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Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…ve behaviors. It’s the price so many have had to pay for the seeds of self-hatred that were sown early on. Few things are more infuriating than scrolling through countless blacked-out squares on Instagram or seeing Facebook posts written by the very leaders who’ve managed to find the audacity to pat themselves on the back declaring how glad they are that they “weren’t raised to see color but instead to see the heart of Jesus.” Both a bald-faced li…

Lindsey Graham and Al Qaeda Share the Same “Allahu Akbar”

By Nathan Lean

…authoritative voice. Graham and others employ the term precisely in a way that legitimizes that understanding and gives currency to such usage in discourses about Muslims. For them, Zawahiri’s jihad is more correct than the jihad of the father who picks up an extra job to support his family, or the other billion-and-a-half non-violent Muslims in the world. “Sharia” has also become a buzzword that many pundits and politicians have hijacked. Likely…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Belfast Telegraph reports on a retired lawyer’s efforts to create a group that would promote inclusion of LGBT people in the Presbyterian Church, an effort “to emulate the success of existing grups such as Changing Ireland and Accepting Sexuality, which have been operating within the Church of Ireland and the Irish Methodist Church respectively.” “Of all the Churches, the Presbyterian Church in Ireland has failed to support its LGBT members by obs…

Death Penalty Inconsistent with Life

By Ada María Isasi-Díaz

…of injustice, often seek to hide behind self-righteous indignation—often a code word for revenge. That different segments of the population, of those whose votes the candidates want, choose to be for the death penalty, cannot be—is not—a valid reason for the candidates to oppose the decision of the Supreme Court against the death penalty. Please, politicians –elected and seeking to be elected—reconsider your position. I humbly make my own the word…

Touch Me, Man, I’m Healed, I’m Straight

By Ted Cox

…k on the floor in front of us. They told us to pick up one item and share what that item meant to us. In its segment examining so-called “ex-gay” therapies—religious programs that try to turn gays straight—NPR, as as Warren Throckmorton first discussed here, omitted vital pieces of “ex-gay” Rich Wyler’s biography, specifically that he is a “certified life coach” who makes his living counseling men who want to become straight. He co-founded Journe…

Does ‘Criss-Cross Apple Sauce’ Make Yoga Secular? Opponents of Yoga in Public Schools Have a Point

By Candy Gunther Brown

…Alabama’s discussion may seem utterly baffling. Part of the confusion is that “yoga” has meant many things over time and across space. The 2016 Yoga in America Study reports that 36.7 million Americans—15 percent of all adults—now practice yoga. A quarter of practitioners cite “spiritual development” as a motive, whereas 9 percent of non-practitioners avoid yoga because “the ‘spirituality’ aspect of the practice bothers me.” Alabama seems to be s…

Why South Korea (and the US) Use Amusement Parks to Push Creationism

By Andrew Aghapour

…tives, Hayes demonstrates, are “myths,” or paradigmatic models of reality that help us code our visions of the world and inform our social vocabularies, conceptions of self, and varying personal relationships. One’s views about the origins of humanity signal special allegiance, at the moment, to a broad social collective and a general worldview. In short, whether you are a die-hard secularist or an adamant creationist, you subscribe to a large and…

Are Social Issues Non-Issues?

By Jay Michaelson

…nd one veiled reference to “religious freedom” from Romney. Insiders know that the latter is code for exempting individuals and institutions from following government mandates on health care and provisions on anti-discrimination. But to the middle, Romney’s comment surely passed under the radar. And as for Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell, even Paul Ryan is for that now. All this in the shadow of an unprecedented legal war against women’s reproductive choices…

Authoritarian Populism Vs Human Rights, The Campaign Against ‘Gender Ideology’ and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d for release last March, but as China Film Insider notes, “It was around that time that Chinese censors said they were banning depictions of gay people on television.” Cuba: LGBT activist blocked from leaving country for international workshop Government agents pulled LGBT activist Nelson Gandulla Díaz out of a security line at Havana’s international airport as he was preparing to attend a workshop in Colombia organized by Caribe Afirmativo, and…

Pope Calls Out “Bad Shepherds” as Conservatives Prepare to Fight Change

By Patricia Miller

…cused conservatives of having “an ideological understanding of the Gospel that the Gospel is like a penal code.” The hardliners on divorce were backed by an open letter to the synod signed by 48 conservatives, including prominent Catholics like natural law scholar Robert George and former US ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon, but also conservative protestants like Rick Warren and signees from the Heritage Foundation and the Family Resear…