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Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d rallied to pray for Kim Davis. ThinkProgress blogger Zack Ford and other online activists worked to identify the photo that Staver had claimed showed a pro-Davis gathering was actually from 2014. Also this week, on the eve of the bishops’ synod on the family, a high-ranking Polish priest who worked for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith came out, publicly declaring that his is gay and has a boyfriend, and telling the church to “stop…

The Grand Old Homonationalist Party: The Issue that Keeps the Log Cabin Republicans, Republican

By Omar Sarwar

…der in question, Imam Marcus Robertson, was being enrolled in the latter’s online seminary. Whatever the broader impact of religiously sanctioned homophobia upon Mateen’s psychology, one cannot posit ideological influence simply on the basis of online enrollment. Sadly, this isn’t the first time a Republican has analyzed the role of Islam in terrorist attacks by stringing together the words “radical,” “threat,” “creeping,” and “sharia.” Angelo has…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…d technical bravado combine. Early Internet proponents explicitly rejected online commercialism, as evidenced by the backlash against the first commercial advertisement sent via e-mail in 1994. The tide of commercialism had been quietly rising since the 1980s, however, ushered in by corporate CEOs who imagined themselves as heroes in a libertarian novel by Ayn Rand. In the mid-1990s U.S. politicians caught the ideological wave, and a bipartisan ar…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…leaders meet with Christian dominionist activist in Harrisburg, Lancaster Online, May 1, 2024 Academic Books American Evangelicals for Trump: Dominion, Spiritual Warfare, and the End Times published in 2024 by André Gagné The New Apostolic Reformation: A History of a Modern Charismatic Movement, published in 2016 by John Weaver The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy, by Matthew D. Taylor (Fall 2024)…

Christians and Cage Fighting, From “Fight Church” to Mark Driscoll

By Jessica Johnson

…rhetoric Driscoll spewed relentlessly, using the anonymity afforded by an online alias, William Wallace II: a portrait in virtual violence. Whether it is Driscoll or the men who justify the violence of MMA, the ‘matter’ of violence gets lost in (dis)embodied spectacles, both visual and virtual, that infect cultural imaginaries and affective atmospheres. In their brutality within the cage and online, Fight Church and Driscoll enact what it means t…

Finding the “Good Girl Role Model”

By Kathryn Joyce

Kathryn Jean Lopez of the National Review Online finds a new hero for women, “The Good Girl Role Model,” in the late Polish volleyball player Agata Mroz, a 26-year old leukemia victim who became a national figure in Poland when she decided to forego a bone marrow transplant that could have saved her life because she was pregnant, instead postponing the treatment until after she gave birth. She delivered her daughter, Lilliana, on April 4th of thi…

Week in Religion: Satan Sandwich, Captain Israel v. Foreskin Man, Christian Missile Launchers

By Michael J. Altman

…oking for some clerical training? A couple of reitirees in Oklahoma run an online Bible college, the Apostolic Faith Online Bible Institute. A study finds that more education does not drive you away from religion, but instead liberalizes your religious beliefs. Israel’s basketball league is attracting Jewish American players skipped over by the NBA. Florida Marlins baseball manager Jack McKeon prays to St. Thérèse during the national anthem before…

Dalai Lama’s ‘Suck My Tongue’ Controversy Reveals Centuries-Old Christian Distortion of Tibetan Buddhism

By Geoffrey Goble

…r which the Dalai Lama tells the boy to suck his tongue. Released into the online ecosystem, the video predictably went viral, launching a heated debate. Supporters rushed to the Dalai Lama’s defense, noting that his actions were normal within Tibetan cultural practices and that the video was promoted by Chinese agents and sympathizers in order to impeach his character in the West. Indeed, according to Vice, professor of China studies Timothy Gros…

Satanic or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims?

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…ho belittle their prophet. In 2008, for example, a petition was circulated online to remove a 17th-century Ottoman manuscript image of Muhammad from the Wikipedia article on the prophet. Despite accumulating over 455,000 signatures and the Wikipedia community’s refusal to remove the illustration, still no violent acts have resulted. Lost in the debate is the original intent of the prohibition. Jews and Christians should remember that the children…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ce, Khalid El Khatib asks, “Why Are There So Few Resources for Gay Muslims Online?” Kenya: Activist criticizes government for sponsoring World Congress of Families meeting Jade Maina, deputy director of Trust Indigenous Culture and Health, published a commentary in the Daily Nation criticizing the Ministry of Labour for hosting the recent World Congress of Families regional meeting in Nairobi. From Maina’s op ed for the Daily Nation.: The WCF is a…