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What Does the ‘Traditional Family’ Have To Do with Pussy Riot?

By Gillian Kane

…ial draft for the Human Rights Council by Prof. Vladimir Kartashkin of the Russian Federation, must supersede international human rights law. If there were any ambiguity about Russia’s intention, it was clarified by Natalia Narochnitskaya, a former Russian diplomat to the UN in New York, during a 2011 UN seminar dedicated to the traditional values resolution. According to coverage by the International Service for Human Rights, Narochnitskaya argue…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rtual love letter to Russia, in which he praises “the dramatic reversal of Russian culture since Ronald Reagan facilitated a Christian revival in what is now the Russian Federation and various independent nations in Eastern Europe.” Lively is unhappy about political criticism of Russia in the U.S., writing that “ideologically and culturally the Russian people are the closest match to American conservatives and populists in the entire world, and it…

If Kirill’s Bizarre Sermon Blaming War on Pride Parades Comes as a Surprise, it’s Time to Learn the History

By Katherine Kelaidis

…eard of the Crusaders’ Sack of Constantinople in 1204 mentioned above, now is the time to learn. Yesterday, Patriarch Kirill was talking to the home crowd, both in Russia and beyond. And while it was truly bizarre to blame the Russian invasion of Ukraine on gay pride parades (no amount of expertise or familiarity will make it less so), it does make sense given the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. It’s time we all learn more about that histo…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…We have an unprecedented access to cheap goods, yet we must recognize that cheap goods are cheaply made. I am not speaking of quality, I am speaking of cheap labor. We must recognize that through the act of shopping, whether it is for an article of clothing, a toy, a pint of strawberries, or even our morning cup of coffee, we participate in a global economy that values profit over people. Disposable goods are made by disposable people, faceless in…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…e success either. The opening weekend saw sales of more than $6 million in tickets. That’s the kind of number that will inspire others to try and figure out the formula for the faith-and-family blockbuster. Yet, with the cost of the film reportedly exceeding $30 million, it’s an open question whether or not the Left Behind reboot will get a second installment. The marketing problem of evangelical movies is still, stubbornly, a problem. The general…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache…. A star guest was Alexander Dugin, a Russian political scientist and Eurasia ideologist who believes in Russian supremacy and authoritarianism, and wants to see a ‘conservative revolution’ across Europe. A spokesperson for the FPO has said it was “a private invitation” and did not want to acknowledge whether Strache had attended. Also reportedly present was 24-year-old Marion Marechal-Le Pen, a French politici…

The Faith that Faith Produced

By Haroon Moghul

…ou’ll read an excerpt below—has surprised me, too. I wish I could find my airline companion and give him this book, to surprise him, too—in a good way. (I would accept Lakers tickets in lieu of apologies, but I think that particular era is done.) This whole book is a result of a profound evolution, and needs to be seen as such. American Muslims have gone through a lot over the last few decades. We were never the caricature Islamophobes made us ou…

Corporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

By Sarah Posner

At oral argument in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties, Inc. v. Sebelius this morning, the Supreme Court justices spent a great deal of time questioning the lawyers in the case about whether corporations have a religious conscience, and whether Congress intended to protect it when enacting the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). What was most striking, though, was how all three female justices, Sonia So…

Russian Multimillionaire Makes Peace with Anti-Christ Milk

By Joseph Laycock

…e misshapen Hebrew letter ‘Vav’s, which hold a numerical value of 6). Some Russians apparently remove the barcodes from all of their groceries or else draw a cross over them. In 2008, a millennial group led by Orthodox priest Pyotr Kuznetsov, engaged in a standoff with Russian authorities, barricading themselves within a bunker because they believed that barcodes on food packaging are Satanic. In a statement, Christian dairy tycoon Boyko-Veliky ex…

African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…orld’s “moral leader” A controversy over a supposed “gay lobby” within the Russian Orthodox Church drew the attention of Russian media and was reported on by Le Temps, a French-language newspaper based in Geneva, Switzerland. Monday night, in [Ulyanovsk] this city 560 miles west of Moscow, the faithful gathered and started to boo the metropolitan Bishop Anastasius before he could even begin his sermon. Newly appointed at the city’s church, Anastas…