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Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…an religiosity—about religion as it is lived in the United States today? A number of what I would see as problems in the Pew report suggest to me that our growing fixation with religion-by-the-numbers may be distracting us from richer, more nuanced understandings of American religious practice. Wanted: A Community that Doesn’t Share My Beliefs and Values Take the demographic category of “Nones” itself. The Pew report notes the difficulty with sur…

Don’t Blame Black Voters: The Obama Non-Effect

By Jonathan L. Walton

…nce of these demographics on the state electorate in relation to the small number of African Americans, it is inconceivable to argue that African Americans are to blame. The fault lines of a progressive coalition to resist Prop. 8 were seemingly regional and religious as opposed to racially determined. Do Black Folks Need an Elton John? Scapegoating black folks is descriptively flawed because it pits a racial group against a multiracial reality. B…

Why Bill Maher Gets a “C” in My Introduction to Religion Class…

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…pages I’ll confine myself to Religulous.) This is the kind of thing a fair number of my students, raised in the Protestant-dominated United States (even Catholics and Jews have assimilated this definition), come to university thinking about religion; the two key components of which are “belief” and “God.” Religion is some cryptic interior, individual thing that exists in one’s own head, and is only understood in relation to a God. I don’t blame my…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…erer, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man, had only weeks before the killing been released from prison after a ten-year sentence for stabbing three people during a pride march in 2005. Moldova: Human rights activists fight proposed propaganda law Human Rights Watch released a letter to legislators urging them to reject a proposed anti-gay “propaganda” law that would target “assemblies, mass media, Internet, brochures, booklets, images, audio-video clips,…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…chieved with the liberation of women. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden released a statement on the reported detention, torture and killing. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Chechen and Russian officials to protect the human rights of LGBT people. But Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson said on Friday, “We do not have any reliable information about any problems in this area.” The High Assembly of Islamic Theologians and L…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…owned human rights advocate. Egypt: Report on violence and criminalization released Solidary with Egypt LGBT released on its Facebook page data on violence and criminalization cases against LGBTQ people in Egypt from the end of 2013 until this month, November 2016. Jamaica: Vogue profiles “Gully Queens” Earlier this month, Vogue published Julia Felsenthal’s profile of “Gully Queens,” transgender women “defying Jamaica’s Culture of Homophobia.” Amo…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment. Uganda: New documents released in SMUG lawsuit against Scott Lively Sexual Minorities Uganda is represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights in an lawsuit against American anti-gay activist Scott Lively in a novel use of the Alien Tort Statute. This week SMUG and CCR released three expert reports that they say buttress their case that the persecution facing the LGBTI community in Uganda “…

Dalai Lama’s ‘Suck My Tongue’ Controversy Reveals Centuries-Old Christian Distortion of Tibetan Buddhism

By Geoffrey Goble

…estern glitterati. He was the subject of two Hollywood feature films, both released in 1997. Sony Pictures released Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt as the Austrian mountaineer and member of the Nazi SS Heinrich Harrer, who discovers the joys of fellowship and fatherhood through his friendship with the child Dalai Lama in a utopian Tibet. Buena Vista Pictures released Martin Scorsese’s opus Kundun, a lavish and politically pointed biopic b…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…being killed. The U.K.’s parliamentary International Development Committee released a report this week that identified LGBTs from Syria as some of the most vulnerable refugees. Dominican Republic: Anti-Gay Leaders Say Gay Ambassador Should Be ‘Persona Non Grata’ We have previously noted the war of words waged by some Catholic Church officials against openly gay U.S. Ambassador Wally Brewster; those efforts reached a new level with a letter from tw…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…your children from these animals, from these dirty people.” ISIS militants released a document on social media last month explaining rules of its “penal code” which is being brutally enforced across ISIS-held territory in Syria and Iraq. The extremist group’s radical interpretation of Shariah law requires punishments to be carried out in an Islamic State court. After sentencing, the prisoner is taken into the center of town where men and young boy…