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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

…number of occasions found that the likelihood of counter-events does not justify restricting citizens right to peaceful assembly. The regional police also asked for the ban, although it is they who are obliged to protect all citizens exercising their right to gather. Indonesia: Anti-Gay Islamists Continue Rhetorical War On LGBTs Weeks of escalating anti-gay rhetoric in Indonesia show no signs of stopping, according to an Associated Press report th…

Dirty Money in the Appalachian Church: Six Years After Deadly Coal Mine Disaster, Where Are We Now?

By Michael J. Iafrate

…n the first place. In such contexts, the church has become part of the unjust system itself, playing chaplain to an unjust and destructive economy, offering prayers and charity to that economy’s victims while staying on the payroll of deadly industries. Bishop Stowe of Lexington spoke to me about the money the fossil fuel industries pour into public relations. This use of the industry’s money, he says, might be even more dangerous than any gifts t…

Ten Commandments of the Antichrist: The Georgia Guidestones

By Joseph Laycock

…f Weird Georgia), shortly after the Guidestones were unveiled, a local minister stated his suspicion that “Mr. Christian is not a Christian” and that the monument was designed for the worship of the sun as well as the devil. Contemporary Pagans, UFO buffs, and New Agers were naturally attracted by the mystery of the site. New myths were created that the monument was built upon a “power-nexus” or a place sacred to Native Americans. One legend holds…

Is Covid-19 Introducing a New Generation to Fears of ‘Jewish Contagion’?

By Amanda Furiasse

…his emerging outbreak, we need to separate facts from fear, and guard against stigma and panic.” Amidst COVID-19 spreading across the state, New Rochelle was arbitrarily selected as the primary site of contagion in the state of New York. Moreover, in the days that followed the arbitrary geographic containment zone didn’t limit or contain the COVID-19 outbreak to New Rochelle, but within a matter of days, New York City became the epicenter of COVID…

#MeToo and the Problem with the “The Billy Graham Rule”

By Sara J. Moslener

…ts to maintain his moral standing. In 1948 Graham and his newly-formed ministry established four rules of conduct intended to protect themselves from the appearance of various forms of sexual, financial, and leadership misconduct. What has now come to be known as the Billy Graham Rule resurfaced in the wake of the 2016 election. Vice President Mike Pence, like Graham before him, refuses to be alone with a woman. Graham and his leadership team arti…

Thanksgiving Reveals More About Us Than About 17th Century Events

By Ed Simon

…ly Handle the Truth about Thanksgiving? When conservatives decry “revisionist” history, what’s really on trial is history told accurately for the first time. Most of us grew up with halcyon images of benevolent pilgrims sharing a meal with the natives, yet the realities of American colonization have more to do with the Pequod War than with turkey; more with King Philip’s War than stuffing and succotash. Jonathan L. Walton gives an impassioned plea…

The Forgotten Struggle Over Gender and Bigotry in Christianity

By Stephen J. Patterson

…t of those who do not? Well, anyone can read those tealeaves. In today’s fastest-growing churches, the gospel is all about class. And gender? Simply put, the church is the last, greatest bastion of gender bias in American society. The Catholic Church does not ordain women as priests and probably never will. Neither do the Orthodox churches. The largest Protestant denominations do not ordain women as ministers, nor do most of the historically black…

MIT, Facing Opposition to Extremist Speaker, Might Try Google Next Time

By Murali Balaji

…when universities continue to weigh First Amendment issues against the inclusive learning environments they purport to uphold, maybe they should just start with a simple Google search before inviting campus speakers….

LGBTQ Methodists on Whether the United Methodist Church Will Ever Affirm LGBTQ People

By Tris Mamone

…ge to the Book of Discipline. There was even a magazine the liberal Methodist Student Movement put out that ran from the 1940s to the 1970s called motive (the lowercase “m” was deliberate) which called for full LGBTQ liberation. “Our history is one of both discrimination and resistance to that discrimination,” Rebecca says. “Right now, those who stand on the side of discrimination wish to rewrite that history, by labeling their positions as ‘tradi…

Is Bill Barr’s Belief in a Powerful President Actually Religious? A ‘High Papal’ Fable

By Ivan Strenski

…inners,’ the crucified Christ proclaimed that God sided with ‘losers.’ Christ, cast in his “loneliness and nakedness and persecution” paradoxically promised that through these sufferings the “savior had redeemed” humanity. In effect, “the new suffering Christ made Christians aware that God was closer to the weak and poor than to the mighty and rich”—a truly absurd notion to the worldly-wise at the time. Thus, around 400 CE, as “the tortured Jesus…