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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…n passing. While many publications, including the BBC, Daily Mail, and The New York Times[3] noted the conspicuous absence of more explicit references to the ongoing bloody conflict, none commented on the main subject of Putin’s address: the advancement of traditional family values. At first glance, the phrase “traditional family values”[4] might appear absurd when applied to a large, multiethnic country—one that toyed with rather radical ideas ab…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rst pope to address a joint session of Congress; and held public events in New York and Philadelphia, where he attended the Vatican’s gay-excluding World Meeting of Families. The pope generally did not address LGBT people or issues head-on, but more indirectly through the lens of “the family” and “religious liberty.” On Sunday the 27th, the final day of his trip, Francis told bishops that it is “dangerously unbalanced” to focus on explaining doctr…

#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…bout whether anti-LGBT laws and rhetoric lead to violence. Yesterday’s New York Times lists some of the more horrific statements made by Christian pastors, like Tempe, Arizona’s Steven L. Anderson, whose only objection to the tragedy was that “they should have been executed by a righteous government.” Both conservative religious figures and politicians have offered their condolences to survivors and family members of the Pulse victims, but LGBT ac…

Personhood Super PAC

By Sarah Posner

…ndidates have pledged to be pro-life.” It clicks through to the Personhood USA website. Personhood USA did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Jason Jones, a spokesperson for the Pro-Life Super PAC, claimed the Super PAC was not connected to Personhood USA or any other organization. He said, “we like the [Personhood] pledge. We think it’s a good standard.” The Personhood pledge, which Romney did not sign, commits candidates to su…

The Angel of Death and Pam Tebow

By Sarah Posner

…alled “The Prolife Tea Party Vote,” although that appears to be Personhood USA’s claim, not that of any tea party organization. Yet, contrary to the conventional wisdom that tea party supporters don’t care about abortion, as the Public Religion Research Institute poll showed, 63% of tea partiers are anti-choice, and the Personhood USA video plays on many tea party themes. With the tea party’s ascendancy, much has been made of “culture war” issues…

‘Putin’s Children’ Push ‘Traditional Values’ in Latvia; Jewish Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ In Israel; Sikh Activist in UK Supports LGBT South Asians; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…treated about 100 people with homosexual attractions since he opened his Jerusalem practice eight years ago.Proponents in Israel say therapy does not “convert” clients, but boosts self-esteem and masculinity, which they say can reduce homosexuality. In Israel, therapists say there is greater acceptance of their work than in the U.S. United Kingdom: Profile of LGBT Sikh Activist Gay Star News published Manjinder Sidhu’s “What I learned on my rocky…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…tural memory formation. From the earliest days of the Tea Party to Donald Trump’s latest xenophobic hysteria, such debates are driven in great part by a growing sense of despair among whites quite similar to Krapp’s brooding resignation: “Perhaps my best years are gone.” Digital media platforms can exacerbate such reactionary tendencies. When protests in Ferguson, Missouri erupted after the shooting of Mike Brown in August 2014, Twitter feeds lit…

Ultra Orthodox Murder-Suicide Makes Headlines

By Shalom Goldman

…ing on whether one counts those Jews settled in what was until 1967 Arab Jerusalem.) In the first decades after the June 1967 War, the ideological spearhead of the Jewish settler movement was Gush Emunim (the bloc of the faithful). These settlers were religious Zionists: Modern Orthodox Jews adhering to a worldview that saw Zionism and Judaism as inseparable. They are not the Haredi (“Trembling”) Jews of ultra-Orthodoxy. Ultra-Orthodox life in the…

Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse

By Spencer Dew

…ah’s end—and some pointing out that the only time zone to worry about is Jerusalem’s, meaning that a global cataclysm at dawn on the 23rd would chip ten good hours off of Los Angeles’s Friday). As true in ancient Babylonia as it is today, the creativity of cooptation and the capacious approach to claim-making is how religious thought happens. For some, this weekend’s apocalypse involves a planet called Nibiru, but for others, notably various Chris…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…I find especially enjoyable are the wonderful people I meet throughout the world. Truly those persons engaged in ending AIDS and hunger are caring, compassionate people. The volunteers that assist me are truly the “salt of the earth,” and the most caring, compassionate people I know. The persons we are privileged to partner with in Africa and Asia and elsewhere are really good people. When you are helping AIDS orphans in Kenya or assisting women a…