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‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ic and social media hand-holding campaign After a “spate of anti-LGBT violence,” including a gay couple being beaten by a group of youths who reportedly attacked them for holding hands, men and women began holding hands in public as a show of solidarity. Dozens of people posted photographs with the hashtag #allemannenhandinhand (all men holding hands.) Lebanon: Hackers take down sexual health campaign The website of the Lebanese Medical Associatio…

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…out what the Muslims “are really doing.” All this from a public radio audience. With renunciation of Dove Outreach coming from even the most outspoken anti-Muslim public figures (both political and religious) maybe the whole mess will serve to dial back the Islamophobic rhetoric a bit. The Wall Street Journal has reported that “residents of Gainesville are trying to get the word out that the actions of one tiny church don’t reflect the city. Along…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…gence apps” including As One America, which contains the name, address and phone number of Christian neighbors “who are not showing up to vote or who are not registered.” He then showed a map with big red arrows pointing to precincts “within striking distance” from Vida Church to the precincts that are “where the devil’s got a stronghold that God wants to break up.” The app was developed by Superfeed Technologies, which has also designed apps for…

Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?

By David Krueger

…gh-rise building, and commercial spaces. In short, it’s carving out a distinctly Mormon enclave. The temple has received largely positive media coverage and one architecture critic celebrated it as “the most radical work of architecture built in Philadelphia in a half-century.” Constructed in an area populated by some of the city’s most prominent cultural institutions, including the oldest natural history museum in the Americas, the Philadelphia M…

The Senate Deal: Still Stroking the Rich [UPDATED]

By Peter Laarman

…ulation that managed to capture more than 90 percent of all new income generated since the 2008 crash. Of course, much of that high-end income came in the form of capital gains. But again, the rentier class who live primarily off their investments have nothing to fear: for the $400/450 crowd the rate for capital gains and stock dividends will not exactly soar: under Biden-McConnell it merely goes from an absurdly low 15 percent to an extremely low…

In Which I Explain why Marathon Runners are Depraved and Should Just Have their Knees Fall Off Before I Give them One
Red Cent

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…der the symbolism of marathon-running. Exactly what are you trying to get away from? I’m concerned for you. 6. I knew a family who grew closer when they all stopped training for marathons. 7. I knew another family where dad’s marathon-running habit ruined their lives. 8. Some Nazis used to do distance running. 9. Marathon runners use heart rate monitors. Heart rate monitors convey a false sense of hyperindividualist autonomy: the conceit, so chara…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…en taken to authorities who caned them for having homosexual sex. In a separate incident, later in the month, attendees at an alleged gay party in a Jakarta sauna were arrested and images of their faces were disseminated online by Indonesian police. Homosexual sex is not illegal in the majority of Indonesia, except in the extremely conservative province of Aceh. Jakarta is not part of any province; it is controlled by the central government. One w…

The Problem with Pew’s Science & Religion Poll

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…eport offers some useful data about public perceptions of religion and science, including fine-grained details about American attitudes towards GMOs, nuclear power, and other science-and-society issues. But while they may offer rough estimates of public opinion, these results are far from objective or clean. Beneath the colorful surface of each graph lie a series of filters, amplifiers, and cultural biases that mediate any representation of public…

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…y in which Muslims repeatedly and everywhere operate in three steps: “immigrate-increase-eliminate.” Muslims were initially chased out of Mecca because they were “pushy, argumentative, and threatening, just like today,” he argues, tweaking the language and the events to suit his purposes. According to Federer, everyone was getting along just fine until the Muslims showed up. In one the starkest examples of his twisted ahistoricism, he claims that…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…She says to come on up, she’ll meet with you now. It wouldn’t be fair to cancel since you’re already here.” Fair? As I was to learn, this was true Bedi behavior. I had, quite frankly, expected a prima donna, given her stature. This is someone who had issue a parking ticket to India’s Prime Minister some time during a career that spanned police work, book writing, UN advising, tennis championships, and the Magsaysay Award (a.k.a. Asia’s Nobel Prize…