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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…

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…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d in the past on U.S. and British religious conservatives’ efforts to stop Jamaican officials from repealing the country’s colonial era “buggery” law. This week, a joint select committee of the Jamaican Parliament began an official review of the Sexual Offences Act, a 2009 law that further criminalized same-sex relations. In a June interview, Jamaican LGBT rights lawyer Maurice Tomlinson had accused Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller of a “blata…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that police in Egypt and Iran have used Grindr to hunt and arrest gay men. Jamaica: Activist Drops Challenge to Sodomy Law in Face of Threats A Jamaican gay-rights activist dropped his legal challenge to the country’s colonial era anti-sodomy law, Associated Press reported last Friday. Javed Jaghai had initiated a constitutional challenge to the law last year, but says he and his loved ones have been threatened with violence. “Though the cause and…

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+…

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…

Power Up: Turn Off the Cell Phone

By Daniel Schultz

…plugged-in lifestyle doesn’t really get at the heart of the issue. I think the Amish, of all people, have it right. It’s not so much about what you as an individual are doing or not doing, as the effect technology has on the community: Why not make life easier and just put [a phone] in the house? “What would that lead to?” another Amish man asked me. “We don’t want to be the kind of people who will interrupt a conversation at home to answer a tel…