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Disaster Theology: Blame and Powerlessness in Japan

By Clark Strand

Japanese literature is filled with writings about earthquakes, tsunamis, and other such cataclysmic events which were, for many, interpreted as portents of harder times to come. For others they were decrees from heaven meted out to a people whose Confucian morality had become corrupt or simply lax; or the Mahayana Buddhist version of the traditional “end times” scenario. Mappo, the “Age of Decline,” was thought to have occurred because the dharma…

Anxiety About Homosexuality and Apocalyptic Worldview is An Old Marriage: 10 Questions for the Author of Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England

By H. G. Cocks

…early modern period such as Anthony Milton, Catholic and Reformed, Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons, Alexandra Walsham, Providence in Early Modern England, and The Reformation of the Landscape, and the huge tomes of Peter Lake. These are monuments of scholarship that I read with awe. Foucault’s History of Sexuality is also one of my favourites. What’s your next book? I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a book at the moment, but I’m working on th…

The Religious Duty to Come Out

By Jay Michaelson

…s reason that many LGBT theologians (Chris Glaser, Carter Heyward, Michael Clark among them) have described “coming out” as an important narrative frame that the gay experience provides for all of us, regardless of sexuality or gender. “Coming out is a personal epiphany, a revelation,” writes Olive Elaine Hannant. It is “a rite of vulnerability that reveals the sacred in our lives—our worth, our love, our lovemaking, our beloved, our community, ou…

Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…orks throughout the region, told the Blade earlier this month during a telephone interview from Buenos Aires there have been “setbacks in regards to human rights” in Argentina and other countries in “which the LGBT community has gained very strong visibility and (trans-friendly) laws.” Romero added the Roman Catholic Church, gangs, conservative lawmakers and governments and other groups continue to influence people’s transphobic attitudes that she…

Living to See the Day: Civil Rights Leaders and Obama

By Michael A. Elliott

…Martin Luther King’s SCLC, and he was beaten to the ground by Sheriff Jim Clark on the courthouse steps in Selma in 1965. Rev. Vivan is now in his mid-80s—a spry, dapper man who wears his enthusiasm on the sleeves of the dark suits that he favors. I went to talk to him for his perspective on a new civil rights center that is being planned here in Atlanta, but our conversation kept returning to Obama’s candidacy. He said something then that by now…

Mormons Absorb SCOTUS Prop 8 Ruling

By Joanna Brooks

…ity of Mormon progressives are celebrating the Court rulings. Said Spencer Clark, the head of Mormons for Marriage Equality, “We heartily applaud the decision of the US Supreme Court to strike down Section 3 of the Federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8. This is a victory for hundreds of thousands of families across the country and in California, including many Mormons, who have sought to marry the same-sex partners they lo…

LDS Church Response to Prop. 8 Begs Question of Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

…of Logan, Utah and graduate of Brigham Young University and the BYU Reuben Clark Law School, who wrote the dissent. Within hours of the ruling, the LDS Church also issued a statement: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints regrets today’s decision. California voters have twice determined in a general election that marriage should be recognized as only between a man and a woman. We have always had that view. Courts should not alter that de…

Christian Founder of Online Dating Site Wants to Ease Gay Pain

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Neil Clark Warren feels my pain and he’s ready to cough up big bucks to ease it. In an interview with Yahoo! Finance, the 78-year-old Christian co-founder and CEO of the online dating site eHarmony, said being gay or lesbian “has been a painful way for a lot of people to have to live.” But, he’s ready to pony up $10 million “and ask other companies to put up money and do a really first-class job of figuring out homosexuality.” I’m so glad that Wa…

Bishops Rile Up the Religious Right, Then and Now

By Patricia Miller

…ints to the 1978 Iowa Senate race, in which the Democratic incumbent, Dick Clark, unexpectedly lost to a pro-life candidate after local anti-abortion activists leafleted church parking lots, as alerting Weyrich that “abortion might motivate conservatives.” Weyrich’s pivot from segregation to abortion was a stroke of political genius. As I note in Good Catholics: Weyrich realized that abortion could be used to unite otherwise disparate political co…

The New Anti-Gay Argument: “The Gag Reflex”

By Rob Shryock

…the particulars of gay sex than of straight sex. “Slacktivist” author Fred Clark went straight for the throat, writing that Anyabwile’s post reads like “excerpts from the World’s Most Awkward Sexter” and describing him as “Clumsily body-phobic,” a “creepy, creepy, creepy voyeur” and more. Anyabwile attempted to defend himself in another lengthy post, saying that he’d been “misrepresented and misinterpreted.” He then equates systemic violence agai…