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African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…available in Victoria, Tasmania, The Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales – is fully federally funded and has been used to make schools in the area, as Brisbane Times puts, “more inclusive for same-sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse young people.” In order to promote acceptance within these educational environments the resources are captioned with lines such as: “this is a discrimination free zone. Homophobia and transphobia w…

Should Chaplains Be Involved in Psychedelic Experiences? Are ‘Trips’ Inherently Religious?

By Hollis Phelps

…as guides during an experience itself. Most of the discussion, however, focused on how chaplains might help users understand and integrate their experiences in light of pre-existing faith commitments. As trained caregivers, chaplains could play an important role in the newly-emerging psychedelic landscape, providing guidance to those who may choose to incorporate the use of psychedelics into their own spiritual journeys. We could perhaps think abo…

Catholics Talk About Sex

By Kate Ott

…aception as, “characteristic of a less than fully human way of acting, because it diminishes the need for reason and the use of the will to make responsible and truly loving decisions about how to use one’s God-given gift of sexuality.” As a moral theologian and sexual ethicist, I completely disagree. The ability of a young person to make a decision about any sexual behavior that includes protecting one’s self and partner from disease or pregnancy…

Capitalism and the Anti-Modern Pope

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ity in the relatively near future. So, if Euro-America is a lost Vatican cause, then where is the Church growing? Where is its future? The answer seems relatively clear. The Church is growing in South America, in sub-Saharan Africa, and is even making significant inroads in the Far East. And what these emerging Catholic populations want is a culturally conservative theology (recall the uproar in these same regions when the openly gay Anglican bish…

Why Aqua Buddha Ad Failed to Harm Rand Paul

By Joanna Brooks

…was, to be sure, a risky strategy for a Democratic Senate candidate in the South: run a sorta-psychedelic television ad depicting your Tea-Party anointed opponent as a groovy turtleneck and corduroy jacket-wearing, idol-worshipping, bondage-indulging svengali. Jack Conway and his strategists hoped the now infamous Aqua Buddha ad would incur doubts among social conservatives about Rand Paul and change the game in Kentucky, where Paul now leads Conw…

Stephen Broden, Beck’s Black Robed Regiment In Action

By Sarah Posner

…tive rights are a conspiracy to commit “black genocide.” The film has been promoted by the Frederick Douglass Foundation, which describes itself as a a Christian organization. (It also supports Allen West, running for Congress in Florida, who writes for a south Florida biker magazine, in which he has written that “the upcoming election is the time to get rid of ‘Barry Obongo,’ and asks readers to imagine having sex with [Democratic Congresswoman D…

Hank Azaria Offers to Stop Doing Apu. So…Thank You?

By Murali Balaji

…almost a little too late because of the impact Apu had on a generation of South Asian Americans (in particular Hindus), which Kondabolu so deftly noted in his documentary. Simply put, Apu was the bane of my existence in middle school—and occasionally high school. The Apu jokes were frequent, but so were the slights from my peers about Hinduism, given that The Simpsons occasionally took time to mock Hindu gods and goddesses. The problem with Apu w…

‘Religious Liberty’ and the Origins of the Evangelical Persecution Complex

By Randall J. Stephens

…s sense of embattlement, this idea, particularly pervasive in the American South, that personal or religious liberty is under fire? Recent scholarship in Southern studies is of some help here. Angie Maxwell has observed, for example, that the “southern lexicon has long been rich in” the language of regional inferiority. In her view a “climate of battle” and perceived “public ridicule have significant ramifications for southern white identity.” It…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…because of the extensive security. You couldn’t forget the apocalypse because that was the topic. And you couldn’t forget Paris because Paris has a way of saying “I’m here.” Golden Rule The best slogan I heard repeated in Paris is “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.” The other phrase that stuck has to do with some parts of the world being “sacrifice zones.” (h/t Naomi Klein for that coinage.) Women from North Dakota joined Hawaiians…

The Fusion Friendships of Rev. Barber’s Third Reconstruction

By Daniel José Camacho

…within this country. While I may not exactly share Rev. Barber’s sometimes Southern-centric outlook, I’m aware that I can’t understand the United States apart from the South or apart from the Reconstruction(s). As someone whose roots are newer to the U.S. and whose roots go deeper south to the Caribbean part of Colombia, I’m aware that Rev. Barber raises problems and alternative possibilities that go to the roots of this country, roots that the No…