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Keep These Satanists Out of Congress!

By Joseph Laycock

…of Satanic role-playing games may finally be played out. While some of the online dialogue offered by Rush’s more villainous characters is disturbing, Rush is hardly the strangest (or even the most vampiric) GOP candidate to come out of Florida. The articles attacking him appeal to the panic of the 1980s, when role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons were associated with madness, suicide, and a conspiracy of Satanic criminals. Saint Peter’s Blog…

A Roundup of Conspiracies and Bad Ideas That Caught on or Gained Momentum in 2023

By Carmen Celestini and Amarnath Amarasingam

…in support for these conspiracy theories, further evidenced by significant online engagement, including likes and shares from Ramaswamy’s official account. Going into the 2024 US election season, these ideas are destined to receive more mainstream play during rallies, debates, and speeches. The Groomer Panic Another conspiracy theory that gained popularity in 2022 and continued to have a worrisome impact this year was the groomer panic targeting t…

Anglican Communion Gets Anti-Gay Secretary General; Black Gay Christians Challenge Conservative Evangelicals in Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ifying the shooting, burning, hanging and drowning of LGBT people. Russia: Online LGBT support group targeted again A St. Petersburg court will hear a case on Monday charging an online group, Deti 404, with a violation of the country’s anti-gay propaganda law. It is not the first prosecution under the law for Deti 404 and administrator Elena Klimova. Kazakhstan: President expected to sign ‘propaganda’ law Amnesty International organized a protest…

Sex and the Ummah

By Amina Wadud

This was the title of a really good commentary for an online Islamic newsletter for quite some time. So, I’m not making it up on my own. This week has brought just a tad too many funny (or sad or sick) stories along these lines not to give it a shot myself. One of them was a report that Egypt was second for online porn inquiries. I didn’t read all the details—like second to which country? Actually, I thought it would have been second to Pakistan,…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…e rewritten.” Michael McGrath, director of the Scottish Catholic Education Service, said: “The SCES has encouraged the Scottish Government to move beyond the grudging tolerance which this draft and the original guidance showed towards the right of Catholic schools to follow Church guidance when teaching about sexual health and relationships, including marriage. “We expect it, in its final guidance, to honour Nicola Sturgeon and Mike Russell’s assu…

Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24

By Thomas Lecaque

…Jim Crow era—the “Waco Horror” is aptly named—and, as far too many people online have pointed out, the rally is scheduled during the 30th anniversary of the siege of the Mount Carmel compound of the Branch Davidians. Of course, Trump is not David Koresh, and “cult” is a political designation whose terms are aggressively manipulated against new religious movements (or, in the case of the Branch Davidians, offshoots of well established Christian de…

Pope Denounces Gender Colonization; Indonesian Court Considers Islamist Request To Criminalize Homosexuality; Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says No One Has Right to Harm Homosexuals; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d and beheaded, report AFP and the BBC: Cagil Kasapoglu of the BBC Turkish Service says hate crimes against LGBT individuals in Turkey mostly go unreported. According to kaosgl, there has been a rise in human rights violations based on sexual orientation in recent years. Under the heading “hate crimes” the organisation recorded five murders, 32 attacks and three suicides in Turkey last year. It believes the number of such murders over the past six…

Paranoia and the Progressive Press: A Response to WaPo’s Religion Columnist

By Peter Montgomery

…g and speaking at the event. Shouting “Harlot” in a Crowded Theater? In an online conversation about her article, Miller criticizes coverage of the movement’s excesses, saying “that clips in which ministers shout ‘harlot’ over and over are likely to inflame more than they are to elucidate,” saying that “the left needs to search its soul, as it were, and see that it’s guilty of the same kind of demonizing that one sees on the right.” That is just o…

Controversial LDS Conference Talk Edited for Publication

By Joanna Brooks

The LDS Church has now released online text and audio editions of talks delivered at the Church’s General Conference last weekend, including a talk delivered by Elder Boyd K. Packer on homosexuality that has been the subject of public controversy among Mormons and the general public. The online published text of Elder Packer’s talk has been edited from the version delivered live on Sunday morning. (A full transcript showing edits is available her…

Where Are the Pro-Life Reactions to the Romney/Stericycle Story?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…? Its president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, wrote a column for National Review Online yesterday titled “Pro-Lifers Must Unite Behind Romney.” (The discussion in the comments thread did make its way around to the Stericycle story, with folks chiming in both to support and criticize Romney.) Americans United for Life? Again, as of 4 p.m. central, their online media center made no mention of it. LifeSiteNews, which previously reported on a Romney fundrai…