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Amid Uncertainty, Eight Things We Know for Sure About the Boston Bombings

By Ivan Strenski

…t with a high degree of certainty then that, outside of the perversions of Fox News, we will never hear the word “religion” uttered in connection with the Boston Marathon attacks. Instead, what Fox would refer to as “liberal” media (mainstream media to the rest of us) will have a good deal to say about “ethnic” violence because of the Chechen background of the young suspects. Mind-Purge Second, because the non-Fox media presume that religion, in t…

“Far Too Extreme For America To Accept,” Hamas “Endorsed Obama,” “Forced Abortions,” and More

By Sarah Posner

…ing in the final days leading up to the election. The National Republican Trust PAC, run by conservative conspiracy theorist Scott Wheeler, has purchased airtime in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wisconsin, and North Carolina to broadcast its 25-minute “Breaking Point” political attack ad, starting last Friday. Using clips from Townhall.com, World Net Daily, Fox Business, CNSNews.com, and Glenn Beck, narrator E. W. Jackson invokes the boogeymen of…

Wolves Repelled by Christian Rock, Bibles for Porn, Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad

By Michael J. Altman

…featuring NFL quarterbacks to get churches talking about porn addictions. Fox Sports rejected another religiously-themed Super Bowl ad. This time they said no to an ad featuring John 3:16. In Fox’s defense, there was no Rainbow Man in the commercial, which we all know is the proper context for John 3:16 at a football game. In Alabama, a meditation class is helping to lower prison violence. The National Prayer Breakfast was held on Thursday and a…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Politicians, religious activists spar on gay ‘cures,’ marriage equality A BBC News documentary reported on “Transformation Potential,” described by Pink News as “a religious ‘gay cure’ therapy conference” which took place in London in April. Journalist Benjamin Zand was kicked out of the conference after filming portions of it. Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to end the “dangerous” and “profoundly wrong” practice: The announcement was not we…

Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

By Joanna Brooks

…ce polygamy? A few weeks ago, I sat in front of a radio microphone for the BBC program “The World”; with me on the program was a high-ranking public relations official for the LDS Church. Together, we did the same program twice: two back-to-back hours of the same hour about Mormonism, one time for the American audiences, and a second time for the whole world. During the first hour, taping for American audiences, when the inevitable polygamy questi…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…san Goff, supports the blessing of same-sex unions. More from Christianity Today’s Ruth Gledhill: In his pastoral letter, Archbishop Okoh says: “In the beginning, the focus of our concern was North America and we thank God that he has raised up the Anglican Church North America as a new wineskin in that continent. “Now our concern is increasingly with the British Isles. A line has been crossed in the Church of England itself with the appointment o…

Pope Francis Says Teaching Gender Is Nasty; Far-Right Religious Groups Helping Mexico’s Anti-Equality Movement; Colombia’s Peace Deal Killed by Anti-LGBT Campaign?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…examines courts’ record on protecting rights of LGBT people Equal Rights Trust released “Justice or Complicity: LGBT Rights and the Russian Courts.” From a press release: Justice or Complicity? examines judicial practice on issues ranging from homophobic and transphobic violence to restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly. It also reviews cases dealing with discrimination in areas including family and private life, work and education. A…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…or before we ever tolerate gay people working here.” In other parts of the world, World Vision employs thousands of non-Christians. Earlier this month, World Vision’s national director in Uganda, Gilbert Kamanga, said the organization “opposes any law that fails to meet human rights standards and results in stigmatization or discrimination of any group or class of people.” “Sexual orientation of those we serve or those with whom we collaborate wit…

The Islamophobia Industrial Complex

By Sarah Posner

…emember all of this? Now, while evangelicals might be more likely to watch Fox News, and more likely to fear shari’ah, if Fox is just repeating, recycling, or regurgitating the Islamophobia — dressed up as “speaking the truth” — that they are already used to hearing, are these evangelical Fox viewers learning something, or is Fox just reinforcing what they already believed? And is their trumped-up fear that shari’ah law is somehow going to subvert…

‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…e kind of national media and blogs that have fueled the MAGA movement—from Fox News and the Sinclair Broadcast Group to The Washington Times and The New York Post. The church’s materials include an excerpt from a book by Bruce Reyes-Chow, a teaching elder and former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA): “For many of us, being uncomfortable about public protests or what we perceive as aggressive expressions of frustration simply identifies ou…