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I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple

By Anita Little

…ow does it intersect with social justice movements like #SayHerName and social media trends like #BlackGirlMagic and #CarefreeBlackGirl? I think it’s just timing in some ways. The best way to talk about it is in terms of the reception we held. The reception was on July 7th—just after two very tragic killings of black men and subsequent killings of police officers. When the reception happened that same week, more than 1500 people showed up and that…

Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ask the Ministry of Health to publicly reject the assertion by the Indonesian Psychiatric Association that homosexuality is a diagnosable mental health condition.’ Jamaica: Interviews with two major activists Outright Action International published an interview with F.J. Genus of TransWave Jamaica that was conducted during the recent UN Commission on the Status of Women. Outright also published an interview with LGBT and women’s rights activist L…

Anonymous Utah Group Distributes Vigilante “Illegal Immigrant” Watchlist

By Joanna Brooks

…immigrant Latinos, including names, birthdates, workplaces, addresses, social security numbers, names of children, and, for pregnant women on the list, due dates. The list was originally sent to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in April, but when no response was observed Concern Citizens sent the list to a number of Utah sheriffs, police chiefs, legislators, and media outlets. Governor Gary Herbert has called for an investigation to determi…

International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Milonov superimposed against the rainbow flag was making the rounds on social media.” In Jamaica, another country where American evangelicals have worked to oppose moves toward equality, and resisted efforts to decriminalize homosexuality, anti-gay religious leaders opposed the ruling, but the country’s largest newspaper praised it as courageous and urged lawmakers to address discrimination against LGBT discrimination as a human rights issue. The…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…owes’ ill-conceived PR decisions of late are even mind-boggling to my Canadian Socialist self! In your role in taking over our entertainment industry, you’ve appeared in some of America’s best-loved shows. You are even versatile enough to play brown, Muslim, American terrorists. But don’t you find your role in this most recent ad from Lowe’s truly objectionable? Here you are destroying the world’s natural resources to drive around town, and turn o…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…tein in order to build muscle. They hear from people recovering from anorexia nervosa who desire the caloric density of meat. They hear about the benefits of high-protein diets after surgery. They hear from people whose lives are just not arranged in such a way that cooking tofu and mung beans is a realistic prospect. Some people, to be sure, just like meat and aren’t morally troubled by it in the slightest. For some people, it’s the way they have…

I Volunteer to Root Out Christian Extremism

By Peter Laarman

…, shall we? Again, I appreciate that you’ve got your hands full with the Muslims right now. But you also know that you and the Administration in general will look better if you add some balance by also supporting appropriate surveillance of the Christian problem people. I hate to see the faith that I love be stained by the actions of a few, and I’m more than willing to do my part! Yours sincerely, (Rev.) Peter Laarman Los Angeles…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…oration with ordained church leaders; and receiving church training appropriate to their roles. Lay ecclesial ministry, the bishops argued, “entails an explicit relationship of mutual accountability to and collaboration with the Church hierarchy.” The Jesuit School of Theology that helped train Hernandez has a special training program for Hispanic ministry, the Instituto Hispano, which seems inspired by this call. “Since the Second Vatican Council…

DeSantis is a No-Show, the Right’s ‘Secret Sauce,’ and Final Thoughts on Pray Vote Stand

By PRA Staff

…ss focuses on the story of his wife’s upbringing in the former Czechoslovakia. Describing the Velvet Revolution, Czechia’s transfer of power away from the communist government, Caner tells us that what the “communist government did not expect was the sovereignty of God and the providence of his people.” Caner also shares his parenting principles: life over death; liberty over authority; nationalism over globalism; American exceptionalism; capitali…

Why Do Evangelicals And Dems Want Immigration Reform?

By Daniel Schultz

…es Ruy Teixeira, hold progressive positions on any number of issues: On social issues, Millennials support gay marriage, take race and gender equality as givens, are tolerant of religious and family diversity, have an open and positive attitude toward immigration, and generally display little interest in fighting over the divisive social issues of the past. They are also notably progressive on foreign policy issues, and favor a multilateral and co…