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South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…try ratings here. Dominican Republic: Govt Commission Bans Miley Cyrus For Promoting Lesbian Sex We have reported previously on some religious leaders’ resistance to James “Wally” Brewster, the openly gay US ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Last week, Blabbeando reported, “The National Commission for Public Performances in the Dominican Republic announced today that they were banning a September 13th Miley Cyrus concert for, among other thing…

Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam

By Mark LeVine

…lk more about a few other countries, especially the metal scenes in Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, which are fairly well developed and quite interesting. More broadly, I wish that I could have spent more time providing a deeper historical background for the events and experiences I was describing, but my editors felt strongly that the book needed to remain focused on the scene as it is today in order to keep the narrative flow and make it as acce…

DADT Repeal: The New “Religious Freedom” Issue

By Sarah Posner

New Washington Post On Faith blogger Jordan Sekulow wrote on the eve of the DADT repeal, “social conservatives are not enraged about the end of DADT.” If that’s true, then halleleujah. But just one month ago Sekulow wrote in the same pages, “If DADT is repealed, the American Center for Law & Justice is committed to advocating for the ability of military chaplains to do their job according to the dictates of their faith. The ACLJ has a long histor…

Netflix’s Iranian ‘Messiah’ Is a Gift to Trump and His Evangelical Base

By Tony Keddie

…of Iran and Muslims in Christian end-times scenarios. It’s no wonder that Jordan’s Royal Film Commission has banned the series and that petitions have arisen condemning the show as anti-Islamic. If Netflix renews the show for another season, we shouldn’t be surprised for a moment if the real “Chosen One” tasked with defeating Golshiri turns out to be a stocky, yellow-haired American businessman who builds walls, bans Muslims, and drops drones on…

Islam=Peace: What’s in a Slogan?

By Brie Loskota

…ight somehow be useful to intone them yet again. But then I went to Amman, Jordan. I was there to participate in a convening of youth leaders from Africa and the Middle East under the auspices of the United States Institute of Peace, which had invited me participate in the meeting and to lead a training session on conflict communication. As we sat around a table in a hotel conference room, I was astounded by the stories of young community leaders…

Paranormal Vodka, Exorcists and a Demonic Doll: Welcome to Paracon, Based on the Work of the Demon-Hunters Who Inspired the ‘Conjuring’ Series

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…ms, and Native American-themed décor, finally ending just past the Michael Jordan Steakhouse. Convention goers continue to pile up behind us, all waiting for their chance to see the collection of Warren relics and to catch a rare glimpse of the main attraction, Annabelle, the supposedly demon-possessed Raggedy Anne doll who terrorized two nursing students and their roommate over a period of months in 1970. Although I can’t find an official number,…

Washington Post Blogger “Proud” To Have Shared Stage With Geert Wilders

By Sarah Posner

After Matt Duss called out new Washington Post blogger Jordan Sekulow at Think Progress and on Twitter for saying at a demonstration against the Park51 project, “Imam Rauf, America rejects you,” Sekulow responded by tweeting: “Enjoyed that speech!” And in response to Duss pointing out that Sekulow shared the stage with far-right nationalist, anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders, Sekulow tweeted, “proud to.” In one of the State Department cab…

Pro-Life Tempest Over Obama’s Notre Dame Speech

By Mary E. Hunt

…s every time its version of Catholic orthodoxy is transgressed. [Read Mark Jordan’s excellent column on Cardinal Newman’s ambiguous sexuality here —ed.] Their Web site includes a handy listing of each institution with its sins and triumphs enumerated. For example, my alma mater, Marquette, is constantly called out for the mere presence of renowned moral theologian Daniel C. Maguire, then lauded for placing in the bottom ten of 139 schools studied…

The Washington Post’s New Religious Right Now Blogger

By Sarah Posner

Yesterday the Washington Post announced that Jordan Sekulow, a Republican activist and lawyer with Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice (led by Sekulow’s father Jay), would be blogging for its On Faith section on the religious right. This is not, of course, like hiring a reporter to cover the religious right. Sekulow is the religious right, and deeply embedded and committed to its ideology and causes; giving him a blogging platform…

Freedom Through the Eyes of Bishops and Filmmakers

By Peter Montgomery

…clergy who are working within African American churches and communities to promote support for LGBT equality. Families are Forever is a short documentary about the journey of devoted Mormon parents to accept their young teen gay son. Follow the link to watch the trailer, which includes moving clips of Jordan and his parents struggling to come to terms with the messages they sent and he received from the church’s pro-Prop 8 activism. The film is on…