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Pope Praises ‘Complementarity’ & Resists Gay Ambassador; Irish Religious Leaders Spar Over Marriage; Colombian Atty Gen Cites ‘Bogus’ Study Opposing Adoption; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…break the tie is considered a supporter of equality. But the Attorney General Alejandro Ordóñez has argued “that a child shaped by two male partners cannot give the child more than two dads and the absence of a mom.” Semana reported this month that the Attorney General cited a paper by Catholic University Professor Donald Paul Sullins titled Emotional Problems Among Children with Same-Sex Parents: Difference by Definition, which appeared in a Brit…

The Jewish Daily Forward is Neither Jewish, Nor Daily (But Still Forward). Discuss!

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…a Palestinian-American cover model for its anniversary issue gets everyone all riled up and an Israeli model’s Facebook posts on the conflict are put under scrutiny, it is probably no surprise that BBC reporters and CNN anchors can face professional consequences for making any kind of statement about the conflict. In the Jewish media universe, as the Forward itself reported, even the wire services newspapers rely on are subject to politicization—t…

Hide the Religion, Feature the Science: 60 Minutes Drops the Ball on Mindfulness

By jeff wilson

…mindfulness is useful for “anxiety, depression, stress reduction,” and similar ills of an over-worked age. Applying mindfulness to problems and anxieties that mainstream Americans already have allows it to make the jump from marginal monastic concern to pop phenomenon. This isn’t how it was used in Asian tradition, but new societies and demographics naturally call forth new applications; those traditions that either aren’t flexible enough or are…

The Americans Season Finale: Teach Your Parents Well

By Cathleen Falsani

…real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith. Whittaker Chambers, the man whose own religious conversion made him a witness to one of the terrible traumas of our time, the Hiss-Chambers case, wrote that the crisis of the Western World exists to the degree in which the West is indifferent to God, the degree to which it collaborates in communism’s attempt to make man stand alone without God. And then h…

Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ademic and author of Homosexuality in Modern Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Realties. “You could be prosecuted there, whereas the Japanese are fairly laid-back about sexual scandal – it’s not personally harming in the way it is in the West.” While cops elsewhere were still busting men in toilets and public parks, Japan did not even have an anti-sodomy law. Nor did it have what McLelland calls the “anti-homosexual rage” of many Christian cultures…

3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

…ian Faith Center, in Seattle, used #RememberFriday and #CelebrateSunday, while Hillsong, the Australian-turned-global megachurch musical phenomenon, ran an entire branded campaign around #crossequalslove. Other churches used Easter as a verb (perhaps in reference to the final stanza of this Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, or simply because our culture verbs almost everything online). “#EasterWithUs,” requested North Point Ministries, also in the Atlan…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…outlook for Baha’is and human rights.” Also last week, Amnesty International called on the Iranian government to abandon plans to execute a young Kurdish Iranian to “prove that their participation at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva is more than a mere PR exercise.” Puerto Rico: Religious, political leaders slam government for ending defense of marriage ban Last Friday, Justice Secretary Cesar Miranda announced that the Puerto Rican governme…

Jewish Studies Is a Free-Speech Zone, and It Needs to Stay That Way

By Aaron Hughes

…y organization, something that further reinforces the status quo. Those local Hillels (Swarthmore, for example) that have tried to become “open“ Hillels have received disapproval and condemnation at the national level. That universities allow organization on campus that go against the mission of the university is problematic. Also problematic, at least for me, is the fact that most Hillel EDs have a starting salary that is greater than that of man…

Will Getting Rid of Bryan Fischer Get Rid of the AFA’s Problem?

By Sarah Posner

…anti-gay panic in Uganda that led to the introduction of the Anti Homosexuality Bill there, and who claims a link between Nazism and homosexuality: In an online column, Fischer defended Lively’s preposterous and debunked “history” of a Nazi-gay link, claiming “the masculine homosexual movement in Germany created the Brown Shirts, and the Brown Shirts in turn created the Nazi Party.” In a column earlier this year opposing the repeal of Don’t Ask D…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…WCF’s global reach and how “a seemingly innocuous definition of the ‘natural family’ is being used as the basis of new laws to justify the criminalization of abortion and LGBTQ people.” With its doctrine of preserving what it regards as the “natural family,” WCF is waging a campaign at local, national, and international levels to ensure that male dominance, heteronormativity (the belief that heterosexuality is the only acceptable sexual orientati…