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Gutless Americans: Religion-Baiting Heading into Election Day

By Evan Derkacz

…or the sweep of a spectrum. How are to know whether Jane Doe voted against Free Halloween Candy for Kids because she’s a cold-hearted child-hater or because the sponsor of the bill owns a share in Nabisco? How are we to distinguish those stretching the truth from those obliterating it when most of the media’s unbreakable First Commandment is Thou Shalt Present Both Sides of a Given Issue as Equal—Whether One Side is Objectively More True or Not? I…

Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…hed by Pat Robertson and run by Jay Sekulow with the assistance of his son Jordan. A more recent article by PRA researcher Jandira Queiroz discusses the launch of the ACLJ’s Brazilian branch and the growing political power of Brazil’s evangelical minority which is resisting efforts to expand legal protections for LGBT people; Queiroz wrote recently in RD about the selection of an anti-gay Pentecostal minister as the head of the Brazilian House of…

Confession Fail: iPhone App Controversy Muddies the Sacramental Waters

By Elizabeth Drescher

…des religious technologists) take seriously the cultural, interpersonal, and, therefore, deeply spiritual implications of new media as they are integrated into located, face-to-face relationships, they will have a chance to cross the digital Jordan along with their flocks. Otherwise, no amount of episcopal imprimaturs and Vatican clarifications will stop believers and seekers from moving forward like so many digital Joshuas anxious to leave the ar…

Why Rick Santorum Can’t Just Say: God Doesn’t Want You To Be Gay

By Jay Michaelson

…ical ones), the more candid statements are rarely spoken publicly. As Mark Jordan has recently described in great detail, this instrumental use of non-religious rhetoric has led to a discursive slipperiness, leaving the keen observer wondering: What, exactly, is wrong with homosexuality? Opponents of equality often seem unable to respond consistently, instead attempting to marshal a variety of non-religious arguments to bolster what is at heart a…

Who Wins When Bible is Blamed for Gay Bashing?

By Mark D. Jordan

The news item is both grisly and depressingly familiar: a young man is accused of killing an older man for making sexual advances. The weapon was a sock filled with stones; the young man told police that he had been instructed in prayer to apply the Old Testament punishment of stoning. You want to stop there, recognizing old stereotypes of cultural homophobia coupled with age-prejudices—but mostly the unpredictability of violent delusions. Unfort…

Netflix’s Iranian ‘Messiah’ Is a Gift to Trump and His Evangelical Base

By Tony Keddie

…of Iran and Muslims in Christian end-times scenarios. It’s no wonder that Jordan’s Royal Film Commission has banned the series and that petitions have arisen condemning the show as anti-Islamic. If Netflix renews the show for another season, we shouldn’t be surprised for a moment if the real “Chosen One” tasked with defeating Golshiri turns out to be a stocky, yellow-haired American businessman who builds walls, bans Muslims, and drops drones on…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…arriage as between one man and one woman only. (3) Protection of religious freedom in church education, (4) Limits on LGBT public promotion. We believe these amendments make explicit what the Constitution already implies. [NEAB Vice President Scott Stirm] also reported that the new Trump administration in Washington has committed to appoint a pro-family values US ambassador to Belize. That is what our recent petition, signed by almost 200 pastors,…

New Study: Islamophobia Common in Catholic Media

By Jordan Denari Duffner

…that, while the book was originally published in 2003, it continues to be promoted as “an essential resource” as its publisher, Ascension Press, noted in an email today. As documented in the Bridge Initiative report, Spencer has written for numerous Catholic news outlets, and he has been cited as an expert in others. While some of these are fringe websites, like Church Militant, others are more mainstream, like Our Sunday Visitor, one of the most…

Anxiety About Homosexuality and Apocalyptic Worldview is An Old Marriage: 10 Questions for the Author of Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England

By H. G. Cocks

…dern period have written about religion and sexuality in recent years—Mark Jordan, Sue Morgan, Jacqueline DeVries and others. They have recognised that religion is a vital context for understanding morals and the history of sexuality. Using the material in the book was a good way of extending this treatment of these two themes backwards in time. I am also a great admirer of the British writer Marina Warner, who has written some great books about h…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ys “same-sex marriage has nothing to do with equality” and would “threaten freedom of speech and faith.” Nigeria: U.S. based anti-gay group promotes anti-gay propaganda amid increasing official hostility The Mail & Guardian follows up on the July arrest of 52 men at a party in the state of Kano on suspicion of homosexuality. The men were arrested by the Hisbah Corps, an Islamic security force established by the Kano state government in 2003 to enf…