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Talking Justice on Twitter: “We Are Breaking Down Barriers”

By Arafat Kabir

…a de-militarized zone, and so on.” When we are adamant that we alone have truth and are right and moral it becomes difficult. The miracle of social media is that it permits us to hear, and even see, so many different viewpoints and facts. We are referred to newspapers, magazines, photos, government documents, satellite images, and real-time interviews. We have access today that even world leaders did not have only a few years ago—it is as if we ar…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n the church. The move is as clever as it is draconian. Members seeking to live lives of integrity as openly LGBT people must not only leave the church, but take their children with them. It requires a particular streak of evil genius to manufacture such a “Sophie’s choice.” Kendell wrote that the news was “crushing” to LGBT advocates who had been working to change the tone of the church’s approach to LGBT people: Two months ago, when I attended a…

Noah, Cosmos Controversies Not About Biblical Literalism

By Dan Mathewson

…No matter what direction the conversation about the film takes, the flashy news headlines always seem to steer it back to religious conservative anger at the “anti-biblical, pagan film,” to quote that ever-bubbling fount of conservative Christian outrage, Ken Ham. To be fair, one can find numerous thoughtfully written blog entries and op-ed pieces that explore Noah’s important moral and religious dimensions; and news agencies do report the odd sto…

Pope Francis Says Teaching Gender Is Nasty; Far-Right Religious Groups Helping Mexico’s Anti-Equality Movement; Colombia’s Peace Deal Killed by Anti-LGBT Campaign?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…examines courts’ record on protecting rights of LGBT people Equal Rights Trust released “Justice or Complicity: LGBT Rights and the Russian Courts.” From a press release: Justice or Complicity? examines judicial practice on issues ranging from homophobic and transphobic violence to restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly. It also reviews cases dealing with discrimination in areas including family and private life, work and education. A…

Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

By Joanna Brooks

…ls, but also determined not to obscure the more complicated and difficult truth. When we deny those truths, their private emotional costs multiply. Then came the second hour of programming. Our audience in this second hour was not just BBC’s American listeners, but the world. I thought about the global reach of the BBC—the reach of the former British empire. When the question about polygamy came, I imagined listeners in Wales and Bangladesh and Ke…

What to Make of the Chechnya Connection? An Expert Weighs In

By Hussein Rashid

…adical YouTube videos. Without minimizing the hatred and damage that these videos represent, he thinks blaming these videos is an easy answer. The question is what drew them to those YouTube videos in the first place. It’s like when we point to comics, video games, etc. as causes for similar tragedies, like Columbine. In fact, Radon sees Columbine as a much closer parallel. These are two young boys or adults who were outsiders, one may have needed…

Can Eurovision’s Rainbow Arch Undermine Ukraine’s Orthodox Value System? This and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…man married couples. Bermuda: Government will not appeal marriage equality ruling; cruise lines anticipate wedding boom The government announced that it will not appeal a Supreme Court ruling earlier this month in favor of marriage equality. The Royal Gazette reports that the ruling is also “expected to impact the numerous cruise lines that fly the Bermuda flag, including Cunard, Princess and P&O cruise ships.” In 2015, the Royal Gazette reported…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…t, two wars, a series of devastating natural disasters, a crumbling infrastructure, and rumors that a Britney Spears’ comeback is in the offing isn’t enough to put Todd Strandberg’s Rapture Index over the top, the election of Barack Obama should put the icing on the cake. According to Newsweek, Strandberg’s Web site, RaptureReady.com, which “track[s] current events and link[s] them to biblical prophecy in hopes of maintaining his status as ‘the eB…

Ultra Orthodox Murder-Suicide Makes Headlines

By Shalom Goldman

…and then turned the gun on himself. As the news spread through the Israeli news media, Web sites and radio call-in shows were deluged with suggestions as to what this case was about. The first reports speculated that the background story was a Haredi gay relationship gone bad. As on astute observer of ultra-Orthodox Judaism said a quarter of a century ago “homosexuality is the dirty little secret of the yeshiva world”—that is, of the single-sex sc…

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

By Emilie M. Townes

…world and a nation in which we have to say over and over again that #blacklivesmatter as we view the videos of Alton B. Sterling’s death at the hands of two Baton Rouge police officers or Philando Castile’s death at the hand of one police officer in Falcon Heights. It is a shame that Black folk and our allies have been saying this since this country became a republic and united itself around the notion of freedom. “The murders of Sterling and Cas…