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ISIS Claims Responsibility for Orlando Massacre; Legal Gray Area in Jordan Amid Rising Fundamentalism; Push and Pull on LGBT Human Rights at UN; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…irst step.” As Salerno reported earlier this year, Tomlinson is pursuing a number of legal challenges to anti-LGBT laws in the region, including colonial-era sodomy laws. Salerno wrote that “primarily US-based Evangelical Christian organizations have been active” in the region, “preaching that homosexuals are deviant and dangerous, and fomenting opposition to any expansion of LGBT rights.” The “Queering Paradigms” conference was held in Grand Caym…

Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…when next I will see a person in the days before departing, then go to the airport alone. Leaving Indonesia I was blessed with the local option: there was a party of people at my house that day and two carloads came to the airport. I am touched by this. Overwhelmed in fact, because I don’t know what to do with all these people. As I mentioned, my original itinerary allowed me to fly direct from SFO to Paris. This new itinerary had me stop in anoth…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

American Muslim Community Must Search its Soul After Orlando Massacre

By Omar Sarwar

After the horrific mass murder of LGBT clubgoers in Orlando on June 12th, American Muslims have once again been made vulnerable to backlash, wondering what will become of their community in a dangerously Islamophobic atmosphere. More than 200 American Muslim leaders swiftly issued their condemnation of the massacre, proclaiming an “openhearted” and “inclusive” Islam and rejecting “hatred” and “intolerance.” It may be tempting to think that all Am…

Why Even Progressive Christianity Must Own Its Complicity in Anti-LGBT Violence

By Layton E. Williams

…g post on the day of the shooting, boldly claiming that the church and the Orlando shooter “have been in the same business.” In response to the horrific death toll in Orlando, Anderson asked, “How many LGBT sisters and brothers have we—the Church—gradually and systemically killed over a longer period of time?” Unsurprisingly, Rev. Anderson and others who have called out the church’s homophobic history have faced intense backlash from Christians en…

Orlando Tragedy and the Tangled History of Jihad and Homosexuality

By Ali Olomi

When Omar Mateen, a young American-born man attacked a gay nightclub in Orlando, he chose his target deliberately. The horrific attack left 49 dead and more injured in a community that is already marginalized and regularly faces discrimination in the United States. Early reports indicated that Mateen declared his allegiance to jihadist groups. Later investigation revealed that he was likely struggling with his own sexuality as he frequented the n…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…

Travel Truths

By Amina Wadud

…t even have to take it out of the bag! That was the only good thing at the airport. Ever heard Robin Williams joke about the “random” checks at airport security?’ He reads all these, clearly, Muslim names, and one Susan Jones? It’s like that for me: a constant random. If I do not get extra security, I don’t know how to act. Let me try to give you a picture of this. Normally, I dress with two scarves. One actually on my head and another draped like…

Will the Taliban Actually Remain Somewhat Moderate This Time?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…he North Vietnamese army tanks literally broke down the Embassy gates. The airport was out of commission since the North Vietnamese military had attacked it, and in fact the last American soldiers to lose their lives in the war were defending the airport. After that last helicopter flight not a single person was evacuated by the US military. The “boat people” who fled Vietnam did so on their own. By contrast the Taliban has been remarkably patient…

Country Trumpkins

By Daniel Schultz

…It was five empty miles to the nearest built-up area, another ten to West Bend. The Trump campaign probably selected the venue to assure a friendly audience. The WOW counties surrounding Milwaukee—Washington, Ozaukee, and Waukesha—were his toughest area in the Wisconsin primary. But West Bend, which sits in northern Washington County, is just on the cusp of the rural, northern areas of the state where he did best, neither really in or outside the…