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‘Reasons My Son is Crying’ and the Suffering of Children

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…Unconscious. “One senses rather something undefinable, which I would best compare with an absence, a sudden letting-go of intellectual tensions, and then all at once the joke is there, for the most part simultaneously clad in words.” The joke erupts as if it were an ineffable sort of magic, masquerading as a judgment without judging. For Freud, the joke’s beauty (and its defense mechanism) is in its seeming spontaneity. To explain a joke is to ki…

Right-Wing Parody of Coming Out Reveals True Parody

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ti-gay advocate Peter LaBarbera making an appearance at the end to further compare being gay to being an alcoholic. Those of us who have been on the frontlines of the “gay vs. Christian” debate have long endured the arguments from the religious right that being gay is sinful, but no more sinful than being an adulterer or an alcoholic, or a thief, or a liar—or a maker of bad parody videos. Which is, of course, the sin committed here, both in filmma…

Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring

By Haroon Moghul

…e, that’s not how the protests have been packaged and sold. It’s easier to compare them to an Arab Spring, or a supposed tale of religious dictatorship versus freethinking democracy. What these protests actually reveal is a far more complicated country, which you can find out if even you pay a little attention to the sentiments of ‘religious’ Turks. I hate the adjective nearly as much as I am offended by the conceit that Europe is a continent—who…

From Voting Rights Act to Today’s DOMA Repeal—LGBT Orgs Are Missing the Rainbow

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…advocate of LGBTQ rights, as a Black lesbian, I find it disheartening as I compare and contrast yesterday and today’s response from LGBTQ organizations. The decision by these groups not to issue individual statements leaves them vulnerable to criticism such as mine and to the more serious question: “Are you really concerned about injustice for all people?” Until these organizations do a better job responding to racism, they will never overcome the…

Does God know if I cheat on a test in São Paulo?

By Michael Schulson

…Benjamin Purzycki: “The present work is the first study to systematically compare the minds of gods by examining some of the intuitive processes that guide how people reason about them.” Another way to summarize it is this: our gods are more moral than your gods. Or at least ‘our gods’ more concerned with moral action. Using written surveys, Purzycki asked 88 undergraduate students at the University of Connecticut, all of them Christian, about th…

Obama’s Pastor and the Politics of Patriotic Treason

By Jonathan L. Walton

…efenseless on behalf of the status quo. This is why it is inappropriate to compare Dr. Wright with Christian conservative voices like the late Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, or John Hagee. The latter group turns attention away from the interests of a privileged elite-class and lays the ills of society at the door of America’s “usual suspects.” Hence, it is easy to blame racial/ethnic minorities, Islam, feminists, illegal immigrants, and the homosex…

UNESCO on Religion, Culture and SOGI in Asia; Orthodox Family Sues to Stop Cremation of Israeli Trans Woman; Struggles of Iraqi Queer Activists; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…used to receive threats but in recent years they had grown to an enormous number. My public activities resulted in promises to hunt me down, beat me up, and kill me. Neo-Nazis, homophobes and pro-Putin agitators showered me with insults on social networks, harassed me on the phone and at events, and even complained to my place of work. On 24 August 2014, Ukrainian Independence Day, myself and some friends who were in a picket on Malaya Sadovaya s…

The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Humans

By Amina Wadud

…ill go to Mina, etc. There is still no address for the hotels, but a local phone number. There is also information about processing customs at Jeddah, meeting the tour guide, and information that says “the group” will proceed to Makkah—which means the first will have to wait for the last person, which is the beginning of feeling like you are a group. They even include suggestions to “get to know” your fellow travelers. I still had no idea what wer…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…internet as a result of the inexorable working out of Moore’s Law. As the number of transistors on a chip grew exponentially, computers became smaller, and then they became “personal,” and then they fit in our pockets as a phone. “Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing,” at the Computer History Museum In this telling, the internet was not a unique “Columbus” event, but an evolution dependent on the shrinking size and growing capacity of co…

The Benedict Opt-Out: Why Christian Self-Isolation Won’t Work

By Kaya Oakes

…n will help parents to keep their children faithful. Given the statistical number of Nones among Millennials and Gen X and the seemingly unpreventable increase in those numbers, these children, like Emily, or the children of many homeschooling parents, will eventually encounter peers who are not religiously affiliated. Given the way technology works, they will also inevitably find a way to expose themselves to popular culture. And the question rem…