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‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ic and social media hand-holding campaign After a “spate of anti-LGBT violence,” including a gay couple being beaten by a group of youths who reportedly attacked them for holding hands, men and women began holding hands in public as a show of solidarity. Dozens of people posted photographs with the hashtag #allemannenhandinhand (all men holding hands.) Lebanon: Hackers take down sexual health campaign The website of the Lebanese Medical Associatio…

The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…us slogan on a captive audience of schoolchildren. But pious wave is no coincidence, these laws are part of a crusade to rewrite American history and the American identity. They were spawned by Project Blitz, a Christian nationalist crusade that seeks to redefine what it means to be an American—so that to be an American is to be a Christian and to be a Christian is to be an American—and then to rewrite the law accordingly. Project Blitz’s goal is…

Why Defacing Confederate Monuments is Morally Justified

By Ryan Andrew Newson

…t context—or burning a building that hosted slave auctions, as happened in Fayetteville, NC—I see a justified expression of anger at a system that’s sometimes hard to get one’s hands on, and continues to be indifferent (at best) to the ongoing legacies of white supremacy. Decorated with expressions of rage at the current order of things, monuments that largely obscure deep tensions in our society suddenly reveal them; they become apocalyptic, in t…

North Carolina Feels the ‘Love’ in Amendment Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…e need to uh, reproduce.” • Pastor Sean Harris of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville encouraged churchgoers to squash “like a cockroach” any signs of effeminate behavior among their young sons and to essentially beat the gay out of them: So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, “Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, becau…

Taking (Public School) Teachers to Church, and the Mosque, and the Temple…

By Lisa Webster

…t) performed a vévé ritual. Many teachers remarked later that it would be inconceivable to bring such a ritual into their classrooms, but that the experience of witnessing it themselves was revelatory. Amy Frost Boyd, of the Social Studies Department at KAPPA International High School in the Bronx said: “Stepping outside my zone of familiarity has been useful. It makes me mindful of the feelings of awkwardness and confusion that my students feel w…

Josh Duggar and the Purity Lie

By Sarah Posner

…an a robocall pushing for the repeal of the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance, which she warned would empower ‘child predators’ to threaten ‘the safety and innocence of a child.’” The Duggars are no ordinary spokespeople for the religious right; they are super-spokespeople. For years, they have been held up as exemplars of biblical living, of devotion to Christ, and of, especially, homespun honest living and sexual purity. It’s long been obvious…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…man and People’s Rights “has taken on issues of sexual orientation and gender identity, topics that some may have considered too ‘controversial’ but that fall squarely within the ambit of human rights.” South Africa: Interfaith group calls on church, gov’t to denounce gender-based violence The Global Interfaith Network for People of all Sexes, Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Expressions called on the government and churches to speak out…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…” About five years ago, an email correspondence with my long-lost atheist uncle encouraged me to question my “biblical worldview.” In time, the questioning led me to reject my literalist reading of the Bible, and eventually, my Christian faith. I divorced my patriarchal husband, enrolled my kids in public school and sold the newspaper. I eventually founded a website, No Longer Quivering, for women escaping and healing from spiritual abuse. But I d…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…llar annual budget is funded almost exclusively by ticket sales, and these tickets are not cheap (ranging this year, for example, from $210-$300 depending on time of purchase). This pays for the basic infrastructure as well as expenses like a hefty per-person/per-day use fee charged by the Bureau of Land Management. In addition, a significant portion of each year’s budget is set aside to fund many of the large-scale art installations various parti…

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

By Haroon Moghul

…bravery, indifference, and equally your fidelity to our heritage. This concept is known as tawakkul in Islam—reliance and trust in God—and explains why people take risks people in the West would never even contemplate. Because, after all, you’re only going to get flattened by an accelerating Porsche Panamera, the family car of choice here, if God wants you to, and what better way to meet your maker than relaxed after some Lipton Yellow Label? …