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Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

…isiting Muslim counseling centers for specialized psychotherapy in greater numbers. Far from being an abstract term, intersectionality is necessary for the very survival of minority communities. Above all, though, it’s MASGD’s own community who must take priority, and that entails strengthening LGBT Muslims’ bonds with other progressive movements who seek justice and equality for all Americans. The group is fiscally sponsored by the National Queer…

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LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

…nment-run radio station because of his “collaboration with private media.” Canada: Provinces adopt policies on trans ID, anti-LGBT bullying The province of Ontario will no longer identify a person’s gender on the front of health care identification cards, and will begin offering the option of an “X” rather than male or female on divers licenses. In British Columbia, all schools, including independent schools, must adopt anti-bullying policies that…

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Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

…Bailey notes that there are more Anglicans in Nigeria than in the U.S. and Canada combined.) There was no mass walk-out by African bishops, but Ugandan Archbishop Stanley Ntagali left the meeting on January 12, explaining later that he did so because his resolution asking the Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada “to voluntarily withdraw from the meeting and other Anglican Communion activities until they repented of their decision…

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

…t publicly opposed marriage equality and declared she would boycott Qantas airline “where possible” to protest the company’s support for marriage equality. She also told a Christian radio station that “tennis is full of lesbians.” Navratilova has said that while Court was “an amazing tennis player,” she is also “a racist and a homophobe.” Court charged that money from America was behind the “conspiracy” against her. Myanmar: Prejudice and a bit of…

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Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

…and others, at Aloma Baptist Church in Winter Park, Florida, just north of Orlando. Gingrich was running late, so the event co-sponsors filled time with over-the-top God-and-country songs, prayer, and speeches about the causes their organizations promote. Liberty Counsel, the Christian right legal group headed by Liberty University Law School Dean Mat Staver, was the lead co-sponsor. Others included the Florida Family Action, which spearheaded the…

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Secularist Activists Are Being Murdered in Bangladesh: An Ongoing Crisis Causes Many to Flee

…He and Samia decided they needed to leave. Soon, Abir found a way to reach Canada; Samia could join him soon after. After reaching Canada, Abir was connected to CFI and its Canadian partner, CFI-Canada, which helped Raihan and his wife settle in a safe apartment. Weeks later, early in the evening of September 25, 2015, I received an email from Raihan with the subject heading “My daughter is now a pale blue dot resident.” Samia had safely delivered…

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How Much Did Jesus Care About Sex?

…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…

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Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

…nd nearly 70 percent of them said their teachers did not help them at all. Canada: Government not so liberal when it comes to LGBT refugees? In the DailyXtra, Arshy Mann criticizes the Canadian government for turning its back on LGBT Iranian refugees who had made it as far as Turkey and, until a recent change in policy, had been hoping to make it to Canada. Egypt: One of hardest place to be gay On the Guardian’s list of “the most difficult places…

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Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

…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…

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Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

…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+…

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