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Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…orality, but it was at risk of having its core Muslim values overridden by international human rights claims that embrace LGBT rights.” One of the judges said, “Must all laws that are not in according with the morals and religious have to be synchronized with the local values so this court…[can be] an institution illuminated by the light of God.” The government is opposing the lawsuit, warning that criminalizing sex before marriage would turn crim…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ans bus tour in Spain that we reported on earlier this month is part of an international strategy. The Spanish bus was sponsored by HazteOir, a Spain-based group that mobilizes Catholic conservatives and their allies in Spain and Europe. A billboard with the same visuals and messaging showed up in Guatemala, branded as a project of CitizenGo, with which HazteOir is affiliated. Then, this past week, the National Organization for Marriage brought th…

‘How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World’: An Interview with Author Elle Hardy

By Katherine Stewart

…ol by Christine Caine, an Australian Hillsong Church alumna who grew up in Sydney like me. After Waco, I traveled to Mississippi to see Caine’s traveling roadshow, Propel Women Activate, a Bible-study-meets-self-help-seminar for busy moms. In the course of researching both stories, I began learning about the scale and scope of the Pentecostal/Charismatic/Spirit-led movements. I read the work of other scholars and writers, most notably Richard Flor…

I Confess, I’m Ex-Straight

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to join the protestors, is a jock. Besen came out to his parents Neil and Sydney in 1988, when he was 18-years-old—captain of the high school basketball team, with a girlfriend. His folks were upset; his father asked if he still liked sports. The sad thing about this whole back and forth about being “ex-gay” or “ex-straight” is the ridiculous notion that sexuality can be put into black and white categories. Alfred Kinsey’s scale back in the 1940s…

The Blockbuster Spirituality of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…etimes but I would not feel comfortable leading the services,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald. In other interviews, he has likened himself to Patrick, the well-meaning but ultimately tone deaf support group leader who encourages kids with cancer to express their feelings in the “literal heart of Jesus” at the center of an Episcopal Church. In the movie Patrick is played by comedian Mike Birbiglia, who channels Kenneth from 30 Rock, smiling in t…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ality American Evangelicals Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison, reported the Sydney Morning Herald on April 16, was scheduled to “share a stage at the Australian Christian Lobby’s annual conference with a radio host who compared the advancement of gay rights to the rise of Nazism in pre-war Germany.” The event that weekend featured American religious right figures Eric Metaxas and Jeffery Ventrella, an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom. G…

Vivek Ramaswamy Represents the Convergence of White Supremacy and Hindu Supremacy — And He May Well Be Trump’s Running Mate

By Usha Kumar

…ar-right groups paraded bulldozers, a symbol of anti-Muslim oppression. In Sydney, Australia, they attacked Sikhs; while in Leicester, UK, Hindu supremacist marches precipitated Hindu-Muslim riots. Hindu supremacists have fiercely opposed civil rights protections around caste, free speech and affirmative action, and spread waves of disinformation and anti-Muslim hate speech, including most recently against Palestinians. Nevertheless, we have conti…

The Best and the Brightest of the Catholic Bad Girls

By Frances Kissling

…holic women defied the Vatican and found a bishop to ordain them. They now number 50 or so, have their own bishops and ignore Vatican decrees that they are excommunicated. A lot of BBBGs got out of Catholic universities as fast as they could so they could say what they believe and teach freely. Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza went from Notre Dame to Harvard and pointed out that Jesus never ordained anybody. Christine Gudorf left the University of Day…

No Room for Non-Theists at Boston Interfaith Service

By Becky Garrison

…changed to a photograph of Celeste Corcoran and her 18-year-old daughter, Sydney. (Celeste, close friend to a senior member of Epstein’s staff, lost both her legs at the knees in one of the bomb blasts, and her daughter suffered severe injuries after being hit by shrapnel.) A press release issued by the Secular Coalition of America (SCA) documented that to date, the Humanist Community at Harvard has played a significant role in raising nearly $28…