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Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

…The bylaws extend Sharia to non-Muslims and criminalize consensual same-sex sexual acts as well as all zina (sexual relations outside of marriage). The criminal code permits as punishment up to 100 lashes and up to 100 months in prison for consensual same-sex sexual acts, while zina violations carry a penalty of 100 lashes. The Principles of the Islamic Bylaw violate the right to freedom of religion enshrined in the Indonesian constitution and in…

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The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

…pressed necrophilia, but I think there’s something more mundane about the axis binding sex and death. To have sex appeal is to wield a particular kind of power; to be sexy is something more—to be powerful and at ease about that power at the same time. What could be sexier than nonchalance in the face of killing? On-screen fictions are fantasies, and there is something fraught about moralizing your way through the collective dreamspace. So, withhol…

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Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

…ith an anonymous email to NPR later in the day on April 9, in which the hoaxer explained that, “unequivocally my intent was not to defame Mr. Osteen,” but rather, “to stage, for a moment, a plausible scenario of his hypothetical resignation” and to “test viral media markets.” Tribble himself came forward for several public interviews on April 10, including one for GMA, in which he argued that he had conducted a “media campaign,” not a hoax, and ur…

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Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

…arage homosexuality. And as in other English-speaking Caribbean nations, sex between men, in fact, is unlawful in Jamaica, with violators subject to 10 years imprisonment and hard labour, although the anti-sodomy law is rarely enforced. US President Barack Obama cited Jackson’s advocacy in during his April visit to the country. Nepal: Israeli gay couples and infants airlifted from quake damage Amid the widespread human and cultural devastation cau…

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Uncertainty About US Role In LGBT Human Rights Under Trump; Global LGBT Recap

…Lanka’s 1883 penal code, a legacy of its British colonial rulers, makes sex between men punishable by 12 years in jail, although the law is rarely enforced. Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said the cabinet had refused to endorse a provision in a proposed human rights plan that would have undermined the code. “There was a provision referring to the sexual orientation of individuals and we clearly said it was not acceptable,” said Senaratne, who…

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‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

…an dignity, Troubled by the misuse of religion to further marginalize and exclude sexual minorities from society and faith communities, Noting the recommendations on human sexuality from the World Council of Churches 10th Assembly to the Central Committee, and the subsequent approval of the Terms of Reference for the Human Sexuality Reference Group to walk together in a pilgrimage of Justice and Peace from 2014-2021, Observing the resolution on vi…

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ESPN Commentator says BYU Not Guilty of “Institutional Racism”

…mith to interview current and former athletes of color who had a positive experience with BYU and the Honor Code: “If Darron Smith wasn’t so hell bent on exposing BYU, the Church and the honor code office as racists, he’d find out that for every Thomas Stancil, Tico Pringle and Ray Hudson, there’s a Brandon Davies, Reno Mahe and Brian McDonald, the latter of which recovered from an alcohol-related probation, joined the Church and served a mission…

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Falwell’s Fall Was Unrelated to the Anti-Science, Racism, and Patriarchy Trifecta that Built Liberty

…us going as a political movement was … the IRS [decision] to rescind the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University [for] its racially discriminatory policies. In the face of failed attempts to reverse the Roe decision and despite enduring majority support for it, anti-abortion white supremacists have worked to escalate their efforts using an unscientific concern for women’s safety to deny life-saving reproductive health care to women and to demoni…

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Reexamining the Shaky Theology That Gives Humans ‘Dominion’ Over All Creation

…e fish and birds earlier, before God created humans (1:22). These are not exceptional, exclusively human charges, but are what all living beings should do. Life is about bursting forth, growing, and filling. You could even argue that these are not really commandments at all but simply descriptions of what animal life naturally does. As in, “you do you.” The last two imperatives, however, are for humans only: “subdue” and “have dominion” or “rule”…

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“Muslim Gospel” Revealing the “Christian Truth” Excites the Da Vinci Code Set

…spreading widely through social media and persisting for years? The Crucifixion of Judas Iscariot The controversial version of the crucifixion in chapters 215-219 of the Gospel of Barnabas follows the same structure as the four gospels known from the New Testament, though at each stage it introduces a twist. In the Barnabas, for instance, Judas’ betrayal of Jesus to the Romans prompts God to save Jesus by removing him to heaven and to condemn Juda…

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