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Hagee Calls Obama “The Most Anti-Semitic President Ever”

By Sarah Posner

…ican megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson bestowed an award on Christians United for Israel founder John Hagee. In his remarks, Hagee called President Barack Obama “the most anti-Semitic president ever.” Chemi Shalev reports more details: The other stars of the night were the ubiquitous Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam, whose generous contributions to ZOA have helped lift the organization out of the doldrums and into t…

US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…law to be passed by the Finnish government through a citizen’s initiative. United Kingdom: Turing relatives back push for broad pardons, UKIP LGBT chair quits party Relatives of the late codebreaker and digitial computing pioneer Alan Turing turned in nearly half a million signatures gathered via Change.org calling on the British government to pardon 49,000 men who like Turing were persecuted under laws criminalizing homosexuality. Turing received…

The Value of Crazy-Making Dialogue

By Daniel Schultz

…ther around the common search to discern what it means to be Christians in today’s world. What makes us the United Church of Christ is that we talk to one another, not that we agree with one another. For that reason, I have been sharply critical both of liberals within the denomination who think that everyone should hold to a progressive theology, and of evangelicals who have chosen to stomp out rather than stay and fight for their perspective. Th…

Beck, Hagee, and Lieberman Band Together to Fuel Armageddon Panic

By Sarah Posner

…ess the mounting threats to Israel and what we can do to stand with Israel today.” This comes on the heels of Sen. Joe Lieberman endorsement of Beck’s Jerusalem event. Lieberman once compared Hagee to Moses, “a man of God” who has become a “leader of a mighty multitude.” The Beck-Hagee alliance dates back years, too, with Beck hosting the televangelist on his CNN program in 2007 to answer “honest questions” about whether “the apocalypse is almost…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ong” for May and the Conservative Party to be aligning themselves with and promoting “an organization that promotes hatred, homophobia and misogyny born of religious fundamentalism and masquerading as religious freedom.” The UK’s general election will be held on June 9. Poland: Warsaw Pride parade draws crowd in spite of opposition from church, gov’t, nationalists A crowd estimated by organizers at 50,000 people and by police at 13,000 marched in…

The Silly Calls for Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…s to say) “market share” of the total number of abortions performed in the United States. If you were hoping to then see a careful accounting of why other variables do not explain this phenomenon—income factors that may have made low-cost clinics more appealing, or the number of abortion clinics in the U.S. and how that has changed over the time period in question, or the possibility that people in private practice would rather not perform abortio…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e equality campaign launched by NGOs Five NGOs have launched a campaign to promote marriage equality, where same-sex couples have been able to register as partners since 2006. Mexico: Gay soccer team hurt by US visa denials The Set Pieces, a sports site, features the Zorros Club de Futbol, an amateur soccer team from Mexico City whose players are gay; a number of team players have been denied visas to participate in the World Out Games in Miami in…

Columnist Applauds Russia’s Homophobic Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…arts to continue their heartless agenda. Even some anti-gay leaders in the United Methodist Church are looking toward these backward-leaning countries and their draconian laws and beliefs about homosexuality to keep that denomination from becoming welcoming to LGBT people. Recently, several regional UMC conferences have adopted resolutions saying that “the church is in error on the subject of homosexuality’s incompatibility with Christian teaching…

With New York Joining DC in Defiance Methodist Church Faces Showdown on LGBT Ordination

By Pamela R. Lightsey

As the United Methodist Church approaches it next quadrennial General Conference this May, its members should reflect upon the watershed moment of its 2012 conference that has inspired LGBTQ rights activists to take a series of courageous stances against its discriminatory polices. In that moment, retired bishop Melvin Talbert declared a position of biblical obedience urging LGBTQ persons and allies to live as though the Book of Discipline prohib…

Malta Adopts Marriage Equality Over Objections of Catholics and Evangelicals; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…anizations, and individuals from any attempt to curb or obstruct religious freedom or freedom of conscience which are guaranteed by international human rights laws.” Caruana said that although TEAM was aware that marriage equality will not affect religious marriage, it was still concerned about religious rights. “As Christians we believe that according to Biblical teaching, God ordained marriage as a union between one man and one woman for the rea…