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Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he publication, including words of encouragement directed at the activists listed who ventured into the Citizen‘s comment board. In fact, at press time, there was not a single comment supporting the list on the first page of comments at the paper’s own site. Cuba: Pride celebration includes symbolic mass wedding Mariela Castro, daughter of President Raul Castro, sponsored a gay pride march in Havana last weekend that included a symbolic wedding ce…

A Seminary for Nonbelievers: Is A. C. Grayling Creating His Own Religion?

By Jessica Weisberg

…omes down to. You just don’t collect stamps. So how can you be a fundamentalist non-stamp collector? It’s like sleeping furiously. It’s just wrong.” The New College of the Humanities “is not an atheist institution,” Grayling and other spokespeople for the university have stated repeatedly. But it’s hard to imagine Richard Dawkins soft-pedaling on the topic of religion. Grayling insists that he’s not as vehement as his colleague. “I’m the velvet ve…

Without Judgement Day or Karma How Does a Humanist Confront ‘Trump Funk’?

By Ivan Strenski

…nfold, my Trump Funk even deepens. Most readers needn’t be reminded of the list of depressing executive actions and policies feeding our collective depression. That’s not why I write now. I do so to try to understand why, after nearly 2 years, the Trump Funk seems a nearly bottomless pit of emotional darkness, worse even than what we’d have the right to expect in the wake of a mere election defeat? Why the oft heard, but inarticulate, lament of pu…

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

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…arenting and its implications for child development.” Sullins’ main talk enlisted countless slides with numbers, tables, and colored graphs in an effort to question the well established fact that, in addition to scant data supporting even a modest success rate, treatments aiming to suppress sexual orientation or gender expression can cause serious damage, or even be deadly. His own research, however, has essentially been deemed junk science by tho…

Sikh Prof Attacked on Heels of New Study

By Rob Shryock

…urban is an object of enmity and suspicion, just take a glance at SALDEF’s list of Facebook groups below dedicated to mocking the turban. Many of said groups implicitly link turban-wearing to Islam, and especially radical Islam, such as “Roses are red, my turban is blue, become a fan, or I will bomb you.” Others simply mock Sikhs as foreign such as, “LSMMTUAFIMC = Laughing so much my turban unravels and falls in my curry,” which has over 630,000 l…

Bringing the Senate Back to Decency: An Election Day Morning After

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Byrd’s Senate seat. And he is a Democrat. Regrettably we have a very long list of names from which to trade out for Adams’ list of victims of overheated rhetoric and political assassination: John Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy… As I look out over the wasteland of current political speech, and the difficult terrain lying before this Republic in the next two years, it is Adams’ final line to which I keep returning. It offers a conc…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f church leaders in them who then forcefully oppose marriage equality. The list included ranking church officials and, according to Galarza, not only consensual relationships but “also cases of sexual abuse.” The decision to publish this list has not only been criticized by conservative opponents of LGBT equality, but by LGBT groups who are upset that anyone would be forcibly outed. Enrique Torre Molina of All Out told The Telegraph: “‘They can sp…

After Greece, Humanists Launch Push for Secular Invocations

By Sarah Posner

…rom which to choose people to deliver prayers, they are making available a list of individuals who are able to deliver an invocation from a secular or atheist perspective. From the group’s statement: The Supreme Court’s ruling, authored by Justice Kennedy, makes clear that local governments must make “reasonable efforts to identify all of the congregations located within its borders” and welcome an invocation by anyone who wishes to give one, rega…

Doonesbury Cartoons Cause Controversy, But for Wrong Reasons

By Sarah Posner

…rasound bill “is that, when presented with all the information, every person can make the right choice, the only choice, life.” And if you are thinking of the “wrong” choice? Texas and other states require doctors to warn women of a list of medically-debunked ills that, I noted recently, “reads like a list of plagues God will rain down on a disobedient people.” Trudeau’s satire might work better if he focused on that, rather than repeating the da…

Convergence of Far-Right, Anti-Democratic Factions in the Northwest Could Provide a Model for the Rest of the Nation

By Frederick Clarkson and Cloee Cooper

…d in the New Testament book of Ephesians: apostle, prophet, teacher, evangelist, and pastor—what they call “the five-fold ministry.” Some well-known Christian Right figures in the NAR camp include Donald Trump’s spiritual advisor, Apostle Paula White; Texas-based Christian Right strategist David Barton; Rev. Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Leadership Conference; and Lt. Gen. William Boykin, (ret.) Executive Vice President of the Family R…