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Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…omplained a conservative Catholic publication. (The site also features denunciations of Francis over Amoris Laetitia, which some conservative Catholics believe is undermining church doctrine on marriage.) Mexico: Documentary on same-sex couple’s struggle to marry; trans women embrace Santa Muerte No Dresscode Required, a Mexican documentary about the first same-sex couple to be legally married in Baja California, won the John Schlesinger Award at…

Anonymous Utah Group Distributes Vigilante “Illegal Immigrant” Watchlist

By Joanna Brooks

…Christ of Latter-day Saints, it’s pretty safe to assume that a significant number of “Concerned Citizens of the United States” are Mormon. But so too are a significant number of undocumented immigrants living in the American West. As we’ve reported here at RD, the Church’s strongest growth over the last decade has been among Latino populations, and almost 4.5 million Mormons worldwide are Spanish-speaking. Economic downtimes and anti-immigrant out…

International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in Turkey was held in 2003 with only 30 people at-tending the event. This number increased to around 5,000 attendants in 2010 and rose to more than 10,000 in 2011. The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers notes, “This year’s Pride took place less than a month after President Recept Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party lost its majority in the Turkish Parliament.The Peoples’ Democratic Party, which supports LGBT rights in the predominantly Muslim country, g…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…e process of taking over the population with my niceness. It’s merely a coincidence. Lowe’s seems to be objecting to capitalism by refusing money from customers. Shouldn’t that appeal to your socialist sensibilities? 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 decisi…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ve as the polling place. The church insists that it cannot, in good conscience, allow its sincerely-held teachings to be violated on its watch. The elders take a vote and come back with a decision: They’ll be HAPPY to let the church be the polling place, and serve the common good, but only if they can restrict voting to men. Their critics protest: “Women have a right to vote in this country, for heaven’s sake! What is wrong with you people? If you…

I Volunteer to Root Out Christian Extremism

By Peter Laarman

…. Let’s get this project moving without delay, shall we? Again, I appreciate that you’ve got your hands full with the Muslims right now. But you also know that you and the Administration in general will look better if you add some balance by also supporting appropriate surveillance of the Christian problem people. I hate to see the faith that I love be stained by the actions of a few, and I’m more than willing to do my part! Yours sincerely, (Rev….

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…wrinkle in the case gets at a larger issue: Hernandez was just one of an increasing number of lay ministers and volunteers assuming formerly clerical roles in the Catholic Church, particularly in heavily Latino parishes, such as Denver’s. Facing a general shortage of priests, and a critical lack of ordained staff equipped to serve Spanish-speaking communities, a papal dictate was issued in 2003, calling for an expanded role for laity in the churc…

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

By Shira Tarrant

…st, whereas Vermont—known to be a liberal state—clocked in with the lowest number of both Internet porn searches and religiosity. Just knowing the number of conservatives in a given state was enough information for the researchers to accurately predict the extent of pornography searches using key words including sex, gay sex, porn, free porn, XXX, and gay porn. These findings held true even after the researchers controlled for other demographic va…

Why Do Evangelicals And Dems Want Immigration Reform?

By Daniel Schultz

…immigration reform: Hispanics will drive minority growth above all. Their numbers will triple to 133 million by 2050 from 47 million today, while the number of non-Hispanic whites will remain essentially flat. Hispanics will double as a percentage of the population from 15 percent to 30 percent. The population of Asian Americans will also come close to doubling, going from 5 percent to 9 percent. The number of blacks, however, will grow only from…

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

By Annika Brockschmidt

…lo attack, we found that each of these attacks, and dozens of smaller instances of violence and attempted violence, followed a “cultural script.” In each instance, this crop of extreme-right terrorists who claimed inspiration from the Christchurch attack have sought to exceed its death toll, incite further violence, and honor the attacks with their own violence. The Buffalo and Bratislava attacks conformed to all three of these aspirations, this c…