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Mormons Take Even More Activist Message to DC Pride March

By Joanna Brooks

…by a loose coalition of grassroots Mormon groups nationwide. In Salt Lake City, Mormons Building Bridges stressed a very simple message of love and understanding, an important step, organizers felt, towards addressing feelings of pain, division, and estrangement over LGBT issues in Utah families, congregations, and communities. Members of the LDS Church will march with a more activist message and behind a different banner in Washington, D.C.: tha…

‘Rome is Gay’

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…he Emperor Aurelius, decidedly less confident of his ability to defend his city’s borders, and with the barbarians soon to be knocking at the gates, commissioned new walls that were destined to define the final circuit of a city that may be eternal, but was not destined to be an imperial capitol for much longer. The Aurelian Walls took advantage of the size of the Pyramid and simply built it into the new defensive perimeter. So what was once an im…

No Christmas in the Village of Philly

By Anthea Butler

…e Christmas Wars have started in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia. City officials have decided that a sign marking the entrance to the Christmas Holiday Market is offensive. The City’s Managing director has been bombarded with calls regarding the change, while irate (normal) Philadelphians have been excoriating City Managing director Rich Negrin and others for the change in the sign. The market, modeled after the German Christmas markets,…

Freedom of Religion Means Freedom for All

By Lauri Lebo

…e somebody lately protests the building of a new mosque—either in New York City or in other cities across the country—they’re always careful to cloak their opposition with earnest assurances that they’re not opposed to religious freedom. But there is only one response to such an assertion: Yes…you…are. (And I’m talking to you, Anti-Defamation League). In a statement opposing New York City’s approval of the building of an Islamic center two blocks…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…LGBTs no longer hide their orientation. One can see a lot of people in the city’s malls and other public places — these are young people in coloured pants. This means they no longer hide their (sexual) orientation. I think it is very easy to identify a gay person by his or her DNA. A blood test can show the presence of degeneratism in a person,” Dauren Babamuratov, the leader of the Kazakh national movement, said… Head of the Youth Policies Depart…

Russian Zombies Follow in Pussy Riot Footsteps

By Joseph Laycock

…ess the spreading zombie phenomenon. Yakovlev received permission from the city to organize a “Zombie Parade” earlier this summer, but his permit was revoked. It is not entirely clear why the city decided to shut down the zombie parade, but it appears to have been in response to a coalition of religious groups and moral entrepreneurs. The local Russian Orthodox diocese complained that “raising the dead” is un-Christian. (The irony of this claim wa…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Crimes reports that police in Beirut are using messaging apps on the cell phones of arrestees to try to entrap other gay men. In related news, the smartphone app Grindr, which allows gay men to find each other, announced it would permanently disable an option that allowed people to see their distance from other users. There have been reports that police in Egypt and Iran have used Grindr to hunt and arrest gay men. Jamaica: Activist Drops Challen…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…yor joins first pride celebration Angela Brown-Burke, mayor of the capital city of Kingston and a member of the Jamaican senate, participated in opening ceremonies for city’s first-ever LGBT pride celebration last weekend, telling the Washington Blade, ““I come from the point of view that I, as mayor, have a responsibility to all the individuals of Kingston.” Homosexual conduct is still illegal in Jamaica, and, as we have reported, conservative re…

Burning Man: Fear of an Alternative Pagan Social Order

By John W. Morehead

…on city for Burning Man, for example, were met with strong opposition from city leaders out of fear that “the city’s image and business projects would be tainted,” and of course religious groups, including conservative evangelicals, have had their issues as well. Although a few evangelical critics have written positive analyses of Burning Man, including an essay in Christian Research Journal by Steve Rabey, and a recent essay in Christianity Today…

John Lennon + New York City vs. Qur’an-Burning Pastor

By Evan Derkacz

You can sure see why a conservative Christian like Ray Comfort might (posthumously, tastelessly) seek to make John Lennon a spokesperson for conservative Christian dogma. Below, John Lennon (posthumously, slightly off-key) overpowers the silly rant of the loopy, mutton-chopped, Qur’an Burning Pastor Terry Jones. Okay, not John Lennon himself, but you get the idea. (And below that is my attempt to restore the name Terry Jones to its rightful own…