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Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…story quotes a lesbian activist who says she has been receiving late-night phone calls for several weeks threatening to kill her if she does not close the advocacy group she works for. The campaign by “Islamic hardliners” has already forced an Islamic boarding school for transgender students to shut down. Indonesia’s human rights commission has deplored the outpouring of hatred, but President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has been silent. He was elected on…

The Pundits and the Dominionists

By Julie Ingersoll

…essay, the number of people who can be labeled in this way would “fit in a phone booth.” (Actually there are significantly more than he recognizes, but I take his point.) My point, though, is that this is the wrong question. Far more interesting, I think, is to look at the influence of Christian Reconstruction; how has it impacted the style of the conservative Christianity that makes up the religious right—which is not to say that if I can show in…

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

By Bill Berkowitz

…U.S. intelligence services “to cease all wiretapping of alleged terrorist phone calls unless they first obtained a specific court warrant for each case.” Captured overseas terrorists are no longer given military tribunals but are “now given full trials in the U.S. court system.” The relaxing of the Bush Administration’s rules of engagement with terrorists has led to the explosion of “terrorist bombs in two large and two small U.S. cities, killing…

Dirty Money in the Appalachian Church: Six Years After Deadly Coal Mine Disaster, Where Are We Now?

By Michael J. Iafrate

…’t be prudent” to speak strongly about these things. In a recent email and phone conversation, Fr. O’Donnell also dismissed any concerns about the influence of coal money on the public policy statements of the diocese. “It’s just a non-issue in such discussions,” he told me. “I’m flabbergasted the topic is even coming up.” Certainly a deeper and more sustained conversation is necessary. In order to yield fruit, such conversations require some degr…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…hink there’s a continuum. I believe science has proven that. Then came the phone call from your sister. I did not love Erin less the moment after she told me that she had fallen in love with her best friend. I couldn’t and I refuse to let the church do that. She was baptized into this church. She was raised in this church. She’s the embodiment of everything that the church stands for. Absolutely. You could not ask for a more compassionate person,…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…ted a 37-year old man who had been making abusive and threatening anti-gay phone calls to MP Ben Bradshaw. Europe: Trans activists say Europe shows too much deference to ‘national identities’ Transgender Europe welcomed a statement from the Council of the European Union on LGBTI equality and gender equality, but said the conclusions “are poisoned apples as they lack political aspiration.” More from the statement: Instead of leading by example in f…

The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…-the-cuff and perhaps there was not time or space to elaborate fully, but one needs to think—to question oneself—before making such remarks. I have encountered many similar comments all over the Internet and in face-to-face conversations with nonbelievers, and there always seems to be a great interest on the part of the author/speaker in holding up rather juvenile models of Christianity; models which are subsequently dismantled with the greatest o…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…people are expected to be added to the “other religion” category over the next generation or so by switching their allegiance from another religious tradition (or none). Islam, by comparison, is projected to gain to gain 3.2 million new adherents and “folk religions” (these tend to be small in number and tied to a particular people group or tribe) are likely to see gains of 2.6 million during the same time period. Such numbers are miniscule compa…

“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…, we’re around 0.4, 0.45, something like that. Ever since agriculture [the number has] gone up. But before that it was close to zero. We are oriented toward equality. But we don’t have it. We could frame this in terms of past and present. But we could also look at it in terms of scales: smaller social groups can be more equal. When things get big, certain hierarchical structures emerge, and inequalities arrive. Well, I think that’s absolutely so….

Pence’s Religious Freedom Policy Made ‘LGBQ’ Hoosiers Sick—Literally

By Sunnivie Brydum

…y had 14 or more “unhealthy days” each month. By the end of the year, that number had jumped to nearly 60%. Heterosexual people in Indiana did not report any significant increase in the number of unhealthy days, and surrounding regions experienced no similar spikes among LGBQ or straight populations. That suggests that something insidious in Indiana was impacting LGBQ people. Of course, anyone who followed the RFRA debacle in Indiana won’t be surp…