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Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Ireland became the first to pass the measure in a referendum and with a two-to-one winning margin. “The change has been electric for young gay people,” said Siona Cahill, a gay rights campaigner who works as an equality officer at Maynooth University. “For the first time it has become something that isn’t pushed under the covers,” she said. A spokesman for a national gay youth organization, BelongTo, “saw a doubling of attendance in its Dublin wor…

DeSantis is a No-Show, the Right’s ‘Secret Sauce,’ and Final Thoughts on Pray Vote Stand

By PRA Staff

…on alternative media sources is a refreshing surprise—Libby Emmons, editor-in-chief of Canadian conservative magazine The Post Millennial does not toe the party line. Emmons dismisses her co-panelist Rob Bluey, executive editor at Heritage Foundation’s The Daily Signal with a simple quip about the Post Millennial being an independent outlet. Mainstream media are “be-clowning themselves with nonsense and lies,” says Emmons. “They say there’s no su…

Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do

By Shira Tarrant

…d “anal” among the top ten. Information collected by Vocativ compiles state-by-state trends among people accessing Pornhub, a highly trafficked tube site. In Utah, the favorite search term is “lesbian” while Vermont’s favorite search term is “cartoon.” Porn viewers in religious Mississippi spent more average time-per-visit on Pornhub in 2013 than any other state in the US. Because people who believe in conservative political and religious ideology…

I Volunteer to Root Out Christian Extremism

By Peter Laarman

…itor Christian extremist thought seriously and who are willing to work hand-in-glove with you and with other law enforcement personnel to spy upon and help quash the bad guys among the Christians. Thinking of myself personally, I think I could take responsibility for watching approximately 50 congregations. It would stress me out to do this, but I think I could do it, visiting and assessing one congregation each week with two weeks off per year. I…

Insert Provocative Title Here: The New Media Landscape

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri

…g Walsh to wonder if “the online media [will] be little more than a vast op-ed-cum-letters-to-the-editor venture.” And the comments arrive in biblical proportions, often featuring some un-godly language. “On Faith” editor David Waters has said that “Even Jerry Springer would be embarrassed by the comments we have on our site. They’re that bad.” Waters says the editors joke about the “Three M’s”: Muslims, Mormons, and Moosekillers — the subjects th…

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…ng is a complex product of mixtures, relations, and recombinations of stuff-and-ideas. You describe your book as an attempt to “come to terms conceptually with the multiverse.” If our universe is indeed just one of many others, would this require us to revisit any philosophical, scientific, or theological foundations? Or is the multiverse too distant and abstract to affect our cosmos here at home? I should say here that it’s not clear to me we’ll…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…lities? PC: If you take the L and W and E and S out of Lowe’s and add a B-A-M and another A you get o-BAMA. That’s a link. I’m just saying. Lowe’s = Obama = Socialism. Think about that, left-wingers. RM: I think Lowes’ ill-conceived PR decisions of late are even mind-boggling to my Canadian Socialist self! In your role in taking over our entertainment industry, you’ve appeared in some of America’s best-loved shows. You are even versatile enough to…

The Silly Calls for Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nvestigation? Hypothetically, if regular government audits, and close round-the-clock scrutiny from its own sworn enemies have not turned up more, and have failed to keep Planned Parenthood honest (and I’m not saying that’s the case), then why would a congressional investigation do so? Those are the dots that the report exactly fails to connect: why are we supposed to think there’s more, and why are we supposed to believe a congressional investiga…

Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ted headlines for weeks. First, the FBI searched the former President’s Mar-a-Lago residence, prompting bitter reactions from a number of Republicans, in some cases openly weighing political violence as a tool of reaction. Lindsey Graham predicted “riots in the streets,” should Trump be indicted, while Arizona Republican Andy Biggs and the Texas GOP compared the FBI raid to the crossing of “the Rubicon”—implying that a point of no return has been…

I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple

By Anita Little

…the reception found a place for themselves where they were appreciated. A number of the women who showed up were from the black church and a number were deans or presidents of colleges, so it was this really wide range of experiences in this space. I think this is a very historic moment. Where else would you get to see more than 100 pieces of artwork from black women? You don’t. If you went to the de Young museum or to MoMA, you would see one or…