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UPDATED: Oklahoma Personhood Bill Not Dead…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…d-down and unflinching personhood bill yet: the bill would amend the legal code to treat fetuses as persons at all stages of biological development. So what happened? Well, there was opposition, of course. People got nervous about the things that generally make a lot of people nervous about giving legal rights to fertilized eggs. What about in vitro fertilization? What about ectopic pregnancies? What about the liability of medical providers? The b…

Sharbat Gula’s Experience Exemplifies the ‘White Savior’ Lens Through Which Most Americans View Afghanistan

By Sara Kamali

…the norms of her Pashtun culture. Sharbat Gula is a Pashtun with a fierce code of respect, honor, and modesty. The notion that women and girls should not share space with a man without her or her parent’s consent is intertwined with the Pashtun code of conduct, as is the lack of direct eye contact between men and women. In 1984, as McCurry recounted to NPR, Sharbat Gula initially covered her face when he took her photo. It was her teacher who ins…

BYU Skinny Jean Controversy: Sexism, Sizeism, or Standards?

By Joanna Brooks

…n-LDS and less observant LDS people. The Word of Wisdom—the Mormon dietary code that prohibits consumption of tea, coffee, alcohol, and tobacco—was upgraded from recommendation to commandment in the early twentieth-century, at a time when formerly isolated LDS communities in Utah were experiencing increased interaction with non-Mormons through travel, commerce, and media. Today, increased emphasis is being placed on conservative dress standards, d…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ve also argued that Taiwanese society has its roots in Confucianism, which promotes a strong adherence to traditional family values, and of course, producing offspring. They argue that the fundamental concept of marriage should be between a man and a woman, otherwise it would be “very confusing for children.” The South China Post said the court ruling in Taiwan “has reverberated across Asia, but the fight for equality is not over yet in a region w…

As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward

By Lauren Barbato

…tholic Church. Bishops usually cite Canon 915, a provision of the church’s Code of Canon Law that stipulates that any Catholic the hierarchy formally declares excommunicated or “manifesting” grave sin may not receive communion. The following canon, 916, states that any Catholic who “who is conscious of grave sin” can’t receive communion either. And in the current edition of the Catholic Catechism, “procuring” abortion—which could mean anything fro…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ogressive Congress candidate Muhammadu Buhari, of having made of deal with western nations to support marriage equality if he were elected. This week Buhari supporters responded: A group, Buhari Volunteers Network (BVN), has denied the allegation that the All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, signed agreement with four Western nations to support same sex marriage in Nigeria, if he becomes President. At a media br…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…reds of years, are named for Osman, son of Ertugrul, a Turkic chieftain of western Anatolia. ‘Turkic’ does not mean ‘Arab’. They don’t even have any letters in common. The Ottomans later styled themselves Padishahan-e Rum, which is Persian for ‘Emperors of Rome,’ which meant the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire they claimed to claim; that empire was not Arab because it was Hellenic. And I don’t want to be standing near you when you confuse Per…

The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain and Michelle Goldberg

…came to realize pretty quickly how big a gulf there is between the popular Western conception of yoga and the academic understanding of it. You put it perfectly: “today’s popularized yoga systems are new, not continuations of some static premodern yoga tradition… Even postures and breathing exercises were marginal to the most widely cited sources on yoga prior to the twentieth century, and the forms of postures and breathing exercises that were pr…

Who’s Smearing Obama?

By Svend White

…isolated hadith, at a time and in circumstances that differ radically from today.” Given the zeal with which many observers demand Western-style reform within Islam, one would expect rejections of the dire predictions of Muslim-Western conflict over Barack Obama’s hybrid identity to be greeted with relief and appreciation. Moreover, given that sheer number of correctives from prominent Muslim leaders and scholars that implicitly endorse reformist…

A Short Primer on Married Priests in the Wake of Francis’ Denial of the Amazon Synod

By Katherine Kelaidis

…n Church history with little objection. With the Eastern churches gone and Western opposition silenced, clerical celibacy became the unquestioned practice of the Roman Catholic Church. It was not until the Protestant Reformation, beginning in the 16th century, that the practice would be questioned. The Reformers saw clerical celibacy as unsupported by the New Testament and saw its abolition as one of the key areas in need of reform. In opposition…