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

By Peter Montgomery

…ke. Mr. Sisi, a former army general who became president after forcing out Mohamed Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood, understands the potency of connecting the catchall “national security” to “inciting debauchery” as a deliberate reminder that the Islamists do not hold the copyright on piety. (Mr. Mubarak, too, often vaunted his regime’s religiosity to outdo its Islamist rivals.) At Rolling Stone, Peter Hoslin profiles Mashrou’ Leila, its impact on…

First it Was an Insurrection Flag, Now Supreme Court Justice Alito is Caught Flying Another Far-Right Flag — An ‘Emblem for an Extensive Spiritual Warfare Campaign’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…the support for insurrection itself (which is horrifying)—but the proud, almost mocking display of these political leanings. This is a Supreme Court Justice, who is openly, seemingly for months, flying a flag that supports the insurrection—while a case lands at the Supreme Court, which he gets to judge, about the very insurrection he is expressing his support for in flag-form! Of course, Alito will not recuse himself. Why would he? Clarence Thomas…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…obia. In 2012, a few members of parliament proposed a bill to “prohibit promotion of homosexuality,” fashioned after the notorious Russian laws against “gay propaganda,” but under pressure from human rights organizations and foreign diplomats, the bill never made it past the first reading and has now been permanently shelved. Ukrainian laws also make no explicit provision for protecting from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. In fact…

Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert

By Andrew Aghapour

…arian you need to strategically forget this belief at times so you can get more emotionally charged at people who kill animals. Were Sears simply a critic and comedian shattering New Age pieties his videos would still be clever and hilarious, but Sears is a full-time life coach whose work focuses on emotional healing. When Sears notes that he too is guilty of the behaviors he lampoons, he puts himself in the far more interesting tradition of those…

Facebook: Internet Highway to Hell

By Anthea Butler

…lur, 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 see if Rev. Miller’s leadership responds favorably to his demand to quit Facebook, or will their be…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…l thing to inherit money from the death of some one you love. There is no amount of money that alleviates the pain of losing my sister. So, I immediately gave away more than 35% of it to my other siblings, and to her partner. I paid back the expenses from the funeral and put the rest in savings. Still, it left me no doubt about being able to afford to make hajj. This week I paid the remaining balance on my hajj account and submitted the requested…

Another Book Burner Lusts for Attention

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ear 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 thing…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…ot to thinking. My mother likes to shop. So I started calling my mother on Monday mornings and let her tell me everything that happened at her church on Sunday—which of course was always the greatest movement of the Spirit that happened in creation. Every so often I’d try to get a word in about City of Refuge. But it was hard work; she had so much to tell me about her church. So I’d say, What are you doing? Oh, not much, it’s Monday. And I’d say:…

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

By Eric Reitan

…fight. If someone had pressed into his fingers at that pivotal moment the phone number for The Trevor Project, he might reach out and hear a voice of reassurance, a voice that gave him hope for life by, in part, repudiating the so-called biblical teaching that who he is amounts to an offense against God. If he’d had a sense of belonging to a community that embraced him for who he is, maybe his hope wouldn’t be so fully shattered. But while other…

The Brutality of the American Eden

By Paul Harvey

…Thomas Jefferson’s dream of a secular rationalist Republic with something more akin to a Methodist millennium. A more critical examination might have also told the story, from the underside of that millennium, that while American ideas of freedom promised universalist visions they delivered a Republic that was, in practice, racially exclusivist and white supremacist. That was a tragedy, but it wasn’t an accident. The chosen nation myth, so freque…