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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

…which could help the separatists and alienate local conservative groups. Chile: Civil Union Bill Passes House Human Rights Watch reports on the advance of civil union legislation: Chile’s House of Representatives approved a “civil union” bill this week granting legal rights to same-sex couples. The bill creates the Pacto de Unión Civil (PUC), a new legal status for couples that live together in committed relationships, regardless of gender. Despit…

The Tweets of the Christ

By Nathan Schneider

…dent and the parliament. A few months ago, when Israel was conducting its military campaign in Gaza, the Israeli consulate in New York hosted a Twitter press conference about it all, which included such profound reflections as “y Hamas launch missiles not peace?” It seemed like a strategy precisely calibrated to, in the eyes of the audience, minimize the seriousness of a serious event. So what about the Twitter Passion Play that Wall Street’s Trin…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…s parents, for each of them is one sixth of what he has left—if he has a child; but if he has left no child and his parents are his only heirs, then for his mother one third; but if he has brothers and sisters, then for his mother is one-sixth, after the deduction of any bequests he may have made, or debt. As for your parents and your children—you know not which of them is more deserving of benefit from you. And you shall inherit one half of what…

“Fast for Families” Immigration Reform Effort Enters 20th Day

By Joanna Brooks

…ere waiting for immigration reform. People coming to the US for work get villainized. “Illegal alien” is one of the most unbelievably pejorative terms you can apply to anyone. Your experience seems to reflect something I’ve found in Mormon politics: there is a contradiction between incredible concern Mormons show for the individual and yet a reticence or even a resistance to thinking about the systematic problems and injustices the put individua…

Bedside Manners: The Broken Spirituality of Contemporary US Medical Practice

By Peter Laarman

…hristianity) so often take the extreme position of denying the power of bodily illness altogether, sober realists and an overwhelming preponderance of scientifically-trained people, including doctors, have been inclined to move to the other extreme and to insist that pneuma (spirit) and psyche have nothing at all to do with soma (the body). Hospital-based chaplains and pastoral counselors come up against a fairly brutal form of scientism all the t…

The US Religious Right and the LGBT Crisis In Uganda

By Sarah Posner

…st the gay agenda in Uganda.” Lively, the former head of the California affiliate of the American Family Association, and an ally of the AFA’s virulently anti-gay policy director Bryan Fischer, led a three-day conference that Kaggwa says sparked a “panic” in evangelical and Pentecostal churches that the “gay agenda” was poised to cause the downfall of Ugandan families and culture. During the conference, Lively blamed gay people for the 1994 Rwanda…

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…eadlines catered to anti-immigrant sentiment (“BORDER IS CLOSED—15 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS DEPORTED”) while also promising riches (“ECONOMY BOOMS”) and the end of foreign wars (“PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH,” with the added antisemitic dog whistle “PRESIDENT TRUMP REJECTS GLOBALIST WARMONGERS”). And while this in itself isn’t news—it’s essentially what Trump has vowed to implement in a second term—there was another, disconcerting glimpse into the mind of…

Will a Video Game Make Sense of Qaddafi’s Death?

By Rachel Wagner

…ents that brought the Libyan people to this moment in time. Some players will have seen the shaky cell phone videos of Qaddafi’s discovery now circulating, with all the bumps and blurs you’d expect from someone filming a violent attack close up. The horrifying footage shows the dictator’s last moments, complete with flashes of faces splattered with blood, punctuated with off-screen shouts of “Allahu Akbar,” and revealing glimpses of Qaddafi’s pum…

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

…stan: Russian-style anti-gay bill advances The Kazakhstan Senate passed a bill similar to Russia’s ban on anti-gay “propaganda,” legislation that has been used to target activists and journalists in Russia. The bill’s sponsors promote it as a measure to “protect children from harmful information.” Member of Parliament Aldan Smayil said the legislation’s intent was ““to protect children from information that kills the feeling of warmth and humanity…

Escape From Manhattan: Tech, Tragedy and Storytelling in Sandy’s Wake

By Rachel Wagner

…And nobody can deny the convenience of ready access to information, maps, phone numbers, calendars, and social satisfaction that our reliance on technology provides. Technology is a tool, right? It doesn’t change who we are, right? It doesn’t blind us—it reveals reality by connecting us and showing us the world via our screens… right? Look, I know that our new imaginative, mediated work is doing good. I know people can feel a real sense of empowe…