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Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

…ill host the World Congress of Families summit in May. Netherlands: Mobile app designed to help LGBT migrants & refugees Dutch officials have created a mobile app to help LGBT migrants get information on refugee rights and resources and Dutch asylum procedures. Liberia: Essay on ‘tacit tolerance’ and backlash to public pressure for LGBT equality Baba Sillah, a Liberian post-graduate student in the Graduate School of Global Studies at Sophia Univer…

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Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing: A Buddhist Anti-Tech Manifesto

…e New York Review of Books, advocates age restrictions or flat-out bans on app use. Both of these approaches presume a fundamental weakness in human agency. State intervention is the only way, these writers argue, to protect us against ourselves. Well, sort of. These kinds of provisions don’t protect agency so much as they determine an acceptable degree to which it will be lost. They don’t address the deeper social forces and habits of mind that e…

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Gen X, Gadgets, and God

…ce generally, the interactive reshaping of spiritual life mobile computing applications—apps—are taking up the creative slack in inviting believers, seekers, and non-believers of all stripes into what Meyers refers to as the “adventurous and always unpredictable exploration of God’s strange and surprising ways with the world.” Scholars and religion journalists are just beginning to address the impact of religious apps on the shaping of formal and…

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Russian Parliament Hosts U.S. Anti-Gay Activist Paul Cameron

…ike the one passed in Russia have cropped up in many municipalities across Moldova, whether or not Western ideological enablers have had anything to do with the trend. With respect to Cameron, it’s true that he is not widely regarded as a serious figure in the West. When you google Cameron in English, you’ll encounter adjectives like “discredited.” And while he did earn a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1966, Camero…

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Roll Over Lenin: Russian Church Elects New Patriarch

…ion draws near. Russian-leaning politicians such as Viktor Yanukovych will appeal to Kirill and the Moscow Patriarchate for support, while Westward-looking candidates will seek the endorsement of the schismatic churches. It is highly unlikely that Kirill will be able to reunite Ukraine’s churches under Moscow’s leadership, but he may succeed in preventing Kyiv from being recognized as an autocephalous center of Orthodoxy. Kirill also is likely to…

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The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

…cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of this source code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most impo…

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Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

…etails of their sexual lives. Mexico: Marriage on march with strong public approval; report on trans The legislature in the state of Colima approved marriage equality. A survey released this week found that 65 percent of Mexicans supports the president’s proposal to make marriage for same-sex couples a right guaranteed in the country’s constitution. See journalist Rex Wockner’s site for ongoing reporting and analysis of the complex and shifting ma…

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Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating

…ke away that free will, except for those who have the capacity to hack the code and reprogram the car. We normally think of robots as almost pure code, yet the scene last week when Graystone orders the Zoebot to rip off her arm raises some interesting stakes in this. It seems to me that people may be treating the Cylons differently depending on what mix of code and law they believe governs their behavior. And of course, those of you who study reli…

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Egyptian Da Vinci Code Author Angers Coptic Christians

…,” she adds. The lawyers have referred to Article 98 of the Egyptian Penal Code as justification for their demands of imprisoning the author. In an open statement to the Egyptian General Prosecutor, they called for the author to be tried for “contempt of the Christian religion and verbal abuse of Copts.” Naguib Gobrail, one of the lawyers and President of the Egyptian Human Rights Federation, has argued that “Muslims attack Christians in as many w…

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The Biblical Money Code!

…be noted that in a kind of harmonic convergence of BS, the “Biblical Money Codeappears as a fake news article, or “advertorial,” on Newsmax, the semi-fake news website. Hyman in fact seems to work for the website, although his actual role is unclear—a recent bio says that he is part of its “Financial Brain Trust.” “A wise man looks well into a matter,” Proverbs, and Hyman, reminds us. While I wouldn’t make any claims to wisdom, I will say that I…

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