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Gays Attacked in Uganda After Mag Publishes Info

By Jody May-Chang

…00 p.m. on a late October night in a small village on the outskirts of Kampala. The power is out and the streets are dark when a mob of five men unexpectedly show up at the home of Peter Yiga, a known gay activist. Yiga, like many gays and lesbians in Uganda, leads a double life, living a typical heterosexual existence with a woman who is also the mother of his child in order to provide cover from dangers like the one unfolding. The men knock on t…

Red Riding Hood Arouses Man’s Inner (Were)Wolf

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…mmon purpose (survival, most obviously), or strive heroically and movingly against their natural antipathies. Their relationship looks a lot like the dance between capitalists and communists in the waning years of Soviet power. “Trust but verify” is their watchword. And now this mysterious figure has come out of our collective dream-world once again, hard on the trail of a no-longer-little Red Riding Hood in Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood,…

Mass Bible-Based Sexual Dysfunction as Root of Culture Wars? Frank Schaeffer Breaks It Down

By Frank Schaeffer

…life and/or used her as a point of departure for inventing the fictional character of Elsa Becker. I felt I’d failed to do mom justice. Elsa Becker was too much like my mother on the one hand and too little like her on the other, and in my memoirs she’d played second fiddle to my father. She deserved better. I once got a letter from one of my mother’s followers telling me that, having just read my novel Portofino (a work of humor where the mission…

The Mystic in the Rye: JD Salinger’s Religious Fiction

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…pho, all the Christian gospels, the Tao Te Ching and Mencius, Søren Kierkegaard and Anton Chekhov—Seymour Glass also found the perfect role for himself on a radio talk-show called “It’s A Wise Child.” Every one of the Glass children starred on that show, dominating the airwaves with childlike wisdom, from 1927 through 1943 when the youngest of the clan, Franny, signed off for the very last time. The Glass children, that is to say, found their spir…

Personhood Ohio Claims Bible Dictates Criminal Penalties for Abortion

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…e activists behind Personhood Ohio are fairly confident in their position. Again, from their website: One of the most convincing passages proving that the preborn had full human status is found in Exodus 21:22-24. The passage says that if a man carelessly injures a pregnant woman and she has a premature delivery, yet no lasting harm follows to the mother or the child, he shall be punished for his carelessness as the judges determine. However, if t…

Justice Denied by the “Culture of Life”

By Tom Davis

…for women to find justice; the story of Tamar in Genesis 38. Tamar is a Canaanite woman who marries Er, the oldest son of Judah. He dies before she is able to have a child. According to the Levirate law of the Hebrews, she may now demand that Er’s brother give her a child (who will be considered a descendant of Er). Onan refuses to do this by practicing withdrawal (from which comes the euphemism for masturbation or withdrawal, onanism). Scripture…

“Marriage Savers” Lobbies for Repeal of No-Fault Divorce

By Kathryn Joyce

…n argument between your parents, invites Pastor Bob Dailey of Bedford, Indiana. Words fly and so do objects, an ashtray narrowly missing your mother’s head. When you grow up and attempt to put this traumatic lesson to good purpose, do you work on domestic violence initiatives that will make women feel safer—both within their marriages or in leaving them if necessary? Or do you use the story to illustrate a new divorce reform movement that re-label…

Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ereignty. “This is a kind of modern warfare,” he said, according to Tempo magazine. “It’s dangerous as we can’t see who our foes are, but out of the blue everyone is brainwashed — now the [LGBT] community is demanding more freedom, it really is a threat.” President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said last year that the job of police was to defend LGBT communities and other groups from discrimination, but he has largely stayed on the sidelines of the debate…

Believing in Johnny Cash: An Open Letter to Atheists

By Paul Wallace

A few months ago in this magazine Peter Laarman pointed out that arguing doesn’t change people’s views: “Hearts and minds don’t change that way. They change when we share our stories…” This seems true to me, but I found myself wondering if a scientifically-motivated atheist would feel the same way—I have long suspected that some atheists may be ill at ease with stories. Before I say why, I need to say a few words about Johnny Cash, who died on Se…

“A Declaration of Dependence Upon MARRIAGE and FAMiLY”

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

Bob Vander Plaats is a frequent Iowa gubernatorial candidate who leads the conservative Iowa organization THE FAMiLY LEADER. (Are you wondering about the “i”? Yeah, they made that lowercase to symbolize the smallness of the individual ego which must be subordinated to the long-term interests of American children. I’m serious.) Described by the New York Times Magazine as “Iowa’s most prominent social conservative,” Vander Plaats helped get three s…