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Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…ft an right for lowering the age at which someone was allowed to marry from 18 years of age to 16 in the case of boys and 14 in the case of girls. Georgia: Orthodox Priest Threatens LGBT Activists Anti-gay Orthodox priests and other clerics are warning of violence if LGBT rights activists try to publicly recognize an international anti-homophobia day on May 17; last year a small silent demonstration by LGBT rights supporters was attacked by a crow…

Can You Be Liberal and Catholic?

By Patricia Miller

…rked to suppress visible dissent against their teachings related to sexuality, especially by anyone who could be considered an “official” Catholic, like nuns….

When Churches Do Business

By Sarah Posner

…tate agent accidentally forwarded the couple an e-mail in which a diocesan official said the church was no longer interested in a deal “because of the potentiality of gay marriages there.” The couple sued under the state’s anti-discrimination law, and Coakley weighed in on this point (emphasis mine): Our laws provide important protections for religious organizations and people of faith,” Coakley said in a statement. “These laws also strike a bala…

His Holiness, Inc.: The Dalai Lama as a Spiritual Mega-Brand

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ai Lama of his speaking events appears somewhat “the concept of himself”—a spiritual brand insinuating wisdom, inspiring actualization of a more sympathetic self animated by a measure of kindness toward those with whom they work and live. Hey, who’s not a fan of that? His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, it turns out: “When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises within us and shifts our focus from our narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inn…

The New Manson Family or Teens at “Play”?

By Joseph Laycock

…form of two gruesome murders. In Houston, a pair of teenage boys murdered a 15-year-old girl and told authorities it was part of ritual to strike a Faustian pact with Satan, while in Sudbury, Pennsylvania, confessed teenage murderer Miranda Barbour announced last week that she was “a high ranking official in the Satanic world” and had murdered at least 22 people before losing count of her victims. While we don’t have all of the facts, it seems hig…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…. Bosnia: Attack on gay film festival in Sarajevo On February 2, a group of 10 to 15 hooded people burst into a movie theater hosting an LGBT film festival “yelling and intimidating participants” and injuring three people. According to Agence France-Presse, Bosnia is a largely conservative Muslim country and the capital Sarajevo has usually been hostile towards hosting events linked to homosexuality. The only attempt to organise a Gay Pride march…

Mormon Church Claims DNA Studies Can’t Affirm or Reject Book of Mormon

By Holly Welker

…evolution, and also, because it discusses events believed to have happened 10,000 years ago, a tacit repudiation of the Fall and the Flood and other events that supposedly occurred less than 10,000 years ago. But let’s leave all that aside and instead talk about the nature and ramifications of evidence. The Church begins by stating that “the primary purpose of the Book of Mormon is more spiritual than historical,” which is true of many religious…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

…ular on a case of a trans woman arrested in a salon for “imitating the opposite sex” and “entering a space dedicated to women-only.” A 2007 law against “imitating the appearance of a member of the opposite sex” was criticized in a Human Rights Watch report from 2012. Littauer cites a newspaper’s publication of an open letter to written by a psychologist to the Minister of Education complaining that LGBT people are converting others into their “way…

Russian Orthodox Church Supports Referendum on Sodomy Laws

By Chrissy Stroop

…Church-Society Relations functions in many respects as the public face of official Orthodoxy, exhibits a pattern of such behavior. He has praised the radical Orthodox activist known as Dmitry Enteo, for example, and even joined with Enteo in a prayer service for the passage of laws against abortion, ‘propaganda of homosexuality,’ and blasphemy. Chaplin’s is a prominent voice among Orthodox Russians, and the message he consistently sends is that t…

Little Sisters: When Exemptions Are Not Enough

By Sarah Posner

…temporary exemption for those religious non-profits, which was to expire in 1982. But that exemption, too, would be extended. According to the PRC: In 1980, at the urging of the Southern Baptist Convention Annuity Board, Senator Herman Talmadge introduced legislation to amend ERISA to make the special temporary rule permanent. The proposed legislation also clarified that incorporated organizations such as the SBC Annuity Board, and similar unincor…