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Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…irst time they met with LGBT parents, too,” Dinh said in a Skype call from Ho Chi Minh City. “We told our stories because we wanted the government to understand the difficulties our children face in their daily lives… I think that the officials understood and felt empathy for the PFLAG members and for the LGBT community.” India: Recriminalization of homosexuality leaves gays vulnerable to violence, blackmail Reuters reports that thousans of LGBT I…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…year, Istanbul Pride was cancelled under orders from the city’s governor, who cited the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as the reason. Subsequently, the amassing crowds of thousands were faced with riot police, who fired tear gas, plastic pellets and water at them. For many LGBTs, Turkey is a stopping point on the way to hoped-for resettlement in Europe, Canada, or the United States. Said one transgender woman, “No reason in this life will make me th…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that continues to grow more visible. PFLAG Vietnam officially launched in Ho Chi Minh City in May 2011, and it has grown to include hundreds of members across the country. Vietnam’s first Pride parade took place in Hanoi a little more than a year later. A number of popular Vietnamese television shows now feature gay characters. The Vietnamese Ministry of Justice in June 2013 proposed a bill that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry and ex…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ds and advertisements that tell us our life is not enough without that new phone, that new gadget, that new dress. And yet the minute you purchase your phone or laptop, it is obsolete. Every six months, fashion editors tell us our entire closet is out—our clothing is disposable. Shopping is not only a lifestyle, it is a form of entertainment. Whether it is infomercials and shopping networks or makeover shows, we not only shop, we watch people shop…

What the Conservative Christian “Fake-Trans Bathroom Creeper” Has To Do With Suburban Anxiety

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nter of the dark cloud was at the very gates of our city,” one might ask: whose city? To which the answer appears to be: our city, we who are invading, bringing light from outside. And when one hears the argument that nondiscrimination ordinances will invite fake-trans bathroom creepers into “our” midst—nay, at the very door of the stall—one might ask: whose midst? And the answer is, again, those who impose Christian virtue upon it from the outsid…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…t would appeal both to people who were waiting for the rapture and people who thought the whole thing was preposterous. You couldn’t do both. They made the movie cheap and released it to the home market. It only had a limited run in theaters the following year Peter Lalonde said secular critics would “hammer us just because of the message” that Jesus is coming back. It made no sense to “Hollywood up” the movies with big budgets and a wide release….

The Faith that Faith Produced

By Haroon Moghul

…wering precisely because it is founded on gentleness and reticence. Which shows how far American Muslims have come, and how much our communities have changed. We’ve invested in people, re-engaged our religious tradition, built bridges with the world, fought back in horror at the ugliness perpetrated in our name and discovered in the process what we think faith asks of us. That philosophy—if it is not too much to call it that—asks that we leave no…

Corporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

By Sarah Posner

…ugh the ACA’s exchanges, it would still pay less than offering a plan. Although Chief Justice John Roberts asked whether offering health insurance to its employees was part of Hobby Lobby’s religious commitment, other justices were skeptical. Ginsburg shot back that “provision of health care is not a religious tenet,” and Kagan distinguished between “wanting to be a good employer” and “saying your religious beliefs” compel providing a health insu…

Mormon Women Knock at the Door, Are Turned Away

By Holly Welker

…hood to attend the priesthood session, she replied, “Well, I’m not a priesthood holder, but I am a member of the church.” When he stressed that priesthood session was only for men, regardless of their church status, she said, “I find that really hurtful that as a woman who’s been a member my whole life who’s faithfully attended, paid my tithing, held a calling—that the fact that I don’t have a Y chromosome would prevent me from being allowed to si…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…ter Ehud Barak made the case for continued Israeli control over all of the holy city, east and west. Very astutely, and unexpectedly, Barak used the New Testament, rather than to the “Old Testament’ to buttress his case for continuing Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem. Referring to the ‘unrest’ at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif Barak told the UN delegates “I believe that the very words Temple Mount in every Western language carry the real…