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Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…he country and its territorial integrity.” Israel: Study Examines Queer Israelis Who Emigrate At 972mag.com, doctoral student Hila Amit writes about research based on 42 interviews with queer Israelis who have emigrated to London, Berlin, and New York City. Amit’s subjects gave a range of reasons for leaving the country, from escaping family pressures to conform to social norms to wishing to raise children away from mandated military service and t…

Neither The Joker Nor Godlessness Drove Batman Shooting

By Jeffrey Scholes

…ry, so when he lands and wreaks havoc, it seems random, senseless, and destructive for destruction’s sake. Or as some would define it, evil. This may be one way to understand James Holmes’ identification with the Joker. From what we know so far, he was a loner, far from home, and when asked about the kid they used to know, friends have only been able to manage brief and generic descriptions such as, “quiet, kept to himself.” Admittedly, the same c…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…ulist disinformation were supermarket checkout tabloids such as the Weekly World News which continue to specialize in outrageous and obviously fake stories of a supernatural bent. That a publication like the Weekly World News printed such clear falsehoods was part of the point; contrary to what some might assume, the popularity of these tabloids can be directly attributed to their tongue-in-cheek entertainment value. Touched by an angel — every…

Milwaukee Archdiocese, Under Dolan, Paid Sex Abusers to Leave Priesthood

By Sarah Posner

…he Times. Here are some things Dolan has commented on lately: He suggested New York’s marriage equality bill was akin laws in totalitarian societies; He compared gay marriage to “polygamy, adultery, forced marriages;” After the Obama administration declined to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court, he accused it of “hostility” toward “traditional marriage,” and a “new, more aggressive position” on gay marriage that would “precipitate a natio…

A New Book For Those Who Cling to a “Post-Racial” Christianity

By Brian Bantum

…world like this, and why does Jesus matter? The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World Brian Bantum Fortress Press November 2016 I wanted to tell a new story, a theological story that could help people begin to understand how some of the complexities of race and gender are theological problems that are connected to fundamental questions of how God created us and how we account for what seems so broken in the world. What’s th…

Election Reporters: Here’s Why Simply Descriptors Like ‘Christians’ Can Have Enormous Consequences

By Daniel Schultz

…” so much so that they would no longer need to be politically engaged. The New York Times did a bit better [emphasis mine]: At the end of his speech, Mr. Trump urged the religious crowd to vote in November, suggesting that if elected he would address their concerns sufficiently enough that they would no longer need to be politically active. Earlier, he had lamented that conservative Christians do not vote proportionately to their size, a complaint…

Hoax Underscores Urgency for LGBT People in Uganda

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s there. As The Rev. Canon Albert Ogle, Integrity USA’s Vice President for National and International Affairs noted, the hoax is a call to LGBT advocates around the world to redouble their efforts to foster full acceptance of LGBT people everywhere in the world – and most especially where they face the prospect of violence and death on a daily basis. ”This story is a wakeup call for all of us to ensure that something like it will never actually ha…

Democrats Have Seized the Narrative Frame From the GOP, But Can They Find a Better Story to Tell About an Inclusive, Pluralist US?

By Chrissy Stroop

…tion.” That’s the year Republican nominee Ronald Reagan’s “great national crusade to make America great again” took the country by storm, and the Christian nationalist evangelical Right became an entrenched Republican constituency, transforming American politics in ways that are still playing out. But somehow, in just a few short weeks, Republicans have gone from being “real Americans” to being obnoxious “weirdos,” and Democrats have gone from bei…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…though, being women, they will flap their white veils and make all things new, is equally unhelpful and unlikely. Rather, new models of Church need to emerge lest another small group—even women religious who have a long and proud history—be invested with the power and responsibility that belong to the whole community. I repeat, they don’t want it and neither do the rest of us. What we want is a democratic, participatory, egalitarian church. Some…

Archbishop Boots LGBT Catholics from Philly Church

By Patricia Miller

…of Dignity USA, told RD. The Equally Blessed Coalition, which consists of New Ways Ministry, Dignity USA, Fortunate Families and Call to Action, had a program called “TransForming Love: Exploring Gender Identity From Catholic Perspectives” scheduled for September 25 which reportedly caused Chaput to cancel the group’s permission to use the space. “Unfortunately, this is yet another instance of the kind of exclusion LGBT Catholics and supporters h…