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Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…icularly for progressive Zionists: questioning the claim that Israel’s serial military incursions into Gaza since the 2006 Israeli settlement withdrawal from the territory are wars of necessity for Israel’s security. “The majority of rabbis are horrified” by the scale of civilian casualties and destruction in Gaza this summer, T’ruah’s Jill Jacobs told me. They “don’t believe the human shield story,” she said, referring to the Israeli government’s…

Christians and Cage Fighting, From “Fight Church” to Mark Driscoll

By Jessica Johnson

…blurrier and more difficult to dismiss in terms of their affective political value than claims to objectivity would lead us to believe. Preston Hocker (aka “The Pastor of Disaster”) states from the pulpit, with a right eye purple and puffy the day after losing a fight, “in life you have to be willing to take risks, otherwise you might as well just stay home. Sometimes you take a risk, you get hit in the face.” After a boy who loses a fight begins…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…enting on the controversy, suggested the emergence of an Orthodox-Evangelical alliance. Here’s how he concludes: I know that some of the Orthodox with whom I e-mail have been watching Rome under Pope Francis, and, fair or not, are concerned that it is caving to modernity on sexual issues. Having seen so many Mainline Protestant churches yield to liberalism, and then begin falling apart, is part of the reason for grave concern by these Orthodox pri…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and protect the human rights of all persons without discrimination, to repeal all provisions of the Criminal Code that criminalize relations between consenting adults and to put in place an immediate moratorium on arrests on the basis of such laws,” the High Commissioner said. Amnesty International also sounded the alarm on Gambia this week, highlighting the detention and torture of eight people it says were arrested earlier this month: “These arr…

Anglican Communion Gets Anti-Gay Secretary General; Black Gay Christians Challenge Conservative Evangelicals in Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ments on the sex characteristics of a person” without informed consent and also allows parents to postpone entering a gender marker on a child’s birth certificate. Jamaica: Rights groups urge Obama to raise LGBT rights; musician challenges homophobia Human Rights organizations have called on President Obama to raise concerns about Jamaica’s treatment of LGBT people during his April 9 visit to the country. As we have noted, conservative American ev…

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

…all papal visits and are due to the Pope’s characteristic kindness and availability. The only real audience granted by the Pope at the Nunciature was with one of his former students and his family. RD’s Anthea Butler summarized the situation as a Vatican Game of Thrones. Liberty Counsel has continued to insist that Davis met privately with Francis, in a meeting that was clearly intended to be kept secret. Liberty Counsel may have leaked the Franc…

Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York

By Michael Schulson

…dea over a cup of tea. Certain details change with the telling (was it a nail salon or a hair salon?), but here’s the official version: during a teatime conversation, Burrows asked Rinzler “why there wasn’t a modern, non-religious, drop-in studio where she could meditate in the same way she could drop into a salon and get her hair done.” Rinzler, it turned out, had been thinking along the same lines. They drew up a plan. I’m not a Buddhist teacher…

Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…esbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender sexual and gender identities as mental illnesses. Australia: Muslims Against Homophobia Will March at Sydney Mardis Gras Muslims Against Homophobia Australia will march in this year’s Gay and Lesbian Mardis Gras Parade in Sydney. The group was founded in 2011 by Alice Aslan to “promote the rights of LGBTI people as well as stand in solidarity with them.” More from Shannon Power at the Star Observer: “There’s…

What Did ISIS Have to Do With Nice?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ghdad, Dacca, Istanbul, Paris, Brussels, and Orlando—to shore up its credibility as a global player and give the illusion of power. Its followers are taking credit for anything that might be construed as an ISIS-related assault. Branding a terrorist act has become as important as what motivates it. Even if it turns out that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel did in fact have some jihadi connections, the initial evidence is that his motivations were largely persona…

Pope Denounces Gender Colonization; Indonesian Court Considers Islamist Request To Criminalize Homosexuality; Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says No One Has Right to Harm Homosexuals; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…uine forms of ideological colonization taking place. And one of these – I will call it clearly by its name – is [the ideology of] “gender”. Today children – children! – are taught in school that everyone can choose his or her sex. Why are they teaching this? Because the books are provided by the persons and institutions that give you money. These forms of ideological colonization are also supported by influential countries. And this terrible! In a…