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How the Catholic Church Changed the Movies

By Patricia Miller

…llywood Censored. The code they designed became the Motion Picture Conduct Code, popularly know as the Hays Code after it was adopted by William Hays, a Presbyterian elder who was hired by the major studios to help clean up the industry’s image after it was rocked by a series of scandals. The code, says Black, “was a fascinating combination of Catholic theology, conservative politics and pop psychology—an amalgam that would control the content of…

Catholic Church Campaigns Against Gay US Ambassador; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hich he said are “against Islam,” reports Suzanne Lazaroo at The Star. The Malaysian Islamic Economic Development Foundation, the Malaysian Islamic Development Department, and the Federal Territories Islamic Department were among sponsors of a symposium on “Marriage Issues, Family Matters, Entrepreneurship and Management.” Kyrgystan: Commentary: Scapegoating NGOs, LGBTs Won’t Fix Economy Last week Franco Galdini, writing for The Diplomat, argued t…

Scottish Episcopal Church Angers Conservative Anglicans With Embrace of Same-Sex Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…at “six more city or county governments have agreed to recognize household registrations by same-sex couples, with only five local governments not yet amending their policies.” Residents in areas that do not yet offer registration can register a same-sex partnership in other cities and counties: Following the Council of Grand Justices’ landmark ruling on May 24 that a ban on same-sex marriage under the Civil Code is unconstitutional, and with meas…

New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers

By Austin Dacey

…oups in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, and Sudan. In all of this, the United States is an anomaly since it rejects even laws against religious hate speech, which were found in 36 of 45 European states in 2011. It’s the best place in the world to be a secularist. Several years ago I co-authored an article in Free Inquiry magazine, entitled “Atheism is not a Civil Rights Issue,…

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

…ay, in addition to struggling with an addiction to pornography. This short promo video offers an overview of their stories. By promoting these voices as representative of the entire experience within the LGBT community, even though they do not currently identify as such, the Adventist church elevates stories that portray all LGBT people as damaged, sex addicts, drug and alcohol abusers, unfaithful in relationships, and utterly lost if they do not…

Gambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers

By Peter Montgomery

…ed groups that participated in producing the report: Gay Japan News, KRYSS Malaysia, O Pakistan, Rainbow Rights Philippines, and Women’s Support Group Sri Lanka. According to researchers who held a teleconference call this week, family members are often the perpetrators of violence. Religious beliefs and leaders are often a source of persecution. For example: In Malaysia, harsh regulation under Sharia law is enforced by officers with a religious d…

Media Overplays Rihanna Concert Coverup

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…l. I’ve never been a fan of assumptions, and the ones presented by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party seem especially alarming: “unclothed” = immodest = dangerous. That’s more of an article than Rihanna putting on a longer skirt. Second, it seems hypocritical: you’ll host a concern for and buy tickets to see a female performer sing songs about things that are totally haram (according to different opinions), but not if she’s wearing clothing you find…

Finding the Missing Airliner with Coconuts

By Joseph Laycock

…l implements allowed the bomoh to spiritually “search” for the plane. Many Malaysians have expressed outrage over the bomoh’s attempt to help. Jakim, the Malaysian government’s department for Islamic development, released a statement that the Mat Zin’s ritual contradicts Islamic teachings and practices. Twitter accounts have bemoaned the incident as an embarrassment to Malaysia and called for Ibrahim to be arrested. All cultures have experts that…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of this source code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most impo…

Catholic Bishops Pull Funding for ACORN

By Kate Childs Graham

…neighborhood safety to voter registration. After complications with voter registration, ACORN was being investigated for voter fraud. However, the organization insists that while they are not perfect, they have been cooperative in investigations of employees who turn in fraudulent voter registrations. Nevertheless, Senator John McCain, Governor Sarah Palin, and other right wingers continue to accuse ACORN of voter fraud, implicate the organizatio…