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Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ulture with atheism, new forms of socialism and sexual radicalism.” In his opening remarks, Vasadze delivered a set of demands to the West: Stop this insanity, he said to enthusiastic applause. Stop interfering in the internal affairs of this sovereign country; stop financing attacks on our church and family traditions through hundreds of your NGOs. Vasadze’s vehement attack on the West “did not easily resonate with all Western conference-goers,”…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

…in Denver, Colo. for more than 20 years. Nelson Bunker Hunt A Texas billionaire remembered mostly for his business exploits, Nelson Bunker Hunt bankrolled the religious right. He underwrote many Campus Crusade’s projects, including the 1967 “Berkley Blitz,”the $6 million Jesus film in 1979, and a $30 million campaign to evangelize the world by 1980. He gave $1 million to help start the Moral Majority and financed the founding of Tim LaHaye’s Counc…

A ‘Vows’ Piece in ‘The Times’ Shows How Doctrinaire Christian Celibacy Has Become Compared to its Ancient Roots

By Joseph Amar

…didn’t practice celibacy, but like the rabbis, they refrained from sexual contact with their wives from time to time during which they were known as ‘Sons of Holiness,’ a term which reprises the original meaning of holy as ‘separate.’ Syrian Christian ‘Holy Ones’ might be married couples with their child-rearing days behind them who decided to forego physical intimacy as they prepared to enter their golden years. Similarly, young people might cho…

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Decadence, Sickness, and Death: Mourning and the Israel-Hamas War

By Shaul Magid

…e largely abandoned its people who are now refugees from their homes in an open-air prison. Doubly displaced. but it seems to me something inside Hamas has died because it’s lost contact with many of its principles and substituted unadulterated hatred in its place. Destroying Israel, itself an impossible task, became more important than feeding its people, which is a more realizable goal, or even seeking a viable path to liberation. Like many (may…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…code of the state of Puebla that restricts marriage to a man and a woman. Canada: Christian landlord evicts gay tenant Caleb Pheloung was evicted from the Vancouver room he was renting when his landlord learned that he was gay and said it violated her “Christian values” to rent a room to him. British Columbia’s Human Rights Code, which bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, does not apply in this case because he was renting a roo…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…think is the dark,” saying that Catholic adoption agencies in Britain and Canada had been impacted in Britain and Canada and warning that “Safe Schools” curricula would follow. The anti-equality Campaign for Marriage – urging a “no” vote – has begun running ads, complete with ominous music, portraying marriage equality as a threat to children and to parents’ ability to protect their children. One ad features a mother saying her young son was told…

Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y of the couples being married are Chinese who come to Saipan as tourists. Canada: Trans legislation introduced in Yukon The government of the Yukon Territory introduced a trans rights bill, making it the final jurisdiction in Canada to act on trans rights legislation. According to DailyXtra, all provinces and territories except New Brunswick have passed legislation and a bill in New Brunswick is awaiting its final reading. Legislation is also pen…

Close Encounters

By Amina Wadud

…g, parasailing, and now faux flying in a wind tunnel. It’s true I love the air; I love rides in the amusement park that let me soar through the air. I’ll ride those bumpy exhilarating roller coasters, but my heart belongs to that elevated rotating swing that lets me whirl and whirl in the air, arms outstretched. Why this made me think about encounters with the Sacred, I imagine you can only guess. Some people do speak of moments that shake their v…

I Ate A Bowl of Soup, and Now I’m Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…k the illogic of this group is a fascinating thing to follow. One country, Canada, to which most neo-con Islamophobes have an allergic reaction because of its alleged socialist tendencies, has a company that is making a business decision. There is an underserved market that Campbell’s can capitalize on and make a lot of money. For Spencer et al., this is a sign that US civil liberties are at risk, even though we are not supposed to look at the act…

Ted Cruz, “Natural Born Citizen”

By Sarah Posner

…which includes the sort of inconvenient fact that Cruz was born in Canada. Canada! Land of socialist health care and such. But Cruz apparently isn’t concerned that anyone will birther him: Cruz isn’t worried that his birth certificate will be a problem. Though he was born in Canada, he and his advisers are confident that they could win any legal battle over his eligibility. Cruz’s mother was a U.S. citizen when he was born, and he considers himsel…