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Pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Declare Shared View of Marriage & Family; Government & Muslim Officials Ramp Up Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in Indonesia; Australian Religious Leaders Ask Parliament to Act on Marriage Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sing and holding hands in the street before police moved in with armoured trucks. George Liendo of Promsex, a Peruvian LGBT rights group, said members of his organisation took part in the protest. “The aggression was excessive towards the young people who gather each year in the main square to kiss against homophobia,” he said. He added that religious and cultural events regularly take place in the square without incident. Uganda: Attacks on LGBTs…

Still Left Behind: What the Endurance of the Left Behind Cinematic Universe Can Tell Us About Conservative Moral Psychology

By Christopher Douglas

…uthority and loyalty. The series’ premise is the rise of the Antichrist to ruler of the world: as head of the dreaded United Nations, the Antichrist’s earthly government challenges the will of God, but also usurps the proper authority that God’s chosen people—conservative White Christians in this supersessionist series—once did and still should have in America. The LBCU is as much a part of the conservative White Christian threat industry as it is…

On Cairo Streets, No Support for Islamist State

By H.A. Hellyer

…I doubt very much that translates into a desire for an Islamist state. As news flowed around the world that Mubarak’s reign was in its last year, many on the left were disappointed, arguing that he should leave immediately, and without delay. On the right, they were demanding that the West support his continued reign, out of the fear that the Muslim Brotherhood would take over, and Israel would be threatened. One the streets of Egypt, though, the…

You Are Not Your Star Sign

By Spencer Dew

…out, all this was just a harbinger for the next round of horoscope-related news, a media meteor shower that began last Thursday with a press release from Illinois-based Allstate Insurance containing tabulated data on insurance reports and star signs, proving that Scorpios were the safest drivers, Virgos the worst. In second-best spot were the Ophiuchuses of the world, those being folks born in the thirteenth month, under the thirteenth sign, a guy…

Mitt, the Marriotts, and Porn

By Joanna Brooks

…then, Romney even came in for criticism from the LDS Church-owned Deseret News, in an editorial with the unfortunate title “The nasty taint of porn.”) I don’t buy it. Anyone who understands the traction of evangelical anti-Mormon sentiment knows that most evangelical voters will never vote for Mitt Romney, especially if they have a choice in someone like Mike Huckabee. Marriott dropping porn won’t begin to make a dent in Romney’s (or even Hunts…

New Gallup Poll Finds Only 34% Correctly Identify Obama as Christian

By Sarah Posner

…wed by stories on a former pastor who is sought in a bank robbery, accusations that pastor and his wife gambled with church funds, the conviction of Mgsr. Lynn, and the news that the Vatican has hired a Fox News correspondent and Opus Dei member as a communications consultant. …