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Gluten-Phobia, Sacred Volcanoes, Undercover Atheists: The Best Religion and Science Writing of 2015

By Andrew Aghapour

…ks, “When Superintelligent AI Arrives, Will Religions Try to Convert It?” (Bonus: my interview with Istvan, during which the presidential hopeful is pressed on whether Transhumanism is itself a religious movement.) [Gizmodo] Convergence Zones Our final category, convergence zones, is for articles that discovered unusual intersections between religion and science. Adrienne LaFrance’s, “What Makes a Volcano Sacred?” covers a land battle between as…

What Irish Marriage Vote Means for Catholic Church; The Lonely Fight for Equality in Belize; Progress and Backlash in Tunisia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…has been most bitterly attacked by homosexual activists around the world.” Turkey: First out gay candidate running in general election “For the first time in Turkey, an out gay candidate is running in the country’s general election,” Pink News reported this week. The report says that 37-year-old Baris Sulu is standing for election as a candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the Eskisehir district. Sulu told the Anadolu news agency, “I am no…

How to Prevent Ethnic Cleansing in Syria

By Haroon Moghul

…ave wrested more sovereignty for themselves, meaning their relationship to Turkey will remain vexing. Syria’s majority Sunnis may be left with what’s in between. Syria would go three ways, like Iraq essentially has. To Intervene or Not Intervene One of the most persuasive arguments against Western intervention in Syria was that neighboring states would want to press their own ideal outcomes for Syria on Syria; considering Turkey’s Kurdish populati…

5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel

By Haroon Moghul

…ecision so much as a requirement to respond to real anger on the ground in Turkey. This doesn’t mean that Egypt is going to go the way of Iran. Even Turkey, for all its rhetoric, attempted to make a gesture of reconciliation during the recent forest fires in Israel, donating several helicopters to help the relief effort. The Turkish Prime Minister is the only Muslim leader so far who has strongly condemned Mubarak, and who seems to understand the…

Pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Declare Shared View of Marriage & Family; Government & Muslim Officials Ramp Up Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in Indonesia; Australian Religious Leaders Ask Parliament to Act on Marriage Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…personalities declaring that gays should be “cured” or “impaled” or both. Turkey: Facebook shuts down lesbian group page for violating ‘community standards’ Facebook has reportedly shut down Turkey’s Lesbian Bisexual Feminists page under the rationale that the content violated “community standards” The most recent contents shared on the page were an invitation to a conference by [women’s rights organization] Mor Çatı, an article titled “Bras; A P…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rried out by the same militia, killed about 34 people, most of them women. Turkey: A Country Divided on LGBT Issues Rev. Irene Monroe writes this week about Turkey being a conflicted country, both a safe haven for LGBT people in the Middle East – “the ‘go-to’ country for LGBTI Muslims feeling other Islamic countries for their safety” – but also a country where LGBT people face persistent religious and cultural prejudice and legal discrimination. S…

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…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…. So it’s more about representation and identity than it is about specific codes or laws.” Even though some political activists in Middle Eastern and North African countries promote “Islamic law” in reaction to the imposition of European-style government and legal systems on them, there is no single school of thought on what shari’ah, or divine law, is or means—and there is no single, accepted legal code. “If Islamic law were some book where you c…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…as Section 377, that criminalizes sex between men in India, the ruling was welcome news. And it has renewed some hope for the repeal of other repressive laws, including one requiring the “registration and control of eunuchs” and marital rape exceptions in the Indian Penal Code. … Depictions of gender-fluid identity are common in ancient texts found in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. In Hinduism, gods transform into goddesses, or they cross-dress….

For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town

By Peter Montgomery

…the recent European Court of Human Rights decision that the government of Turkey violated freedom of expression when it confiscated copies of a magazine published by LGBT advocacy group Kaos GL more than a decade ago. The finding of a violation is obviously welcome: to our knowledge, it is the first such decision from the European Court of Human Rights concerning the prior-censorship of an LGBT publication. The decision shines a spotlight on cens…