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RDPulpit: I Am Not A Number: Gays and Lesbians and Opinion Polls

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…jority of young evangelicals support either marriage or civil unions.” The numbers remain in line with other recent polls, like one commissioned by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)—and I’ll admit my friend Debra Haffner has every right to be encouraged by these statistics—but I can’t get over my anger that my life even has to be the subject of constant polling. Why does the temperature of the populace have to be taken about…

Hajj Journal: Door Number 89: The Door with No Name

By Amina Wadud

…d inside the mosque one day, I came across Bab raqm tis’wa thamanin, “door number 89,” literally. The door with no name. Facing the mosque at door number one, bab maalik ’abd-al-’Aziz, this door is off to the left. Looking at the mosque floor plan, this is where the building structure of the mosque is deepest. This is “the women’s section.” I noticed as I was walking through the first floor toward door number one, the kings’ door, on my way out af…

Authoritarian Populism Vs Human Rights, The Campaign Against ‘Gender Ideology’ and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…was fined for Facebook postings calling for Muslims to be removed from Finland, which a judge ruled incited hatred against Muslims, reports Gay Star News. He could have faced two years in prison. Tynkkynen complained of a double standard: ‘The freedom of speech in Finland doesn’t look very good for LGBT people. In 2013 Finnish imam Abbas Bahmanpour compared homosexuality to incest and told in live TV-show, that gays should be punished to death. I…

Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…or of American demagoguery. Where New Atheism and Donald Trump Meet In his December review of Islam and the Future of Tolerance, Aziz criticized Harris for writing that Islamophobic incidents in the United States are “tiny in number, often property-related, and still dwarfed five-fold by similar offenses against Jews.” Aziz countered that violence done against one minority should never be downplayed because there is greater violence against anothe…

Christian-Only Prayer Rally The Response Goes To Early Primary States

By Sarah Posner

…in Purpose, which, according to the L.A. Times, “is using sophisticated data-mining techniques to compile a database of every unregistered born-again and evangelical Christian and conservative Catholic in the country.” United in Purpose shares the services of David Lane with the Renewal and Restoration Projects, which are modeled on one launched in Texas to help Perry with a gubernatorial reelection campaign. As I reported previously, Lane, a Chr…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…imanot, described as an association of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, are planning “to hold a mass demonstration in the capital to protest against Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual (LGBT) and the violence that is being committed against minors.” The report says that Weyneye Abune Teklehaimanot has produced a video “associating same-sex practice with the advent of an anti-Christ, which Christians believe to be a sign of ‘the end of the world….

Convergence of Far-Right, Anti-Democratic Factions in the Northwest Could Provide a Model for the Rest of the Nation

By Frederick Clarkson and Cloee Cooper

…ls and rifles.” The program is called “Team Rugged.” One aspect of Shea’s plan that was not discussed in the report or subsequent press coverage about the 2016 Biblical Basis for War was his cryptic call for the formation of “prayer councils” to determine whether God is calling them to war. Shea’s plan was exposed and prominently covered in the Washington state media in 2018. Apostle Taylor nevertheless worked with then-Prayer Caucus Chairman Shea…

2018: Wave Goodbye to Another Year in Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…previously uncontacted and notoriously hostile tribe in the Sentinelese Islands, and was murdered for his efforts. Jeff Sessions tried to defend the grand guignol cruelty of the Trump administration’s immigration policy as part of God’s plan, sparking a questionable effort to impose church discipline on him. Mike Pence did the generally creepy Mike Pence thing at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, albeit it with some reservations o…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…well as any legal recognition of gender change or transgender status. The language used by the parliamentarians echoes anti-transgender language used by religious conservatives who refer to gender reassignment surgery as “mutilation” and insist that a strict biological binary supports the principle of “complementarity” between the sexes. Estonia: Court overturns ruling that favored lesbian couple A court decision requiring immigration officials t…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…-sex couples, “Fiji does not need that rubbish.” According to Radio New Zealand, Bainimarama said that if two women want to marry, “they should go and have it done in Iceland and stay and live there.” China: Court Accepts Marriage Case Reuters’ Sui-Lee Wee reports that a court “has accepted China’s first same-sex marriage case, lodged by a gay man against a civil affairs bureau for denying him the right to marry.” Notes Reuters, “While homosexuali…