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Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

…mmunity, Labour and Social Protection will be in attendance and the conference agenda includes an exclusive closed-door meeting for speakers, dignitaries and members of parliament. Among the reported co-sponsors are the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi, Global Institute for Family Integrity (Cameroon and Foundation for African Culture Heritage (Nigeria). Botswan…

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Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

…Group Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is not shy about his anti-gay stance, having once described gays and lesbians as “worse than pigs and dogs.” In recent years, Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), has “been banned from participating at some of the country’s high profile fairs and meetings.” Police and prosecutors have repeatedly raided the group’s offices and seized property whose return GALZ is seeking.  “The property included computers,…

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Hajj Journal: Door Number 89: The Door with No Name

…d inside the mosque one day, I came across Bab raqm tis’wa thamanin, “door number 89,” literally. The door with no name. Facing the mosque at door number one, bab maalik ’abd-al-’Aziz, this door is off to the left. Looking at the mosque floor plan, this is where the building structure of the mosque is deepest. This is “the women’s section.” I noticed as I was walking through the first floor toward door number one, the kings’ door, on my way out af…

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House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

…e woman. Paul Clement has appeared before the Supreme Court several times including an appearance to defend Bush’s White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives from a challenge by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The foundation argued that the faith-based initiative violated the Establishment Clause by using taxpayer money to fund religious-based organizations. The National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown applauded the…

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An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

…tts, Birmingham and Palestine all at once, and I did not see you. Your absence made my presence suspicious. A clergy collar has come to signify cowardice—a scarlet letter deserving rebuke. Expletive after expletive was hurled not only at me but also at our entire class—and rightfully so. When you did show up you were often late and often wrong. Night after night, clergy told protestors to go home or else they ‘negotiated’ with police to no avail….

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Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

…with Carol, caused me to be so intensely pro (natural) marriage.   I was once asked by a secular news reporter, “Has your love for Carol and her cancer battle impacted your fight for marriage.” “Yes,” I responded. Why? Because I saw the wonder of covenantal one man-one woman marriage. I saw the sheer delight of authentic, biblical, natural, historic, God-defined marriage. The complimentary halves of humanity coming together is simply breathtaking…

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The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

…being carried out by the Christian Right and the GOP—an assault that’s advancing to disturbing degrees in a number of Republican-controlled states, even if a court in Texas has stayed the investigation into the Does, for now. Apart from that context, I wouldn’t bother writing a column about an incident of online bullying, something I and every vocal marginalized social media user with any visibility, along with every journalist who covers controve…

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On the 40th Anniversary of Hyde, A Theological Defense of Reproductive Justice

…in God and give sacrificially to the church, you will be blessed with financial prosperity. It is rooted in the idea that if you aren’t financially prosperous, there is something wrong with your faith or something wrong with your gift. Let’s say I’m sitting in church and they go, “If you have $500, come lay it on the altar—if you have $200, come lay it on the altar,” and they get all the way down to one dollar. If I literally do not have one doll…

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Note for Today

…a fitness class, or going skydiving. These may be relationships of convenience and only for the moments. I’m sure what we will be experiencing will be phenomenal enough to share. Choosing a Tour Company I’ve already said this, but I repeat: there has to be a better way to choose. Later I will comment on how the logistics on the ground are managed as a way to suggest how someone coming after me might narrow this choice. I would prefer a lot more in…

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Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

…itioned within a sacred reality, namely the invocation of a biblical reference to Har Megiddo or Mount Megiddo (in the Hebrew Bible), a strategic hill upon which armed guards could protect (or conscript) valuables being transported along a major ancient near-eastern thoroughfare from Mesopotamia to Egypt. The one mention in the New Testament can be found in that most cryptic of texts, Revelation, and that one reference is none too clear, only sugg…

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