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Conservatives Panic as Gay Marriage Looms

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…thew Staver, dean of the Liberty University Law School and chairman of the Orlando-based Liberty Counsel told CNS News: For this judge to say that Christian beliefs or religious beliefs contrary to homosexuality are actually harmful—what that essentially says is, that if that’s the case, then you’ve got to change your religious beliefs, and if you don’t, you’re going to be penalized as result. That is a very dangerous aspect of this court decision…

Not All Muslims Are Terrorists, But All Terrorists Are Muslim

By Haroon Moghul

…just mainstream: A Muslim did it. After Omar Mateen’s horrific massacre in Orlando, the media piled on. He’d done it in the name of ISIS, which led many commentators to believe that the attack was orchestrated by the extremist group itself, an operation commanded from afar, as have recently struck Europe. Within a day, Donald Trump was gloating—only the Donald would see this as a morally appropriate response to violence—and renewing his call for a…

A Locked and Loaded Covenant: The Religious Roots of America’s Gun Culture

By Peter Laarman

…onic when he wrote (in the wake of the ghastly Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando) that it is “theologically inconceivable” to implement real gun control in the United States: God gave us guns to show us who we are. Giving up the gun would be surrender to evil, taking us abruptly into eschatological time… The Gun is patriotic. The Gun is America. The Gun is God. In her highly readable and timely new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…le experience in prison and other detention facilities. In the wake of the Orlando massacre, the Journal of Human Rights special 2014 issue on local resistance to LGBT rights is being made available by its publisher free of charge for the next several weeks. Middle East: Twitter trolls reporting ‘atheist’ and LGBT girls and women to authorities The Daily Beast’s Ben Collins reports, “A band of Twitter trolls alleging to be from the Middle East spe…

A Solstice Devotional for the Faithless in Trump’s America

By Sunnivie Brydum

…that, in all honesty, I will never know. I saw the light of compassion in Orlando, after the Pulse massacre, when a fast-food worker kept a Subway shop open for two days straight to house small-media journalists. She teared up when, after apologizing for needing to close the restaurant for 30 minutes to clean, she got a standing ovation. I see it in the water protectors at Standing Rock, who have met brutal force with peaceful, steadfast prayer….

Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…should be put to death, responded to the massacre at the gay nightclub in Orlando by saying “there’s 50 less pedophiles in the world.” The Mail & Guardian reports that an anti-gay pastor in Cape Town, Rev. Oscar Bougardt, is planning to open two churches affiliated with Anderson. Bougardt, who calls homosexuals a “danger,” visited Anderson in the U.S. recently and they hit it off: Bougardt said that the Cape Town chapter of Anderson’s Faithful Wo…

In Trump Era, Young Muslims Question Respectability Politics of Mosques

By Hebah H. Farrag

…utions has to do with her experience after the PULSE nightclub shooting in Orlando. Aly became very involved with the Trust Collective, an interfaith coalition trying to build partnerships between faith communities and the LGBTQ community. When she first became involved, there was some interest from others in the Muslim community. “The last meeting I went to,” Aly said, “I was the only mainstream type of Muslim there. I come from your usual mosque…

London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n response to the killing of 49 people in the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando by an Islamic State sympathiser. This year’s expanded meeting is expected to be even more popular. An openly gay Church of England priest resigned from his parish and suggested that he cannot get a new job because he is “on a blacklist” and bishops are not willing to risk placing him in a parish. A British gay man escaped extradition to Turkey, where was charged and…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…people in any conservative religious tradition. But well before events in Orlando put their community in the spotlight, artists and activists like Choudhury-Potter have been creating spaces where LGBT Muslims can explore their faith and identity more openly. Choudhury-Potter’s band, Ajah UK, is based in Manchester—a town that has spawned successive generations of trailblazing acts, including The Hollies, The Smiths, New Order and Oasis. When she…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…march drew tens of thousands – or hundreds of thousands depending on whose numbers you believe – of anti-marriage-equality Catholics and evangelicals to Mexico City, the culmination of weeks of protest organized by the National Front for the Family. Days before, the Supreme Court ruled that adoption by same-sex couples should be considered, like other adoptions, according to the best interest of the child. In preparation for Saturday’s anti-marria…