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

By Peter Montgomery

…y artist who lives in a hipster district of Paris and plans to cast his ballot for Le Pen. Among the party’s openly gay officials is Chief Campaign Strategist Sebastien Chenu. “Those who want to fight against freedoms are Islamic radicals,” Chenu said. “They put bombs in gay night clubs in the United States. So obviously, it creates an anxiety for a certain number of gays.” A Foreign Policy story reported that, in spite of a public relations offen…

Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…eak” directly to one another, protected by the “masks” of their avatars. Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator Molotov Alva is an example of machinima, short for “machine cinema,” an emerging new form of moviemaking, using game engines or real-time online worlds as the setting. Immersive play is transformed through digital recording of online interactions into the raw elements of a story, which are then edited, sometimes with the addition of…

Romney Betrays Harold Bloom’s Fantasy Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…e rise of Joe Lieberman on Judaism’s abandonment of the eighteenth-century Polish shtetl. If only the Hasidim had won, there would be no Lieberman, after all. Indeed, what Bloom holds up as the legacy of Joseph Smith “betrayed” by modern Mormonism is a fantasy glimpse of the moment of the religion’s inception. Mormon historian Ben Park reminded me in conversation yesterday that even Joseph Smith was dealing with the more mundane questions of organ…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d. However, during the debate in the Justice and Home Affairs Council, the Polish Justice Minister argued that the proposals would interfere in national family law, and should be rejected on the basis of subsidiarity. Hungary’s Justice Minister added that the proposals violate Member States’ national identity, particularly “traditions and values related to the family as a basic element of society.” Also this month, the U.K.’s Human Dignity Trust,…

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

…riest LGBT News Italia published an interview with Krzysztof Charamsa, the Polish priest who was forced out of his Vatican job after coming out on the eve of the bishops’ family synod in the fall. In the interview by Andrea Miluzzo (with English translation by Flavia Viglione), he calls the Catholic Church “one of the most powerful agencies of irrational hate towards sexual minorities, refusing any possibility of verification and discussion of its…

Mormonism in 92 languages

By Joanna Brooks

…, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kekchi, Korean, Kuna, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Quechua (Peru), Quiche, Quichua (Ecuador), Russian, Samoan, Swedish, Tagalog, Tongan, and Ukrainian. Translators will also do their work in real time for local congregations in Albanian, Bislama, Cakchiquel, Estonian, Icelandic, Kiribati, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mam, Nivacle (Chulupi), and Tzutujil. And translators working in Amharic, Efik, Fante,…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…hrase from entering into international law.” “Gender Ideology” A year ago, Polish bishops launched a campaign against “gender ideology,” which they said was being used to promote acceptance of homosexual relationships and the idea that “a person can voluntarily decide for themselves whether they are a man or a woman.” Among other things, the bishops charged that the World Health Organization and a European anti-domestic-violence effort were sowing…

The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep

By Mary E. Hunt

…n to being a spiritual exercise the Vigil was also a good way to “house” a lot of people without running into fire code violations. I could not find any other religious events advertised. Could it be that people of other faiths simply held private devotions? Perhaps, but more likely the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., and their friends were the major sponsors of the whole weekend but just wanted i…

Honey, I Shrunk the Church: The Vatican Manages Sexual Abuse, Canonization and the Nuns

By Mary E. Hunt

…es John XXIII and John Paul II. John XXIII seemed to disappear in a sea of Polish flags celebrating John Paul II. I wasn’t there, but from television and press reports one got the sneaking suspicion that this wasn’t really about two saints, but rather one prominent one and a runner-up who was grandfathered in. After all, John XXIII’s case had been made far earlier and it would have been unseemly to fast track John Paul II, despite his popularity….

Dear #MeToo Christians: Time to Take a Long Look in the Mirror

By J. Dana Trent

…s that linger, hands that wander; and comments on my wardrobe, shoes, nail polish, make-up, or hair. Full disclosure: this is why many clergywomen love wearing our giant, football player clergy robes. I’ve also had many uncomfortable public worship moments with male pastors who bogart pulpits, as in refusing to exit such that we must stand there together, his body pressed against mine, while I make my already brief ministry update even briefer. Th…