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What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

…de. [Sharlet thumbs through his copy of The Undertow] I’ve decided that my new plan with this book is to burn all bridges. So that I can’t publish anywhere and I can live a peaceful life. [Finds the right page] So they say, this is just inappropriate, it should not be in the paper of record, I don’t think this has anything to do with why Trump was elected. I’m bracing myself. So we’ve got these three guys in the bar, right? Yeah. One of them, the…

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Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

…dox Church “dramatically” demonstrated its influence, according to LifeSiteNews, when its priests and bishops “helped spearhead” a petition drive that gathered three million signatures for a referendum on a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex couples from marrying: Romanian Patriarch Daniel said the faithful — who constitute more than 85 percent of the citizens — “must support the Church’s effort to protect the natural, traditional and univer…

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Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

…tune into our higher selves,” the site states. With nods to Spiritualism, New Thought, and New Age mysticism, Goodchild seems to participate in the eclectic, combinative spirituality typical of UFO faith; Wojcik notes that UFO believers draw on sources as diverse as theosophy, Asian religions, science fiction, Scientology, Mormonism and Christianity. Certainly, the October 14 prophecy seems to have resonated with the broader UFO community. A Goog…

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London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

…the Church of Ireland Gazette, a weekly and editorially independent church newspaper, told the News Letter the motion “ does not seek to change the Church of Ireland’s traditional teaching on marriage”, a position Canon Ellis said he supports. However, he did say: “I believe the church has to consider how it is going to relate in pastoral terms to churchgoers who are in same-sex civil marriages. I do not believe that such couples should be barred…

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Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

…d legislators with 300,000 signatures opposing marriage equality. Nigeria: New York Times on Deteriorating Situation for LGBT People The plight of LGBT people in Nigeria continues to worsen in the wake of President Goodluck Jonathan signing a harsh anti-gay bill into law in January. The New York Times’ Adam Nossiter reports that the law not only bans marriage, but makes it a crime to join or support a gay organization or “directly or indirectly” m…

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The Best and the Brightest of the Catholic Bad Girls

…ocial justice issues, they defended Ferraro’s right to be pro-choice. In a newspaper ad paid for by Catholics for Choice and published in the New York Times on October 7, 1984, Catholics (including 24 nuns, 2 priests, and 2 brothers) ran under the headline “A Diversity of Opinions Regarding Abortion Exists Among Committed Catholics” and argued that Catholic politicians who disagreed with the official position should not be punished. Signers includ…

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Fresh From Horrors of Draconian Anti-Abortion Laws, Christian Right Hoosiers Consider Draconian Anti-Abortion Law

…riting career and spent the rest of his life residing in Massachusetts and New York—make of that what you will.) Heroic Hoosiers aside, Indiana isn’t currently in the national news cycle for being a welcoming haven for victims of barbaric abortion bans. Quite the opposite. The latest press comes because the state may impose a new ban as draconian as Ohio’s in a special session of the state legislature set to start on July 25, and because State Att…

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Earth to Planet Catholic: Francis Papacy is no Picnic

…en masse in the aftermath of credible abuse accusations that many of them knew about as well. Chilean priest serial abuser Fernando Karadima had been shipped off to Rome to live out his days in Italian peace. Meanwhile, Francis named Bishop Juan Barros to lead the Diocese of Osorno despite reports that Barros too had been aware of abuses. His installation was out of a Fellini movie. People arrived with black balloons to signal their distaste for a…

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The Pope’s Gay Priests

…gh” from the buoyant celebrations and meetings with enthusiastic crowds in Brazil. Furthermore, there was nothing new in the pope’s deciding not to judge the heart of a gay person: “It’s been a pretty clear teaching of the church based on the words of Jesus that we can’t judge people; we can judge actions.”  Archbishop Vigneron of Detroit joined Dolan in whittling away anything new in Francis’ words: “There’s no change” to the church’s teachings o…

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City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala City

…hristianity and efforts at democratization — in South Africa, South Korea, Brazil, Mozambique and Kenya, for example. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? This book is for people seriously interested in the political effects of Pentecostal Christianity. This includes the undergraduate student, the educated lay reader, the policy wonk, the aid worker, as well as the seminarian or pastor. Of course, I’m an anthropologist of religio…

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