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Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…re illegal in the Maldives under Sharia law, and with the publication of a new Penal code in 2014, also under national law, and may be punishable by death penalty. The new Penal code transposes into national law provisions which were previously just in Sharia law and applicable to Muslim citizens. In any case these new provisions have not been put into legal practice so far and there is no record of trials for homosexual practices in the aftermath…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…e? As argued by Dale Eickelman, Jon Anderson and the other contributors to New Media in the Muslim World (Indiana U. Press, 2003), new media access to traditional Muslim authoritative resources is forcefully challenging the most conservative modes of Islamic authority, allowing those who previously had no voice to decide for themselves what to believe and why to believe it, whether those in traditional positions of authority like it or not. For Ch…

Gay Marriage Still Resonates As Top Issue Issue for Some Republicans

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…uckabee seem dedicated to the issue, even titling the first chapter of his new book “The Most Important Form of Government is a Father, a Mother, and Children.” ”The family structure that made this country the most powerful and prosperous in the history of the world—father, mother, children—is under assault today as never before,” he wrote, later adding: “Still, I believe that we’re in denial about potential problems as we see more and more homose…

Devil’s Bookmark: How Not to Defend God

By Bernard Schweizer

…n the cradle, the cat on the roof, the non-contacted tribe member in Papua New-Guinea—they all exist without a shred of knowledge about God, and are doing just fine, most of the time. As an apologia for God, Copan’s book may work for those who don’t need an apology. But for religious skeptics, god-Haters (misotheists), and atheists, Copan’s book can do very little to dispel their doubts about God’s foresight, wisdom, goodness, and even existence….

Conservative Bishops Unhappy At Synod, But Ignore Walkout Call; Australian Religious Leaders Step Up Marriage Equality Opposition; Italy Debates Civil Unions; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…or to the Holy See. The Vatican has refused to accept his credentials. The New York Times has more: Mr. Hollande will not nominate someone else for the Holy See post until 2017, when France holds its next presidential election, the newspaper said. Mr. Stefanini, a Roman Catholic who was second in command at the French Embassy to the Vatican from 2001 to 2005, is widely recognized as an expert on religious issues… At a news briefing on Tuesday, a s…

SCOTUS Decision Changes the Meaning of Civil Religion in America

By Murali Balaji

…means is that people from Muslim-majority countries could just become the guinea pigs for Trump’s efforts to more narrowly define citizenship. The Court has essentially codified efforts to limit the citizenship and civil rights of African Americans, LGBTQIA Americans, and religious minorities. As this has taken shape, Trump’s transparent attacks on multiculturalism in America—and the Supreme Court’s acquiescence to those attacks—are testing the v…

Will Pope’s African Tour Change Attitudes on Divorce and LGBTQ Among African Catholics?

By Kaya Oakes

…ardinal Dolan of New York, in the past, African bishops were looked on “as newcomers,” but now, with the African church growing so rapidly, they “have immense pastoral experience.” The African bishops called an intervention during the synod to change language that would have potentially been more welcoming to LGBTQ Catholics, and Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea delivered a speech putting same-sex marriage on a continuum with “quick and easy divorc…

God Need Not Be Real, But the Black Hole Photo Is

By Ed Simon

…usive—light from Taurus was bent twice as much as they would have been had Newton’s theory been accurate. A theory of physics which had reigned ascendant since 1687 had been overthrown by a Quaker in African forests. The New York Times’s headline the following day was “LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS – EINSTEIN THEORY TRIUMPHS.” At a press conference held at the National Science Foundation in Washington D.C. on April 10th, a consortium of scientis…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…country is located in the Timor Sea between Indonesia, Australia and Papua New Guinea. It gained independence from Indonesia in 2002 and has since worked to build itself as an autonomous nation-state in the region. Timor Leste is known as a region leader on human rights and the PM’s statement confirms that. ‘Everyone has the potential to contribute to the development of the nation, including members of the LGBT community,’ De Araujo said in a vide…

Are We Living in a Simulation? Bad Religion, Bad Media Combine in New Doc, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’

By Shannon Trosper Schorey

…lation theory Mystwood is playing with—he is the universe, the universe is code, his code is part of the important bit, it’s all a simulation, and he’s ready to play. And, importantly, the rest of us might not matter. The language of programming in A Glitch in the Matrix is compelling and difficult. On the one hand, it is literal computer programming. On the other, intentional or not, the movie invokes the language of “deprogramming” that was comm…