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Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”

By Andrew Aghapour

…d and fifty of those are going to be white respondents and somewhere around 12% or 13% are going to be African Americans. Pollsters, first of all, get results that mostly pertain to the white majority. Secondly, they often ask questions that reflect white majority trends and, thirdly, since the response rates are so bad, they may weight the data in a way that reflects the white majority better than the African-American minority. One of the consequ…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…someone’s name was Vic. Each letter in his name is also a Roman numeral. V=5, I=1, C=100. Using gematria, we find that Vic’s number is 5+1+100, or 106. So whose name adds up to 666? Most biblical scholars believe the beast was the Roman emperor Nero. Nero’s title in Latin was Caesar Nero. The equivalent in Greek, the language of Revelation, was Kaisar Neron. When transliterated into Hebrew, the Greek name became Resh, Samekh, Qoph, Nun, Vav, Resh…

To the One-Percenters, With Love

By Garret Keizer

…lose to fun. Lunatic fringe stuff, right? But consider this: if Communist China could turn into a capitalist powerhouse seemingly overnight, what is to prevent the United States from having its version of a Red Guard Cultural Revolution seemingly overnight? And don’t answer that the Chinese aren’t as sophisticated as we are. If that’s true, how come they’re holding the mortgage? God forbid that we ever experience such a nightmare as the C…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…ll no longer consider trans people mentally ill. Jamaica: J-FLAG celebrates 18 years of activism J-FLAG celebrated 18 years of standing up for LGBT people. From Executive Director Dan Lewis: Although there continue to be incidents of violence and harassment against the LGBTQ population, we have seen the slow shift toward tolerance and respect for the population as is the sentiment expressed in many of our sensitization sessions and greater appreci…

Global LGBT Recap: Mandela and Equality; Elton John Defies Russian Ban; Fake-Healing of AIDS

By Peter Montgomery

…tutional Restriction on Marriage Croats voted overwhelmingly in a December 1 referendum to define marriage in the nation’s constitution as a “union of man and woman.” According to Reuters, the initiative was launched by a Roman Catholic group, “In the Name of the Family.” Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic had called the refendum “sad and pointless.” More from the Reuters report: “The Social Democrat-led government disagreed with the referendum’s dem…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to “save the international community from gays.” He said it will be led by 10-12 people in European politics. The group’s wildly inappropriate name will be “Volunteers for Freedom.” Milonov recently tried to ban Wikipedia and Facebook from Russia, saying that they violated the country’s ban on gay “propaganda.” United Nations: Clashing visions on human rights for LGBT people On September 29, 12 United Nations agencies issued a joint call to actio…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…upport for LGBT Rights Among British Muslims Pink News reports on a poll of 1000 Muslims commissioned by Channel 4: Just 18% of Muslims surveyed agreed that homosexuality should be legal in Britain, while 52% said it should be banned. Nearly half (47%) said they would not be happy with a gay person being a teacher, while they were also overwhelmingly opposed to equal marriage. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the former Chairman of the Conservative Party a…

Euthanasia Billboards, Post-Rapture Pet Care, Can You Tell a Burqa from a Hijab?

By Michael J. Altman

…cals think about it, at the time? NPR offers a view into religious life in China. So far, the series has profiled women imams, Protestants, and Catholics. Sufis from Pakistan brought ancient devotional music to modern New York City. The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus stands at the crossroads of Christianity, Islam, and Roman paganism. In Italy, the Catholic Church is advocating for the rights of immigrants—Muslim immigrants at that. Do Rastafarians an…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…for gay men. He quit and launched a dating app called Blued, which now has 15 million users and a staff of 60 and has received $30 million in funding from an American venture-capital firm. It was very different in the 1990s when, as a young man, Mr Ma risked being sent to a labour camp for “hooliganism”, the crime then attached to homosexual behaviour, by scrawling “I’m gay” on public-lavatory walls in the hope of meeting partners. Homosexuality…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…alians participated in the survey, including more than 78 percent of voters 18 or 19 years old, a “large cohort who had probably never sent a letter in their lives,” one marriage equality supporter noted. The official results: Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry? Of the eligible Australians who expressed a view on this question, the majority indicated that the law should be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry, with…