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Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…5,000 pilgrims who gathered in St. Peter’s Square. “As ‘one flesh’, they become living icons of God’s love in our world, building up the Church in unity and fidelity,” he said. “The image of God is the married couple — not just the man, not just the woman, but both.” Peru: Officials Calls for Civil Unions The Washington Blade reports that last week a Peruvian official recommended that the Congress approve a civil unions bill that has been introdu…

A Public Monument to Atheism—In Florida

By Becky Garrison

…ed in dismantling this 5-foot, 6-ton stone slab, Bradford County, Florida decided to establish a “Free Speech Forum” outside its courthouse, allowing for private groups like American Atheists to place monuments at their own expense. When asked to comment on the establishment of the first atheist memorial on public property, Tom Flynn, Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism, expressed concern that establishing an atheist monument al…

Keep These Satanists Out of Congress!

By Joseph Laycock

…or Yoho’s supporters the appeal to moral panic may have backfired. Rush released a statement defending his hobbies and blasting Yoho for creating a distraction from real issues, all of which suggests that the popular fear of Satanic role-playing games may finally be played out. While some of the online dialogue offered by Rush’s more villainous characters is disturbing, Rush is hardly the strangest (or even the most vampiric) GOP candidate to come…

Noah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices

By Wil Gafney

…vie. Their Enochic counterparts, the Watchers, fall from heaven to earth, become encased in soil and rock and become walking, talking piles of rock with glowing, explosive inner cores. – The Watchers supply the bulk of the manual labor to build the ark. – Noah’s sons are not all adult, married men when they enter the ark (Gen 7:7). The lack of wives for the boy on the cusp of manhood and the much younger boy-child are plot devices. – When Noah get…

Debate Heats Up Over “Francis Effect”

By Patricia Miller

…’s first year. According to Daniel Burke at CNN.com in a lengthy, mostly anecdotal piece, “there’s more way than one to measure the pontiff’s influence” than, say, actual metrics like the number of people going to mass or returning to the church. According to Burke, you just have to “ask around” Boston to find folks who know someone who’s thinking about returning to the church or who feels less horrible about the church than in the darkest days of…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…uck Jonathan for his signature. If he returns the law to parliament with recommended changes, that could delay resolution until after a coming election. LGBT activists hope that he will refer it to the National Human Rights Commission. Meanwhile, activists are considering with “dread” the potential consequences of the legislation for LGBT people and for HIV prevention and treatment programs South Africa: Concern about LGBT Equality in a Post-Man…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…hed apart by colonial violence. At face value this commercial—which was released November 13, 2013 and which immediately went viral on YouTube and Facebook—tells a heartwarming story about reconciliation and reunion. But, of course, this reading is too simple, in a context carved in and through colonial and neo-colonial violence. The Google spot celebrates the final death of a British colonial past by celebrating the benevolent supremacy of multin…

Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege

By Jeffrey Scholes

…eally do in response, just as Aslan did? Of course there is no true Archimedean point from which to sit in these matters. Aslan chose to write about Jesus because he’s “been obsessed” with him for decades. One might want to ask whether this book was perhaps an attempt, subconsciously or not, to get over old resentments or heal old wounds. While he should not have to answer these ad hominem questions, the repeated recitation of his credentials doe…

Update: Fox News Tries Gotcha Game with Reza Aslan

By The Editors

…’s book sales considerably. According to the New York Times: On Friday, “Zealot” was in the No. 8 spot on Amazon.com, the nation’s biggest seller of books; by Sunday, it had hit No. 1. Random House is rushing to meet the surge in demand for the book. On Monday, the publisher ordered 50,000 copies, bringing the total to 150,000 copies in print by the end of the week. *** Credit must be given to Dr. Aslan for remaining relatively calm in the face o…

Review: Is the Religious Right Dying?

By Laura R. Olson

…is a brittle shell of its former self. Quite a few books recently have appeared that call for or point to evidence that a new religious left may be asserting itself. A number of progressive Christian blogs, such as Street Prophets and Faithful Democrats are afire with discussion of a different kind of marriage between religion and politics that emphasizes peace and justice issues instead of socio-moral concerns. In the baffling 2008 presidential…