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Religious Hostility to Gay Nigerians; The Pope’s Visit To Africa; Ireland’s Religious Schools Can’t Discriminate Against Gays; Orthodox Church in Georgia Leads Anti-Gay Forces; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…International (formerly IGLHRC) is holding a global activist gathering in New York, OutSummit: Pushing the Boundaries for Global LGBTIQ Activism. Nigeria: Report on anti-gay violence and extortion PBS special correspondent Nick Schifrin reported on violence and extortion against gay Nigerians from law enforcement officials as well as Christian and Muslim groups. NICK SCHIFRIN: In Bauchi, Nigeria this House of God has become a home for hate. Do yo…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mmering differences regarding ministry with gay and lesbian individuals. A new rule aimed at fostering trust among church decision-makers ended up facing considerable distrust and pushback. Advocates for LGBT inclusion in the church have protested and asked for a public apology for the way the debate has unfolded. New Zealand: Anglican Synod Fails to Approve Marriage Blessings for Same-Sex Couples Gay Anglicans and their allies were upset after an…

Capricology: Week 2: The Soul of a Robot

By Salman Hameed

…a’s final, desperate outburst. Even as the Zoe/Avatar/Cylon (ZAC) itself struggled with a new identity (“Do I look male?”) and old/new ways of being in the world (bite enemies, hug friends), she was seen for herself by one whose sight could be trusted. Did you catch the family dog snuggling contentedly at ZAC’s feet? Animals don’t lie; at least not on television. This was a come-to-Lassie moment. What makes us human? And why do we assume that bein…

Fun with Facts, or, Yes Virginia, The UCC is still a Trinitarian Denomination

By Daniel Schultz

…ning in his glory. They have a credibility problem, to put it mildly. The truly egregious thing about it is that Mattingly passes on the BWF press release as true without bothering to do, as Grossman notes, any other kind of fact-checking. (As it happens, I know something about what happens when you do this. It ain’t pretty.) Any journalist worth his or her salt knows not to accept press releases as gospel. When Chuck Currie posted on the subject…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…ve a future, Ron Moore reveals we have a very deep past (Did you catch the New York Times’ bungling of the timeline?) Since none of you, as I do, teach journalism, this may seem incidental—but it goes to the heart of what made BSG a knockout series and may do the same for Caprica: the shows’ embedded humanism. Whereas most TV dramas are good guys versus bad guys, BSG and Caprica probe the passions that enliven us. The pull of temptation, the cost…

Aliens, Nanobots, & Microbes: The Science of Secular Apocalypse

By Michael Schulson

…going to live for eighty years, or whatever, and perish? Now look at this world. This is a world where Donald Trump is leading in the polls. It’s a world full of nuclear weapons. It’s one where there are at least some people a bit anxious about the future. All my friends had kids anyway. They were like, Oh you have a good point, but I’m just gonna do it. Also on The Cubit: A conversation with the Transhumanist Party’s first presidential candida…

Gay Chutzpah: An LGBT Synagogue Thrives

By Susan Henking

…ecialized in migration, but became intrigued with the congregation when in New York. Moshe Shokeid, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, wrote A Gay Synagogue in New York, a study based on participant observation and interviews with congregants in 1989. The book has since been reissued twice, and Shokeid has continued to publish in related areas. Looking back across the decades, much has changed for C…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…istribution of Disney’s new “Beauty and the Beast” movie based on what the New York Times describes as “a seconds-long glimpse of a gay character near the end of the movie dancing with the object of his affections.” Milonov’s letter to the Russian Culture Ministry blasts the “obvious, blatant, shameless propaganda of sin, of perverted sexual relations.” More from the Times’ Ivan Nechepurenko: Fighting homosexuality has been a recurrent theme for M…

Kagan, “Jewish Bolshevism,” and the Legacy of a Nomination

By Gordon D. Newby

…she is an American socialist. She comes from that background. I grew up in New York, she grew up in New York. I’m very familiar with the sort of Jewish socialist culture in New York, which has an enormous pedigree, has done wonderful things in promoting a way of life and developing American society, but at the end of the day is still socialist. This is a slightly disguised echo of the charge that has circulated among anti-Semites at least as early…

Sin is Not a Crime: A Conversation with Patrick Cheng

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…better way to think about these doctrines. He does that by defining seven new deadly sins and seven new graces, all seen through the lens of the life and teachings of a queer Christ. Cheng took time recently to talk with Religion Dispatches’ Candace Chellew-Hodge about his new book, and his ancient model. LGBT Christians love to talk about grace, but the topic of sin can be painful for us. Why do we need to talk about sin now? In some ways I fe…