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Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

By Peter Montgomery

…e report is a joint project of ARC International, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association, International Service for Human Rights, and OutRight Action International. Earlier this month, a delegate from Egypt told a UN committee: Our position on the matter is clear, that we do not recognize the mandate of the independent expert and therefore are not in a position to engage, interact or cooperate with the mandate ho…

Does It Matter If Islam Is A Religion? An American Ahmadi Explains The Effects Of Religious Discrimination

By Daniel Schultz

…udly displayed medals from the group at Trump’s inauguration. Most relevant, though, despite disavowals of animus toward Islam, Gorka has described it more in terms of a totalitarian ideology than a complex, diverse, global religion. That assessment echoes a common view among right-wing nationalists, including administration figures like former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and senior political advisor Steve Bannon. It’s worth noting tha…

William Barber And The Religious Left Join Forces. Will It Work?

By Daniel Schultz

…CA despite their best efforts to shoot themselves in the foot. In that case, 17,000 people die in the first year, around 25 million will lose insurance, and the GOP will cease to exist as a national party. More realistically, liberals are going to have to do some very heavy lifting over the next few years. It’s going to be much harder work than letters and phone calls to Congress, protests, or meetings with like-minded friends. You can point to th…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…d money and prestige and influence? One of the biggest theological influencers in the evangelical and Reformed worlds? I’m sure that he’s not going to miss that $10,000, and there’s certainly not a shortage of platforms for him. And PTS isn’t even denying him that.”…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…person of the same sex “has sent shivers through the LGBTI community.” Yann, 31, and Abdoul, 19, were arrested in the southwestern city of San Pedro in October after rumors spread about the nature of their relationship, leading Abdoul’s uncle to file a police complaint as he believed Yann was abusing his nephew. Rights activists say Ministry of Justice officials are considering changing the public indecency law so that it no longer singles out hom…

Maybe The Question Is: Should Shabbat Be The New Yoga?

By Michael Schulson

…this period). Of course, these issues haven’t gone away. Questions of time, labor, and standardization are more relevant than ever. The loss of weekends and the technology-driven collapse of work-life boundaries doesn’t just plague young professionals in New York and San Francisco; it’s a way that low-wage employers wring more work out of their employees—and, in the process, sometimes make their lives hellish. Especially among young Americans, af…

Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Gay Attendees, Waffles on White Supremacists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…re removed, none of the activists were engaged in any form of direct action, protest, or confrontation. In fact, as Robertson wrote on his Huffington Post blog about the incident, he was coming off a first day of the conference that was “filled with wonderful conversations with pastors of churches, large and small, which were eager to hear my story and I, theirs.” Robertson told RD that everyone affiliated with FIA had gone to great lengths to mai…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…swift zero-tolerance response to a rare show of public support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in the conservative Muslim country. … Hegazy, the only woman rounded up in the three-week-old campaign, says police goaded her cellmates to abuse her during her first night in prison, where she is being detained for 15 days and interrogated by special prosecutors who usually focus on Islamist militants. Reuters reports that as p…

‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n Tajikistan now is based on things their government there has learned from, say, what Azerbaijan just did.” The Post also reported from Cairo on the intensifying crackdown there: Gay rights activists view the suppression of their community as part of an effort to distract from the country’s pressing political and economic woes, including rising costs of living and declining government subsidies, that have fomented anger on the streets. Targeting…

“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence

By Spencer Dew

…grained, that run in the background, that make us think a certain way about, say, virginity, or sovereignty, those triggers that flip circuits such that suffering immediately flashes in the backs of our mind as redemptive, death as sacrifice, and so on. Poison, she might say: brainwashing with a dirty sponge. Despite Simmons’s hagiographic comment regarding originality, the work of Giving Godhead is not without both ancestral figures and fellow-tr…