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LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ebook page that eleven people were sentenced to terms ranging from three to 12 years for “debauchery.” Mada Masr reported that the 11 individuals sentenced by the Agouza Criminal Court were arrested last September: Head of the gender program at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights Dalia Abdel Hameed said the case was indicative of the state’s practices in its ongoing crackdown on LGBT individuals. Abdel Hameed says that moral police targete…

Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…em with bureaucracy. Now it’s starting to shut them down.” Kenya: Man faces 14 years in prison for ‘sexting’ A Kenyan man, Godfrey Mburu, faces 14 years in prison after “sexting” a male journalist, reports Joe Williams at Pink News: The reporter – who has not been named – said he gave his number to Mr Mburu after the pair met at a road show. However, he later contacted police claiming that Mr Mburu had sent him a series of messages telling him he…

How New Religions Are Made

By Jacob S. Dorman

…ts formed his theory of syncretism and the “acculturative continuum” in the 1920s and 30s. An awful lot has changed since then. We have moved away from culture as a set of “rigid, predictable, patterns,” as Herskovits put it. What I argue in the book is that not only did Herskovits develop his theory of syncretism in an earlier era, but he developed his concept of culture from his work studying racial types in his little-mentioned 1920s physical a…

Is Army’s New “Humanist” Designation Just Semantic Hooey?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…nts of social self-identity. As such, they participate in the cultural and spiritual traditions of naming. But the addition of the Humanist designation to the list of approved faith codes has concrete implications as well. It gives Humanist service members access to Army Chaplaincy services, including spiritual counseling and gathering spaces for Humanist groups. It also means that the numbers and distribution of Humanists in the military can be t…

Fired GTS Professors Go Back to Work, For Now

By Steve A. Wiggins

…quirements and communal meals, keep seminarians of all ranks in very close contact. I’m tempted to call it crowd-sourcing theology. Only, in this setting one person in this crowd may speak for all. Tensions naturally build, but Episcopalians respect hierarchy. If something goes wrong in paradise, few options for collegial dialogue exist in such a setting. An unevenly balanced, tenuous power structure makes the Dean a fulcrum between the Board (his…

Catholic College Won’t Reveal Insurer; Yet Another Contraception Accommodation in the Works?

By Patricia Miller

…t HHS a letter stating its intent to opt-out of the mandate by the November 1 deadline, but refused to name its insurer or provide any other details, which could have made it liable for up to $17 million in penalties without the injunction, which is the first to specifically block the revised accommodation. The question of religious accommodations under the act’s contraceptive requirement long ago leapt the bounds of any recognizable debate over C…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…id and releasing a gas that made many people feel sick, and reportedly sent 16 to the hospital. According to the report, “St. Petersburg lawmaker Vitaly Milonov, his aide Anatoly Artyukh, and activists who associate themselves with the Russian Orthodox faith interrupted the opening ceremony of the “KviroFest-2014” event at a cafe on September 18. According to Gay Star News, festival organizers said the event was also hit with last-minute cancellat…

Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…m the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us, which was published on October 17, 2015. Exactly a month previous, the Erwin brothers, who have had rare box-office success with faith-themed films, released an evangelical football story about racial reconciliation in 1970s Alabama, called Woodlawn. The film was based on true events recounted in a book of the same name, but the Erwin brothers ignored a telling detail in their cinematic adaptation. In t…

Obama Caves on (Another) Contraception Exemption

By Patricia Miller

…nder slightly different names… and I doubt most have a dedicated office to contact when religious conservatives make their own decisions about women’s access to contraception. Plus, it sets the dangerous precedent that religious objections to government mandates are so precious that the objectors can’t even be required to fill out a form stating them. In the short run it’s likely that the number of employers who seek to duck the contraceptive mand…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…elate to ourselves and others through intimacy and other forms of physical contact. But, this is how the ex-gay industry wants the world to view LGBT people—as purely sexual beings. Foster’s screed is simply a long promo for a new ex-gay movie coming out, and the trailer, three-minutes of nauseating footage, centers around how each of these former homosexuals lived their lives in clubs, engaging in cheap, easy, and often public sex, or were sexual…