food place…

As an African American Who Loves Thanksgiving, Must I Simply Ignore the Historical Suffering of the Wampanoag and Pass the Sweet Potato Pie?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ieved in the latter half of the 19th century. The complicated relationship between “black” and “red” peoples of the Americas is seen in the First Peoples being both sites of refuge and enslavement for people of African descent. Simply put, once we step outside of the realm of myth, history gets messy with heroes and villains giving way to acts of self-determination by dispossessed and disenfranchised people trying to exist within an ever-expanding…

London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to risk placing him in a parish. A British gay man escaped extradition to Turkey, where was charged and convicted in absentia of raping a Turkish man, based on the “inherently inhuman and degrading” prison conditions he would likely experience. The defendant has testified that when he had been detained in Turkey before the trial he had been forced to convert to Islam. Ireland: Church of Ireland rejects call to consider same-sex ceremonies At its…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…h Wednesday, a day of repentance. Others said that asking people to choose between glitter ash and regular ash would only deepen the bitter division in many Protestant churches over homosexuality…Clergy who requested glitter ash included Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, Mennonites and many more. Many were located in more conservative parts of the country — Madison, Tenn.; Bedford, Tex.; Boone, N.C.; Algona, Iowa; Richmond, Ind.; Jef…

Suspicion of the Modern Age: The Pope Regresses

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…est achievement of the Middle Ages, he suggests: “This inner rapprochement between biblical faith and Greek philosophical inquiry was an event of decisive importance, not only from the standpoint of the history of religions, but also from that of world history.” Since then, the Greeks have been under siege, much as the Byzantine Emperor was at Constantinople when he had his fireside chat with a Persian adversary. Suspicion of the Modern Age What I…

My Congregation Tried to Help a Syrian Family Settle in the US

By Thomas Warming

…oversy. When Aylan Kurdi’s short, unfortunate life ended in the waters off Turkey this summer, I did what many pastors did: I talked about him in the sermon. The gospel lesson that Sunday all but begged us to touch on the subject, after all. It was the story of Jesus’ encounter with the Syro-Phoenician woman, whose plea to heal her daughter he initially brushes off with the curt message, “It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to…

Pop Star Ke$ha Punks Westboro Baptist Church

By Evan Derkacz

…hear, WBC members sang: Your hearts are turning hard God smacks this world of ours He’ll tear it all apart You think you’re superstars God hates who you are! Your proud and Bible dumb Your consciences are numb In God’s eyes you are dung You think you’re superstars God hates who you are! Bonus! Turns out the WBC has literally dozens of parodies you can listen to on its website, everything from Rogers and Hammerstein to Miley Cyrus. What strikes you…

Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert

By Andrew Aghapour

…tional response, laughter being the emotional response, a form of weeping. Bonus: An Interview with Ultra Spiritual JP Sears Ultra Spiritual JP, is there an inherent conflict between religion and science? There’s no scientific basis to back up science. The fundamentalist scientists haven’t been willing to prove how science is actually scientific, because of their dogmatic beliefs. Wait, are you implying that science is a religion? Science is perha…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…s Muslim Plurality For the first time ever (or perhaps just since sometime between 1000 and 1600 CE when The Plague decimated the European Christian population, according to footnote #2 of the report), in 2070 there will be more Muslims in the world than Christians. Between 2010 and 2050 the Muslim population is projected to grow by 73%, far outpacing the total population growth rate of 35%. Islam is not likely to keep up that growth rate forever…