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Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, “make laws suitable for the modern era.” Under current law, reports Cook Islands News, under current law, an “indecent act” between two men is punishable with up to five years in prison and consensual sodomy with up to seven years. The proposed law does not include marriage equality. The Cook Islands is a self-governing country in the South Pacific in “free association” with New Zealand. Taiwan: Marriage opponents using new recall law to target…

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…

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that his country is “still not ready to decriminalize homosexuality.” Cook Islands: Push for decriminalization Radio New Zealand reported that a sexual diversity group is confident that its efforts to repeal laws criminalizing homosexuality will be successful. The Cook Islands are a self-governing country in “free association” with New Zealand, which provides for the Cook Island’s defene. Homosexual acts are currently punishable by up to five year…

Southern Evangelicals Defend Pedophilia Using Catholic Legends

By Karen E. Park

…toevangelium is concerned, beginning to end, with preserving the perpetual virginity of Mary, not the virgin birth. In fact in the text a midwife who doubts that Mary could remain a virgin even during birth performs a quick pelvic exam on her, only to have her hand burst into flames for her unbelief. Both Matthew and Luke affirm that Mary conceived Jesus while a virgin, but unlike the Protoevangelium they do not imply that she remained a virgin fo…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…converted it into sugar and molasses died of horrific abuse in staggering numbers. These islands were perpetually hungry for more flesh. New arrivals, coming from North America in chains, were always welcome, and the grandee planters paid handsomely. But routinely selling captured natives to the islands was just the beginning for the North American settlers. The long-lived Roger Williams was barely in his grave before his Rhode Island colony was…

The Week in Religion: Haggard Would Identify
as Bisexual, Trademarking
the Virgin, Woman Kills
‘Devil Dog’

By Michael J. Altman

…. Churches claim these fees violate the separation of church and state. In Virginia, the Giles County School Board decided to rehang four-foot-tall copies of the Ten Commandments after they had been removed in December, out of fear of a lawsuit. A new 4-ton Ten Commandments monument went on display this week at the Oldham County Courthouse in Texas. The monument was donated by a coalition of local churches and citizens and sits on Courthouse Squar…

From The Virgin Mary to a Housewife in Queens: Inside The Seer of Bayside

By Joseph Laycock

…Corona Park. In a trance, Lueken transmitted apocalyptic messages from the Virgin Mary, whose visitations were labeled ”Our Lady of the Roses.” Lueken died in 1995, and her followers split into factions that feuded over control. — New York Times, July 26, 1998 1. What inspired you to write The Seer of Bayside? Believe it or not, my interest in Veronica Lueken developed naturally from my first book on vampires. I learned about Lueken because one of…

Country of Georgia Considers Constitutional Marriage Ban; Hindu Nationalist Leader Surprises India With Call to Decriminalize Homosexuality; No End to Anti-LGBT Propaganda Campaign in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ard, associate professor of social sciences at the University of the Faroe Islands, to Ritzau. Faroe Islands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, or the Danish Realm. Dominican Republic: U.S. Rejects Religious Leaders’ Criticism of Openly Gay Ambassador As we have previously noted, James “Wally Brewster,” the openly gay U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, has drawn bitter criticism from religious conservatives. He spoke this…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…impact of its ruling on the political rights of transgender people. Cayman Islands: Advocates Petition EU on Anti-LGBT discrimination. Colours Cayman, an LGBT advocacy group, submitted a petition to the European Parliament after efforts to engage British authorities about anti-LGBT discrimination failed. The Cayman Islands are a British Overseas Territory. The petition has been accepted, meaning that the “legal institutions of the European Union w…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…way from the hard work of repentance, who tickle our ears with promises of cheap grace, and offer a vision of the cross of Jesus that has nothing to say to the crosses, and lynching trees, of history. But, if we do, we will be settling for the gospel of Caesar, not the good news of Jesus Christ. Perhaps it is time to put down the chalk, stop drawing pyrotechnical conspiracy theories that play into our worst fears and listen, instead, for the diffi…