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Religious Hostility to Gay Nigerians; The Pope’s Visit To Africa; Ireland’s Religious Schools Can’t Discriminate Against Gays; Orthodox Church in Georgia Leads Anti-Gay Forces; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and I have mine and I’m living true to mine.” Dominican Republic: Catholic Cardinal disses openly gay U.S. Ambassador Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo called the openly gay US Ambassador James “Wally” Brewster “a man’s wife” and suggested he should “stick to housework.” Netherlands: Gays from Middle East face threats from fellow refugees Five gay men — three from Syria, one from Iraq, and one from Iran…

Can Expelled Teach Us a Thing or Two?

By Arri Eisen

…utely. I bet more Americans would be attracted to, appreciate and consider careers in science (the number is decreasing annually). I bet we’d have more productive conversation among students and leaders of science and religion around the many profound issues in our nation that engage both: abortion, medical care, stem cells, homosexuality, and genomic research. The battle rhetoric would fade and, more than likely, movies like Expelled wouldn’t be…

Swift-Boat Veterans of American Jewry Charge Anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street

By Jay Michaelson

…es ECI’s leadership – knows this to be the case. Which makes ECI’s video a cheap lie — yet another in a long litany of desperate efforts by the far right to convert the largely liberal American Jewish community to neo-conservatism, hawkish policies on Israel, and the belief that “Barack Hussein Obama” is a Muslim. That said, there actually are two interesting forms of antisemitism going on here. First is the antisemitism of ECI itself. To tug at…

Mitt Romney’s Prosperity Gospel

By Peter Laarman

…I fervently wish that Mr. Obama would say a bit more about the problem of cheap grace. Reminding us that people who work very hard for very little are not the abusers of cheap grace, but that others in well-feathered nests who are preaching sacrifice might be in real trouble on the cheap grace front. Obama cannot and should not condemn those in the electorate who buy into Romney’s “there will be showers of blessing” message, but he probably does …

How to Choose a Tour Company for Your Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…nts than their quota allows. Most Muslim countries have a quota; a limited number of hajjis permitted from that country in any one year. This number is set by hajj authorities in Saudi Arabia, because, in all fairness, there has to be a cap on how many Muslims converge on the place. Right now, it stands at around 3 million! Countries with large populations of Muslims have many more applicants than their allotted number of pilgrims. This means you…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…ow your audience. This oversize sample inadvertently gives away the credit card number of some eight-five million men, most of whom live in Egypt. ⬆ Earlier on this day, I saw a South Asian gentleman crossing an eight-lane highway while drinking a cup of tea out of a white ceramic mug. He took his time, pausing between lanes to let cars whiz by (at roughly 70 miles per hour) and took measured sips to pass the time, enjoying his hot and fresh caf…

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…

What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

By Steven K. Green

…ck. In 1878, the Supreme Court upheld a law banning the mailing of lottery tickets—and by implication the Comstock Act itself—with the opinion declaring that: “[t]he power possessed by Congress embraces the regulation of the entire postal system of the country. The right to designate what shall be carried necessarily involves the right to determine what shall be excluded.” (Ex parte Jackson, 1878) The point being that precedent exists for a nation…

Dragged Through the Mud: This Little Church-Backed Support Group for LGBTQ Teens Suffered Bomb Threats, Smears and the Cancellation of its Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…vent from the school campus.” The school district subsequently revoked its rental agreement with the Landing Spot, claiming Loomis UCC had “misrepresented” the event. Meanwhile, Destiny Church of nearby Rocklin, California, a Pentecostal megachurch, pounced on the opportunity to get in on the culture warring. In a February 26 sermon called “The Sin of Silence,” head pastor Greg Farrington lamented the supposed decline of the United States from the…

Ex-Gay Org Loses Tax-Exempt Status

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…llster Lifeway for the Southern Baptist Convention, that shows 64% say it’s “inevitable” that marriage equality will be the law of the land one day soon. Majorities also believe that “homosexuality is a civil rights issue,” and that landlords and rental halls should not be able to discriminate against gays and lesbians. The worst finding, though, for ex-gay organizations seeking to “pray away the gay” is this one: ”More Americans do not believe ho…