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Channeling T.S. Eliot, Ross Douthat Fears The Loss of Taboo

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…l website taking on four pre-pubescent, fictitious cartoon characters from South Park, Colorado. I’m going to follow that sage advice and leave the South Park controversy out of it. Rather than defend the myriad ways Islam is tolerant, rational, and not as iconoclastic as most people believe (see KARAMAH’s excellent example here), I want to come back to Douthat’s underlying premise. What Douthat is really after is more along the lines of a culture…

No Zombies Here, Just a Bunch of Women Talking to the Dead

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…he dead is a long-standing and common—though underexplored—practice in the South Carolina lowcountry. Most of all, while some might see talking to the dead as antithetical to or in conflict with traditional Protestant Christianity, it is a spiritual practice that is seamlessly integrated into the lives of the seven women in the study. Is there anything you had to leave out? A little bit of text and a lot of music! In terms of the written materials…

Of Values and Viruses: The Challenges for Obama’s New Global AIDS Coordinator

By Ariana Childs Graham

…global health policy wonk in Washington, the Minister of Health from South Africa, or the head of a clinic distributing anti-retroviral therapy in Botswana, you may not have been waiting with bated breath to hear who would fill the position of Global AIDS Coordinator in Obama’s administration. For that matter, you may not have even heard of the position. It might have flown past your radar that on Monday April 27, the White House issued a press re…

The “G-Word”: Genocide’s Slippery Nature

By Tom Hogan

…be even more suspect if he turned any of our attention or resources toward Africa. Which is bad news for Africans—and minority groups throughout the world—for the next four to eight years. We were never going to intervene in Sudan in the first place. The genocide was never brought up—by the candidates, the press, or the public—during the entire presidential campaign. And now, with the economy in freefall, Americans will become even more parochial…

New Report Breaks Silence on Faith-Based Orgs

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…it we are also challenged by the abstinence-only policies, for example in Africa, that can accompany faith-based initiatives in spite of a rise in HIV on the continent. At the heart of US involvement is George W. Bush’s 2003 President’s Emergency Provision for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, a $15 billion plan that privileged conservative Christian groups and abstinence-only education. The CFC report exposes the billions of dollars that is often funneled…

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…mocked, and parodied (as has been the case on television in Good Times and South Park, and in films such as Talladega Nights and Dogma). Ed Blum: Post-racial is both an illustration and an illusion. On one hand, it means we have moved past the overt and blatant racism of the past that kept African American women and men from voting booths and housing areas. It also hides, though, the power white supremacy in history and whiteness today. When it…

Conservative Bishops Still Mad at Pope; Oligarch Launches Orthodox Network; Yoga Won’t Change Sexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o promote dialogue with the Islamic world, has published an interview with South African Imam Muhsin Hendricks, in which Hendricks discusses his struggles to reconcile his faith and sexuality and his approach to interpreting the Koran. Italy: Rome Mayor May Take Marriage to European Court We have previously reported on efforts by the national government to shut down actions taken by several mayors to register the marriages of same-sex couples who…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…ch, it said, ‘ends discrimination on the happiest day of your life”. South Africa: Chief Justice Says His Anti-Gay Religious Views Do Not Trump Constitution Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said this week that comments he made last week promoting religious views in the public arena and saying that the law should prohibit divorce and adultery were being misinterpreted to mean he was not committed to protecting gay rights. He vowed to protect all citiz…

US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Washington, D.C. South Africa: Owners of gay ‘cure’ camp guilty in murder of teenager Gay Star News reports that Alex de Koker and Michael Erasmus have been found guilty of murder, child abuse, and assault for the April 2011 death of 15-year old Raymond Buys, whose parents had enrolled him in Echo Wild Game Rangers Camp which promised to “turn boys into men.” When the brutalized teen arrive…

Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight over Abortion

By Kathryn Joyce

…forthcoming probes about whether or not the clinic can be cited for minor code violations. With an air of boredom, Newman ran through the list of tactics he’d turn to if he couldn’t prevent the clinic from opening. They’ll run their “Truth Truck”—a large vehicle with side panels covered with images of late-term aborted fetuses—and plant 200 crosses outside the clinic every day. They’ll limit the number of clients willing to enter by making women…