Religion Dispatches
…t) men or women, and the presence of LGBT consumers has been forgotten. … Being a gay person myself, I’ve always felt that was such a waste of opportunities,” said Morinaga, 33, who won an in-company competition to start the venture. “By turning our eyes to (LGBT people), I believe we can create products or services that we’ve never seen before.” …
Read More…eir own rapes, led to Patterson being stripped of his position as the President of SWBTS. Under a year later, both men are returning to the limelight. Louis C.K. has begun testing stand-up material at New York’s famous Comedy Cellar—including, reportedly, a joke about rape whistles. And Patterson who has already preached since his ignominious firing, is slated to co-teach a class called “Christian Ethics: The Bible and Moral Issues” at Southern Ev…
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…hat prosecutors in Jiddah have proposed raising the penalty for people who come out online to capital punishment. The U.S. State Department told the Washington Blade it was aware of, but could not confirm, those reports. India: International Commission of Jurists Calls For Repeal of Sodomy Law Last Friday the International Commission of Jurists released a briefing paper calling on the Supreme Court to decriminalize same-sex relations. The Court ha…
Read More…announced the establishment of an online portal (ReportClergyAbusetoDCOAG.com) to accept abuse complaints, and on Monday, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu announced the establishment of a hotline and email address to collect reports of abuse by clerics of any faith. Also on Wednesday, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced that he had opened an investigation into clerical sexual abuse in that state, citing the recen…
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…of puritanism. “The most significant pattern I have seen replicated from fundamentalist communities into post-fundamentalist communities is seeing the world as ‘us versus them,’ a Manichean struggle between ‘allies’ and ‘enemies.’ If you’re not 100% with me, you’re against me, and I have to put you on blast.” Where does all this leave the exvangelical community going ahead? We certainly need exvangelical voices to continue to be heard, and I stil…
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…y, which remains enjoined to Liberty. Without addressing the sins of its founder, Liberty will never become a respectable or morally upstanding institution. With this in mind, I imagine a Liberty University whose systems of power are checked, where administrators listen to LGBTQ+ Christians and Christians of color when implementing changes to the school, where leaders of the school repent of Falwell’s profit motives and embrace the teachings of th…
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…sure to teach converts like Donmere the abusive fundamentalist view that being queer is incompatible with being a Christian. Of course, not all Christians agree. In fact, the New York Times reports that part of the reason plans to use New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine as a field hospital fell through is that the Episcopal leaders who engaged with Mount Sinai Health System about the possibility privately objected to the involvement of Sa…
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…the Rubicon. Davis, who has since issued threats against—among others—President Biden, Judge Juan Merchan, Maxine Waters, CNN commentator Norm Eisen, New York Attorney General Tish James, Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, and Chuck Schumer, claims that Democrats are not “above killing their political opposition.” Yes, leading voices on the American Right are openly writing lists of which political opponents, members of the justice system, or parts of…
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…rich and Rick Santorum in 2012, and by Donald Trump in 2016. And it gained online competitors as well—Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, the One America News Network, Breitbart TV. Just as the media landscape has fragmented, so too has the American right. The conservative movement and the conservative media that dominated American politics in the 1990s and 2000s now have to share space with a whole range of right-wing voices. As a result, the Republican Part…
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…nt, his vehicle hit two landmines laced with white phosphorous, a chemical compound that causes terrible burns. Adams was knocked unconscious and then came to trapped in his vehicle, engulfed in flames. Bush explains that Adams still suffers from traumatic stress, how he can’t ride in a car in the far-right lane because he’s afraid of IEDs, and his unease is palpable in the portrait. Adams’ mouth is slightly open, his eyes vacant. Heavy strokes of…
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