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The Politics of Anti-Gay Persecution: Gambia, Egypt, Jamaica, Russia, with a Helping Hand from US Religious Conservatives; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rights charter that would have banned anti-gay discrimination. According to Pink News, the charter was to have been enacted on Human Rights Day – December 10 – but “after it picked up flack from church groups and conservatives, the planned charter was postponed indefinitely.” New Zealand: first gay judge on high court Matthew Muir has become the first openly gay member of the country’s highest court. Australia: Gay man becomes chief minister of c…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…eformation, cutting edge of the Christian right: Christian nationalism has new momentum — and a new movement that openly longs for “dominion” over secular America, Salon, January 2, 2024 Molly Olmstead, The Radical Evangelicals Who Helped Push Jan. 6 to Wage War on “Demonic Influence”: Mike Johnson has deep ties to groups that encouraged the Capitol raid—out of conviction that they’re in a literal battle between supernatural forces of good and ev…

Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating

By Anthea Butler

…ke away that free will, except for those who have the capacity to hack the code and reprogram the car. We normally think of robots as almost pure code, yet the scene last week when Graystone orders the Zoebot to rip off her arm raises some interesting stakes in this. It seems to me that people may be treating the Cylons differently depending on what mix of code and law they believe governs their behavior. And of course, those of you who study reli…

Egyptian Da Vinci Code Author Angers Coptic Christians

By Joseph Mayton

…ene, as the Egyptian authorities did in 2007 when they banned The Da Vinci Code. The Coptic community—which accounts for roughly 10 percent of the nation’s 80 million citizens—had raised alarm and demanded that both the book and movie be banned. Now, three years on, Zeidan’s bestselling novel is is prompting angry demands from that same community. In early May a group of Coptic lawyers demanded that the government imprison the author for five year…

The Biblical Money Code!

By Gordon Haber

…“Biblical Money Code” appears as a fake news article, or “advertorial,” on Newsmax, the semi-fake news website. Hyman in fact seems to work for the website, although his actual role is unclear—a recent bio says that he is part of its “Financial Brain Trust.” “A wise man looks well into a matter,” Proverbs, and Hyman, reminds us. While I wouldn’t make any claims to wisdom, I will say that I have looked into it and conclude that it would be foolish…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…cution in Russia’s Cechnya republic,” reports CTV News. In contrast, Radio New Zealand reports that gay men have been detained on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island after seeking asylum in Australia have been subjected to abuse and are now facing an uncertain future with Australian government plans to close the center before the end of October. Homosexuality is illegal in Papua New Guinea, but some detainees fear that returning to nations like Iran w…

Are We Living in a Simulation? Bad Religion, Bad Media Combine in New Doc, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’

By Shannon Trosper Schorey

…imes before murdering his parents. We’re also asked to think about how the New Zealand shooter live streamed his actions, swaying the gun as if he was in a first person shooter game. Although not mentioned in the movie, I wondered about Grand Theft Auto and the dramatic rise of white supremacists using cars to attack protestors. If life looks like a simulation, like a first person shooter, Pothast explains, “you treat reality like [it is filled wi…

Trickle-Down Metaphysics and the Dawn of a Trumpian New Age

By Michael Schulson

…editor-in-chief. Horowitz specifically situates Neville—and himself—in the New Thought movement. When I told him that Neville’s book had seemed kind of fascist to me, he said that “New Thought philosophy has always faced that ethical dilemma. If you take it as a given that the mind can shape reality, what are the implications of that?” And further, “I don’t think New Thought has ever properly come to terms with the ethical implications of what it…

‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, but we still think that to speak about homosexuality is a ‘Western’ fad. New Zealand: New Prime Minister left Mormon Church over anti-gay doctrines Jacinda Ardnern, the country’s new 37-year-old prime minister, is a former Mormon who left the church when she was in her 20s, “mostly as a consequence of its anti-homosexual stance.” From the New Zealand Herald: “For a lot of years, I put it to the back of my mind. I think it was too unsettling. If…

Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…onal Front and father of the party’s current presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, criticized the surviving partner’s speech for having “exalted” gay marriage. Hong King: Court orders partial recognition for same-sex couple married in New Zealand A civil servant who married his same-sex partner in New Zealand won a court ruling against the government to obtain civil service welfare benefits for his husband. The same ruling denied the couple’s ques…