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In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…lawsuit filed by the Israeli Gay Fathers Association. Ireland: First LGBT center in West of Ireland opens The first LGBT center in western Ireland has opened in Galway. Gibraltar: First same-sex couple marries Aaron Mills and Adrian Charles Triay-Dignam became the first same-sex couple to be legally married in Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory located off the southern tip of Spain. United Kingdom: Former Tory leader opposes ‘promotion’ of h…

‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy’ Explains How We Got Here — And What Comes Next

By Shane Burley

…he region’s past and present illustrates why this focus is warranted. As a center of the Klan in the 1920s and neonazi skinheads in the 1980s, and where Anti-Racist Action and antifa came into their own, the Pacific Northwest is where activists continue to face off in the streets over which political vision will prosper. The region’s growing rural Patriot movement and far-right backlash to “blue state” values has also generated a vanguard of milit…

Dangerous Religion

By Gary Laderman

…ion against building an Islamic center near the site where the World Trade Center once stood, and the growing outcry around the country about the creation of other Muslim places to gather and worship, suggests that many Americans are not afraid to answer the question without hesitation. In the post-9/11 world we now live in, Islam poses the greatest threat to American lives and security; a nefarious, fanatical religion that can bring death and des…

Fear of U.S. Marriage Equality Exported to Africa

By Kapya Kaoma

…ical Bishop Mark Kariuki (who has direct links to Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice) challenged Kenyans to “know that the U.S. is not God.” And Kenya’s Deputy President, William Ruto, reportedly called on both Christians and Muslims in Kenya to fight against “dirty things,” saying, “Homosexuality is against the plan of God; God did not create man and woman so that men would marry men and women marry women … we will defend our cou…

The Death of Another Deathbed Conversion

By Austin Dacey

…is unfortunate process. In 2001, while I was managing editor of Philo, the Center’s academic journal, we received a “letter to the editor” from Flew. The editor of Philo at the time, Quentin Smith (an exceedingly prolific scholar) had a hard enough time keeping track of his own views, let alone Flew’s. Smith was understandably taken aback by the poorly-developed jottings Flew had submitted to Philo (which, of course, like other academic journals,…

The Environmental Politics of Vodou, New Orleans Style

By Joseph Laycock

…created a community center after the destruction of Katrina. The “healing center” now houses a fitness center and a performing arts space as well as Glassman’s voodoo shop. The Anba Dlo festival is also intended as a philanthropy project that calls attention to an often ignored problem. At midnight, following the conference, Glassman held a ceremony to invoke “La Siren,”—the Haitian name for the Yoruba sea goddess Yemaja. The ceremony was partly…

American Religion By the Numbers: A Pew Survey Roundup

By The Editors

…out there clamoring for acceptance. But a new report from the Pew Research Center suggests that this is not the case. As it turns out Vines’ book (and others that seek to reconcile LGBT lives with fundamentalist Christian teaching) is only a big deal to insiders—or to a voyeuristic public that doesn’t have any real skin in the game. Continue reading SIX OVERLOOKED GEMS FROM THE FUTURE OF WORLD RELIGIONS REPORT By Timothy King The global religiou…

Yes, It’s Worse To Be Gay in Russia

By Chrissy Stroop

…ward supporting a nationwide “don’t say gay” law. According to the Levada Center poll, which asked Russians about a series of recently passed authoritarian laws infringing on rights officially guaranteed by the Russian constitution, only 59% of the respondents were aware of the law banning the “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” among minors before being informed about it by the pollsters. That low level of information aside (it was…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…ter Bob Smietana. Indeed, during the controversy over the Park51 community center last summer, Gaffney appeared on Beck’s radio program and called “Muslim Brotherhood front groups” Obama’s “go-to people.” After the Egypt uprisings, these conspiracy theories quickly morphed into claims that Obama — long portrayed as the Manchurian Muslim candidate — was in league with the Muslim Brotherhood as the puppeteer of the rebellion there. As I reported in…

Did TV “News” Spark Anti-Islam Vandalism?

By Lauri Lebo

…a Crusade-style cross were scrawled across the front of Al-Farooq Islamic Center on Nolensville Road, says Salaad Nur, a spokesman. He says the mosque, which primarily serves members of the Somali community, has contacted the police and the FBI. “They also left a letter at the youth center that says Muslims are friends of Satan and we are here to destroy the United States and to destroy Israel and things of that nature,” he says. “We’re a little…