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New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…into a red line which the Rada refused to cross. “As a country with a thousand-year-old Christian history, we simply cannot allow this,” is how Rada deputy Pavlo Unguryan, a member of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s own party, explained it after a previous attempt to pass the legislation on Nov. 5 failed…. When it comes to explaining the glacial pace of Ukraine’s anti-corruption reforms, the Rada has excuses — the country is involved in a war…

Vatican Equates Women’s Ordination with Priest Pedophilia?

By Mary E. Hunt

…ally excommunicate themselves. It all sounds rather contorted. In this soon-to-be-published document, the ordination of women is said to be spelled out as one of those dicey matters which is not only a violation of the sacrament of Holy Orders, but so serious as to warrant the attention of Rome. Perhaps they reason that the women’s ordination cases will keep them so busy that the pedophilia crimes will go away. Maybe they think people will be so s…

Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

…er, a protest that looked a bit like that Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad until you-know what-happens at the end of the scene) and legal changes (references to marriage equality) to update it to now. The major differences between reading it then and watching it now is that we have actually gained quite a bit in terms of social progress in the past couple of decades, and the threat of what we’ve gained being stripped away is likely why some scenes in the s…

Olasky Concludes Gingrich Untrustworthy, Unredeemed

By Sarah Posner

…. They have not just objections to his patently unkosher personal life (something they may forgive with proper contrition) but his blatant self-interest. His downward-spiraling campaign is on deathwatch….

Reading the Qur’an: Wherefore Art Thou?

By Amina Wadud

…ecited by an Arabic speaker competent in the language of the Qur’an meaning-wise and competent in tajwid. On many occasions in order to fulfill the rules of tajwid, he will repeat a part of a phrase. This has to do with the part of tajwid that deals with breathing, and holding a vowel for a certain number of counts. Sometimes you just need to catch your breath and complete the sentence the ayat, the passage. When he stops, and then repeats a porti…

Inside Outsourced: Come See Where Your Jobs Went

By Haroon Moghul

…s a Wonderful Life and Heathers. A guardian angel drops coffee on his Watch-a-Mortal (much like a GPS but for destiny tracking) and fries the fate of his human, a gothed-out Muslim girl whose college grant gets canceled at corporate while she’s pulled in all directions by housemates with loser boyfriends, conservative fathers and vegan tofu chipotle nuggets. I would love to have John Cusack play the fieldwork-averse guardian angel and Natalie Port…

Grading Geltanthropy: The Case of Kellogg’s

By Peter Laarman

…nge at the idea that for so many of our youngest, getting a free or reduced-price breakfast or lunch at school is such a nutritional lifeline—literally. The people at Kellogg’s know all this, of course. The breakfast cereal giant (also the maker of Pringles, Cheez-It, Famous Amos, and other healthful treats) wants to tap into that compassion. And now they are doing it in a spectacular way, with a splashy campaign called Share the Power of Breakfas…

The Princess Bride: Royal Weddings for Everyone

By Katy E. Shrout

…ted by millions, represents and encapsulates this magic for those who eagerly watch and read about it. It might be tempting for some—especially for anyone nostalgic for some mythic age of piety—to argue that the wedding-as-princess-pageant represents a secularization of the marriage rite. But the truth is that the celebration of consumption, the acting-out of the princess ritual, is its own expression of what has become sacred….

The Second Coming of Black Jesus

By Jess Peacock

…es as they struggled with the profound implications of his teachings (Matt. 15:16, Mark 7:18) . By the end of the series, however, Fish stands tall—notably in solidarity with the gang-bangers—as the community garden is shut down and Jesus is committed to a mental health institution by law enforcement. “It’s all a big test of faith,” he tells the others in the last episode, understanding that faith isn’t about winning or losing but about perseverin…

Queer Suicide and the Malpractice of “Love”

By Cody J. Sanders

…Self. Eribon says, [A] gay subjectivity is formed through a process of self-education, through a severe self-discipline that can never be relaxed, that must scrutinize every move, with the goal of appearing to be ‘as normal as everyone else.’ The long-term effects of insult and hatred… write themselves into the body; they act by way of your own submission to the injunction that they carry, your own consent to the order they enforce—that your perso…