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Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

…BT community, or for a clear statement that LGBT people and supporters are welcome to participate in the Church’s sacramental life and ministries.” At the Washington Post, Anthony Faiola and Michelle Boorstein highlighted the pope’s urging that the clergy not wield “moral laws” like a weapon. More than anything, it amounted to an exaltation of traditional marriage while recognizing that life, in his own words, is not always “perfect.” Yet rather t…

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Chick-fil-A Means “Anti-gay”?

…ion. The suit was settled.” The company also runs WinShape Foundation that promotes “traditional” marriage as well as a retreat center near Rome, Georgia. Gays and lesbians looking for a retreat should look elsewhere, however. In an email exchange with one gay blog, the retreat center made it clear that it defines marriage as being between one man and woman and gay couples would not be welcome. Boycotts of Chick-fil-A have been called for, but as…

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Inauguration Captures US Patchwork

…fferent. President Clinton hosted dinners for Eid that showed Muslims were welcome. However, the statements at the inauguration were not a welcome, they were not toleration. They were a statement that Muslims-Americans are US. We are them. Collectively what was said is that we don’t need to talk about Muslim-Americans anymore when we talk about America; we just need to talk about Muslims, like we talk about Jews and like we talk about Christians (…

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Rejecting the Stranger: Why Rod Dreher’s Vision of Communal Christian Life Is Not So Benedictine After All

…neglects to understand that the guests arriving right now most in need of welcome are mostly not Christians. Nor does Dreher seem to write about progressive Christian communities that are, in fact, living out their own version of the Benedict Option, although their ideas about community are perhaps more open to female leadership of LGBTQ members. Evangelicals, who largely lean and vote conservative, might seem to be a natural audience for Dreher’…

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RDPulpit: Excommunicating the Victims

…lic view, well-supported by scripture and life experience. The bishops are welcome to their views, but beware of people who think they know more about God’s will and God’s law than the rest of us. They are selling a product we are not buying. I believe that this case serves as further proof that the jig is up for Catholic clerics who dare to excommunicate a mother who has already suffered enough while they continue to embrace priest pedophiles and…

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Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7

…adical Right factions. They call on other dissident Rightists, not only to welcome them into the fold, but to lend active support to Israel’s assault on Gaza. In their view, Israel is demonstrating that “ferocious kind of sovereignty,” as The Hebrew Conservative put it, that the West needs to emulate if it wants to get serious about, as the White supremacist ‘14 Words’ slogan puts it, “secur[ing] the existence of our people and a future for white…

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Why Tony Campolo’s LGBTQ Reversal is Evangelicalism’s Tipping Point

…is passion for social justice (and for life in general) has been less than welcome. He is famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) for beginning speeches to Christian audiences this way: “I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a shit. What’s worse is that you’re more upset with the fact that…

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The Biola Queer Underground

…ty and assuring students struggling with same-sex attraction that they are welcome in the Biola community. This is Biola’s version of “welcome:” Biola students are required to sign a contract affirming their agreement with the university’s belief that “sexual relationships are designed by God to be expressed solely within a marriage between husband and wife.” The new statement goes into more detail, looking at God’s design for marriage, offering h…

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Why We Need a Public Black Theology for the 21st Century

…tices that had maintained a forced unity of the Black community fell away. Welcome opportunities to live, socialize, work, and study in new spaces—for those who could afford them—posed a challenge to the Black social fabric. The most talented Black youths came to be educated in predominantly white universities and to work with predominantly white colleagues. Laws and policies that maintained white domination by new means, including police violence…

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The ‘Health Freedom Movement’ Enters the Covid Era by Disseminating Medical Disinformation 

…nal uses of zeolites. This supplement and many others are enthusiastically promoted by the Health Freedom movement, where opposition to public health meets conspiracy theories about the New World Order meets spiritual and religious claims about personal wellbeing and societal freedom. The email from the organizers of the Health Freedom Summit included another ad for a book about how the medical industry invents pandemics to make money, and then an…

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