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Ten-Year-Old Hero Confronts Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Lauri Lebo

…good story about some little kid figuring out that civil liberties is a guarantee in the Constitution that should apply to everyone, so if somebody’s suffering from bigotry or discrimination, then, gosh darn it, that kid’s going to do something about it. How can any American reading such stories not feel a little proud rush of patriotism, right? A slight welling up in the chest? I don’t mean to sound condescending here, but how can anyone not fi…

Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

…. citizens on homosexuality and moral issues.” Last year RD Senior Editor Sarah Posner, wrote about Staver and his other role as Dean at Liberty University Law School, which revealed how he taught his students that they should engage in “civil disobedience” against court orders that conflict with “biblical law.” In light of Staver’s emergence as an attorney both for a radical anti-gay activist who has compared gay people to Nazis and claimed they…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…ightclub that has been repeatedly attacked is seeking aslym in the U.S., GLAAD reported. Meanwhile, another outspoken anti-gay Russian, Maxim Martsinkevich, has reportedly fled to Cuba. Poland: Catholic Church Declares War on ‘Gender Ideology’ On Foreign Policy’s blog, Hanna Kozlowska examines the Polish Catholic Church’s war against “gender ideology.” Says Kozlowska, “While Pope Francis has staked out a conciliatory stance toward divisive social…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…Warsaw, Poland, and gave a fierce lecture titled “How ‘Trans’ Reality is Dramatically Shifting.” For almost an hour he denied the existence of trans people (whom he referred to as “groomers”) while he misgendered and mocked famous queer people like Caitlyn Jenner or TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Of course, as the Director of Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family, Stanton’s positions on LGBTIQ rights come as no surprise; what i…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…th a foreward by Bishop Christopher Senyonjo of Uganda. The report is also available in Spanish. Pope Francis in the U.S. Pope Francis generated tremendous media attention with his trip to Cuba and the United States, where he met President Obama at the White House and called for a “tolerant and inclusive” society; became the first pope to address a joint session of Congress; and held public events in New York and Philadelphia, where he attended th…

To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey

By Nyasha Junior

…ries of male and female, straight or homosexual. So when one says queer nowadays, one is intentionally pushing back against the binary conversations that often happen when we’re talking about ourselves. Persons who self-identify as queer want to indicate that they understand their identity and their sexuality to be far more complex than an “either/or” situation. In a theological sense, this lets us look at the ways we understand the doctrines of o…

Rome Has Spoken and Rome Is Finished: The Vatican’s Sexual Abuse Summit ‘Failed Miserably’

By Mary E. Hunt

…fathers, as it were, is under review. The sordid details of the McCarrick saga are clear, including his abuse of someone in the confessional, which was a major reason for his subsequent defrocking. Reports of clerics sexually abusing nuns in India and elsewhere are now common knowledge. A page-turner of a study of the incidence of allegedly gay, sexually active, but most of all duplicitous priests in high positions in the Vatican entitled In the C…

The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans

By Andrew Aghapour

…ed in AMC’s Humans, which recently wrapped up its first season. Set in a “parallel present” where highly sophisticated androids—called “synths”—have become ubiquitous, the show explores what it would be like for humans to one day experience intimacy, jealousy, and bigotry towards machines. Critics have praised Humans for going beyond sci-fi’s typical doomsday portrayal of artificial intelligence. If the Terminator and Matrix franchises reflected o…

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

By Elizabeth Drescher

…across the American religious landscape and understand it. The following data points from the report, for instance, seem to make clear that America is growing less and less religious: Nearly one-fifth of the U.S. population (19.6%) is religiously unaffiliated—the highest percentage tracked in Pew polling; While Nones are most likely to be found among Millennials (32%), GenXers (21%) and Baby Boomers (15%) have likewise grown among the population…

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

By Michael Schulson

…s gigantic and amorphous as American religion? And even if you do pin down a number, what does it tell you? That religious organizations should list themselves on Nasdaq? That the Methodists really need to step it up in FY 2017? That religious groups handle a lot of cash? That last one isn’t a secret: we already know that religious institutions take in large sums. The Grims are trying to turn a truism into a number. That’s always a delicate exerci…