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Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…ustices. Brazil: In victory for evangelical psychologist, Court reverses of 18-year-old ban on gay ‘cure’ therapy A court overturned an 18-year-old ban on “conversion” therapy meant to “cure gay people, sparking street protests. According to The Guardian, “Coming a week after a bank cancelled an exhibition of gat art after protests from rightwing and evangelical Christian groups, the ruling has raised fears that progressive policies could be overt…

Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…f Mars Hill climbed the Apple charts, clocking in at number three on August 12, 2021, behind number one, “True Crime,” and number two, “The Daily” by the New York Times, this ranking was celebrated by fans who made note of the podcast’s popularity nationwide with pride, repeatedly commenting with admiration on its production value and the quality of its long-form journalism. Reading these reviews, I had a bad case of deja vu. As one of my friends,…

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…isville and before the fundamentalist takeover of the seminary in the early 1990s Crescent Hill was the spiritual home for many students, staff, and distinguished professors. Today the 800-member church is a diverse community of faith including people of various races, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and world-views. Refugees and immigrants compose roughly one-third of the congregation. The church is heavily invested in a wide array of soc…

Dirty Money in the Appalachian Church: Six Years After Deadly Coal Mine Disaster, Where Are We Now?

By Michael J. Iafrate

…tance of coal to the state’s economy? When asked these questions, diocesan officials such as Fr. Brian O’Donnell, the executive secretary of the West Virginia Catholic Conference (the public policy arm of the Diocese) reply that “it wouldn’t be prudent” to speak strongly about these things. In a recent email and phone conversation, Fr. O’Donnell also dismissed any concerns about the influence of coal money on the public policy statements of the di…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…ey: Pride, under threat from Islamists and nationalists, cancelled by city officials City officials in Istanbul announced that the city would not allow the annual pride parade to be held this year. It was scheduled for June 26. A far-right youth group affiliated with the nationalist Great Union Party had held a press conference promised to do “what is needed” to stop the event from taking place. More from the Independent: Ömer Akpinar, a Turkish g…

The “Obamosque” Smears and the Money Fueling Them

By Sarah Posner

…ds about Democratic candidates. Currently, according to the Special Guests site, “he is preparing to spend millions of dollars for TV ads between now and the November elections to force elected officials to take a public stand on the building of the Mosque.” After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for an investigation into the money behind the Islamophobic fervor, Wheeler said, according to the Special Guests site, “Pelosi’s Stalinist tactics will…

Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…kup. YouTube announced that at midnight on March 31 it would shut down its site for the next decade and judge 150,000 submitted videos in order to “select a winner,” reopening again in 2023 with only the winning video. Not to be outdone, Google created two pranks: a YouTube video announced its latest innovation, Google Nose Beta, a “flagship olfactory knowledge feature” allowing users to search for smells (like dogs acquire their information); and…

Rev. Smith Goes to Washington

By Frederick Clarkson

…ians are right-wing fundamentalists, but I also recognize that for a small number of people my beliefs disqualify me as a candidate. Two recent examples come to mind that illustrate the concerns that have been voiced. At a recent candidate forum, I was introduced as being a “moral figure in the community.” That prompted one of the other candidates to ask me directly during the Q & A part of the forum if I felt that atheists or other non-believers…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…defined.” The attack on UN’s advocacy for LGBT Human Rights continues on a number of fronts. On November 18, an effort by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation moved an amendment that would strip language regarding sexual orientation and gender identity from a resolution regarding “extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.” More from OutRight Action International: Today [November 18], the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assem…

And the Violent Bear It Away? Disciplined Nonviolence and the Coming Election Emergency

By Peter Laarman

…ler’s brownshirts—the Sturmabteiling, or SA—facilitated his rise during the 1920s and 1930s. A badly polarized Weimar Republic found itself totally defenseless in the face of stormtrooper-incited chaos and crime. Of course our official founders—those rich white men in wigs—chose to euphemize and sanitize what they knew full well would ultimately threaten the stability of their perfect machine: the unspeakable violence they authorized within the sy…