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Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t told Uganda’s Kuchu Times, a news outlet run by LGBT activists in east Africa…. Indeed, Kuchu Times reflected on the hostile environment LGBT Africans face in the media, lamenting that “Such incidences where the media has incited violence to the point of death should serve as a lesson not to put other people’s lives in danger, but not in Africa.” Critics included many of the paper’s own readers: Comments on the newspaper’s website were overwhelm…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…view LGBT people—as purely sexual beings. Foster’s screed is simply a long promo for a new ex-gay movie coming out, and the trailer, three-minutes of nauseating footage, centers around how each of these former homosexuals lived their lives in clubs, engaging in cheap, easy, and often public sex, or were sexually abused. For all the claptrap the religious right yells about how they don’t want to think of us “that way,” the trailer for the film is p…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…l auxiliary system that by definition could not work to supply Bibles to African Americans. But in doing so, the ABS “also revealed its willingness to embrace the status quo of a ‘separate but equal’ America.” I would say “separate and unequal,” but the point is well taken. Another example comes from the passages in which Fea traces the various permutations the ABS has undergone as an organization. It has been all societies for all people at vario…

You Asked For It

By Amina Wadud

…mahram. This was a question I asked my travel agent before I submitted my deposit. At my age there is no restriction, but for all you young and fine ladies, there are ways to get around it— including what they did in Egypt but I did not learn about in time, and that is that the hosting travel agent can act as mahram. Still I think it is a stupid rule especially for hajj. At some other point I might tell you what my Saudi friend does in order to t…

A Valentine for the World…and for the Church I Left

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…with my Jack and Janet reader propped before me, monitoring any potential deposit in my box. But I’m still watching. Still waiting for a sign that I am loved by a community where I lived for twenty years of my life. And it’s just not coming from you, my dear ex-brothers and ex-sisters in Christ. You’ve washed your hands of me, haven’t you? I carry a virus you don’t want to catch. I’m out here in the filthy garment, the de rigueur for infidels. I’…

Conservative Bishops Still Mad at Pope; Oligarch Launches Orthodox Network; Yoga Won’t Change Sexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rced Catholics. Mary Ann Walsh, a member of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Northeast Community and a correspondent for America magazine, writes that the transparency of the conversation was good for the church. “Whispered questions about why Aunt Jane never goes to Communion and why Uncle Jack never married have made it into the parlor. The presence in the church community of people who divorced and remarried without an annulment and lesbian…

How to Choose a Tour Company for Your Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…ers”), I had to make a commitment to send a two-thousand dollar refundable deposit. I did, and so the counter-commitment began. So I start with my questions: knowing the Saudi restrictions that women cannot travel without a mahram, I asked if there would be a problem for me. I get an answer that borders on a fiqh explanation about mahram “in Islam.” I thought, well now, that’s an interesting way to respond to a visa question. However, for me they…

I Know Why a Rain Dance Won’t End The Drought

By Johnny P. Flynn

…f I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.” As an American Indian all my life I have been cursed with the myth of the “Indian rain dance.” I am here to say there is no such thing. Not in my Potawatomi tribe or in any other tribe across the Americas. My great-grandfather Mose Bruno was well-known down in Oklahoma as someone who could more often than not successfully predict the weather. But as far as I know he had no song or d…

Will Women Priests Change the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…ws that it can and should be done especially by those who already enjoy clerical privilege. The film includes some relevant historical matters. Dorothy Irvin’s study of catacomb frescoes that contain images of women is of interest. So, too, is the story of Ludmila Javorova, who was ordained a priest in 1970 by Bishop Felix Davidek of the underground Church in Czechoslovakia. With many priests and nuns in prison, that community needed sacramental m…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…ding to obscure locations in Rwanda, Korea, Australia, and across Latin America and the borderlands of America and Mexico. The number of apparitions in the U.S. seems to keep rising, but not because of Belgian immigrants to Wisconsin. What seems to be an increase in apparitions is probably a jump in reports of apparitions and manifestations of the Virgin. Rumors of miracles and visions now fly around the globe via the internet, rather than moving…