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New Spencer Book Denies Existence of Muhammad

By Hussein Rashid

…l material* about Jesus dates from at least two generation after his life. Welcome to the wonderful world of pre-modern history. Literacy is not such a big deal. A good resource for learning about this is Monty Python’s “Holy Grail.” It’s probably a more accurate portrayal of Medieval English history than anything Spencer concocts. How six decades passed before the Arabian conquerors—or the people they conquered—even mentioned Muhammad, the Qur’a…

Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…h, Tennessee was an arson. Elsewhere in the state, a Memphis pastor put a “Welcome to the Neighborhood” sign outside his church to welcome the new Islamic center being built nearby. And a new mosque has gone up in Lousiville, Kentucky quite peacefully. Is the BBC anti-Christian? The Florida pastor who had planned to burn Qur’ans on 9/11 has instigated protests in Indonesia and the threat of a flag-burning protest in Great Britain. Indian officials…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ek that the group and the Iranian Lesbian and Transgender Network (6Rang) “welcome the decision by the Islamic Republican of Iran to accept 139 of the 291 recommendations and to partially support 59 recommendations put forward by the 28th session of the Human Rights Council that address the rights of sexual minorities.” Despite the limitations, this is the first time the Islamic Republic has acknowledged ill-treatment and torture of the LGBT commu…

The Politics We Deserve

By Jason C. Bivins

…h, and might become more. I expect no fundamental policy changes, though I welcome distributive shifts; and I await no magic kingdom, as Obama’s detractors have long complained he promised us. But what strikes me as undeniable is that the tone just changed, the self-understanding just changed, our face to the world just changed, in however limited a fashion, and to whatever limited effects. I was stunned by the degree to which, in one of the nasti…

Return of Uganda Anti-Gay Bill?

By Peter Montgomery

…osexuality Bill to a vote. According to Burroway, Kadaga received a hero’s welcome on her return from a conference in Canada. She is calling criticism leveled against anti-gay persecution in Uganda by the Canadian foreign minister an attack on Uganda’s sovereignty and culture. She reportedly received a hero’s welcome at the airport. “The rally at Entebbe’s airport was organized by religious leaders, former Ethics and Integrity Minister James Nsaba…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…as occupiers in over a hundred American cities feel the power of worldwide welcome and affirmation. There is obviously more to be felt and said about this than any journalistic treatment could hope to engage; one senses in many recent commentaries the strain of needing to say more and not quite having the words. Over the course of a couple of days, four regular RD contributors, moderated by Senior Editor Sarah Posner, shared their own thoughts abo…

After Her Remarks Pope JPII Was Never the Same — Controversial, Beloved Sr Theresa Kane’s Effect on the Catholic Church Endures

By Mary E. Hunt

…ke up about 90% of US nuns. It was in that capacity that she was tapped to welcome Pope John Paul II to the US on behalf of American religious women. His life was never the same. On November 7, 1979, at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, thousands of nuns gathered for their special time with John Paul II. Some stood silently during his remarks wearing blue armbands to signal their support of women’s ordination. It w…

Pope: Heterosexual Marriage “Makes Europe Europe”

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ats in Vatican City has also birthed a sort of new genre, the formal papal welcome; one that the current Pope has utilized to remind his new partners of just how un-modern, and even anti-modern, their new diplomatic home is. Modernity, after all, is characterized by this Pope as a moment of restless and breathless innovation, in contrast to his conception of the tradition-minded Church which involves passing on, unchanged, the wisdom we’ve inherit…

Synod ‘Fight for Soul’ of Catholic Church, Flap On English Translation of Key Report; Anti-Gay Law Advances in Kyrgyzstan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…next year’s. Patricia Miller has noted in RD, the synod’s signs of greater welcome to LGBT people has not extended so much to women. At National Catholic Reporter, Heidi Schlumpf has a hard time getting excited about the bishops’ “gradualism” on family issues. Father James Martin, S.J., suggests, “Maybe this is not so much Vatican III as the continuation of Vatican II.” But even that would be too much for conservatives. George Weigle at the Nation…

Gay Marriage: Can We Get a Little Respect?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Editor’s Note: Welcome new readers! If you like this post sign up for RD’s daily email newsletter here. —- It was an impressive display—more than two hundred people standing in front of the State House on a blustery November afternoon, demonstrating in favor of marriage equality for gay and lesbian people. What made it most impressive is that the rally was in Columbia, South Carolina, a place not known as a bastion of gay rights activity. As a ve…