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Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f on social media. According to Gulf News, “Lawmakers, wary of the growing number of gays in the country, have been pushing for a crackdown, including the adoption of tougher immigration measures against expatriate homosexuals and their prompt deportation.” Egypt: ‘The Plight of Homosexuals in Egypt’ We reported last week on the prison sentences given to eight men arrested after a video of an unofficial same-sex wedding went viral. This week journ…

American Anti-Gay Campaign in Africa Opposes “Fictitious Sexual Rights”

By Warren Throckmorton

…, a group that is linked with the WCF. The only supporter listed on FACH’s website is Don Feder, the communications director for the World Congress. According to FWI’s February newsletter, the January conference immersed UN delegates in U.S. right wing culture war talking points about homosexuality. One of the most moving presentations was the personal testimony of a patient who is successfully reorienting from homosexuality to heterosexuality. Fo…

God’s Body, God’s Plan: The Komen Furor and Abortion as Black/Latino “Genocide”

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…things”—especially when you’re building a propaganda campaign. Thus ICC’s website also boasts that carrying a baby to full term protects women from developing breast cancer. Evidently if girls and women want to protect themselves from getting breast cancer later in life continuing a pregnancy by rape and/or incest is a viable immunizer. Significantly, the Coalition of Color preaches a hellfire and damnation theme that is carefully crafted to expl…

A Primer on Activism from Unitarian Universalists

By Kim Bobo

…enix for the Day of Non-Compliance and it was posted on the denomination’s website. There was a sign up for Phoenix on the Standing on the Side of Love website. The entire leadership of the denomination was focused on making this action come together. Most Unitarian Universalists descended upon Phoenix two days before the day of action. The first evening, UU demonstrators watched the new film 9500 Liberty and talked afterwards with one of the docu…

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…hin; be your own guru; astrology; and so on. He advertises his now-defunct website starseedacademy.space, and promotes Life-Wave patches, a multi-level marketing scheme that he claims cured his father of cancer and liver disease. A starseed is a person who believes they have an alien consciousness intertwined with their human physical form. Within New Age spirituality, terms like starseed, galactic, and multidimensional being are often used interc…

Naked Mormon Women Go Viral, Talk Back

By Holly Welker

…l even when flawed, and Anderson has created an “Appreciation” page on the website featuring some of the supportive emails she has received. But wade into the comment section of almost any story about the project, and you’ll find plenty of criticism: posing nude to fight patriarchy only feeds patriarchy; the photographs aren’t artful enough, the women aren’t pretty enough; they aren’t righteous enough to see how their actions damage themselves and…

Baring Their Testimonies: Mormon Women Get Naked for the Camera

By Holly Welker

…ul. I assume this shift happened before the photographs were posted on the website, right? What is it about being willing to be naked in front of a photographer as proxy for everyone else that causes this? Women are taking their power and making a choice about what they’re doing with their bodies. They’re not doing what other people tell them to do, they’re not conforming to a standard that they’ve been given. In my statement on the website, I…

A Reply to Pastor Rod Parsley on the Bible and the Death Penalty

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…religions. And he seems to assume that Religion Dispatches is a Christian website as well. Hence his concern that a Christian professor writing for a Christian website has misrepresented biblical teaching and several Christian mandates. Neither of these assumptions is correct, and thus his concern is largely unwarranted. Even a cursory review of my essay makes clear that it was intended as an engagement with the Bible not with Christian theology,…

Lowes Bowed to Pressure from Man with THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS

By Sarah Posner

…he people in All American Muslim are not real to him. According to the FFA website, the show “profiles only Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks.” The real Muslims, FFA maintains, are “Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish.” Caton is a big fan of the shari’ah scare industry, citing Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer on his website. Following the…

Does Traditional Christian Marriage Just Mean “Not Gay”?

By Daniel Silliman

…lly Christian or at all traditional, but there is a minister involved. The website notes that not all the ministers performing weddings are ordained by a church, but they do all have legal licenses in the state of Idaho. Donald and Evelyn Knapp are ordained. They take their ordinations very seriously and understand that it comes with certain commitments. According to the lawsuit, “The Knapps and Hitching Post, LLC cannot perform [same-sex wedding]…