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Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…. The BBC reported that the Madrid City Council acted to force the bus off city streets. Barcelona’s mayor and city council have warned the bus to stay away. Finland: Marriage equality goes into effect Marriage law became officially gender neutral on March 1; same-sex couples previously registered as domestic partners by apply to a local magistrate to transform their partnership into a legal marriage. Lebanon: Activists prepare for LGBT health wee…

Dark Sisters Opera Aims to Humanize Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…rael. There is this procession of sacred sites still held sacred. Colorado City has that same heightened sense of place. I drove and walked around Colorado City and attempted to be as invisible as possible. Ha! It kind of worked. One thing that surprised me was this roadside espresso stand, with two women in prairie dresses operating a relatively sophisticated espresso machine and next to it a mortar and pestle with homemade herbal add-ons, like S…

Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…odomy law, may reconsider that ruling based on a right to privacy. Taiwan: City government moves to treat same-sex couples equally in housing Taipei’s city government amended its housing regulations to allow same-sex couples to apply as a family for affordable housing. Isle of Man: Equality legislation goes into effect with royal assent The Equality Act, which “aims to combat discrimination in the workplace and in the provision of goods and servic…

No More Religious Groups in NYC schools—Where’s a Hipster Church to Go?

By Nicole Greenfield

…. The use of public schools for services may now be off-limits in New York City, but the use of other public spaces to help spread the gospel is thriving. Reminiscent of the coffeehouse churches that preceded them (which apparently were what lured the founders of Bronx Household of Faith to New York City in the first place), the theaters and the bars and the concert halls are not just cool and comfortable new spots to worship, but they are the cur…

How Obama Made Gun Control A Religious Freedom Issue

By Sarah Posner

…d to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina. And that was denied Jews in Kansas City. And that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights, too.” Hearing that list, again, of people targeted because of their faith, or targeted in a religious setting, was stunning and sobering, all over again, even if you remembered, in the back of your mind, that gruesome map of gun-related deaths, with an overlay of religious moti…

Ben Stein’s Intelligent Design Film Fans Flames

By Arri Eisen

…ay. These periodic bursts of public outpourings around science in Dover or Kansas or in movie theaters this weekend should be looked at by scientists and educators not with smugness and I-told-you-so attitudes. Not as battles we win or lose. But as wake-up calls. We scientists need to teach and do science better, to engage the public and students more effectively. We need to engage and maintain the glee and energy around science I see regularly in…

The Visceral Vote: Obama-as-Sojourner v. McCain-as-Mythic-Hero

By Ira Chernus

…campaign’s strenuous effort to make the biracial son of a single mom from Kansas a symbol of “elitism” isn’t working very well. What is working is McCain’s focus on “experience” and on the realm of war, the military, and national security. That’s the one area where McCain consistently bests his opponent in the polls. It’s only his claim to experience on these issues that are keeping him competitive. That does not mean the voters prefer McCain’s w…

Motivations of “God Hates Fags” Church’s Philosophy

By Lauri Lebo

…ace, and perseverance of the saints). Rebecca Barrett-Fox, a University of Kansas PhD candidate who has been conducting extensive dissertation research with the Phelps family since 2004, says Westboro members pay particular attention to unconditional election and limited atonement. “Those two together really mean a lot to them.” The doctrine of unconditional election states that there is nothing human beings can do to obtain salvation. The elect a…

Santa Claus Will Take You To Hell

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…that comprise the family/membership of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas have a knack for turning stomachs. Whether they’re brandishing signs at gay pride parades condemning gays and lesbians to hell or protesting the funerals of U.S. soldiers, they seem to be spreading rage and distaste wherever they appear. Now, the WBC folks are on the warpath in Washington State against the big guy himself – Santa Claus. Westboro Baptist Church has ju…

Biblical Battered Wife Syndrome: Christian Women and Domestic Violence

By Kathryn Joyce

…episode of being held hostage by her husband—an associate pastor in their Kansas Baptist church—for close to twenty hours after he’d nearly fractured her skull. Andersen was raised in the Southern Baptist Convention, where she heard an unremitting message of “submission, submission, submission.” She saw this continual focus reflected in her ex-husband’s denunciations, while he detained her, of women who wanted to “rule over men.” Though Andersen…