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South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o Nazis and Communists. Last week British official released figures on the number of same-sex couples who got married between March 29 – the first day marriage was legally available in England and Wales, and June 30. Of the 1,409 marriages, 56 percent were to female couples. According to Gay Star News, about 120,000 people are in civil partnerships, which they will be able to convert to marriages beginning in December. Costa Rica: Survey Shows Spl…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…City tag.” He notes that anti-gay religious activists, while not large in number, are relatively vocal: Choi Chi-sum, general secretary of the conservative Christian group, the Society For Truth And Light, for example, has been given an increasingly prominent stage to present his views following Taiwan’s legislative change. His opinions on same-sex marriage, sexual minority anti-discrimination laws, and even the recent “controversy” over a homose…

Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…an religiosity—about religion as it is lived in the United States today? A number of what I would see as problems in the Pew report suggest to me that our growing fixation with religion-by-the-numbers may be distracting us from richer, more nuanced understandings of American religious practice. Wanted: A Community that Doesn’t Share My Beliefs and Values Take the demographic category of “Nones” itself. The Pew report notes the difficulty with sur…

Holey Holey Holey: The Problem with a New Study Valuing Religion at $1.2 Trillion Per Year

By Michael Schulson

…f the total revenue of American religious congregations. To get that final number, the Grims took one estimate of the total number of congregations in America (344,894) and multiplied it by another estimate of the average revenue of each ($242,910). Depending on how you look at it, $378 billion is a lot of money, or it’s not very much money at all. It’s more than the net worth of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffet, combined…

Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…following. Even now, months after physician-assisted death became legal in Washington State, patients have trouble finding doctors who will write them a prescription for lethal drugs. A central Washington man diagnosed with pancreatic cancer asked his doctors for the drugs, but not one would approve his request. Stephen Wallace died on April 8, after what his family said was a painful struggle that could have been avoided had doctors respected his…

Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…ricans who have spoken on behalf of human rights and equality, including a number of religious figures: Bishop Christopher Senyonjo of Uganda; Cardinal Peter Iodwo Appiah Turkoson of Ghana, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; and James Tengatenga, former Anglican Bishop for Southern Malawi. Channel 4 has reported on the challenges facing LGBT Africans seeking asylum in the U.K. Vatican: Is there a Pro-LGBT ‘Francis Effect’…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…ex Marriage Prohibition Act when he met with President Muhammadu Buhari in Washington, D.C. The law, which was signed by Buhari’s predecessor and imposes harsh criminal penalties for same-sex conduct, has sparked violence against LGBT individuals. Buhari did not address the issue in his public remarks. Poland: Transgender rights bill advances A transgender rights bill that would allow trans people to legally change their gender without medical int…

Breaking News: Hell Freezes Over

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…gress responsible to get to the bottom of this matter so that it will never happen again Honestly, I never thought the AFA and I would come down on the same common ground, but we have. I want to know what caused this crisis and hold those responsible if any laws were broken. I truly am fed up with Washington. No snarky comments to make, no foibles to point out—just a simple “Amen.” If there’s a lesson to be learned, it’s that sometimes even those…

The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…volunteered for large-scale safety efforts in, for example, the cities of Washington DC and Detroit. By being ingrained in community life, the Nation set itself up for what would be one its most inspiring and lesson-learning moments; a moment that would point to the possibilities of its next phase of evolution. In 1995, the Nation under Farrakhan’s leadership brought astonishing energy to the Washington Mall as part of the Million Man March. In u…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…sphere will reveal that the current electronic chatter about Arun Gandhi’s Washington Post article is being conducted on the level of sound bites, accusations, and name-calling. Some of this is certainly due to the nature of electronic communication—the swiftness of email does not encourage careful deliberation. Arun Gandhi has admitted that his Washington Post article was written in a hurry while he was leading an American group on a tour of “Gan…