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Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

By Shalom Goldman

…e alliance at the outset the author lets us follow the development of this military, economic and political relationship. When we reach the end of the book the larger picture emerges. “The total military relationship between the two countries amounted to more than ten billion dollars over the course of twenty years.” On the Israeli side, the alliance with South Africa was fostered by Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, and Moshe Dayan, three men who ofte…

Ann Coulter and GOProud: In Bed Together Once Again

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Behar’s show she even went so far as to speak against women serving in the military, wishing for only heterosexual males to be able to serve. So, perhaps, the marriage of Coulter and GOProud is one made in heaven. Both are facing a hailstorm of criticism for their words and actions, so they can be victims together. GOProud, after sponsoring the annual conservative-palooza that is CPAC, has been disinvited from sponsorship this year, but, like gays…

DADT Repeal: The New “Religious Freedom” Issue

By Sarah Posner

…frame DADT repeal as a “religious liberty” issue for chaplains and servicemembers. Alliance Defense Fund litigation counsel Daniel Blomberg said in a statement, “The Senate’s cave-in to pressure from activists to impose homosexual behavior on our military will place our troops’ religious liberties in unprecedented jeopardy. Indeed, the first official casualty of this hurried vote may well be the religious freedom of chaplains and Service members….

‘The Quiet Damage’ Details the Heartbreaking Effect of QAnon on Five American Families — But Critical Questions Linger

By Susannah Crockford

…f this book. It’s based on “hundreds of hours” of interviews in person, by phone, and online over three years. The pacing is fine, and by chapter 10 it becomes truly heartbreaking. Reading about people ruining their lives and the lives of their loved ones, over and again, is not a light read. In that sense it resembles an addiction memoir. This resemblance is made explicit in the afterword in which Cook argues that underneath the disinformation cr…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…tatement. “Many were released only after giving up the addresses of fellow members of the LGBTI community, who were then in turn arrested and subjected to the same treatment. An undetermined number of those detained have been sentenced to either 20 or 30 days of administrative detention.” Police have said that the detentions are unrelated to the sexual orientation of the detainees and accuse them of being engaged in prostitution. Eurasianet quotes…

Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…b threat. The Guardian reports that “the venue was surrounded by about 200 members of far-right groups shouting “kill, kill, kill.” There seems to have been resistance from a number of quarters to the planned event, including from the Lviv Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate. It was probably unfortunate timing that the festival was planned during Lent, however Bishop Filaret’s strong language about ‘sinners’ make…

Holey Holey Holey: The Problem with a New Study Valuing Religion at $1.2 Trillion Per Year

By Michael Schulson

…f the total revenue of American religious congregations. To get that final number, the Grims took one estimate of the total number of congregations in America (344,894) and multiplied it by another estimate of the average revenue of each ($242,910). Depending on how you look at it, $378 billion is a lot of money, or it’s not very much money at all. It’s more than the net worth of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffet, combined…

Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…an religiosity—about religion as it is lived in the United States today? A number of what I would see as problems in the Pew report suggest to me that our growing fixation with religion-by-the-numbers may be distracting us from richer, more nuanced understandings of American religious practice. Wanted: A Community that Doesn’t Share My Beliefs and Values Take the demographic category of “Nones” itself. The Pew report notes the difficulty with sur…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…. While he has frequently appeared in scenes depicting skinship with other members of Super Junior, Choi Siwon has maintained conservative religious views. Meanwhile, he returns to Korean drama in the upcoming series, “She Was Pretty.” “She Was Pretty” will serve as his final drama role prior to his November 2015 enlistment in the Korean military. Azerbaijan: European Parliament denounces repression of LGBT advocates Last week the European Parliam…

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…teaching.” United Kingdom: LGBT equality advocates named to House of Lords Members of the House of Lords are either hereditary peers or life peers appointed by the government. Among 45 life peers announced this week are a number of LGBT equality advocates including the Lynne Feathersone, a former Liberal-Democrat member of the House of Commons who was been described as the architect of marriage equality in England and Wales. Italy: Venice mayor se…