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Conservative French Catholics a ‘Rightwing Patriarchal Bunch’?; Indonesian Prez Decries Anti-LGBT Discrimination; Romanian Prez Warns Against ‘Religious Fanaticism’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…between three and 14 years in prison. [Tharani] Rengessamy said Harry Peter’s murder had split the residents of Alotau insoutheastern Papua New Guinea. “You’ve got the community that’s accepted the gay community, and you’ve got the community that is very happy of Harry’s death because they believe that the gay community is a disgrace and should not actually exist,” she said. …

The Pope’s Dubious Holocaust Remembrance

By Evan Derkacz

…w killed by the gas chambers. It was all lies, lies, lies!” And he put the number of Jews killed at “200,000 to 300,000.” Straight from the Holocaust denier’s handbook. You’d think the pope would’ve been humiliated by these statements since the interview aired on the very day that he lifted the excommunication of Williamson and three other SSPX bishops. The pope and his supporters of course claim that he had no idea that Williamson held these vie…

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…massive billboards with Warner Sallman’s “Head of Christ” on them. When it comes to post-racial, we have a Jesus who can be white without words. This is even true of the digital age. Google search “Jesus” and we get hundreds of white images. If one wants other Christ figures, one must explicitly type “black Jesus,” “Asian Jesus,” “Chicano Jesus.” The color of Christ continues to reflect our racial realities and fantasies. In post-racial America th…

Does the Right Even Know Why it’s so Threatened by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…eintroduced and popularized to the masses by Swift. Everybody likes a good comeback, but these stories represent a more insidious part of American culture: to columbus, or to claim something as your own that was originally created by or for non-White people. Sharing is cool, but columbusing strips Black, Brown, Indigenous or other histories out of cultural roots and sanitizes these things for a mostly White audience. Swift and Kelce have been used…

McCain’s Prosperity Preacher

By Sarah Posner

…figure from Abraham to Jesus was wealthy, and that God wanted it that way. Combine that with the belief that critics are satanic and that God commands followers to not question His anointed, and you find Word of Faith consumers who are at once receptive to the possibility of God-given prosperity and loath to question the purveyors of that God-given message. As one former Hagee follower told me, when the San Antonio Express-News published an exposé…

Arcade Fire and the Suburban Soul

By Paul Harvey

…onaire quoting the sermon on the mount. Doing so leaves you with the gated community, a garden left for ruin by a millionaire inside of a private prison, compelling you to stay hidden inside your own private prison. And while parks beckon as places of escape, even there order exerts its authority—cops show up, shine their lights on the reflectors of our bikes, and call down curfew. When they ask the kids where they live, the answer is telling: Wel…

The Cult of Kurzweil: Will Robots Save Our Souls?

By Robert M. Geraci

…sightings of these Apocalyptic AI authors and their religious ideas have become commonplace in the popular press. In particular, faith in what is called the “Singularity”—the moment when robots become transcendently intelligent and we, as a consequence, upload our minds into machines—finds a home in the news, in science fiction, in film festivals, and in prime time television shows. Even the IEEE Spectrum, the flagship publication for the eminentl…

Is Terry Jones the Death Rattle of the White Male Protestant?

By Gary Laderman

…on-heterosexual orientations; myriad versions of Christianity in immigrant communities that are unfamiliar if not downright blasphemous; and a popular culture riddled with hip hop artists, filmmakers, cable comedy variety news shows, and television producers willing to openly mock and demean that moral universe. But even more radically distressing is the prospect of losing the cultural—dare I say hegemonic—power over American society that is as ol…

Jay Bakker on LGBT Justice and the Demands of Grace

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…have a hard time. But, you never know what will happen tomorrow, who will come out, or who will become an ally. I’m going to continue to do the work that I do and encourage other allies to come out and take a stand. It was other allies who did that and encouraged me. What do you tell gay and lesbian people who can’t believe that accepting grace is all they need to do? You’re loved just the way you are. People might turn on you, and Christians mig…

Julian Assange Nativity, Castro’s Hanukkah, & a Burger Blessing

By Michael J. Altman

…President Raul Castro celebrated Hanukkah with his country’s small Jewish community on Sunday. In Massachusetts, a Hanukkah celebration featured the first ordained North American Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative female rabbis, and the first Open Orthodox rabba. Is President Obama re-evaluating his campaign stance against gay marriage? PETA is using the pope’s recent condom comments to remind everyone that “Dogs & Cats Can’t Use Condoms…