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Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…nal Academy of Sciences. After the summit, Rep. Karen Bass met with LGBT African American activists to discuss the best ways that African American LGBTs can support LGBT people in Africa. According to Frontiers LA’s Karen Ocamb, the question that dominated the discussion was asked by Pastor Kevin Sauls: “How do we as activists—as people of faith—respond to this so it’s in the long-term interests of our brothers and sisters on the continent, so the…

The Economy is Racism: Ending Race-Based Economic Violence is the Real Challenge of This Moment

By Peter Laarman

…cing the coerced labor and/or bottomless misery experienced routinely by African Americans and by the fear that African Americans might actually gain ground, as Carol Anderson brilliantly documents. This nexus becomes blindingly obvious at certain junctures (e.g. 1863’s explosion of anti-Black violence from Irish workers who saw both enslaved people and free people of color as their economic competitors). But the nexus is always there. Not for not…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…ns to name that which must not be recognized in polite company: the asymmetrical polarization and extremism in America’s current political climate. That asymmetry was famously expressed by the bipartisan team of Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein in It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism (2012), where they explained, However awkward it may be for the traditional press an…

Pastors Urged to Defy IRS to Defeat Evil, Hitlerian Obama

By Peter Montgomery

…ma might actually be re-elected, which they believe would spell the end of freedom and America itself. Garlow told pastors that America has only 30-some days to turn around or the nation and the liberties and privileges Americans have enjoyed “are going to evaporate very rapidly.” Garlow and other religious right leaders made that same point at this past Saturday’s “America for Jesus” rally in Philadelphia, which kicked off a number of prayer-and…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…ked to Silvan Shalom, Israel’s foreign minister, that the new museum would promote tolerance “just as building health clubs promoted health.” This was not the first time that the Wiesenthal Center and the LA Museum of Tolerance formulated its own foreign policy; and in doing so implied that they were speaking for the American Jewish community at large. The center endorsed enthusiastically the Bush administration’s Iraq War, and in 2006 it dubbed V…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…net is becoming ever more a forum for questions and answers—indeed, people today are frequently bombarded with answers to questions they have never asked and to needs of which they were unaware. If we are to recognize and focus upon the truly important questions, then silence is a precious commodity that enables us to exercise proper discernment in the face of the surcharge of stimuli and data that we receive.” Silence from the cacophony of networ…

Pope Francis, Breeding Bunnies and Ideological Colonization

By Patricia Miller

…o women’s voices in the church: Women have a lot of things to say to us in today’s society. Sometimes we’re too chauvinistic, and we don’t allow room for women. Women are capable of seeing things from a different angle than men. Yeah, like from the angle of people who have the babies. Women do have a lot of things to say in today’s society–like they want to use birth control to plan their families responsibly. To bad Pope Francis can’t hear them….

Belize Overturns Sodomy Law Defended by Religious Right, Ugandan Officials Will Continue to Suppress Gay Groups, And More on the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…There is nothing to be afraid of. These colours represent our heritage of freedom fighting, of standing for justice and true freedom, not just for us, but for people across the world. So these are colours and truth that we stand by,” added Davies. Nigeria: Nigerian’s same-sex wedding in US leads to harassment of his family Eric T. Shoen-Ukre writes at Huffington Post about his wedding to a Nigerian man in a small family-and-friends gathering in R…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ive 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 chan…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…ns to name that which must not be recognized in polite company: the asymmetrical polarization and extremism in America’s current political climate. That asymmetry was famously expressed by the bipartisan team of Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein in It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism (2012), where they explained, However awkward it may be for the traditional press an…