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

By Peter Montgomery

…atholic Church: Some conservatives upset by welcome to Luxembourg’s gay married prime minister The prime minister of Luxembourg, the first European national leader who is married to a same-sex partner, was officially received by the Vatican during a meeting between the pope and EU leaders, news of which bothered some conservative Catholics. Some Catholic observers noted the contrast with the Vatican’s rejection of a gay ambassador from France. “Th…

Anonymous Utah Group Distributes Vigilante “Illegal Immigrant” Watchlist

By Joanna Brooks

…nt 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 determine if st…

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

…e global fight against AIDS…. Reuters’ Macdonald Dzirutwe reports, “some African gay rights activists are hoping Obama’s visit to Kenya and Ethiopia, beginning on July 25, will help boost their cause.” But some believe the ruling could strengthen opposition to U.S. policy. Medard Bitekyerezo, a Ugandan politician leading the push for tough anti-gay laws, said events in the United States would “invoke more disgust” in the east African country and m…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…it the end of the interview below), directed by Gregory Bonsignore and starring Rizwan Manji and Parvesh Cheena, both of whom starred in the NBC sitcom Outsourced. Though only one is Canadian, RD associate editor Hussein Rashid spoke with all three earlier this week —ed. As you know, there is a lot of talk about your people forming a stealth movement to take over America. You come here, marry our women, have babies to overtake our population, and…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…students do residencies in their hospitals and so forth. So if one had to bring Boudway’s original analogy up to code, one would have to say this: Imagine you live in a country where the default way to buy food is buying it from your employer. You get a job, and your employer negotiates with companies who in turn have agreements with grocery stores and growers, shipping companies and meat processing plants, and so on. The end result of all this is…

I Volunteer to Root Out Christian Extremism

By Peter Laarman

…d be assigned to track violent extremism among some 120 self-identified American Christian colleges and the roughly 4,000 Christian high schools. (Many of these institutions are Roman Catholic, and I know we think of Catholics as kind of wimpy. But then you can never be too sure, can you?) My mention of high schoolers supposes that American high schoolers with a “cause” can get their hands on major weaponry. Yes, they can! And please understand th…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…rape kit done, but she did tell her mother. Together they went to their parish priest at St. Cajetan, a sympathetic man who regretfully told Birge she would have to talk to the head of Hispanic Ministries, Rev. Msgr. Jorge de los Santos, who supervised Hernandez. It took until the end of October to get an appointment with Santos, and when they finally met, Birge says he asked her what she had been wearing the night of the rape. He also promised t…

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…have two questions about writing Worlds Without End. First, the book has a number of striking images and a gorgeous cover—did you have some of these in mind as you were writing? The cover was designed by my brother, Kenan who is a graphic artist and web designer. He came up with the image on a family day at the beach, when I told him I couldn’t get Kandinsky’s “Several Circles” out of my head. Crouching down in the sand, he sketched the first vers…

Why Do Evangelicals And Dems Want Immigration Reform?

By Daniel Schultz

…emographics explain why Democrats want immigration reform: Hispanics will drive minority growth above all. Their numbers will triple to 133 million by 2050 from 47 million today, while the number of non-Hispanic whites will remain essentially flat. Hispanics will double as a percentage of the population from 15 percent to 30 percent. The population of Asian Americans will also come close to doubling, going from 5 percent to 9 percent. The number o…

Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ian nationalism, 2022 has shown, is here to stay—and the slide toward authoritarianism isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Pundits predicted the GOP would pivot back toward the center after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, and then again after the disappointing midterm elections. They were wrong both times. Whether Trump or DeSantis emerges as the eventual nominee, or even someone else—the GOP’s political infrastructure is in place, and the party is cons…