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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

…commission has deplored the outpouring of hatred, but President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has been silent. He was elected on a platform that included human rights and respect for diversity as a top priority. Kyle Knight, a researcher for New York-based Human Rights Watch, said it feels like the cause of equality has been set back by a generation. Bigoted officials “actually do ruin people’s lives,” he said. Belize: American Anti-Gay Activist Slams Loc…

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

By Bill Berkowitz

…g the day. Gun ownership is outlawed in eight states and “the number is growing with increasing Democratic control of state legislatures and governorships.” Home schooling has been “severely restricted” thanks to the lobbying efforts of the National Education Association. Anonymous points out that although President Obama “expressed strong personal disapproval” of many of the Supreme Court decisions that have brought about these changes, he said t…

The Pundits and the Dominionists

By Julie Ingersoll

…form American culture has led to a number of responses charging “leftists” with fearmongering and with generalizing from a few obscure examples to the wide-ranging religiously oriented conservatives. Michael Gerson writes about what he calls “An unholy war on the Tea Party” at the Washington Post: So it becomes necessary to stretch the case a bit. Perry admittedly doesn’t attend a Dominionist church or make Dominionist arguments, but he once allow…

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

By Michael J. Iafrate

…st Virginia, many people are still utterly paralyzed by the question ‘What will we do without coal?’ If we are not careful, this fear can lead us into hypocrisy, preaching about justice and the care of creation but living in another reality entirely.” If the Diocese has released a statement on the issue of fracking, which is also affecting an increasing number of communities in the state, it has not publicized it widely either. The same reluctance…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…st as passionately that every single time we don’t open the doors a little wider we will also have members walk out the door. Right. Not to mention the effect this has on your ability to attract new, younger members, especially in the more progressive areas of America. Values like inclusiveness are so important for the millennial generation and if the church is officially condoning bigotry then it’s going to be very difficult to appeal to those yo…

The Problem We All Live With: Bearing Witness, But Never Finding Justice

By Emilie M. Townes

…of tragedy has become routine. The videos of their deaths allow us to bear witness, but it will not necessarily bring justice.” But we began this on the bad foot of Article I, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution of 1787 that declared that, for purposes of representation in Congress, enslaved Blacks in a state would be counted as three-fifths of the number of white inhabitants of that state. Enslavement written into our founding document is somethi…

How an 1843 Revelation on Polygamy Poses a Serious Challenge to Modern Mormonism

By Benjamin E. Park

…r, was Smith’s belief in the importance of the doctrine, as well as the growing number of people initiated into the order. And though the prophet tried to stop the rumors from spreading, an increasing number of prominent figures outraged by the alleged practice were dedicated to root out the truth. Among those trying to expose the practice and its participants were Joseph’s brother, Hyrum, as well as his wife, Emma. Then, in May of 1843, in a radi…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…te Contributions has stated: “We are delighted to continue our partnership with PFLAG … (in) promoting the necessary message of inclusion to untapped groups … and that is a crucial step toward building a healthy working environment.” *Christian Doctrine Cures OCD: Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?: A Psychiatrist Explores the Role of Faith in Treatment (Brazos, 2008), written by Ian Osborn, offers a Christian framework for treat…

Why David Brooks Doesn’t Get the Outrage Over AIG

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…, no great psychological nuance is needed to see that people are angry and with good reason. I agree with Brooks that the punitive legislation hastily offered up in the US House of Representatives this week is unhelpful as well as unconstitutional. But I am sure this legislation is coming from a very real and deserved and pervasive moral outrage that needs to find an outlet and a voice. Instead, Brooks returns to his typology of number crunching v…

“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…Americans have now for everybody on earth. At that point, we could live as flagrantly, as profligately, as we might wish—not that I’d recommend that, but we could—because there’d be so relatively few of us compared to the number we have now. I’m trying to imagine what it would be like to be born on that planet: 200 years in the future. Only 100 million people. Well, I think it could be a wonderful life. You would have a lot of material goods. You…