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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

By Peter Montgomery

…itual journey and his film. “I was there making this pilgrimage for the thousands of gay Muslims who were too scared to go to Saudi Arabia, who would feel they would never be welcome,” Sharma said. “I felt I was doing it for them.” The CBC reports that Sharma had received death threats and the Hot Docs festival had added extra security for the film’s three sold-out screenings. Seventh-Day Adventists: Long history of support for gay ‘cures’ We rece…

Did Uganda’s President Really Veto the Anti-Gay Bill?

By Kapya Kaoma

…ly?” (see the full letter below) International media outlets like the BBC, USA Today, and the Globe and Mail immediately echoed the Monitor article, asserting that President Museveni had blocked or even vetoed the bill—which was far from the truth—even after Pepe Julian Onziema, Director of Programs at leading Ugandan LGBTQ advocacy organization Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) tweeted that the Monitor article was misleading. Museveni didn’t even o…

NAACP Calls Out Franklin Graham

By Sarah Posner

…an-ness. At that time, Graham not only dug his heels in on Islam, but told USA Today that Obama only listened to black religious figures: “Obama pays attention only to black charismatic and Pentecostal pastors, such as his spiritual adviser, Joshua Dubois.” Even being questioned by fellow evangelicals has no impact on Graham. He has asserted that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the U.S. government and has dabbled in birtherism. Obama tried…

Yes, Let’s Talk About Kermit Gosnell

By Sarah Posner

…n the Northeast offering such abortions would have charged at least one thousand more. Still another reason drawing women to this clinic was that it became widely known that Gosnell was willing to flout the law and perform post-viability (i.e. post-24 week) abortions even in cases where women did not meet the very strict legal guidelines of a life-threatening or serious illness or were carrying a fetus with a lethal anomaly. In a horribly unfair v…

YouTube Terrorism

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…s, it is a part of our brave new world of endless information and mindless usage of that information. Gertrude Himmelfarb once observed: “Like postmodernism, the Internet does not distinguish between the true and the false, the important and the trivial, the enduring and the ephemeral.” Had she added “between the sanitized and the incendiary” her words would have predicted what we saw in Benghazi but, alas, will see loss of life and property in ot…

What the Lost Finale is Really About

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…plained. Jumping the gun, or perhaps the shark, writers from the LA Times, USA Today, NY Times, and many other major outlets have already weighed in, well before the finale sinks in. What then am I offering in the midst of the hullabaloo? Why write before it is over? Why write at all? Because the ultimate response to the show’s questions have already been answered. The ending of the finale is (spoiler alert) not important. There are no answers tha…

A Pair of Ex-Gay Leaders Make About Face

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…st, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Presbyterian Church USA in their recognition of gay and lesbian people as ministers and leaders in the church. And as the Christian Century points out, their efforts probably won’t result in any movement from the denomination at their General Conference next May because “delegates generally opposed to a change are growing higher in ratio…” Which is precisely why it’s so important to voice supp…

Debating God: Atheist and Evangelical Face Off at Notre Dame

By Nathan Schneider

…r and gave the opening speech. He’s tall, a bit lanky, steady with his eye-contact, and erring on the side of clean-cut. Around here, he’s someone who can get things done and get money out of the administration. Even professors talk about him with a shade of awe. As a freshman he was class president, but then he quit student government for greater things. He also has a visionary streak, and a knack for stringing winged words together into crescend…

The New Manson Family or Teens at “Play”?

By Joseph Laycock

…drums of Satanic Panic instead of asking harder questions about why these murders happened. Assuming these teenage murderers were not following prescribed rituals for human sacrifice or in contact with networks of criminal Satanists, why would they tell such stories? Why did the Houston case have the disturbing feature of an inverted cross?…

“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…“man crisis,” suggesting families should not allow their children to have contact with “evil” gay family members, stating that Catholic politicians John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi should be denied communion, and serving on the advisory board to the Human Dignity Institute, which invited Steve Bannon to a conference at the Vatican in 2014. More recently, Burke has remained in the public eye for his repeated criticisms of Pope Francis’ attempts at chur…