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‘Hey Jesus, Do You Love Me the Same?’: Out Christian Rock Star Trey Pearson on Closeted Industry Figures, His Evolving Faith, and Brand New Video

By Chrissy Stroop

…ently. So I think all of these people who find the courage to share their truth make a huge impact, and if everyone in CCM and the church was honest about their own truth, their own questions, and their own beliefs, I think we would progress a lot quicker. Last year you very publicly called out certain celebrities—prominently Justin Bieber—on their affiliation with Hillsong Church, which, as is typical of evangelical megachurches, is not LGBTQ-aff…

Ugandan Bishops Push Notorious Anti-Gay Bill

By Peter Montgomery

…alties, including death and life imprisonment, and has generated intense scrutiny. International pressure, including opposition from the U.S. State Department, has helped prevent the legislation from actually being voted on in Parliament. The reported support for the bill from the Uganda Joint Christian Council is especially noteworthy since Roman Catholic Bishop of Uganda Cyprian Lwanga previously denounced the bill’s death penalty and imprisonme…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…emocratic Putin regime as either liberal media hysteria or irrational anti-Russian sentiment left over from the Cold War. Alexey Komov, WCF’s representative in Russia, praised Putin’s faith and his leadership. Komov suggested that during the era of Ronald Reagan, the U.S. was free, pro-Christian, and pro-capitalist, while Russia was mired in communism. He suggested that under Obama and Putin, a role reversal is under way. He said he would hesitate…

Bangladesh’s Atheist Blogger Still Wants to Talk

By Austin Dacey

…to be killed. The worst crime ever Asif’s story first came to me over the BBC World Service when the attack made international news. During his subsequent persecution by the authorities, he had been in communication with some of my colleagues and friends with the Bengali freethought website Mukto-Mona and the D.C.-based Center for Inquiry, with whose help we eventually connected. Although he said that there were some things he could not discuss,…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…if it came out he actually has a brilliant and sexy wife, it would totally ruin our international sales in Iran and the Emirates. RM: We wanted to offend as many people in the commercial as we possibly could. A homosexual Muslim couple putting up Christmas lights after buying caulk from Lowe’s we thought would do the trick. Did Lowe’s approach you to make this ad, or did you do it on your own? PC: Sarah Palin told us to make the ad. She’s mad her…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…lution calling for an interfaith dialogue among the great religions of the world. The news hook? Bartholomew’s report pointed out that in July of this year, the Muslim World League held a global interfaith dialogue meeting in Madrid, during which time, as Arab News reported, de Venecia Jr. presented a draft resolution calling on the conference to petition King Abdullah, King Juan Carlos of Spain, and Spanish Premier Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to…

“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture

By Sarah Posner

…ealth,” Gothard told me, “which is taking care of stress first.” Now the Peruvians, he said, want to be a “model world nation.” That, he added, “to me is like the example of what we’ve been working for all these years.” Webster, whose office did not respond to an interview request, repeatedly insisted to the local press when he served in the Florida legislature from 1980 through 2008 that he would not apply Gothard’s teachings in his official duti…

Coming Out on a Christian Campus, Then and Now

By Ed Madden

…o the webzine simply formalized the overwhelming culture of silence: these stories were silenced, as if to say such stories should be silenced. As the authors of the webzine state, “Our voices are muted, our stories go unheard, and we are forced into hiding.” That climate makes their courage all the more valuable and all the more obvious, and the need for dialogue more urgent. Anonymous they may be, but brave they are as well. The other comment I’…

News Flash: God Has Revised the Laws of Physics

By Paul Wallace

…ts at the subatomic depths propagate up to the surfaces of the macroscopic world. Perhaps it is through such bottom-up cascades that God acts in the world. Perhaps it is through such that the miraculous may occur. Full disclosure: I for one don’t look for science to reveal openings through which the divine hand might work. Not that I’m against those who look for such openings. But I think that Hamlet may as well have looked for an opening through…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the needs of LGBTQI people in the country. India: Supreme Court’s Privacy Ruling Good News for Pending Sodomy Law Review The Indian Supreme Court issued a broad ruling affirming a constitutional right to privacy, giving LGBT equality activists reason to believe that a pending Court review would reverse an earlier ruling that re-imposed Section 377, the country’s colonial-era anti-sodomy law. The Times of India characterized the ruling as signalin…