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The Most Forgotten Queer Folks in the US are Fighting Back Against a Powerful — and Publicly Funded — Group That Discriminates With Impunity

By Chrissy Stroop

…r accrediting bodies for their mistreatment of LGBTQ+ students. We hope to change that.” Expounding on the point, he adds: “Part of the change involves forcing these institutions to choose between accepting federal funding or continuing their discriminatory practices.” On this fundamental level, we have a serious church-state separation concern that ought to arouse the ire of every American who supports the idea that justice is best protected by a…

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…wer is that at the level of teaching and structure nothing—but nothing—has changed this year. 2. Women and Gays A second difficulty flows from the first, in that nothing has changed for women or LGBTIQ people with regard to Catholicism during the early months of this papacy. Nor is there much prospect on either issue given what the pope has said publicly. Regarding women’s ordination, Francis has been clear: “On the ordination of women, the Church…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…eeply poignant. Satyamev Jayate declares in its advertisements that it has changed the way people think. This episode on queer identity may well live up to those lofty claims and we can only hope that it does, because Satyamev Jayate did something radical: it presented queer identity as something normal. Because news flash: normal is exactly what it is to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or straight. As psychiatrist Anjali Chhabria put it…

Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…acher, is frequently quoted in the media. Southeast Asia: ‘Modest Signs of Change’ in ASEAN Countries Writing for The Diplomat, Kirsten Han looks at “modest signs of change” in the direction of LGBT acceptance in Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): With 10 Southeast Asian countries represented, the ASEAN SOGIE Caucus is a network of human rights activists doing work related to issues of sexual orientation, gender…

LGBTQ Victory at Christian Azusa Pacific U. Leaves Significant Questions About Future and Faculty Security

By Chrissy Stroop

…spect to student conduct in the face of public scrutiny. Before the latest change, APU alum and Brave Commons leader Erin Green, who has worked closely with APU students from the beginning of the push for change, began encouraging students to file challenges to APU’s accreditation with the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, an effort she has now called off. Green is cautiously optimistic that APU’s move to allow same-sex dating may be a…

Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org

By Deborah Jian Lee

…n. Some give students space to process their sexuality while others try to change the person’s sexual orientation through prayer or readings, a la reparative therapy. Some staff recognize that sexual orientation cannot be changed while others actively attempt to “convert” gay, lesbian and bisexual students to heterosexuality. Staff workers have, as Vasquez’s report makes clear, even encouraged gay students to date members of the opposite sex and w…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…. Luckily, they are finite because not even the Vatican can stop how times change and even how time changes. We’re not in the 16th century when it took months for information to travel from one place to another. Our instantaneous communication doesn’t guarantee wisdom, but it does set up the expectation that we will seek the best information available. And because we can, we need to talk with and, more importantly, listen to people who are struggl…

Freeman Dyson, American Heretic

By Michael J. Altman

…ic. Skeptical of the computer models that offer the divine word on climate change. But esoteric in his belief that there is a hidden knowledge in the depths of science, a gnosis, that the Inconvenient Truth-thumping Greens are too excited to look for. To find Dyson’s confidence in the face of global change naïve would be to miss the point. It’s not that the planet is not important to Dyson, it’s that there are more important and solvable global pr…

Will the Real Progressive Christians Please Stand Up?

By Delwin Brown

…leads Faith in Public Life, never denies the need for fundamental economic change in this country—in fact she insists on it, even as she also facilitates collaborative efforts toward much more limited ends. In his April 12 piece in the New York Times, Frank Rich quotes Howard Gardner, the Harvard education professor who says that if change is to come to America and to last, there must first arise a “counternarrative to replace ‘money is king.’” Th…

Ban on Female Genital Cutting in Somaliland is Progress, But Success Relies on Working with Religious Leaders

By Chelsea Garbell

…practice. Whole networks of communities must come together to advocate for change. This model was the exact outcome of a human rights curriculum introduced in Senegal by the organization Tostan. While not initially focused on eradicating FGC, Tostan realized that when women learned about human rights, they came to the decision to end FGC on their own and began to advocate for far reaching, lasting change. In the past 25 years, Tostan’s Community E…