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Pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Declare Shared View of Marriage & Family; Government & Muslim Officials Ramp Up Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in Indonesia; Australian Religious Leaders Ask Parliament to Act on Marriage Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ut brothers.” The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers reports on a joint declaration on marriage they signed. “The family is based on marriage, an act of freely given and faithful love between a man and a woman,” it reads. “It is love that seals their union and teaches them to accept one another as a gift.” Francis and Kirill in their declaration describe marriage as “a school of love and faithfulness.” “We regret that other forms of cohabitation ha…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…leased a global “Gay Happiness index,” placing Iceland at the top and Uganda at the bottom of 127 rated countries. Last Friday, HBO’s Vice broadcast “A Prayer for Uganda,” a documentary on the harmful impact that American evangelical anti-gay activists like Scott Lively have had in that country. IDAHOT Commemorations for International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia were held on and around May 17. In Chile, more than 50,000 people joined th…

Irish Priest Accidentally Shows Gay Porn

By Katie Toth

…B stick into the computer. When pornographic images appeared on screen, he abandoned the presentation, probably more than a little embarrassed. Parents and the diocese have advanced on McVeigh with vigor. According to a spokesperson, the principal of St. Mary’s “immediately referred this matter to the diocesan authorities in accordance with the diocesan safeguarding procedures”; the Cardinal and the diocesan child protection office have launched a…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…grant full personhood rights to fertilized eggs—they weren’t ready for the avalanche of response; The Daily Beast (Newsweek’s online sibling) was forced to close commenting, citing “the viciousness of some reactions to the story.” Some saw the profile—which describes a charismatic, green-eyed Mason as a hipster preacher who tools around town on a vintage motorbike and loves the Deftones—as a puff piece, a con job, “one of the worst pieces of biase…

Do Not Have Sex with This Man

By Sarah Sentilles

…, hot, steamy work your country needs you to do: reproduce. And then do it again. It’s your civic duty. Douthat is sounding his make-more-babies alarm in response to last week’s Pew Research Center report that U.S. birth rates hit the lowest ever recorded in 2011, with just 63 births per 1000 women of childbearing age (compared to 71 per 1000 in 1990). Americans used to be good at populating the planet, Douthat laments. “Our famous religiosity, ou…

Grading Geltanthropy: The Case of Kellogg’s

By Peter Laarman

…ed or not, we know who gets an extra helping of filet mignon from these deals. The worst of it is the number of people who will dutifully click—and imagine that they have eased a child’s hunger that day. Jesus said, “if your child asks for bread, will you give her a stone?” No, not a stone: just a click….

Marriage Equality: Race, Family Values, and the 99%

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…rivileged white middle class folk who have “benevolently” decided to adopt a child of color (à la the white gay couple on the sitcom Modern Family) or used expensive reproductive technology to have children. In this context, marriage equality merely secures white wealth and white patriarchy, as white gay families also benefit from segregated neighborhoods, schools, tax credits for middle class homeowners, and higher-paying jobs. Complex families o…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

Culture Warriors Exporting Homophobia A couple articles this past week look at the work of anti-gay religious groups overseas. The National Journal’s Alex Seitz-Wald gives an overview of American evangelicals’ efforts to encourage passage of anti-gay laws around the world. Among the items mentioned is the work of Scott Lively and others to launch an anti-gay group in Latvia that believes “there is a war between Christians and homosexuals.” At th…

The Duggars To Headline Values Voters Summit

By Sarah Posner

…, and in this country, conservatives of late have been promoting the film Maafa 21, which claims that Planned Parenthood has been engaged in a plot to engage in “black genocide” — when in fact black women in the United States disproportionately lack access to reproductive health services.) Chris Smith, a member of Congress, has declared that the UNFPA “remains guilty of shamelessly supporting and whitewashing terrible crimes against humanity.” The…

Duggar Daughters Talk Sex, Courtship, and Fear of Ungodly Men

By Myev Rees

…lishing arsenal, but it’s the first book written by the Duggar daughters, Jana, Jill, Jessa, and Jinger. In the runup to the eighth season of 19 Kids and Counting!, which debuted on April 1st, the young Duggar women launched an ambitious publicity campaign. Interviewers seem to have been particularly fascinated by Jessa Duggar’s announcement last year that she had entered into a “courtship” with fellow conservative evangelical Ben Seewald. Second…