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Equality Opponents Try to Reverse UN Progress; Anti-Gay Pentecostal Pastor Elected Mayor of Rio; Indonesian University Official Tells LGBT Students To ‘Normalize’ Or Be Punished; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…l: Anti-gay Pentecostal pastor elected mayor of Rio Evangelical pastor Marcelo Crivella won a convincing victory in a runoff election to be elected mayor of Rio de Janeiro, which Associated Press called “a sign of the resurgence of conservatism in Brazil.” (Some awkward language from online translation) The triumph of conservative Crivella is the latest sign of widespread anger in Brazil towards traditional leftist parties in the midst of a deep r…

Texas’ Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill Is Unconstitutional and Unnecessary, Say Texas Law Professors

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ould create, according to the legal memo: H.B. 3859 prioritizes the “sincerely held religious beliefs” of agencies over the welfare of children. H.B. 3859 tips the scales in favor of only one interest—the religious liberty and beliefs of child services agencies—foreclosing the opportunity for competing interests to be carefully weighed and properly considered. The absolute protection H.B. 3859 would provide to these agencies is overly broad and wo…

Sit Down and Shut Up: Pulling Mindfulness Up By Its (Buddhist) Roots

By Max Zahn

…and delusion, it is usually being refashioned into a banal, therapeutic, self-help technique that can actually reinforce those roots.” Thanissaro Bhikkhu, an American Buddhist monk who deploys encyclopedic knowledge of the sutras in his cultural commentary, has pointed out crucial differences between traditional and modern (Western) mindfulness. “The Buddha himself defined sati as the ability to remember,” he writes, whereas contemporary teaching…

#TeachAcceptance and the Fight for the Soul of SF’s Catholic Schools

By Patricia Miller

…ve” are the “sinfulness of contraception,” that “all extra-marital sexual relationships are gravely evil and that these include adultery, masturbation, fornication, the viewing of pornography and homosexual relations,” and that “the fundamental demands of justice require that the civil law preserve the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.” The anti-gay language particularly rankled in the liberal diocese and prompted local…

UPDATE: An Abrupt End to Quebec Separatist Plan to Ban “Ostentatious Signs” of Religion

By Jeremy Stolow

…f men and women” as the highest human right to which other rights (such as freedom of religious expression) would be subordinated. From the initial indications from the government concerning this legislative initiative, in May 2013, through a noisy publicity campaign launched in September, to televised public hearings over the winter, and culminating in the stunning electoral defeat of the governing Parti Quebecois on 7 April 2014, the Charter of…

God Bless Islam with Courageous Leadership

By Ebrahim Moosa

…for people in Iran, Egypt, or Pakistan? Does he teach the tradition creatively and help people think imaginatively? Or does he focus on impieties and promote the virtues of paraphernalia like the dress code and the mandatory length of facial hairs? If the imam is as wise as the religious leader in the Canadian sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, it will be a huge step up. Mosque committees share their burden of responsibility too. Often they appo…

Russian Multimillionaire Makes Peace with Anti-Christ Milk

By Joseph Laycock

…ans and secular authorities. That is, the ‘X’ is a compromise that allows Veliky to sell his milk while publically performing his Christian identity and framing government regulators as Satanic and illegitimate. Resisting the Mark of the Beast has long been an issue in American politics. In 2010 I reported on proposed state laws banning the forced implantation of microchips, which certain voters equated with the Mark. In Russia, barcodes are the c…

Conservative Points in Pope’s Speech Include Liberal “Chasers”

By Patricia Miller

…of the traditional, all-American meaning in terms of the right to worship freely. In fact, Francis’ unannounced visit to the Little Sisters of the Poor at their home across the street from Catholic University, which wasn’t reported until after the fact, could be seen as an effort to rebalance the ledger for conservatives who are closely following the issue but didn’t get a shout-out during the address, with the Vatican confirming that the visit w…

Margaret Cho: God Bless You, Fing Fers

By Lisa Webster

…dy for some serious War on Culture…er…culture war. So there’s Christian as code-word for ‘evangelical.’ Like when Republican politicians say it. And there’s Christian meaning Protestant, as opposed to Catholic. And there’s Christian the way a missionary might mean it, (as opposed to heathen?). And there are those “anonymous Christians,” or involuntary Christians…was that Rahner who devised that category? Does anyone outside of seminary or grad sch…

Liberal Intolerance, Or, an Occasion for Public Theology

By Byron Williams

…” theologies, and boldly touts its commitment to tolerance. Moreover, its code of ethics includes: “We commit ourselves to respecting the diversity of ecumenical, theological, ideological and personal expressions of the various faiths and traditions found in our community.” Since the aforementioned is an ongoing case that most likely contains more details than those I’ve offered, I use it only as a backdrop to illustrate the ease in which orthodo…