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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

…comes law Last Friday President Sauli Niinistö signed a marriage equality bill that will go into effect by March 2017. It is reportedly the first law to be passed by the Finnish government through a citizen’s initiative. United Kingdom: Turing relatives back push for broad pardons, UKIP LGBT chair quits party Relatives of the late codebreaker and digitial computing pioneer Alan Turing turned in nearly half a million signatures gathered via Change….

Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher

By Frederick Clarkson

…one recent example, Patriot Mobile—a NAR 7 Mountains Dominionism-inspired phone company in Texas—bankrolled the campaigns of 11 candidates for school board in the suburbs of Ft. Worth in May 2022. They all won, and they subsequently took control of four school boards. In one school district (but probably not the last) 40 books were soon pulled from the shelves for “review.” It remains to be seen whether book burnings will become more a part of th…

Conservative Christian Teenagers Prepare for Politics

By Robert Kunzman

…ce between scientific research and religious doctrine, using literature to illustrate doctrinal truths, or simply providing illustrations and examples with religious content. As one curriculum publisher notes on its Web site, “The most original source is always the Word of God, the only foundation for true scholarship in any area of human endeavor.” For most conservative Christian homeschooling texts, it is not a simple case of adding or subtracti…

When Mormons Mobilize: Anti-Gay Marriage Prop. 8 Effort ‘Outed’?

By Joanna Brooks

…be a political disaster. They’re good at mobilizing and they work hard.” Still, Compton and other Mormon observers of the Proposition 8 campaign continue to wonder why the Church has been reticent to acknowledge the extent of its influence. “They did not want to be outed,” Hansen relates. “And yet they were with ones with all the organizational skills. And whether its because [the Church] is concerned about tax-exempt status or they want to avoid…

The Brutality of the American Eden

By Paul Harvey

…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 frequently invoked in this show,…

Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert

By Andrew Aghapour

…in your life while getting more benefit of yoga in your life, with the WisePhone. Will Ultra Spirituality ever replace science in the classroom? No. Ultra Spirituality will replace the classroom. Learning in schools is very old school. With Ultra Spirituality, I teach it by not teaching it, and you learn it not by traditional learning in classrooms but by not learning it at all. So the need for classroom learning will go down when there’s nothing…

Walking Dead and Zombie Ethics, or “Don’t Fight the Zombies. You Can’t Win”

By Kelly J. Baker

…sobs, unable to pull the trigger. What if part of the woman he loved is still there? How can he kill her? What if something human still remains? In the third season, the viewers discover that Morgan’s zombified wife turned his son. Morgan blames his own weakness for this tragic turn of events. He had viewed the walker as still somewhat human, and this proved to be a fatal mistake. Zombie media makes clear distinctions between the human and the zo…

Suicide Leads to Calls for Improved Treatment of LGBT Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…eral Conferences this weekend, Bryan’s friend Jahn hopes Church officials will offer stronger, more compassionate guidance and leadership on LGBT issues. Jahn remembers that it was a year ago this weekend that Elder Boyd K. Packer gave a controversial General Conference talk shaming homosexuality. “I have a brother who said to me on the phone last Christmas, ‘Elder Packer says God does not make gays. This is your choice.’ And then he used some ver…

Scolding Those Who Choose Pets But No Children Pope Misses the Rainforest for the Trees

By Sarah A. Bowen

…(which was the backdrop of Netflix’s popular Tiger King series). Finally, billions of animals will be factory farmed to become cat and dog food. We cannot deny the ecological paw print of companion animals either. The pope is right about this: pet-keeping, like any widespread practice with an adjacent industry, certainly has the capacity for selfishness. But if he thinks pet-keepers who choose not to have children are selfish because having childr…

UNESCO on Religion, Culture and SOGI in Asia; Orthodox Family Sues to Stop Cremation of Israeli Trans Woman; Struggles of Iraqi Queer Activists; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sexuality is against religion and Islam is the main force of law in Iraq, killing is illegal. That is not something people can debate and argue.” …Whether or not there is room for homosexuality in Islam is still up for debate. But Amir says the question is not whether Islam should create room for the queer community, as they are simply “two different things”. “I know a lot of people who are Muslims and queer at the same time. “Islam does criminali…