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Hagee’s New Film Uses Jews and Science to Prove Christian, Pro-US God

By Michael Schulson

…f Jews in peril, getting rescued by God. There are scenes from Inquisition Spain, and from Israel in the 1940s and 1960s. Along the way, a cast of male* experts, which includes (the recently incarcerated) Dinesh D’Souza, a pair of rabbis, and Dennis Prager, explains exactly how improbable the survival of the Jewish people would be without divine intervention—which tends to happen in conjunction with blood moons. The whole enterprise builds toward…

3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

…scua is more messily distributed, seemingly a weird postmodern artifact of Spain’s distinctive colonial reach). 2) “Like invitations to a hipster wedding” Tags like #jesus arise organically. So, seemingly, do popular 2015 tags like #mygodisnotdead and #thetombisempty. But, along with billboards, TV commercials, yard signs, and slick Easter-themed webpages (“These look like invitations to a hipster wedding,” said a friend who stopped by to observe…

Mormon Church Policy on Children of Same-Sex Couples Violates its Own Principles

By Mary Barker

…ghter, Lucia, whose parents are not married. She is growing up in Catholic Spain where the important childhood ritual is First Communion. And so I imagined Lucia together with her friends, talking about their First Communion dresses and the parties they would have; lining up in the auditorium to practice the ceremony; being assigned parts to play—one a scripture to read, another a solo to sing. And then I imagined an administrator pulling her out…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ober 31, 2014, at least ten countries—including Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Spain, Iceland, Denmark, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, and Luxemburg—made recommendations to the Iranian government regarding decriminalization of homosexuality and respect for the rights of LGBT people in that country. Hossein Alizadeh, Regional Program Coordinator for Middle East and North Africa spoke to BBC Newshour on Sunday about human rights violations in Iran. Fro…

LGBTs in Philippines Reflect on Papal Visit; Francis Meets Trans Man Shunned by Parish; French Group Turns ‘Bar of Sodom’ into ‘Pub of Mercy’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…last weekend with a transgender man who had been rejected by his parish in Spain and called “the devil’s daughter” by a priest. Marianne Duddy-Burke of the LGBT Catholic group Dignity, told the Washington Blade that the meeting “shows a concern for those at the very margins of our church” and said, “I hope the pope listened carefully to this man’s experience and will speak about what he heard.” More from the Huffington Post’s Antonia Blumberg: Man…

Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…y LGBTQ faith-based organization in the region. It works primarily in Anglophone countries but has plans to expand further in Africa, with additional focus on Francophone regions. There is no group or organization in the region that addresses the needs of LGBTQ and MSM Muslims. Mambaonline.com published an interview this week with a lesbian couple whose marriage in December generated media coverage that led to both positive and negative responses,…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Spain and the U.S. Lavers recaps the regional context of change and continuing problems for LGBTs: Same-sex couples are able to legally marry in 19 states and D.C., Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico City, French Guiana, the French islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Martin and St. Barthelemy and the Caribbean Netherlands that includes the islands of Bonaire, Sab…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…ipated in World Congress of Families summits. Also listed as signers are a number of religious leaders, including Foley Beach, Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America; Catholic Bishop Emmanuel Badejo of Ojo, Nigeria; Lawrence Khongy, pastor of Faith Community Baptist Church in Singapore; and Josiah Trenham, an Orthodox priest who has spoken repeatedly at World Congress of Families gatherings. Vatican: Commentary on gay priest ban; tim…

Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o reports that the Vatican “has intervened to prevent a transgender man in Spain from being a godparent.” The local bishop had previously reversed a similar decision, approving Alex Salinas’s request to be his nephew’s godparent. But the bishop reversed himself again after checking with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which said “publicly and definitely” that transsexual Catholics are ineligible. Indonesia: ‘When sexuality meets fa…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…he early afternoon, cameras in hand. It is not uncommon for tourists to outnumber monks in the debate courtyards during this time. This is obviously disruptive, making a spectacle out of a serious educational pursuit. Monastic response to the Chinese government policy of limiting monastic enrollments is at least in part the result of a clash between the secular, materialist, security-concerned worldview of the Chinese state, and the religious, tra…