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Islamophobia is Real, Mr. Mayor—A New York City Muslim Explains

By Hussein Rashid

…ound on the impact of Islamophobia. I want to offer a reflection of what a New York Muslim sees and hears as Islamophobia becomes so normalized that it becomes an institution. Let’s begin with the double-standard tango. We hear about about an Alabama teen who is reported to have a near-operational plot to attack his school. He is allowed to go back home. A couple in New York, where one partner is a serial offender, is found with explosives in thei…

The Trials of Janie Spahr

By Richard A. Lindsay

…st equal marriage rights for same-gender couples, the Presbyterian church (USA) risks finding itself out of touch with the times, their pastors unable to practice the full range of their ministerial duties under the law. “The church used to ask me to stay in the closet over my sexual orientation,” Spahr says, “but now they are asking me to deny the faith part. I was called, God called me, and sent me into the LGBT community, then I am not supposed…

Turn On The News: Ending Zoom Church is a Great Idea for a Column — Provided You Completely Ignore the Disability Perspective

By Daniel Schultz

…ous about what could be learned, and deeply indifferent to the potential misery sponsored by the author’s ideas. Tish Harrison Warren might be entirely right that the world would be a better place if churches returned to entirely in-person worship. I think the world would be better off if New York Times opinion editors concentrated less on what might spark conversation and more on what needs to be said at the present moment. This isn’t it. ### The…

Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…he country and its territorial integrity.” Israel: Study Examines Queer Israelis Who Emigrate At 972mag.com, doctoral student Hila Amit writes about research based on 42 interviews with queer Israelis who have emigrated to London, Berlin, and New York City. Amit’s subjects gave a range of reasons for leaving the country, from escaping family pressures to conform to social norms to wishing to raise children away from mandated military service and t…

Updated: Gay Activist Beheaded in Uganda…
Is it a Hoax?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…zi Nsubuga, who gave a pro-gay sermon a few weeks ago, is now missing. The New Vision, a Ugandan news site, reports that he was “mentally stressed” but does not mention his support for gays and lesbians. The reality in Uganda is that the gay and lesbian community is under constant threat of violence or death, and religious leaders in the United States like Lou Engle and others have a direct responsibility in fueling the flames of hatred in that co…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…involvement in rioting that eventually prompted an anemic apology from the BBC after video of the interview spread from YouTube to Facebook to Twitter and so on around the world. Only vaguely satisfactory, but surely better than the connived executions of Wat Tyler, John Ball, and others who spoke on behalf of the 1381 insurgents. All Out of Opiates in England Setting the social tone aright has long involved encouraging religious piety—acts of dev…

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…mentals became wildly popular. Then in 1925, a young football coach was recruited to challenge Tennessee’s newly passed Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution. Scopes lost, and the Butler Act stayed on the books. Thanks to the dispatches of Baltimore Evening Sun columnist H.L. Mencken, much of the country viewed folks in Dayton, Tennessee, as backward hillbillies. However, even as many Americans were reveling in Mencken’s character…

London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Chechnya, which have drawn international condemnation in recent weeks. The New York Times reports that Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, “has enjoyed near unconditional support” from Putin, and that the anti-gay violence is part of his approach to governing: The regime’s coercive methods are allied with punitive conservative values. Official Chechen ideology is a mix of traditionalism, Sufi Islam and Putinism. The authorities have banned alcohol, enf…

Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ter an earlier ruling. A pro-equality senator, Armando Benedetti, told the New York Times, “Today is a bittersweet day. I’m happy because LGBT people have equal rights, but I’m sad because although Congress looks like a cathedral outside, it is a manger inside.” The Times’ Paula Duran noted that a Gallup poll earlier this year showed 55 percent of Colombians opposing gay marriage, even though “the Catholic Church has lost influence and the country…

My God, David Brooks

By John Modern

…ity to the sensibility of others—people, of course, but animals, machines, New York Times columns, and even abstractions such as religion and/or the secular—power words that never fail to incite. So when Taylor poses his central question—what does it feel like to live within a secular age?—the erudition and subtlety with which he strives to answer is often betrayed by a conception of religion as overwhelmingly (but not exclusively) cognitive—a one…