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Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rmon presence at the conference, including an opening keynote rom Elder M. Russell Ballard, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS. Ballard praised this year’s “Utah compromise,” in which the church agreed to back the inclusion of LGBT people in some statewide nondiscrimination laws in return for broad religious exemptions. There were no speaking slots for the pro-LGBT Mormons Building Bridges, but the group organized members to…

Gay, Christian, Pagan, Artist: How Matt Morris Defies the Borders of Spiritual Identity

By Jesse James DeConto

…lf being God. Everyone wants to draw a distinction because God created the world, God is not the world. They start to worry that people might start to have a misunderstanding of God if they think too highly of God’s creation. Those are lines that are drawn around God, those are lines that are drawn around nature and Creation. There’s a lot of lines. Whereas what I found in Paganism was, it’s actually mysterious the way we’re interconnected with th…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…world that lacks in groundbreaking scientific research also lacks in groundbreaking destructiveness; even in its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, confirmed in Pakistan and suspected in Iran, the search has been derivative. There are other senses in which the Muslim world, by and large, has not ‘excelled,’ and for that perhaps we should be grateful, not caustic. For you cannot claim the planet and eat it too. Nothing the Muslim world has acc…

How a Group of Catholic Pacifists Took on the Nuclear State

By Eric C. Miller

…ention in more subtle ways. Whether direct or indirect, these instances of rule-breaking all function as performances of identity for the activists, through which they instantiate the roles of prophet and martyr. Thanks in large part to the activists’ own legal savvy, the courtroom itself becomes a religiously fruitful space even though, contrary to what one might reasonably expect, Plowshares trials often proceed without much explicitly religious…

The Lament of the Christian Disney Dad: What Evangelicals Really Hate About ‘Wokeness’ at Disney World

By Josh Parks

…park visitors like VanBoskerck by presenting WDW as a refuge from the real world, a literal fantasyland in which all your dreams come true. Within this fantasy, you—the capital-G Guest—are the star of the show, evil is clearly defined and easily defeated, and the past is celebrated as a source of comfort and inspiration. And while this ideology makes for happy guests and healthy profits, it also has deep affinities with the worldview that white ev…

Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…ately, the WCF doesn’t draw the numbers of other global alliances like the World Social Forum. In 2007, for example, the WCF drew only 3,000 or so attendees; but among them were top members of the far-right government of Poland, a country that the WCF considers at the vanguard of the ecumenical culture war for its vicious repression of gay and reproductive rights. What the WCF does continue to do very successfully is serve as an assembly point for…

Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…2010. In one, a group of conservative Muslims occupied the hotel where an international LBGTI conference was scheduled, and in the second, conservative Muslims attacked an international gay film festival in Jakarta. YIFOS began as a community-based organisation bringing together members of Muslim, Catholic and Buddhist communities. The organisation’s goal was to foster exchange between members of different religions about faith and sexuality. ‘In…

TED-Evangelism Harkens Back to a Forgotten 19th-Century Tradition

By Michael Schulson

…alks to packed rooms. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a star on the circuit. Local newspapers wrote stories about lectures the next day, discussing both the speaker and the composition of the audience. At its peak, the lecture circuit attracted as many as a million Americans per week. The main vehicle for these lectures were the lyceums—local civic institutions that aimed to cultivate intellectual life, often in far-flung towns. The first lyceums took pla…

Maddow Confronts Author of Ugandan “Kill the Gays” Bill

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n if it means that people will die. What gives me hope is that, unlike homosexuality, bigotry is a learned behavior that can be unlearned. Part 1: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Part 2: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…

Pope Praises ‘Complementarity’ & Resists Gay Ambassador; Irish Religious Leaders Spar Over Marriage; Colombian Atty Gen Cites ‘Bogus’ Study Opposing Adoption; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es got legal clearance to marry in Mazatlan, Sinaloa after a Supreme Court ruling. Russia: Court upholds firing of gay teacher A Russian teacher who was fired in December after being outed by an anti-gay activist lost her legal effort to be reinstated, reports Associated Press. Ksenia Kirichenko, the lawyer for a gay rights organization which is representing the teacher, said Thursday that the court this week refused the teacher’s demand to be rei…