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Evolution ‘Doesn’t Make Any Sense’: A Scene From a Classroom

By Lauri Lebo

…g points of their parents. And so, the circle of life continues. The most frustrating part is that the students appear to have genuine confusion over evolution and are struggling to understand it. But the teacher, rather than address their misinformation and use his teaching skills to actually foster learning in the classroom, abdicates his responsibility and says, “How can I say to the student, your ideas are trash?” As if that would be his only…

Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…ifornia and Hudson Valley, New York. Meanwhile, federal investigators have ruled that a fire at a the construction site of an Islamic center in Murfreesborough, Tennessee was an arson. Elsewhere in the state, a Memphis pastor put a “Welcome to the Neighborhood” sign outside his church to welcome the new Islamic center being built nearby. And a new mosque has gone up in Lousiville, Kentucky quite peacefully. Is the BBC anti-Christian? The Florida p…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y, will no longer be majority Catholic by 2030 or earlier. “Nicaragua and Uruguay are already there and others are on the way,” he said. Latin America’s embrace of Protestant churches, particularly the more conservative Pentecostal churches, reflects a polarization in attitudes in some countries in the region on social issues. In Brazil, where Protestants now account for more than a quarter of the population, Catholics were twice as likely as Prot…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…m the manuscript. The room hushes. The old writer glances at the pages. He reads one, reads another. For hours he turns the pages in utter silence. Finally, he turns the last page and looks up at the rest of the writers who are on the edges of their chairs, awaiting his judgment. “Good news,” he says. “It’s shit.” Unfortunately your friend Mr. Manseau’s book does not fit into that category. My God! How could he! The Butcher’s Daughter is delirious…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…vil genius to manufacture such a “Sophie’s choice.” Kendell wrote that the news was “crushing” to LGBT advocates who had been working to change the tone of the church’s approach to LGBT people: Two months ago, when I attended a conference in Utah sponsored by Affirmation, a support organization for LGBT Mormons and friends and family, I met many non-gay Mormon officials who supported their LGBT congregants. I met a lesbian couple from Seattle who…

Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…to establish a new orthodoxy, surely?” We have this awful tendency to make rules and boxes instead of opening up and deconstructing a little bit what we mean when we say God. And there’s value in that. So there is a sort of fundamentalism there in the secular world. That is very prevalent in the UK. A naïve hope I have is that there are very conservative clerics who are interestingly still committed to non-violence. I wonder whether those people a…

Did Uganda’s President Really Veto the Anti-Gay Bill?

By Kapya Kaoma

…eatedly?” (see the full letter below) International media outlets like the BBC, USA Today, and the Globe and Mail immediately echoed the Monitor article, asserting that President Museveni had blocked or even vetoed the bill—which was far from the truth—even after Pepe Julian Onziema, Director of Programs at leading Ugandan LGBTQ advocacy organization Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) tweeted that the Monitor article was misleading. Museveni didn’t e…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…ansgender people but a basic failure to understand the emotional logic of Trumpism.” Trump got elected on the promise of a return to an imaginary past—a time we don’t remember because it never actually was, but one when America was a kind of great that Trump has promised to restore. Trumps shares this brand of nostalgia with Vladimir Putin, who has spent the last five years talking about Russian “traditional values,” with Hungarian president Vikto…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…thin the United Kingdom that does not recognize marriage equality, a judge ruled that the Christian-run Ashers bakery had violated anti-discrimination laws by refusing to bake a cake endorsing same-sex marriage. Scotland: Church of Scotland OK’s gay ministers in civil partnerships The Church of Scotland delegates voted overwhelmingly to allow congregations to ordain gay ministers who are in civil partnerships. “Supporters said it was time for the…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…so championed as a way to ensure that religion’s prophetic power is not corrupted by politics. Bill Berkowitz: Four More Days… Studs Terkel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and premier oral historian of the twentieth century died at 96, on Halloween, four days before the election. A risk-taking, uncompromising, black-listed progressive and an agnostic, Terkel didn’t shy away from talking or writing about religion: On his radio program in 1945…