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Global LGBT Recap: “Lavender Fascism,” Rage in India, Pope Francis Ousts Culture Warrior

By Peter Montgomery

…mes’ Jim Hardley and Jason Horowitz report, some Catholics hope the change signals a future shift from recent appointments that disappointed many progressive Catholics, including the appointment of Salvatore J. Cordileone, an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, as archbishop of San Francisco and Leonard Blair, who played a major role in the Vatican investigation of American nuns, as the archbishop of Hartford. Pope Francis was named Person of…

Carson’s Lead Shows Evangelicals Care More About Politics Than Religion

By Sarah Posner

…l worldview,” and that they testify to their own salvation. (Notably, in a sign of possible reasons for Trump’s decline, Bloomberg reports that likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers “remain uncertain about Trump’s Christian credentials. Only about a third consider him a committed Christian, while 28 percent say he isn’t and 40 percent say they’re not sure.”) Ben Carson has spent years burnishing his credentials as a religious right ideologue, and ha…

As Cambodia Erupts in Protest, a Stolen Buddhist Relic Ignites Anger

By Joe Freeman

…atriarch Tep Vong, who is viewed as an extension of the ruling party, to resign if he failed to recover the urn. A prominent activist monk later called for the Minister of Cults and Religion to step down if he also couldn’t get the job done. In contemptuous remarks captured by reporters at the confrontation, Vong said it wasn’t his fault, and went on to blame the security guards who were arrested. He said the monks who demanded him to do more didn…

US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…k that parishioners organizing in the priest’s defense have gathered 3,000 signatures, and Fr. Bucheli has declared his intention not to submit his resignation. The Legal Affairs Committee of the lower house vote to approve a “marriage for all” initiative introduced by the Green Liberal Party. According to Pink News, “Any move to legalise same-sex marriages would require a change to the Swiss Constitution and the approval of Swiss citizens in a na…

On the “Shunning” of Marriage Equality Opponent Ryan T. Anderson: A Reply to Damon Linker

By Eric C. Miller

…and offer an abject apology for posting it — both of these are depressing signs that liberal public opinion is evolving in the direction of theological certainties and illiberal forms of intolerance. These so-called liberals want Anderson to be shunned. Expelled from the community. Excommunicated from civilized life. Ostracized from the ranks of the decent. Though he concedes that the Friends School is entitled to link—or not to link—to anyone or…

Hagee’s New Film Uses Jews and Science to Prove Christian, Pro-US God

By Michael Schulson

…u start to wonder. Is it a sign? John Hagee has a penchant for seeing such signs. The popular San Antonio pastor is the founder of Christians United for Israel, an organization that makes AIPAC look wishy-washy, and the author of the book Four Blood Moons, which he’s now turned into a docu-drama of the same name. Ostensibly, FBM is about biblical prophecy, the contemporary Middle East, and the role of Jews in history, though it’d be more accurate…

Raelians Push White House for Alien Embassy to Save Humanity

By Joseph Laycock

…there’s unrest and trouble brewin’ And those flying saucers may be just a sign That if peace doesn’t come it will be the end of some So repent today, you’re running out of time The man known as Rael (née Claude Vorilhon) incorporated the same elements of UFOs, nuclear anxiety, and Biblical prophecy. Rael allegedly encountered space aliens in 1973, who warned him that humanity had entered the “Age of Apocalypse” following the bombings of Hiroshima…

Arkansas Governor Admits RFRA Bill Is Not Like Federal Version

By Sarah Posner

…morning, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, said he would not sign HB 1228, a Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed by the legislature yesterday. The reason: it does not mirror the federal RFRA. Hutchinson has just exposed his fellow Republicans who so adamantly supported Indiana’s recently-enacted RFRA on the erroneous grounds that it is the same as the federal version. Although the Arkansas bill differs from Indiana’s RFRA (and I…

Studies Confirm: Your Steak is Possessed by Demons

By Travis Proctor

…r appetites, emitting harmful gasses as they digest the meat. The telltale sign of demonic infection is uncomfortable bloating, flatulence, and belching. For Porphyry, then, burps at the dinner table weren’t just violations of good table etiquette. They were indicative of demonic possession. No, really, your meat is full of demons Porphyry wasn’t alone; many writers in antiquity asserted that their world was populated with demons. Still, it’s easy…

Evangelicals Looking for Walker to “Do Nothing” in 2016 Election

By Sarah Posner

…, crucially, “gets” evangelical culture. Bush’s Right to Rise PAC recently signed Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice, as a senior advisor—a move the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody called the move “a big get” for courting the evangelical vote. While Sekulow has been at the forefront of the culture wars, the ACLJ is also one of several religious right legal firms who, for example, brought lega…