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Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…was founded in 1974 by Claude Vorilhon (a.k.a. Rael), who claimed to have contact with enlightened extraterrestrials called the Elohim who genetically engineered humanity. Their movement emphasizes technological Utopianism and has advocated genetically modified food (GMO) as well as cloning, which they regard as a step toward immortality. They also support sexual liberation and have organized campaigns for a woman’s right to go topless in public….

The World is (Always) About to End, No Zombies Required

By Kelly J. Murphy

…uple had killed the two youngest children. The way the eldest child died, a 14-year old boy named Benson, remains, according to the AP reports, “undetermined.” Why would Benjamin and Kristi Strack kill themselves and their children? The short answer: a “pending apocalypse.” But beyond that, no details. According to various reports, Kristi Strack had once been obsessed with Dan Lafferty, now imprisoned for his role in the murder of his sister-in-la…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…eme Court in December, homosexuality was recriminalized in a nation home to 1.23 billion people. Dominoes are going down fast in both directions, and the governments and institutions that haven’t fully engaged on the question are going to have to choose which way to fall. Feder says that the recent passage of anti-gay laws in Uganda and Nigeria reflected the countries’ internal political pressures. For example, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan…

The New Manson Family or Teens at “Play”?

By Joseph Laycock

…form of two gruesome murders. In Houston, a pair of teenage boys murdered a 15-year-old girl and told authorities it was part of ritual to strike a Faustian pact with Satan, while in Sudbury, Pennsylvania, confessed teenage murderer Miranda Barbour announced last week that she was “a high ranking official in the Satanic world” and had murdered at least 22 people before losing count of her victims. While we don’t have all of the facts, it seems hig…

Marianne Williamson and Me

By Diane Winston

…logist Helen Schucman claimed to have received via divine dictation between 1965 and 1972. During the 1980s, Williamson was one among thousands of spiritual seekers studying the workbook, but her lectures brought the material to a wide audience. When A Return to Love, Williamson’s interpretation of ACIM, was published in 1992, the book topped national bestseller lists and propelled Williamson to media stardom. Smart, attractive and sporting a “bee…

Elephant Orphans and Ecological Spiritualities: An Earth Day Reflection

By Jacob J. Erickson

…Elephants: An African Love Story. Once a day, strictly between the hours of 11AM and 12PM, the orphanage opens to the public for a visitor’s fee of 500 Kenyan shillings (a little under six U.S dollars at the moment). That strict time is a kind of compromise—a minimal amount of human contact for the orphans so the orphanage can raise some necessary funds for their care. The human animals arrive, line up, pay their dues, at eleven the crowd is let i…

“Flipping the Script” to Win Gays Back to the Evangelical Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…se basic needs of food, shelter and security for one another—we even, after 12 years together, still provide that need of intimacy and sexual fulfillment—but the relationship is about so much more. What Roen is denying to himself and to others who buy his script is this deep human fulfillment of knowing and being known so deeply by another human being that being away from for them an extended period of time physically hurts. What two people can sh…

‘Hardwired’ for Hetero Marriage, LDS Tension Mounts Over LGBT Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…ng degeneracies” pursued by the sexually depraved. Although Kimball died in 1985, the view he articulated remained virtually uncontested until the early 1990s, when small, nuanced changes in speeches by high-ranking LDS Church leaders suggested an emerging minority view of homosexuality as a trait of biological origin. When LDS Church Apostle Boyd K. Packer flatly rejected the idea that a child of God could be born gay in a controversial October…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…for gay men. He quit and launched a dating app called Blued, which now has 15 million users and a staff of 60 and has received $30 million in funding from an American venture-capital firm. It was very different in the 1990s when, as a young man, Mr Ma risked being sent to a labour camp for “hooliganism”, the crime then attached to homosexual behaviour, by scrawling “I’m gay” on public-lavatory walls in the hope of meeting partners. Homosexuality…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ontinuing problems for LGBTs: Same-sex couples are able to legally marry in 19 states and D.C., Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico City, French Guiana, the French islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Martin and St. Barthelemy and the Caribbean Netherlands that includes the islands of Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius. Lawmakers in the Mexican state of Coahuila on Sept. 1 overwhelmingly approved a same-sex marriage bill. Colombian President…