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Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…America and Europe. Watch a set of video interviews on Growing UP LGBT in East Africa, posted at KitschMix. Ireland: Catholic ‘soul-searching’ on marriage referendum As we discussed in some detail last week, Irish voters go to the polls today, May 22, in what could be the first national referendum approving marriage equality. Prime Minister Enda Kenny made a televised pitch for a yes vote, and polls show a decisive majority for marriage, but some…

Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…activist told Uganda’s Kuchu Times, a news outlet run by LGBT activists in east Africa…. Indeed, Kuchu Times reflected on the hostile environment LGBT Africans face in the media, lamenting that “Such incidences where the media has incited violence to the point of death should serve as a lesson not to put other people’s lives in danger, but not in Africa.” Critics included many of the paper’s own readers: Comments on the newspaper’s website were ov…

What 19th-Century Marriage Controversies Can Tell Us About The Fight Over Gay Marriage

By Eric C. Miller

…girl” who was deceived by a violent and unscrupulous husband, which helped promote identification with audiences. Today, however, such profiles are supplemented by actual visuals. Images of hard-working and non-threatening gay couples with their children enhance that audience identification even further. I’m interested in your observation that religion is a “malleable tool” where marriage debates are concerned. Right now the UCC church in North Ca…

《诺亚方舟》，保守派为何愤怒？

By Dan Mathewson

…lightened by them. Perhaps it will spark a desire, among those in both the East and the West, to share stories and engage in meaningful dialogue about the role of religion. Please read, share, and leave feedback in comments. – Shuang “Sherry” Liang 作者：Dan Mathewson 达伦·阿伦诺夫斯基的《诺亚方舟：创世之旅》，已成为永不消停的文化战争的最新角斗场。上映一周多来，有关它所引发的争议的报道终于令人欣慰地要接近饱和状态了。我相信，只需稍微关注这场争论，你就能发现已听过无数次的内容了：保守派基督徒对[请插入流行词]“很生气”。不论是格莱美颁奖礼（集体婚礼中有同志新人）、美国艺术娱乐电台、奈尔·德葛拉司·泰森（从事科学传播出名的美国天文学…

Israel’s Chief Rabbis Say No to Christian Zionist Event

By Sarah Posner

…th regards to the missionary message of ICEJ’s ministry and of its annual Feast in Jerusalem. This year, in a pre-feast ICEJ video clip, the International Director of ICEJ, Juha Ketola, interviewed messianic leader Asher Intrater. Intrater runs a wide network of missionary entities in Israel, which focus on evangelizing Jews. As in the past, Intrater is scheduled as a speaker at this year’s Feast in Jerusalem. (For more on Intrater, see my piece o…

Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring

By Haroon Moghul

…out his words, “are our brothers and sisters.” In a time of rising Middle Eastern sectarian tensions and blowback from Turkey’s involvement in a brutal Syrian civil war, this Sufi leader stressed the importance of good neighborly relations and due regard for the other. And not just any other. Alevis are a long-mistreated minority, with uncomfortable relations to the state. Here, and not in shopping malls or business deals, did I find Islam. In th…

How New Religions Are Made

By Jacob S. Dorman

…erican adoption of both religions are variants of Black thought about “the East,” and deserve to be thought of as Black forms of Orientalism—not in a pejorative sense, but in an affirmative and romantic sense. So at one point the book was at least twice as long, before I decided that the Islam/Orientalism piece needed to be a book of its own. Even then, the Black Israelites book continued for five more chapters concerning interactions and race rel…

Bangladesh’s Atheist Blogger Still Wants to Talk

By Austin Dacey

…those who work in the streets.” They also claimed, he said, that his blog promoted homosexuality and promiscuity when in fact it defended equal rights. “How can someone just read a blog post and become gay?” he quipped. However, the focus of the charges, he said, was the allegation that he had declared himself God. In fact, he says, he had been reflecting on a notion of the tenth-century Sufi mystic and martyr al-Husain ibn Mansur, or al-Hallaj…

Syria Receives Sudanese Weapons on Ukrainian Aircraft via Qatar and Turkey

By Haroon Moghul

…ked by Iran) make a mockery of simplistic schemas to understand the Middle East. But sometimes, it seems, there is one and one motive alone that trumps all, which unites forces that would otherwise find themselves at opposite ends of global affairs. Consider this excerpt from the Times’ article: After the missiles were shown destroying Syrian military helicopters, the matter took an unusual turn when a state-controlled newspaper in China, apparent…

News Flash: Buddhist-Majority Countries Just as Complicated as Muslim-Majority

By Haroon Moghul

…ugees now surfacing. The violence threatens to spread across parts of Southeast Asia, and indeed some incidents in Sri Lanka (a mosque has been attacked) and Indonesia suggest that it already has; the region is a heavily Buddhist, but also significantly Muslim, part of the planet. We can go further back, of course, in the history of religious tension: The Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas, yet another notch in their brutal belt. But Burma’s Mu…