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Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…y from Victorian sentimentalism. Such angels are on sale at reduced price; cheap wares for cheap faith. It would be an error, however, to fully dismiss pop culture angels. Despite the fact that representations of angels in film and television, comics and music, paperback novels and posters, are filtered through market concerns, such pop culture can still speak to human meaning—and because of that they merit our attention. Besides, the bulk of art…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…ights Activist Maurice Tomlinson reported that earlier this month that the Jamaican Supreme Court allowed nine conservative Christian groups to participate in a lawsuit challenging the country’s anti-sodomy law, but blocked the LGBT-friendly Public Defender from taking part. More from a press release from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network: “This is truly a David and Goliath situation, requiring me to respond to not only the government’s, but als…

Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Association that homosexuality is a diagnosable mental health condition.’ Jamaica: Interviews with two major activists Outright Action International published an interview with F.J. Genus of TransWave Jamaica that was conducted during the recent UN Commission on the Status of Women. Outright also published an interview with LGBT and women’s rights activist Latoya Nugent, who was granted bail after being arrested on March 13 under the country’s cy…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…ve noted in recent weeks that American anti-gay activists have traveled to Jamaica to rally support for the country’s anti-gay laws. Aileen Torres-Bennett reports for Reuters on the reason for that organizing: an effort to repeal the country’s Offenses Against the Person Act, “which makes anal sex a crime, regardless of gender or consent, and prohibits ‘acts of gross indecency’ between men, in public or in private.” Torress-Bennett reports that ev…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…oved a bill that would allow same-sex couples to use surrogates in Israel. Jamaica: Leading Newspaper Calls Gay Marriage Ban Hypocritical The Jamaican Gleaner published an editorial June 5 which said that the country’s legal ban on same-sex couples marrying is grounded in prejudice and is hypocritical given the decline in heterosexual marriages and increasing rate of divorce among couples who do marry. We draw attention to these statistics neither…

How Much Did Jesus Care About Sex?

By Peter Laarman

…cost of true discipleship. The price it was called upon to pay was all too cheap…We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale; we baptized, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation unasked and without condition…Was there ever a more terrible and disastrous instance of Christianizing the world than this? It’s regrettable, I think, that “cheap grace” has turned into a kind of meme that Rod Dreher can toss into his debate with Andrew Sullivan without…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…church, they’re marinating, so to speak, in the the various teachings of a number of people. I’ve covered many an event where I’ve been waiting in line to get in, and the inevitable conversation with the people around you goes something like this: they ask first where you go to church, and second which teachers you admire, and then you get into a long conversation about the relative virtues of all of them. A really good example of how all these te…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

…a random sample size and therefore isn’t statistically representative. The number of individuals reporting victimization in Episcopal spaces is alarming nonetheless. However, I would argue the data is more likely to under- than to overestimate the scope of the abuse that occurs. To see why, the survey results must be interpreted in light of the Episcopal Church’s larger culture of inaction around sexual violence. See no evil, hear no evil… LGBTQ+…

Florida Gov Cozies to Local Tea Party Xenophobes

By Julie Ingersoll

…ck Scott announced his proposed budget in front of tea partiers in central Florida, instead of in Tallahassee where the budget has been announced in the past. Clearly designed as pageantry to flatter the tea partiers, the Governor boasted some $5.2 billion in cuts (only to later have to admit that the number was inflated and that the cuts were “only” $3.5 billion). The announcement of our state budget, by the way, was held in the Eustis First Bapt…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…ability of cell phones to be used for impure activities, some Jewish cell-phone users have requested so-called “kosher” phones. The idea is to offer conservative Jews a phone that is free of “corrupting influences” of the sort that are already avoided by ultra-orthodox Jews through a ban on television and some radio. Reuters reported in February 2008 that Bezeq Israel Telecom launched a new “kosher” landline phone service, which will block calls…