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Alums Speak Out Against Anti-Gay Christian College

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…stian colleges and universities around the country who have these kinds of policies. So many, in fact, that Soulforce—a gay and lesbian Christian justice organization—has organized “Equality Rides” over the past few years. Busloads of gay and lesbian youth visit these campuses to challenge such anti-gay policies. In some places they are welcomed into dialogue. At others, they are banned from campus and arrested if they attempt to enter. Rider Ange…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…clarified that it would be up to each bishop to decide on their employment policies. Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane recently said the love of same-gender couples is “like the love of friends.” But Catholics, including some bishops, have also been prominently supportive of marriage equality, or at least the faithful’s right to vote according to their consciences. Bishop Vincent Long, OFM Conv., of Parramatta said Catholics are free to decide…

What Facebook Unwittingly Reveals in its Ban of LifeSiteNews for Covid Misinformation

By Rebecca Todd Peters

…contribute to physical harm,” an action that violates Facebook’s COVID-19 policies. The website was banned from YouTube in February for similar reasons. This raises the larger question of why these media outlets have allowed the participation of a website like LifeSiteNews, which has been described by Snopes.com as “a known purveyor of misleading information.” Their belligerent anti-abortion stance has contributed to the escalating stigmatization…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rnational, and Scott Lively, who has traveled the globe promoting anti-gay policies. RD Contributor Jay Michaelson has published a Daily Beast commentary on Rick Warren’s work in Africa, which he says “may well reflect the sense among Christian conservatives that America has already been lost, but Africa may yet be saved. Here, the culture war has been won by Satan; there, it may still be won by God.” Churches, schools, and faith-based health serv…

An Open Letter to Western Feminists

By Shabana Mir

…s and anti-imperialist people of conscience, we oppose direct and indirect policies of ethnic cleansing and decimation of native populations by all nation-states. In the current climate of U.S.-initiated or U.S.-backed assaults on women in Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan, we are deeply troubled by one kind of hypocritical Western feminist discourse that continues to be preoccupied with particular kinds of violence against Muslim or Middle Eastern…

Is There Hope for a Truly Progressive Evangelicalism? An Interview with Deborah Jian Lee

By Eric C. Miller

…to dismantle patriarchy in the church, pressing old-school leaders to back policies that advance women’s access to family planning services and advancing a conversation among women of faith who face hurdles to gender equality. The third and final thread follows LGBT students at the ultra-conservative Biola University in Los Angeles. Each begins safely in the closet and proceeds by turns into the activist “Biola Queer Underground.” In a book full o…

Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…on’s loss and explain their position by pointing to her resume of war hawk policies that have left many Muslim-majority countries devastated. The destabilization of Iraq and Syria (which has resulted in over one million refugees), the Saudi invasion of Yemen using weapons acquired from the U.S., and her uncritical view of the Israeli occupation of Palestine (especially when compared to Bernie Sanders’) are a few examples. Some point to the moment…

Russian Politician Wants to Ban Apple CEO Who Says Being Gay is God’s Gift; Violence After Preachers Blame Liberian Gays for Ebola; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…American religious conservatives who have been actively promoting anti-gay policies in his country: Caleb Orozco, co-founder of the United Belize Advocacy Movement, an HIV/AIDS advocacy group, told the Blade he hopes the gathering will allow him to highlight U.S. religious organizations that support efforts defending the English-speaking Central American country’s anti-sodomy law. Orozco added the conference also provides an opportunity to raise a…

Beck’s “Dream”—Our Nightmare

By Julie Ingersoll

…emocrats as the racists supportive of slavery and post-Emancipation racist policies. Barton frames the details for maximum impact on contemporary politics, to an increasingly growing audience. Like Barton’s larger revisionist effort to develop and perpetuate the narrative that America is a “Christian nation,” the “Republicans-are-really-the-party-of-racial-equality” narrative is not entirely fictive. Some historical points Barton makes are true; b…

Pope Francis vs. the Bishops: An “Overblown” Narrative?

By Patricia Miller

…all have day jobs, so the conference’s staff plays an outsized role in the policies of the organization and those policies have been taking an increasingly reactionary direction since conservatives elevated Dolan as head of the USCCB in 2010 over Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas, a moderate who was next in line for the job. As Michael Sean Winters notes in the National Catholic Reporter, “since the 2011 USCCB elections, a stunning number of very talen…