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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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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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Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

…is more inclusive of converts now than before, she doesn’t feel completely welcome in the Indian community. Her husband’s family has trouble accepting her and even tried to delay the couple’s marriage. A common perception exists of converts as less knowledgeable or authentic Muslims than those in the immigrant communities. My father struggled with this when teaching at mosques in New York. Although he had studied Arabic and Islamic fundamentals fo…

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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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Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Gay Attendees, Waffles on White Supremacists

…its annual gathering: gays and those preaching tolerance for them are not welcome inside the Convention’s annual meeting. At least, that’s the message sent loud and clear to a small group of activists who tell RD they were “forcibly removed” from the convention this morning in Phoenix, Arizona. All told, five people were removed and had their conference registrations revoked, allegedly without formal explanation. All of those removed are affiliat…

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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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Homophobia an “Atrocity,” LDS Bishop Tells Gay Mormon Conference

…iolence towards LGBT people. And the emotional pain as well of not feeling welcome, supported, and connected. The leadership of the LDS Church has taken a lot of steps forward, and I’ve been really happy and excited about it. In trying to become more educated on gay issues, I’ve felt in alignment with Church leadership. I think it’s fair to say that some of the LDS membership has not completely caught up to where the leadership is now. When you us…

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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 Lady Vanishes: Trump’s Communications Team Tries to Topple a Monument

…eans the example American freedom offers to the world; the beacon is not a welcome (that “cosmopolitan” sentiment, to use Miller’s snide euphemism, is just a partisan stance). This is doubly dangerous ground. First, American history has so spectacularly clashed with American ideals (see: slavery). Second, by dismissing Acosta’s reading of Lady Liberty as partisan, Miller switches the register of language used, from that of religious discourse—in w…

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The Pope’s Gay Priests

…ests to step out of the dark. Bishops may well need to brace themselves or welcome with open arms a greater honesty in this matter.  Meanwhile, for the gay priest who suffers under the church’s disparagement of his God-given sexuality and is urged to negate an essential part of who he is, the pope’s stated preference not to judge is balm in Gilead. Like this story? Your tax-deductible $5 or $10 will help us pay writers, coders, interns, and editor…

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