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US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…aign by the group All Out attracted more than 100,000 signatures in 48hours, 30,000 of them from Northern Ireland. Switzerland: Parishioners support priest who blessed lesbian couple; marriage bill introduced We previously reported that Bishop Vitus Huonder asked Fr. Wendelin Bucheli to step down for having blessed a lesbian couple New Ways Ministry reports this week that parishioners organizing in the priest’s defense have gathered 3,000 signatur…

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…ould say: there is no way a police officer would shoot somebody in the back, six, seven, eight times. But like Thomas, when we were able to see the video, and we were able to see the gunshots, and when we saw him fall to the ground, and when we saw the police officer come and handcuff him on the ground, without even trying to resuscitate him, without even seeing if he was really alive, without calling an ambulance, without calling for help, and to…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tors refiled them almost immediately. “I maintain my innocence,” said Anwar, 67, inside the courtroom, according to the Associated Press. “This to me is a fabrication coming from a political conspiracy to stop my political career.” Rupert Colville, a spokesperson for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also criticized the verdict. “We are disappointed by the Federal Court ruling today to uphold the Appeals Court decision of March 2014 sen…

Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…g bogeyman on occasion. Nothing new happened, thanks be to God. And in 2008, I, like so many others, dared to hope. Not in some supposed new Chosen One—that Obama was some messianic figure was an idea rooted only in the firm soil of authoritarian minds opposed to his election—but we hoped that what had been stored up in the rejection of all that came before that fall might be used to seed a new time in our history. I hoped that my nation might be…

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…at the event will include a spectrum of religious traditions from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim to Baha’i and Hare Krishna (nearby Alachua is home to home of the largest Hare Krishna communities in the United States). In addition to participating in this event, the Gainesville Muslim Community is promoting a series of events that began on September 8. On September 11, the Gainesville Muslim Initiative will sponsor a free meal and a blood drive in…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…and celebrate transitions together: births, deaths, marriages, graduations, etc., even if across faiths. It has never been an issue such that I needed to fear disrespect for my faith choice, nor do I disrespect for them in their faith (or faithlessness; some profess no particular belief). This like interfaith marriages has come to a new level of maturity and exclusivity is counterproductive and redundant. This made me think about other matters of…

Another Book Burner Lusts for Attention

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…year in agreement with what we are doing. I may ask for your church’s name, phone number, and Web site to verify your stand. What I see as the sin at the heart of Grizzard and Jones’ actions—as well as at the heart of anyone who seeks to violently control the free will or belief of others—is lust. These men lust for control; and in their lust they objectify others, people they call “heretics” or “sinners.” Lust, in and of itself, is not a bad thi…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…ship and fellowship with God? Do you really believe that? And she would say, No, I don’t believe you’re out of relationship with God. And I said, So how do you explain me? Because you know me, so you would know if I was somehow completely off-target. How do you explain me? And my mom would say: Well, I really don’t know. But that’s a big thing, that she said she didn’t know. Yes, she’d say: I just don’t know. Because perhaps, maybe, there are not…

Gay Suicide and the Ethic of Love: A Progressive Christian Response

By Eric Reitan

…grow up as part of a community that accepts them for who they are (as black, say, or Jewish), sexual minorities routinely grow up with a sense of deep isolation, especially when their most immediate community is one that condemns homosexuality. Even if they know on some level that there are communities out there that would accept them for who they are, this abstract knowledge may not mean much next to their experience with the community they ident…

The Brutality of the American Eden

By Paul Harvey

…autonomy, and the rights of citizenship. The discourse of American freedom, then, could lead to very different ends than envisioned by the Anglo–Protestants who authored the classic texts on religious freedom. In its third hour, God in America tells a story of how democratic politics and the rapid rise of populist Christian sects created a new context for American ideas of religio-political freedom. During the disruptions of the Revolutionary era…