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The Boa Has Been Passed to New Generation

By Mary E. Hunt

…religious leaders of many stripes, including the Radical Faeries, Dignity USA, Methodists and Unitarians, various Jewish groups, and many more who are part of the National Religious Leadership Roundtable, a project of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. That group, of which I am a part, is an interreligious coalition that engages in networking and strategic actions to lift religious voices in favor of same-sex love and justice. With his stal…

Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

By Peter Laarman

…the fallacy of the widespread assumption that militant homophobia in Africa, Asia, and Latin America merely expresses the “traditional values” of those cultures. In fact, much of the new anti-gay ugliness carries a Made-in-the-USA label. 10. Eschewing Animal Products: More Proof That Gay Is Good? The growing popularity of veganism among queer people is seen by many queers themselves as something of a joke (will it provoke pushback from bitter old…

Betraying a Sacred Trust: From Penn State to Dover Air Force Base

By Gary Laderman

…basic reason: the football team wins and inspires others to attend, support, trust, and identify with the university. Football is both exceedingly violent, of course, yet also surprisingly intimate. Men’s bodies are up close and personal with other bodies on the field, in the locker room, and in the showers. Certain kinds of intimacy between bodies can often be religious and signal sacred bonds and ultimate commitments. Football is about many thin…

Glenn Beck Attracts 300,000; Pakistan Floods Impact
17 million

By Joanna Brooks

…th century, the Church has had its own welfare system—complete with ranches, farms, and canning facilities—while the Church’s Humanitarian Services division distributes millions of pounds of relief supplies annually, including emergency kits hand assembled by Mormons at local church meetings. So I was thrilled to receive news that the Church has partnered with International Medical Corps, International Relief and Development, and Saba Aslam Welfar…

Polygamy Bus Tour, ‘Spiritual’ Healthcare for Christian Scientists, Baptizing an Alien…

By Michael J. Altman

…arolina and Carmina will take up residence at the church. Christian Surfers, USA unites Christianity with the waves. The small town of Sidney, NY wants a Sufi graveyard gone. The city claims the bodies were buried illegally and wants them removed. In Washington, two Muslim inmates are suing the Pierce county jail for religious discrimination; among other things, they complain that Christian inmates receive special treatment such as a special livin…

Lou Engle Attempts To Backpedal On Uganda Anti-Gay Bill

By Sarah Posner

…said they don’t want that agenda but it’s coming in, getting pushed by NGOs, UN, Unicef and other organizations so we’re just trying to take a stand to encourage them in their stand.” That certainly sounds like he’s supporting the bill, which is the only Ugandan stand to which he could be referring. 4. Engle says in his statement last week that Christian leaders in Uganda are working to soften the punishments. But both Oyet and Bahati, at least, s…

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…ia DeVos Foundation (1992). There is also a DeVos connection to Blackwater USA, the world’s most powerful mercenary army, and the largest contractor providing security in Iraq. That company too is currently up to its neck in Iraq-related legal problems. Blackwater was founded by former Navy SEAL Erik Prince, the son of Edgar Prince, a wealthy Michigan auto-parts supplier. The elder Prince is described by Jeremy Scahill, in his bestselling book Bla…

Super Bowl Sunday, American Holy Day

By Gary Laderman

…g Jackson’s breast reverberated across all kinds of communities. Christians, Jews, and Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists, even atheists and pagans (well, maybe not pagans) vigorously complained about such an offensive act, especially as the halftime show is considered to be a shared, family viewing experience, with vulnerable children who can easily be led morally astray. Their fury may have derived from a New Testament understanding of a woman’s plac…

Will Answers in Genesis’ New ‘Ark Park’ Comply with Anti-Discrimination Laws?

By Julie Ingersoll

…and AiG cannot consistently promote its own worldview and hire nonbelievers, Muslims, gays and lesbians, divorced people, unsubmissive women (this list gets pretty long)… Certainly Ham is entitled to his political views, but should this project proceed, the taxpayers of Kentucky will be subsidizing an exclusivist missionary program in an effort to create jobs, for which many of those taxpayers won’t be deemed suitable. The governor addresses the i…

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

…ironic that an African dictator wearing a three-piece suit, caressing an iPhone, speaking in English and liberally quoting the Bible can dare indict anything for being un-African.” In a report from South Sudan, the Guardian’s Antony Loewenstein reports on the anti-gay agenda often connected to evangelical churches’ missionary work. He cites American evangelist Franklin Graham as an example: Samaritan’s Purse, run by Franklin Graham, son of the Ch…