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Expelled: Christian Student Claims Discrimination, But Judge Says No

…ntended she violated school policy and the American Counseling Association code of ethics. That code, by the way, is clear about what is expected from counselors: Counselors do not condone or engage in discrimination based on age, culture, disability, ethnicity, race, religion/spirituality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status/partnership, language preference, socioeconomic status, or any basis proscribed by law. Counselors…

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The Fusion Friendships of Rev. Barber’s Third Reconstruction

…newer to the U.S. and whose roots go deeper south to the Caribbean part of Colombia, I’m aware that Rev. Barber raises problems and alternative possibilities that go to the roots of this country, roots that the North is entangled in no matter how much the Northern consciousness scapegoats the South. Rev. Barber considers the moments when “blacks and whites, Jews and Catholics, labor and youth came together” in the 1950s/60s as an example of fusion…

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Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

…an Broadcasting Commission. During the debate, Member of Parliament Peter Abetz, in a speech arguing against marriage equality, compared same-sex parenting to the history of indigenous children who were forcibly taken from their parents, a group now known as the Stolen Generations. He also claimed that gay people are virtually incapable of monogamous relationships. Greece: Official steps down over anti-gay, anti-Semitic comments on social media Di…

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What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

…et because the Roman Catholic Church is simply too compromised internally, between sex abuse and discrimination, to have enough moral credibility for governments or corporations to take it seriously. Why should they? It will be Catholics in small communities that have any clout whatever, especially at the ballot box. The preparatory document circulated before the gathering showed real promise. There was, in the preamble, explicit acknowledgement t…

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Tattoos, Cremation, Personal Spirituality: The Jewish World in Transformation

…n of the episode and so you can read about it in the book. I was in Bogotá Colombia that summer and I rewrote that half of chapter literally dozens of times but in the end I couldn’t use it anyway. In addition, there were thousands of programs, organizations, personalities, controversies, debates, dialogues, responses and so forth that I just didn’t have room for. The main purpose of such a book is to help the reader to see the broad trends. Too m…

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La Carmina, Author of ‘The Little Book of Satanism,’ Talks ‘Satanic Panic,’ QAnon, Japanese Satanism, and More

…ic religious values supported by some degree of organization.” The rivalry between The Church of Satan and The Satanic Temple can present an obstacle to researchers. What do you see as the most important differences between these groups? The foundational basis is quite different, as The Satanic Temple takes inspiration from Romantic Satanism (the early to mid-19th century literary movement that re-cast the Devil as a courageous rebel against arbit…

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Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

…icially criticized Europe for its “aggressive” promotion of homosexuality. Colombia: Pro-Gay Ad from Senator Colombian journalist, commentator, and Senator Armando Benedetti has been a supporter of civil unions. This week he posted a short campaign video featuring kissing same-sex couples, Benedetti himself emphatically stating his support for equal rights, and the text of Mexican national hero Benito Juárez’s famous line “El respeto al derecho aj…

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Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

…civil and religious marriage. It asked, “Do you support or oppose marriage between two persons of the same sex?” A clear majority of US Catholics said yes (54-40). As a region, Europeans oppose 38-56, but country by country differences are huge: Nearly two-thirds of Spanish Catholics support same-sex marriage (64-27), while almost 8 out of 10 Polish Catholics oppose it (15-78). In Latin America, Catholics in Brazil and Argentina are about evenly s…

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Family Planning is Vatican’s Blind Spot on Environment

…amily planning—the less politically charged expression. Jeffery Sachs from Colombia University and Tim Wirth from the UN Foundation, for example, both see a link between the ability of women to decide on the number of children they want and the ability to ensure planetary survival. Recent studies have shown that providing contraception to the 220 million women who want it but don’t have access would reduce carbon emissions by 15%. No coercion, jus…

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Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

…r generation”, but also due to “concerns [the march] would provoke clashes between gays and their opponents”. India: Census Documents Nearly 500,000 Hijra We reported in May that India’s Supreme Court had ruled in favor of allowing transgender people to identify themselves as a “third gender” on official documents. Less than 30,000 people used that designation in registering for the recent general election, but data released from last year’s natio…

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