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Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ther Irish politicians, Dominic Hannigan, revealed that he had married his partner in London on New Year’s Eve. Ukraine: Foreign Policy profiles ‘dashed hopes’ of LGBT community Writing for Foreign Policy, Dimiter Kenarov explores the hostility facing Ukraine’s LGBT community. The article starts with the torching of a theater that had been showing a queer-themed movie as part of a film festival, and the arrest of suspects who confessed that their…

Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…an religiosity—about religion as it is lived in the United States today? A number of what I would see as problems in the Pew report suggest to me that our growing fixation with religion-by-the-numbers may be distracting us from richer, more nuanced understandings of American religious practice. Wanted: A Community that Doesn’t Share My Beliefs and Values Take the demographic category of “Nones” itself. The Pew report notes the difficulty with sur…

Holey Holey Holey: The Problem with a New Study Valuing Religion at $1.2 Trillion Per Year

By Michael Schulson

…f the total revenue of American religious congregations. To get that final number, the Grims took one estimate of the total number of congregations in America (344,894) and multiplied it by another estimate of the average revenue of each ($242,910). Depending on how you look at it, $378 billion is a lot of money, or it’s not very much money at all. It’s more than the net worth of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffet, combined…

Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hen it comes to fulfilling the demands of a modern relationship where both partners have equal rights. ‘Because of this we don’t want to swap civil partnerships for marriage in its current form,’ she said. ‘It would be downright crazy to, for example, apply the stricter divorce rules to civil partnerships! The group is advocating for reform of marriage and divorce laws. Indonesia: Scholars calculate cost of LGBT exclusion; urge French president to…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…h Federation’s Master class in Tel Aviv. He has lectured academically at a number of institutions including The New York Public Library, and is proud member of Writer’s Guild and Dramatist’s Guild. Today he lives in Los Angeles with his partner, is pitching a new Muslim family sitcom, and is rarely beat up. Parvesh Cheena recently starred in NBC’s comedy series Outsourced as Gupta and is the voice of Blades on The HUB Network’s new cartoon, Transf…

Blessed With a Dark Turn of Mind: Gillian Welch’s Spiritual Strivings

By Paul Harvey

…omeone who took all the glory, that you just couldn’t share. Welch and her partner David Rawlings sing in haunting union: I’ve never been so disabused, never been so mad I’ve never been served anything that tasted so bad. Listening to this song, “The Way It Will Be,” I too don’t know what the hell just happened, but it’s impossible not to complete the story, to fill in those gaps. We’ve all eaten that bitterness at some point. And that urge to fig…

Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…er Xavier Bettel announced this week that he is engaged and will marry his partner “soon.” From the LA Times’ Henry Chu: The remarkable thing when this tiny nation legalized same-sex marriage in June wasn’t that the conservative-leaning prime minister, Xavier Bettel, supported the new law. It was that he might be among the first to take advantage of it. Bettel and his partner, architect Gauthier Destenay, probably will tie the knot sometime soon….

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…nd the world, nor obstruct our collaboration with one another and with our partner organizations. World Congress of Families Puts Moscow Summit on Hold The World Congress of Families, which has been an enthusiastic backer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced that it would suspend planning for its September summit in Moscow in the wake of Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea. Just last month, WCF spokespeople were praising Putin as…

“Flipping the Script” to Win Gays Back to the Evangelical Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…is not good for the human being to be alone, if God says we should have a partner who fulfils us, then surely condemning gay people to lives of singleness and celibacy opposes divine will. But, let’s not play the Bible prooftexting game, because that really gets us nowhere. Instead, let’s see what the scientists have to say about the importance of companionship for human beings. Abraham Maslow has postulated that all humans need things like food,…

“Like sunshine in the darkest abyss I’ve ever experienced.”

By Joanna Brooks

…on] temple, and having children. I saw all of this evaporate when he came out, so it’s really hard. I want him to be sitting next to me at church if that’s where he wants to be. I want him to feel comfortable there. I want him to be with his partner in church, feeling comfortable holding his partner’s hand, if he wants. I don’t want him to choose between a God he loves and a man he loves. None of us have to make that choice we expect of gay LDS pe…