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Visit From Conservative Sex Educator Divides a Town

By Eric C. Miller

…visit for the Charleston Gazette, Mackenzie Mays observes: In her YouTube videos, Stenzel says birth control makes a woman “10 times more likely to contract a disease . . . or end up sterile or dead.” Many of the videos warn of sexually transmitted diseases and also say, “Sex could damage you for the rest of your life.” Sex also could lead to “scarred fallopian tubes and cancer . . . and you need to ask Jesus for forgiveness.” In addition, Stenze…

God, Rid Me of God

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…stroyer, whose acceptance is conditioned on your strict adherence to “His” rules, has ruined too many lives. What needs to change is not the LGBT child, but this horrible and terribly wrong image of God as a holy bully that is being purveyed by religious institutions and believers. The trouble is, though, this image of God has worked very well for those in power. Despite growing support for LGBT people in the polls, this issue still has enough of…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…zzFeed’s Lester Feder and Anton Lysenkov examine the history of a Latvian crusader against “gay propaganda” and that campaign’s reflection of the struggle between Latvians who look to Europe and those who are seeking the patronage of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. Norway: Anti-Equality Forces Gaining Strength in Norwegian Church, Both Sides Organizing A commentary by Hanne Skartveit published in Norway last week suggests that changes in the chu…

Raising Children the Right Way

By Jeffrey Feldman

…—a body politic. The next question was how to establish enduring forms and rules for running that body. The answer was a period of constitutional framing that served as the imperfect but as yet unrivaled launch of the American states and subsequent national union. Thus, in the time even before the beginning of the United States, it was not discipline or Christianity or narrow focus on the family that kept the Pilgrims strong: it was faith in each…

New York State Senator Declares War on NY Marriage Equality

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

State Sen. Ruben Diaz has declared war on marriage equality in New York. As gay and lesbian couples marched down the aisle or stood before state officials as same-sex marriages began in the state, Diaz was leading one of the protest marches organized by the National Organization for Marriage. “Today we start the battle! Today we start the war!” Diaz shouted after protestors marched from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office to the United Nations. That war…

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Holocaust Humor and The ‘Real’ Germany — As Top Officials Shatter Post-WWII Taboos, German Conservatives Follow GOP Playbook and Charge Ahead

By Annika Brockschmidt

…miliar? Communications scholar and media-critic Nadia Zaboura analyzed the breaking of this latest taboo by Merz, noting that in German life enemies are singled out, not only in traditional and social media, but by “the leader of the largest opposition party.” She goes on to ask: “How does German journalism react to this statement? Does it react? Or has one become tired of the umpteen dam breaks, the same old story, expectable, not newsworthy, no…

Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

By Arthur Waskow

…ash itself as a spiral, in which we go back again and again in order to go forward. We draw on ancient wisdom to create new wisdom. What went before, we turn and turn like a kaleidoscope. With every turn, new beauty, new patterns, new complexity. Facing new versions of the world. Birthing new versions of ourselves. *** Download the “MLK + 50 Freedom Seder” from the Shalom Center, here….

The ‘Dreher Affair’ Highlights the Right’s International Networks

By Annika Brockschmidt

…. The Polish Ordo Iuris, a right-wing catholic organization which leads a crusade against abortion, is likewise well connected on an international level with German pundit Birgit Kelle, a regular on the anti-abortion circuit, having recently spoken at one of their events. Meanwhile, the Mathias Corvinus Collegium—headed by Balázs Orbán (no relation), an MP for the Fidesz Party—which has received 1.4 billion euros in funding from the Orbán governme…

Updated: 5 Lessons Learned from the Apocalypse Fail, Or, It’s Not the End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel So-So

By Gary Laderman

…gns of Christ’s return, facing the same ol’ same ol’: Arnold’s love child, Newt’s latest flame-out, life without Oprah. At the moment, Family Radio offices are closed and Harold Camping, the self-made millionaire-cum-biblical prognosticator who set the media ablaze with his doomsday discourse, is silent. We can read about all those who believed his prediction about the end of the world and took action—long family journeys in the minivan, disappoin…

With New York Joining DC in Defiance Methodist Church Faces Showdown on LGBT Ordination

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…recommendation earlier this year of Tara “T.C.” Morrow, a married lesbian, New York’s BOOM announced this week that “it would not consider sexual orientation in evaluating a clergy candidate, even if that individual has a spouse of the same gender.” While each candidate must also be approved by their annual conference clergy session, the stance of these two BOOMs is a phenomenal advance for the rights of LGBTQ persons within the denomination. The…