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Feeding the Hungry vs. Antigay Activism: A Double Standard for Religious Freedom?

By Hollis Phelps, Ryne Beddard

…lly at best and coldhearted at worst. Nicki Grossman, who runs the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, told the Sun Sentinel that she has received emails telling her that the city “has no heart.” But, at least as far as we can tell, it seems that virtually no one has pulled out the First Amendment in defense of Arnold Abbot. We draw attention to this because, as RD has frequently noted, appeals to “religious freedom” have become…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…ke his middle. I have watched passengers with first class seats hand their tickets to uniformed veterans and sit in economy. Several times I have witnessed people move further back to allow a mother to sit next to her children. All of these required not only the hassle of moving, but also the discomfort of a worse seat. Sometimes the person with the better seat was asked, sometimes s/he offered. In most situations, the person moving to the worse s…

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…

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…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…who opposed the homosexual lifestyle in some countries are prosecuted, and Jamaicans need to be free to practise their democratic rights. “If Jamaica wants to go that way, then fine, but this must not be forced upon us and certainly must not be sneaked upon us …,” said West. West is a representative of the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society, a group that has worked with American evangelicals to resist moves toward decriminalization of homosex…

Belize Overturns Sodomy Law Defended by Religious Right, Ugandan Officials Will Continue to Suppress Gay Groups, And More on the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…for pride, say gay ideology ‘against God’ Human Rights First reports that Jamaica’s second annual pride celebration was a success. The Jamaica Gleaner reports that anti-gay protesters used the country’s Independence Day celebration to protest outside the US Embassy over the embassy’s public support for the LGBT community. “The protesters were riled up by what they claim is an attempt by the embassy to push a homosexual agenda in Jamaica,” accordi…

Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…We have reported on U.S. evangelicals backing resistance to the repeal of Jamaica’s colonial era “buggery” law. Last week, on Jamaica’s Independence Day, equality activists protested the country’s anti-gay laws in Jamaica, London, and New York. Vietnam: US Embassy Hosts Harvey Milk Foundation as Pride Celebrated LGBT activists in Hanoi held their third Pride celebration. On August 4, the U.S. Embassy hosted a forum on “The Intersection of LGBT In…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, Polish bishops a year ago launched a campaign against “gender ideology.” Jamaica: Human rights lawyer says anti-gay foreigners make bad situation worse The Daily Beast’s Quorum project this week posted video remarks from Jamaican law professor Maurice Tomlinson on “the pervasive cultural and religious attitudes against LGBT people in his home country.” He notes those pervasive attitudes, which manifest in deadly violence, are also shared by many…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…. have worked to rally resistance to decriminalization of homosexuality in Jamaica. The new suit is being brought by Maurice Tomlinson, a gay Jamaican attorney who received death threats after a local newspaper published a photograph of his marriage to his Canadian partner in 2011… “The laws of Jamaica that criminalize consensual sexual intimacy between men essentially render me an un-apprehended criminal,” Tomlinson states in the court filings… T…

Global LGBT Recap: Mandela and Equality; Elton John Defies Russian Ban; Fake-Healing of AIDS

By Peter Montgomery

…up Pandora’s box of homo’l ‘rights.’” The conference was sponsored by the Jamaican Coalition for a Healthy Society and the Christian Lawyers’ Association in Kingston. LaBarbera was joined by Andrea Williams, a Christian conservative lobbyist from the United Kingdom. Buzzfeed’s Lester Feder reported on the conference, at which LaBarbera announced, “I do not stand with my government,” and said, “The dirty little secret that the media and homosexual…