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In a New Manifesto Framing ‘Wokeness’ as Religion John McWhorter Sounds Like Moses Condemning Israel for Worshipping Golden Calf of Black Power

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ety remains embroiled in an endless shouting match over cancel culture and canceling cancel culture, Columbia professor of linguistics and American Studies John McWhorter has entered the debate with his latest offering, Woke Racism: How A New Religion Has Betrayed Black America.* In this relatively slim volume, as the title makes quite clear, McWhorter takes aim at wokeness and its adjacent cancel culture to bemoan what he perceives as social just…

Malta Adopts Marriage Equality Over Objections of Catholics and Evangelicals; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…im to denounce the anti-gay violence. Malaysia: Gay-themed Vietnamese film canceled as insulting to Islam Government officials stepped in at the last minute to cancel a screening of a Vietnamese film about a gay couple. More from Gay Star News: Despite its cancellation a Malaysian Muslim non-government organization was not impressed the film was scheduled in the first place. Hafiz Nordin chairman of Jaringan Muslimin Pulau Pinang (JMPP) said the f…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

…a random sample size and therefore isn’t statistically representative. The number of individuals reporting victimization in Episcopal spaces is alarming nonetheless. However, I would argue the data is more likely to under- than to overestimate the scope of the abuse that occurs. To see why, the survey results must be interpreted in light of the Episcopal Church’s larger culture of inaction around sexual violence. See no evil, hear no evil… LGBTQ+…

Pope’s Liberal Defenders are Missing the Point

By Jorge A. Aquino

…and affirms the stained-glass ceiling on the pastoral role of women: “the reservation of the priesthood to males … is not a question open to discussion” (#103). Francis further worried that a discussion on women’s ordination “can prove especially divisive if sacramental power is too closely identified with power in general”—as if the “reservation of the priesthood to males” had nothing whatsoever to do “with power in general” (#104). Evangelii Ga…

Coulter Calls WND “Fake Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

First, Glenn Beck goes off the conservative reservation by declaring that same-sex marriage is no threat to America by saying: “I believe that Thomas Jefferson said, ‘If it neither breaks my leg or picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?’” Then, the notoriously homophobic Ann Coulter gets booked to headline next month’s “Homocon,” an event put on by GOProud, a group of gay Republicans. Coulter’s willingness to talk to gay Republicans got Wo…

‘A Slice of Heaven’: Lakota Look to Buy Back Stolen Sacred Lands

By Johnny P. Flynn

…e original occupiers and their supporters. In 1982, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation appealed the original Supreme Court ruling and asked for 7.3 million acres to be returned to the Lakota and $11 billion in compensation for the minerals taken from the Black Hills over the years. The Supreme Court denied the appeal but two years later the Black Hills Steering Committee was formed and they asked that the federal government immediately give the La…

Love the Scholarship But Hate the Scholar’s Sin?: ‘Himpathy’ for an Academic Pedophile Enables a Culture of Abuse

By Stephen Young

…oit and prosper. A common objection to this line of thinking is that such “cancel culture” starts us down a slippery slope. Do we have to stop reading John Steinbeck if he was a jerk too?! Aside from the logically fallacious nature of slippery slope arguments, as critics of “cancel culture” hysteria like Sarah Hagi and Danielle Butler have pointed out, such objections are really distractions. They function to shield those in positions of power fro…

The Student Debt Crisis Is So Bad Even Clergy Are Packing Their Bags

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…% of the 45 million Americans with student debt. The proposed student debt cancellation bill makes eligible any student debtor earning less than $250,000 a year. Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) unveiled a campaign promise to cancel up to $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients responsible for initiating and maintaining an entrepreneurial project for three years in underserved communities. Relatedly, the California Senator recently e…

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

…e ordered organizers of what was to be Haiti’s first LGBT film festival to cancel the event after death and arson threats were made by phone and social media. According to Reuter’s Makini Brice, “A senator added to the pressure to cancel the Massimadi festival, saying it would promote homosexuality and that impoverished Haiti had other priorities.” Australia: Poll confirms majority support for marriage equality, rejection of plebiscite A new poll…

When Fundamentalism Follows You Out the Door: Transphobic Statement Exposes Exvangelical Trauma

By Chrissy Stroop

…nch quickly showed a willingness to listen and learn but was nevertheless “canceled” by many. She certainly did not deserve the barrage of harsh criticism that carried on for days. This brings us to a bizarre episode featuring the so-called “Magdalene Collective,” a small-group of AFAB—assigned female at birth—exvangelicals whose Twitter account and collective statement (both of which have since been taken down) essentially asserted that AFAB peop…