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Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…extreme poverty. Finland: Thousands Quit Lutheran Church Over Pro-Marriage-Equality Archbishop Last Friday, lawmakers voted 105-92 to approve a citizens initative to allow same-sex couples to get legally married. Opponents used now-familiar rhetoric about children having a right to a father and mother. Kari Makinen, the Lutheran Archbishop of Finland, said last Friday that he supported the government’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage, sett…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n a major EU agreement, but expects Kiev to pass them on its path to a visa-free travel regime. This week American anti-gay activist Scott Lively charged that U.S. President Barack Obama orchestrated the conflict in Ukraine in retaliation for Russia’s passage of anti-gay legislation: I have come to believe that Obama orchestrated the Ukraine coup to re-start the cold war to prevent Russia from leading a global revolt against his most sacred cow, t…

What the Danish Cartoon Controversy Tells Us About Religion, the Secular, and the Limits of the Law

By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

…; it misunderstands the liberal political order; and it misunderstands the complex common genealogy of Christianity and secularism. Asad and Mahmood are expert guides to the many cultural and linguistic mistranslations of Islam that pervade the usual accounts of these events. As important as these corrections are, however, they regard, and want us to regard, these corrections as merely illustrations of a larger problem, one that is not just about…

Some Of My Best Friends Are Nazi Reenactors! And Soft Porn Producers!

By Sarah Posner

…ewish, writes of Iott: First things first; Rich Iott is one of the most pro-Jewish, pro-Israel people I know. We are business partners and very close personal friends. One of the first things I explained to Rich when we started working together was that I don’t work on Shabbat – the Jewish Sabbath. He said, “That’s great, I’m glad you take a break every week and spend quality time with your family!” . . . . Rich has been an overnight guest in our…

Yoga Guru or CEO? Saving the Brand When Scandal Strikes

By Andrea R. Jain

…ople shocked and distraught? One factor is ignorance. Yoga teachers and how-to books seldom mention that the discipline began as a sex cult—an omission that leaves many practitioners open to libidinal surprise. This is a bold thesis, but it’s inaccurate. Arguing that hatha yoga is a “parent of the styles now practiced around the globe” and labeling the beginnings of hatha yoga a “sex cult” are both historically irresponsible moves. Popularized for…

Be Prepared: Preachers’ Daughters, Episode Eight

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…-ages club in Chicago. And Olivia Perry was asked by her parents to give a testimony at a church-sponsored youth campfire. And it’s at that point that I want to introduce you to Molli and Caleb, two youth who attended the campfire in question. Olivia designed an exercise for the youth that predictably brought some youth to a very vulnerable place. This is not necessarily a bad thing: growth often comes from being vulnerable. In Olivia’s case, she…

Tea Party Rhetoric: Literal Slavery Not So Bad

By Julie Ingersoll

…nal video in which she said this has been removed from YouTube but a lesser-quality recording of the broadcast of it on CNN is available here.) As Kyle over at Right Wing Watch has noted, Rick Perry believes the federal government has enslaved us over debt and taxes. (By the way, he also believes, like Gary North, that the current economic crisis will bring us back to biblical principles.) And of course there’s last year’s controversial campaign a…

No to Church, Yes to Jesus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…e to some, according to the 2008 Pew “US Religious Landscape Survey,” seven-in-ten Nones emerge into Noneness from Christian backgrounds. So, it makes sense that the Christian idiom—its narratives, rituals, symbols, professed ethics, and so on—remains a significant resource for these folks, whether they’re arguing against it or adapting it to alternative spiritualities. This was certainly the case for the majority of the Nones I interviewed across…

Time for Jews to Abandon the Old Foundation Myth of Israel?

By Ira Chernus

…narratives of accepting and rejecting a two-state solution were rather all-encompassing, and the story of the battle between those two narratives was even more basic. But these still did not get down to the foundational level of myth. Netanyahu made that clear in the speech that offered his pro forma commitment to a two-state solution. What many took as a sea change in Jewish political life was actually only a small part of the speech. Look at th…

The Vile Attack on Salman Rushdie Reminds Us of the Value of a Free Society — But is Our Outrage More About the Criminal Than the Crime?

By Haroon Moghul

…anguage, arguably subverting (or actively maligning and undermining) deeply-held Muslim ideals and commitments in an environment of immense cultural sensitivity compounded by intense historical trauma. Yet that did not and does not mean I wished to see Rushdie censored, let alone attacked. My conviction in Rushdie’s right to express himself doesn’t just come from my being an American, however. Or even an American writer. That conviction also emerg…