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It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…forced to pay to “add a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches, and Wiccans”; the celebration of Iftar and conscious shunning of National Prayer Day at the White House; and on and on. If you think this issue hasn’t caught fire with the base, just check out the screens of hatefully acidic commentary when Messiah College History Professor John Fea’s piece on Obama as the “most explicitly Christian President in U.S. History” found…

Republicans in Favor of Reproductive Rights

By Katie Toth

…poll teaches two lessons. Firstly, she wants to see Republican policies reflect the views of the party’s constituents. Secondly, Stone says, labels of “pro-life” and “pro-choice” are misleading and do little to reveal people’s political opinions. “National pollsters need to stop using self-labeling to gauge true sentiment on the issue of choice,” she says. “These labels have lost their meaning.” In a Gallup poll earlier this year, 72 percent of R…

Maryland Governor says Support for Marriage Equality “Very Much Informed” by his Catholicism

By Peter Montgomery

…anti-equality pastors held a competing Friday press conference led by Rev. William Owens, whose right-wing Coalition of African American Pastors has called on black Christians to withhold their votes from Obama. Owens said President Obama “sold us out” and called the president “Judas.” He admitted that that National Organization for Marriage was paying his salary, which he said was $20,000. Owens denigrated clergy who support marriage equality as…

The Silly Calls for Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…alvanize AUL’s constituency, while meanwhile Planned Parenthood supporters will respond with corrections and rebuttals. Some elected officials are counted in one of those groups, while others will watch to see if the report gains traction among their constituencies. Indeed, maybe for those reasons it hardly matters. But say you’re noncommittal, and yet for some reason you find yourself reading the 31-page document with an appendix many times that…

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

By Anita Little

…t into her own global platform. I don’t think it’s so much that we’re following her but that she’s following us. Beyoncé’s getting recognition for it because we just don’t have the same kind of access to the media that she does. For certain people, she’s reaching them in ways that are important, but is it necessary to transforming the community at that base level? What she’s doing can only be important for a moment, we need something that’s going…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…rimination forces many to turn to sex work for money. The skeleton saint — with her female form and association with death — is particularly appealing to transgender sex workers, who face the persistent threat of violent clients and transphobic hatred. Unlike official church figures such as Our Lady of Guadalupe whose images are ethereal, Santa Muerte appeals to those with practical problems and passions living on the country’s margins. Devotees a…

Anonymous Utah Group Distributes Vigilante “Illegal Immigrant” Watchlist

By Joanna Brooks

…nist ancestors honoring the laws of host indigenous nations when they migrated to North America and occupied and expropriated indigenous land? Mormons—Anglo, Latino, and otherwise—will continue to grapple with questions of law and human rights as the LDS Church matures into its global 21st century….

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

…mentous and important decision, and the United States joins a small but growing number of countries in the Americas — north, central and south—recognizing marriage equality,” Tracy Robinson, a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which operates through the Washington-based Organization of American States, told the Washington Blade after the justices announced their decision. “Though I should also add that for thousands of LGBT…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…n on TV” was honored with a reading at the Rose D’Or Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. He was invited on the two-week Jewish Federation’s Master class in Tel Aviv. He has lectured academically at a number of institutions including The New York Public Library, and is proud member of Writer’s Guild and Dramatist’s Guild. Today he lives in Los Angeles with his partner, is pitching a new Muslim family sitcom, and is rarely beat up. Parvesh Cheena rece…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…exist, the members of this church say that the husband’s domination of the wife is entirely at odds with the spirit of the teaching. “People who think it’s the husband’s vote misunderstand the teaching entirely,” they say. “It’s the couple’s vote, hers as much as his, and the only reason that he is the one who casts it is because of the God-given differences between men and women. Men are designed to take more initiative and to be more active in t…