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Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…s I watched talented African American actors hamming up “African-ness” for cheap laughs. It brought to mind the long, shameful history of Americans—black and white—performing blackness (often in blackface) on stage for white audiences. The Book of Mormon wants to have it both ways. It wants to make fun of The Lion King and its African stereotypes by substituting more authentic stereotypes. It wants to be transgressive and conventional, blasphemous…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…lausibly enough, with the collapse of the brutal Soviet Empire. Tens of thousands killed, out of a population of just about a million. There were of course retaliatory Chechen attacks, but paling in comparison. The Russian and Soviet expansion into the Caucasus eliminated whole peoples. There are, for example, no Ubykh speakers anymore. Most Circassians live in Turkey, Syria, Jordan, or anywhere but Cherkessia, which is their homeland. In a histor…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…top thinking about us in bed! Remind me again, who’s the perv here? If the number of partners one has, the amount of time one spends in clubs, and what kind of sexual abuse one has suffered in their lifetime makes a person gay, then I suppose I ought to turn in my lesbian card. I can count the number of sexual partners I have had in 49 years on two hands and have some fingers left over. Not because there weren’t offers, but because, as a general r…

Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…manipulated into participating in a long meeting with the Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada without the necessary discipline being upheld. My conscience is at peace.” Ntagali, who has vigorously supported Uganda’s notorious Anti-Homosexuality Act, urged voters last month to shun politicians that support LGBT equality: “I hear some people who received dirty money to promote homosexuality in our Christian country are currently s…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…eepest respect for Marianne Duddy-Burke, the executive director of Dignity USA, the Catholic LGBT organization. I rejoice that Erin Saiz Hanna, another tireless worker, runs the Women’s Ordination Conference. I take my hat off to Marissa Valeri, who is a stalwart organizer at Catholics for Choice. All of these committed women, like the sisters, are lay women but happen to be married, most with children. I think most of the nuns would call them “si…

The Southern Baptists Dumped a Predator or Two, but Let’s Hold Off on the F-word

By Anne Linstatter

…ntion passed a resolution against women pastors. American Baptist Churches USA note that “Colonial Baptist life included women preachers. Ordination of women began as early as 1815.” But among Southern Baptists, a fundamentalist takeover was underway by 1984, before its adherents consolidated power in 2000. The central players orchestrating male-only leadership in the SBC are also some of its best known public figures, like Paige Patterson, ousted…

Archbishop Boots LGBT Catholics from Philly Church

By Patricia Miller

…er came from Chaput,” Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director, of Dignity USA, told RD. The Equally Blessed Coalition, which consists of New Ways Ministry, Dignity USA, Fortunate Families and Call to Action, had a program called “TransForming Love: Exploring Gender Identity From Catholic Perspectives” scheduled for September 25 which reportedly caused Chaput to cancel the group’s permission to use the space. “Unfortunately, this is yet another in…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ressive organizing that has led to major shifts in this country. Last week USA Today took a look at changes in Uruguay and across the Americas. From a story by Alan Gomez: Just a couple of years ago, this tiny country that’s squeezed between Brazil and Argentina found itself in the same position as so many of its Latin-American neighbors. Abortion was illegal. Gay marriage was illegal. Marijuana was not tolerated. In two quick years, all that has…

RD10Q: Living Without God

By Ronald Aronson

…one-quarter of Americans are secularists. I explain that in the October 20 USA Today, and in the introduction to the book. C) “To not believe in God means that you think you’re smarter than believers and/or you hate religion.” In fact, believers and nonbelievers will both be around for a long time for come, and we need to work out ways of living together in mutual respect. This runs counter to a usual stance of many nonbelievers and believers. My…

A Religion Scholar Gets It Wrong on Indiana’s RFRA

By Danny Fisher

…ion around “religious freedom” that it engendered. In an op-ed written for USA Today, Prothero argued that “Indiana needs to balance gay [and] religious rights,” and that the original version of the state’s RFRA “simply [offered] religious minorities a day in court.” As he said: “Our battles over ‘family values’ are threatening to kill religious liberty. And liberals do not much seem to care.” It’s obvious at once from his rhetoric that Prothero i…