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Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tion as it would be to any other asylum seekers. Mexico: Officials in Baja California Thwart First Gay Wedding In November, a same-sex couple and their family and friends were frustrated that local officials in Mexicali refused to marry them in spite of orders from the federal courts: As they arrived at City Hall on Friday, surrounded by family members and friends, they walked past a dozen Catholic opponents of same sex marriage who held signs and…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rren, a Protestant Christian and head of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, and Alan J. Hawkins, a Mormon Professor of Family Life at Brigham Young University. Their involvement — as well as the release of the letter itself — exposes a growing sense of uncertainty among many Christian conservatives regarding Francis’ views on family issues. Indeed, even as religious conservatives push for the Vatican to stick to its older policies and p…

Openly Gay Mormon Appointed to LDS Church Leadership Position

By Joanna Brooks

…erfaith and LDS-LGBT relations since the LDS Church’s heavy involvement in California’s 2008 Proposition 8 campaign. Mayne was also in a committed, monogamous relationship with his male partner. About a year ago, Mayne decided to end his relationship, for reasons not related to religion. It was, he said, the hardest thing he ever did: harder, even, than burying his parents. Mayne felt he needed time to heal, and he chose to take a break from relat…

RDBook: Selling the Good News

By Sarah Posner

…h This: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism, by University of California-Riverside religion professor (and Religion Dispatches contributing editor) Jonathan L. Walton, traverses some of the same territory as Holy Mavericks, zeroing in on the specific contribution to the evolution of African-American religion by Jakes, as well as megachurch televangelists Eddie Long and Creflo Dollar. Walton’s particular interest, which he plumbs with…

American Anti-Gay Campaign in Africa Opposes “Fictitious Sexual Rights”

By Warren Throckmorton

…us conservative figure to oppose criminalization is Rick Warren, pastor of California’s Saddleback Church. In December, 2009, after several weeks of weighing a response, Warren spoke forcefully against the Uganda bill and criminalization of homosexuality. Andrew Marin, an evangelical who specializes in building bridges to the GLBT community, told me in 2010 that laws criminalizing homosexuality in Africa will increasingly divide American social co…

“Ex-Gay” Therapy Revealed in Prop. 8 Trial

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n Proposition 8 that stripped gays and lesbians of their right to marry in California, got into its second week. Kendall took the stand to recount his harsh treatment in an “ex-gay ministry.” His deeply religious parents forced him into so-called “reparative therapy” after finding a note that Kendall had written to himself confessing his sexual orientation at the age of 13. Kendall said his parents “flipped out, (they were) very upset, yelling. I…

Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…ro, Occidental College geology professor and lecturer in geobiology at the California Institute of Technology, says, “It’s all out of the creationist playbook.” The New York Times raised the connection in a March 3 article “Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets.” But just how much do anti-evolutionists and global warming deniers have in common? There is one clear connection: just as there is virtually no debate in the scientific community regarding t…

On Zion’s Mount

By Jared Farmer

…ic novel The Lonely Polygamist, the continuing controversy over Prop. 8 in California, and, reportedly, an upcoming off-Broadway “Mormon musical” by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who already produced a South Park episode about Mormonism. As a history professor, I also had numerous professional audiences in mind: • Environmental historians (who generally downplay religion and culture) • Utah historians (who too often underplay non-Mormons and native…

Updated with Response: The Black Church is Dead—Long Live the Black Church

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

…Ain’t Dead! (But Maybe It Should Be?) by Jonathan L. Walton, University of California–Riverside The history of Afro-Protestantism in America, most often referred to as the “black church tradition,” is a complicated one, indeed. Hewn out of the crucible of a slaveholding society and populated by those who were theologically trained within seminaries of suffering, these venerable institutions represent the best of American society in general, and bl…

Kenneth Starr in the “Athens of Texas”

By Randall Balmer

…Pepperdine Law School, and he has been in the forefront of supporters for California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that reversed the legalization of same-sex marriages. At the announcement of his appointment, Starr sought to play down his past. “Baylor’s pursuit of knowledge,” he intoned, leaning closely to read his notes, “is strengthened by the conviction that truth has its ultimate source in God.” As a person of faith, I have no quarr…