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Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…g a home with a married gay couple for ten days. The couple was married in New Zealand.Meanwhile, the Advocate reports: According to Australian Marriage Equality, the organization leading the fight for equal marriage rights Down Under, polls show 72 percent of Australians favor legalizing same-sex marriage. In fact, the group reports today that Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is leaning toward tacit support for changing law to allow for same…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…s a self-governing country in the South Pacific in “free association” with New Zealand. Taiwan: Marriage opponents using new recall law to target pro-equality lawmakers The Taipei Times reports that opponents of marriage equality “have benefited from changes to the civil servants’ recall act,” which now requires only a 25 percent voter turnout for a recall vote. Marriage equality opponents claim that they have gathered enough signatures to force a…

My Womb for His Purposes: The Perils of Unassisted Childbirth in the Quiverfull Movement

By Kathryn Joyce

…s, which has a large readership in all three countries Campbell has lived: New Zealand, Australia, and now the United States. While Campbell has not been a particularly zealous proponent of unassisted childbirth, she has in the past helped promote an extreme version of the practice taught by Carol Balizet, head of the obscure, Tampa, Florida-based Home in Zion Ministries, that is condemned even by fellow unassisted childbirthers. Balizet, a former…

Double Helix: Cancer Decoded, Buyer Beware

By Arri Eisen

…ly transformative as the election of Barack Obama. As noted on NPR, in New Zealand’s National Business Review and others, is a report to be published in Nature that for the first time scientists have decoded a cancer genome (a genome is the entire DNA sequence of a cell—all 3 billion base pairs in this case). While this is a monumental step in the ‘War on Cancer’ President Nixon declared in 1971—a war, by the way, most expected to win easily withi…

Hobby Lobby, Bill Gothard, and the Submission of Women

By Sarah Posner

…The Green family, according to Gothard, also “bought a training center in New Zealand and gave it to us.” He says that by providing the institute with these facilities, the Greens and their company “really helps with the bottom line.” The Greens became involved with his ministry, Gothard says, after members of the family attended an Institute seminar. David Green, Hobby Lobby’s CEO, provided anendorsement for one of Gothard’s books that noted the…

Olympics Opening Ceremony as Satanic Ritual

By Joseph Laycock

…ening to return. This week’s Time magazine recounted the story (headline: “New Jersey Police Suspect Cult Activity in Grave Robbing”) of a body taken from a mausoleum in Pleasantville, New Jersey. As police sometimes do when no motive is apparent, it suggested the crime might have been committed by a “cult.” The article even contained a link to a piece from 1978 entitled “The Quandary of the Cults.” To a historian of American religion, this link…

Whether We Call White Nationalism ‘Christian’ Is All About Who Gets to Define Christianity

By Ivan Strenski

…y been buzzing about whether Brenton Tarrant’s mass murder of Muslims in a New Zealand mosque should be called “Christian” and/or “religious” terrorism. RD’s Murali Baraji sparked a series of impassioned exchanges for allegedly conflating the Australian shooter’s “white terrorism” with “Christian nationalism.” Even though “Christian nationalists” may lack strong biblical foundations or even a mature theological basis, Tarrant comfortably takes his…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Shooter Blinds Us to the Reality of White Supremacy

By Ivan Strenski

…einforcing a sense of “us”; and the articulation of common language, where coded phrases like “high scores” mean lots and lots of killing. As virtual as these digital associations may be, they nonetheless effectively form real communities—common minds for the like-minded. Online sites must, thus, be taken seriously as the new venues where digital Klans gather, preparing for the next ride—even if they perform the actual ride alone. Where critics ne…

WWJD Or The First Amendment?

By Sarah Posner

…is a problem — or even what kind of problem it might be. In contrast, the New Zealand military has plans to remove the engravings and is reconsidering its contract with Trijicon, because “the lettering on the gunsights is fundamentally wrong, could be easily misconstrued and could raise religious tensions.” Fundamentally wrong is hardly the sort of language you’d hear coming out of the U.S. military, which for years has acquiesced to proselytizat…

Jesus Comes Out for Christmas

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…give him that. Cardy is pastor of St. Matthew in the City in Auckland, New Zealand. You may remember this church for their controversial billboards. In 2009, they put up a billboard depicting Mary and Joseph in bed with Joseph wondering how he could ever measure up to God. Last year’s Christmas billboard showed Mary holding a holding a pregnancy test. Both of those billboards were vandalized—torn down by sensitive religious types who don’t like th…