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

By Peter Montgomery

…ernational raised alarm over the apparent detentions of LGBT people in the Caucasus country of Azerbaijan. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty reports that the article claimed that the individuals’ “affiliations” with sexual minorities had been “proven” in “operations called ‘Morality’ and ‘Purge’ carried out by federal prosecutors and the Interior Ministry in the nation of 8.7 million.” “Rights groups say LGBT people face discrimination and persecu…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…itment to the old hatred of homosexuality. It’s always been a great ecumenical cause. The members of the Coalition range from minnows to mighty faiths, from new Pentecostals to the ancient Greek Orthodox Church. But the Coalition wouldn’t amount to much without a couple of heavy hitters: the Catholic and Anglican dioceses of Australia’s sin city, Sydney. The Sydney Anglicans threatened to split the worldwide church a decade or so ago when Episcopa…

Why Are We Drawn to Horror?

By Mathias Clasen

…ages are these: Let’s take horror seriously, and let’s take our own biological heritage seriously, because that heritage helps explain how and why scary entertainment works. Is there anything you had to leave out? Oh, plenty. I didn’t want the book to be too long, but it pains me that I had to leave out some of my favorite authors and works—for example, Ghost Story by Peter Straub. It’s a wonderful, clever monster of a genre-savvy Gothic horror no…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rights group which claims to be protecting the “purity” of society in the Caucasus nation. Its members also called for the football federation’s entire leadership to resign because the federation had supported Kashia.” Many Georgian Internet users changed their profile pictures on social networks in support of Kashia, who has also received backing from Georgia’s president. “Everyone has the right for freedom of expression,” Georgian President Gio…

Why Notre Dame’s Contraception Flip-Flop Undercuts Bishops’ Religious Freedom Claims

By Patricia Miller

…on was transmitted to their insurers by some administrative means, be it a phone call, email or letter. So after years of fighting the mandate, and accusing women’s health advocates and public health official of not understanding why it was a violation of their faith for their insurer to provide birth control that they neither arranged nor paid for, Notre Dame basically turned around and said “never mind.” What happened to cause this astounding tu…

The Glorious, Ethnically-Challenged, Sisterhood of Spy

By Haroon Moghul

…numerous car chases we bring to their urban cores? ECB policy! Most heretically: Can you be friends with our nemeses? Uh-oh. Spy is much more than irreverent slapstick flick; it’s edgy in its honesty, valuing sororal loyalty to the point of political infidelity. In an age when there is no higher value than being open-minded, comedy might be the most politically subversive means to any end. Cartoons are blasphemy, comics are pundits. And don’t let…

Does the Science Show that Spirituality Will Benefit Your Child?

By Michael Schulson

…cted against substance abuse. There’s nothing like this in the epidemiological or clinical research. It’s jaw dropping. And it drove me nuts, as a parent, that I didn’t see other parents benefiting from this. I could see it clear as day every day in my lab, and it wasn’t crossing the barrier of the lab. I grew up in the Bible Belt. There were lots of opportunities to cultivate “transcendent spiritual relationships,” and I think we probably didn’t…

Dear Lindsay Lohan, I’m Sorry

By Haroon Moghul

…k of him as a genie inside a lamp. Plus, that’s not racist, or anthropological. It’s xenobiological.) In hard times of my life, the Qur’an has always been there for me, a source of support and comfort, and Lord knows we all need our inspiration and sustenance. Your journey is your own. It’s a terrible thing to have to have one’s life scrutinized, pored over, mocked, insulted, and constantly found wanting, when all you did in the first place was ma…

Facebook: Internet Highway to Hell

By Anthea Butler

…rah Palin’s Alaska is failing so hard right now.” Willow’s response was to call the poster a gay slur, and Bristol jumping in the fray to respondL “you’re just running your mouth to talk sh•t.” I give the Palin girls credit: the apples didn’t fall from the tree. They attack just like their mother. I wonder what the sisters would do to do to the man who shot his television set because he thought Bristol’s dancing is awful. I will be interested to s…

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…xts. Another identified himself as a Christian of a distinct stripe by advocating burning phone books that advertise abortion and then said he doesn’t have a Qur’an but if he did he would “feed it page by page to (his) goat who would be impervious to its lies.” He then admitted he’d not read the Qur’an because he “doesn’t read fiction.” Another who insisted he didn’t “hate other religions or cultures” then argued that the “so-called Christians” (r…