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The Sex Scandal Following Whole Foods’ Guru

By Michael Schulson

…overwhelmed by his own sexual energy” in order to justify their continued support. Ken Wilber himself told Oppenheimer that “Marc has a lot of Shakti”—or energy—adding “I don’t think he understood the impact it had on people.” Another Gafni collaborator, the HarperCollins editor Adam Bellow, explained that “Marc is a powerful receiver and transmitter” of erotic energy. Any kind of community can tolerate behaviors it should not, though a number of…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…ts, most of which took place in Hungary and Slovakia, had a similar focus. Eastern European countries provide an accommodating atmosphere for the networking events of the Christian Right. Eastern European societies are traditionally religious, and many have, particularly in recent years, been shaped by right-leaning and regressive, nationalist politics like the PiS party in Poland, or Viktor Orbán and the Fidesz party in Hungary. Here, it’s relati…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…law-enforcement. As we have reported, Jamaica’s anti-gay leaders also get support from American and British anti-gay religious advocates, who have traveled to the Island to rally support for colonial-era sodomy laws that criminalize homosexuality. Tomlinson cites Peter LaBarbera among those anti-gay exports from the North that he says are constantly bombarding Jamaica to reinforce existing homophobia by saying that gays are a threat to children a…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…el of Thomas and the Proto-Gospel of James. The earliest Muslims resembled Eastern Christians not only in theology but also in practice. For instance, Athanasius of Balad (in modern Iraq), patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 684 to 687, required Christians to abide by the Noahide laws: “those believing in Christ…should abstain from fornication, from what is strangled, from blood, and from meals of pagan sacrifice.” These laws are based on…

Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…out it: NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger says he turned to the Bible for support and guidance during a tumultuous off-season that included sexual assault allegations and a six-game suspension for this season. Former Dallas Cowboy lineman Duke Preston left football altogether to work in Christian ministry. In baseball, Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Matt Garza exchanged theological reflections about God’s interest in the majors with Orioles hitter Luke S…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Scott Chang is has reportedly “sparked a fierce debate over gay rights in China.” The wedding took place in the garden of the official resident of Britain’s ambassador to China, which is legally British sovereign territory. Hong Kong: High Court OK’s ‘Right to Dance’ at Protests This week Hong Kong’s highest court ruled in favor of LGBTI activists who had been fighting a three-year battle with police over the right to dance at political protests….

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…iamentary vote on marriage equality even though polls show strong majority support. Business leaders have been among vocal supporters of equality, and the Sydney Morning Herald reports that they have launched a new campaign, which came “in stark defiance of Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s advice to ‘stick to their knitting’.” The initiative invites customers to order one of 250,000 specially-commissioned rings bearing the phrase “until we all…

Conservative Christian Anti-Abortion Hero is Neither Christian nor Anti-Abortion

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…u, a Chinese-born Christian and close friend of Chen who heads Texas-based China Aid, which lobbies for religious freedom in China. Chen would not oppose “voluntary abortion,” Fu said, since Chen’s focus is on “the rule of law” – on making China a society that respects its own laws, which are routinely flouted, and on promoting the human rights and dignity of its citizens. Chen is a leading light in the weiquan, or rights protection movement, lega…

Francis Visits the Church that John Paul Broke

By Patricia Miller

…umber of marriages within the church has declined by nearly half. Only the number of Catholic funerals has held steady. And while the number of Catholics overall has remained level, that’s largely due to Hispanic migration to the US; some 40 percent of those born Catholic have left the church. But numbers don’t tell the whole story. The church Francis will encounter is fundamentally different in character from the church of John Paul in two import…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…e to the harm done by Western technologies and modes of consumption. While China may recently have become the world’s biggest polluter, though not per capita, China was forced to be—else get conquered by the West. Don’t take my word for it, take Karl Marx’s: The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation….