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Forty Years Ago, the Worst Mass Murder of LGBT People in the U.S.

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tions, a major increase from the 19 percent of congregations in 2006-2007 that allowed such opportunities.” The litany of denominations that have changed their stance toward LGBT people, not just in the pews, but in leadership roles like pastor, deacon or elder, would have blown the minds of those holding church in the bar all those years ago. Could they even imagined the doors and pulpits of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America welcoming th…

UPDATED: Warren is… Heterogeneous on Gay Marriage; In Hot Water for Equivocation

By Bill Berkowitz

…cision was totally off his radar screen: “I’m—I’m totally oblivious to—to what—that’s not even my agenda.” According to OneNewsNow, the news service of Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association, Warren “issued a clear endorsement of the marriage amendment while speaking to church members[:] ’We support Proposition 8—and if you believe what the Bible says about marriage, you need to support Proposition 8.’” OneNewsNow also published the “complet…

Alex Jones, Performance Artist, and the Duelling Meanings of ‘Sincerity’ in Politics and Public Life

By Spencer Dew

…their own research, to discover the truth for themselves, while insisting that much of what we think we know, and most of what we’re told by the mainstream media, is a sham. Jones—as persona or person, as character-actor or journalist, as you like—speaks from a location of sincerity. His exaggerated emotionality loses no force if it’s seen as a theatrical device. His claims—to challenge normative narratives of news, to expose conspiratorial plots,…

HuffPo Columnist Tries to Link Darwin to Hitler

By Lauri Lebo

…o formulated Nazi ideology “weren’t reading the Gospels.” Well, actually, that’s not exactly the case, but I’ll get back to that. Another Huffington Post writer and science blogger of the Primate Diaries Eric Michael Johnson responded to Klinghoffer’s recycled misrepresentation of history with a column of his own, pointing out that there is no link between Hitler and Darwin, despite intelligent design/creationist attempts to say otherwise. And he…

Cooler than Thou: Will Hipsters Wreck Christianity?

By Nicole Greenfield

…ne are a thing of the past to such groups because, as the director of a Manhattan-based artist ministry says, “that just wouldn’t fly in a post-Christian city like New York.” At Pete’s Candy Store, the bar where Revolution holds its Sunday evening services, Bakker tries to build not just a solid community—through a deep commitment to fighting social injustices, for example—but an egalitarian one as well. He doesn’t want to command all of the atten…

With Kurdish Genocide a Real Danger, How Ethical Was Mattis’ Resignation?

By Ivan Strenski

…w to block the Memory Hole from devouring inconvenient truths. One phrase that told me that Mattis had got off on the wrong foot was his writing that the president had “the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours.” Yes, the president’s “rights” cover the prerogatives of revered foundational institutions like the 1788 Constitution, the presidency, and the military code of honor. But at what costs do we maintai…

Will IRS Crack Down on Church Politicking?

By Sarah Posner

…ons with tax exempt status under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. Those changes were set in motion after record amounts of campaign spending by (c)(4) groups in 2012, and tea party complaints that their applications for (c)(4) status were improperly denied for partisan reasons. Although Congressional Republicans tried to make a scandal of the application process, further congressional investigation showed both conservative and progr…

Women of Opus Dei Explain “True Feminism”

By Kate Childs Graham

…manifesto for women’s rights. In fact, these women are trying to suggest that what seems like sexism isn’t really that at all. We might be able to chock this all up to internalized oppression, as these women really do seem to believe in the “complementarity” of the sexes: that is, the idea that women and men do maintain equal dignity but have complementary roles. Take, for instance, the testimony of Claire Huang, a marketing executive who has att…

Religious Hostility to Gay Nigerians; The Pope’s Visit To Africa; Ireland’s Religious Schools Can’t Discriminate Against Gays; Orthodox Church in Georgia Leads Anti-Gay Forces; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n of a ‘lifestyle’ that seemed to be in opposition to their values. It is that anger that led to the May 17 attack. Ana says the attack “was and is still viewed by the Church as a clash of cultures, a justified defense of Georgian tradition in the face of encroaching Western influence.” ISIS: Executions of gay men continue; cited by UK’s Cameron in debate on military action Bassem Mroue reports for Associated Press on the ongoing targeting and kil…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…,” she said. “It is not a unifying moment. It is exposing our children to that kind of hatred.” Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott urged people to vote no in what the Sydney Morning Herald’s Nick O’Malley described as a “declaration of a general culture war”: “I say to you if you don’t like same-sex marriage, vote no,” said Abbott. “If you’re worried about religious freedom and freedom of speech, vote no, and if you don’t like political correctness…