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Atheists are Americans Too, Vuvuzelas, Etc.

By Michael J. Altman

…answer should be education not legislation. In Mexico, Time reports, La Familia Michoacana mixes fundamentalism with drugs, violence, and political corruption. The cartel’s leader, Nazaria Moreno—AKA El Mas Loco—has written his own Bible and leads prayer meetings. A conservative pastor in Minnesota, who was outed by Lavender Magazine, will likely keep his job. Rev. Tom Brock had been publicly critical of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Amer…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…A ruling banning the image, Radio Free Europe reports, “stemmed from a criminal case against a man named Aleksandr Tsvetkov, who was accused of stoking hate speech by posting the photograph of Putin in makeup on the popular Russian social-networking site Vkontakte.” “Russian news outlets are having trouble reporting exactly which image of the Internet’s many Putin-gay-clown memes is now illegal to share,” The Washington Post reports. “Because, yo…

ABC’s Good Christian Bitches Makes Feminists of Religious Right

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…irdate approaches). Perhaps we might think instead about how the media actually portrays and affects women? Which brings me to…. Thought two: Ever heard of the Bechdel Test? A movie passes the Bechdel Test if, at any point, it contains a scene with two or more women, talking to each other, about something other than a man. The Bechdel Test was developed to expose the dearth of female friendships in movies. Will the Good Christian Bitches televis…

Why All the Silly Devil Talk Should be Taken Seriously

By Ebony Utley

…uthor of Modern Occult Rhetoric explains, “Whenever there’s a sense of social anomie and crisis these things do tend to flare up.” He also noted that “white guys who feel disempowered in some way” are most likely to be conspiracy theorists. Another clue that many of these claims are catch-all conspiracy theories is the conflation of disparate vocabularies. Occult (a word which simply means secret, or hidden) is not a term necessarily linked to evi…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…hts activist says it is the conversation promoting the amendment that is inflaming homophobia. RFE/FL cites survey research saying more than 80 percent of Georgians have strongly negative attitudes toward homosexuality. Social research on homophobia in Georgia shows that attitudes toward gays are strongly influenced by traditional stigmas, taboos, and values promoted by the Georgian Orthodox Church. Those studies also show that psychological and p…

RDPulpit: Religious Right Censors Austria’s Gay Jesus

By Kittredge Cherry

…the opposition to gay Jesus art has been almost exclusively homegrown. Local vandals in San Francisco smashed the image of “Jesus kissing the Hindu god Rama” by California artist Alex Donis; Swedish fundamentalists were the first to send death threats to Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin after her photos of Jesus with contemporary LGBT people were shown in Stockholm; and so on. This time, however, although the explosion over gay Jesus…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…ct for her, and will hyper-focus on one thing (like her laugh or race) and minimize another—even things like continuously mispronouncing her name. It’s easy enough to stress the second “a” in Kamala (pronounced calm-uh-lah), but why would we do that when Donald Trump “couldn’t care less” if he mispronounces it? Who cares, right? We may not care, but as speed-talking right-winger Ben Shapiro says, “facts don’t care about your feelings.” Hell, even…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…ously overly-militarized approach to militant salafism, combined with federal support for de facto anti-Arab and anti-Muslim CVE programs at home, only help groups like ISIS make the case that America is, contrary to all public statements to the contrary, at war with Islam. These points are worth considering. But as Li points out it would be a mistake to banalize the violence by writing it off as the product of imperial blowback. The greater chall…

Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…oss misinterpretation” of this by the media. “We are not supporting the criminalisation of people with different sexual orientations,” Archbishop Kaigama stressed. “We would defend any person with homosexual orientation who is being harassed, who is being imprisoned, who is being punished.” He added: “The Government may want to punish them – we don’t. In fact we will tell the Government to stop punishing those with different orientations.” Queerin…

‘Culting’: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons

By Catherine Wessinger

…25 years,” was quoted as an authority on “brainwashing.” On April 17, the Dal*]}*las Morning News published an editorial by Jacquielynn Floyd in which she defended the “risk” the state of Texas took in removing all the children from the ranch and separating most of the children from their mothers, arguing that the children needed protection from “a secretive cult.” On April 18—the day before the fifteenth anniversary of the fire at Mount Carmel—self-s…