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LGBT Affirming Christians Issue Prebuttal to Values Voter Summit

By Peter Montgomery

…to Christianity itself. Other speakers included Vivian Taylor of Integrity USA (an LGBT Episcopal group), who urged LGBT Christians and the straight Christians to support them to “let your light shine,” saying “we need you out there in the world, both showing your faith and showing your love for LGBT people.” Andy Lang of the United Church of Christ Coalition for LGBT Concerns spoke about the growing LGBT-inclusive religious movement and the thous…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n extremist ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed a 15-year-old girl to death at a Jerusalem Pride parade. Homosexuality is a taboo topic in Iran, where gays and lesbians can face lashings or death sentences if convicted. Human rights groups estimate that over 4,000 gays have been executed since the Islamic Revolution. Famously, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a crowd at New York’s Columbia University in 2007 that “in Iran, we don’t have ho…

Tell It All, Sister! NJ Female PCUSA Pastor Gets Married—To Another Woman!

By David Gillespie

…by The Presbyterian Outlook on Wednesday, November 18: she got married. PCUSA pastors get married all the time. What made this announcement so significant was that McNeill, a female, married another woman. The ceremony, conducted by a UCC minister who grew up in the same North Carolina Presbyterian church as did McNeill, was held at Cape Cod on October 17. What also makes this announcement so significant is the fact that the Constitution of the P…

Giving RD The Finger?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ed with the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, US News & World Report, and USA Today. This is all brilliant in its quiet, descriptive way. Silk is especially mindful of the ways in which we are bombarded by news and information from the time we wake to the time we retire. He has structured his response by simply walking us through his day, reminding us that we are always (both actively and semi-passively) receiving such information, sometimes to t…

After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump

By Hollis Phelps and L. Benjamin Rolsky

…on’t have much effect is because these assumptions largely miss the point. USA Today columnist and former political operative Kirsten Powers has argued that Trump is little more than a “scam artist” who has duped evangelicals into following him. We don’t disagree that Trump is such an artist, but it’s the other way around: Trump didn’t use the religious right to win the presidency; the religious right used Trump to get what it wanted. And this its…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e EU. Vucic is likely to remain the country’s main leader. He has faced accusations of imposing an autocratic rule by muzzling free speech and media freedoms. Tanzania: Government threatens LGBT activists and NGO supporters Government officials have “threatened to arrest and expel activists, as well as deregister all non-governmental organisations that campaign for gay rights,” reports Reuters. Singapore: Pink Dot rally succeeds without banned par…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…istory and current status in the United States? Internationally and in the USA, HIV and AIDS share a common denominator—poverty. No, not everyone who is HIV positive is poor, but there is an incredible coincidence of persons who suffer from both. Take a world map and note where hunger and malnutrition are most abundant. If you superimpose on that map the places where the HIV and AIDS pandemic are most rampant, you will find a striking similarity….

Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rica is a homogeneous entity. In reality, however, Africa is made up of thousands of ethnic groups with rich and diverse cultures and sexualities. As appealing as the notion of African culture may be to some people, no such thing exists. Moreover, even if we wanted to imagine an authentic African culture, like all others, it would not be static. African history is replete with examples of both erotic and nonerotic same-sex relationships. For examp…

Affordable Care Act Needs “Fix,” Clergy Say

By Daniel Schultz

Ed Kilgore has a good catch at his blog today: it seems that a number of churches have been asking for a fix to the Affordable Care Act. So far, they’ve been getting a receptive hearing from Democrats on Capitol Hill—but not Republicans. Here’s the nub of the problem they’re trying to solve: Without the requested “fix,” as many as one million clergy members and church employees now enrolled in church-sponsored health plans could soon face the cho…

Catholic Bishops Throw Cold Water on Ice Bucket Challenge

By Patricia Miller

…been conducting a campaign against the Girl Scouts that has resulted in a number of troops being kicked out of their church homes because the national organization is a member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, an international organization that supports access to contraception. Conservatives have also ginned up charges of links to Planned Parenthood and pro-abortion leanings that the national Girl Scouts USA organization, w…