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The Revolution Will Not Be Fetishized: Taking Resistance Beyond the Spiritual Industrial Complex

…eastfed two sons who I hope will be committed and vocal feminists. But the sign also signified something else that is less personal and speaks more to my own social contingencies. It reflected an envisioning of the body that infuses our contemporary consumer culture and that denies a fundamental difference between the body and the self. It attributes sanctity to the body so thoroughly that enhancing the body is considered a part of the transformat…

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

…icing Christians currently working in Quebec’s public sector—a less than insignificant number of which do happen to wear (typically small) crucifixes—and thus the visual code aimed its sights more narrowly on undesirable religious minorities, while at the same time allowing the government to proclaim the even-handedness of its approach.  But whatever the actual intentions of the government, the deployment of this category of the ‘permitted sign’ w…

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Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…of Islam that celebrates queerness” Catholic Church: South African bishop promotes reparative therapy, Brazilian promotes acceptance South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier announced on Twitter earlier this month that he is reading “Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality: A New Clinical Approach,” by the late advocate of reparative therapy Joseph Nicolosi. His August 1 tweet called the book “a challenging work on a subject of great importance.” T…

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Santa Claus Will Take You To Hell

…Chris Gregoire and state legislative officials, the church asked that its sign be placed next to the nativity display and the sign posted by atheist group Freedom From Religion. Westboro’s sign rewrites the lyrics to popular holiday tune “Santa Claus is Coming To Town” to proclaim instead that belief in Santa Claus is responsible for the faltering economy and soldiers’ deaths. If you haven’t had a meal recently, you might take a gander at some of…

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No Christmas in the Village of Philly

…e people more polarized. Besides, no one complained the last two years the sign was up. To add insult to injury, the tree lighting would have been tonight, the first night of Hanukkah. Mother nature has moved that to tomorrow night because of the rain. Can’t we just have a sign up with every holiday in December? After Mayor Rizzo, bombings, and the grinchy police, Philadelphia can take a little Christmas. After all, we are the city of Brotherly Lo…

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Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

…ion is standard among various factions of the Christian Right, but Wallnau promotes a unique and even more pernicious brand of NAR teachings on gender and sexuality, including the dangerous idea that LGBTQ-identifying kids need to be “delivered” from demons. As noted earlier, “deliverance” among NAR adherents is coded language for exorcism, which is an even more noxious version of the psychologically (and often physically) harmful practice of LGBT…

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The Chilling Response to the Pelosi Attack isn’t Simply a Matter of Partisanship, it’s a Sign of the Right’s Embrace of Fascism

…who in a previous ad declared: “This is a long barreled rifle. It wasn’t designed for hunting. This is designed to kill people,” while gesturing with the weapon towards the camera. Masters made clear how he saw violence ahead of the midterms when he tweeted a picture with police and sheriff insignia, alongside fascist flags—next to him a large gun. The tweet said: “Locked and loaded. Four more days” The American Right has moved past dog whistles….

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Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy

…to “condone homosexuality” in any way. Metropolitan Jonah was forced to resign in 2012, after a list of allegations came to light, including that he “had failed to remove a priest accused of rape,” according to a report in the Washington Post. Yet despite his relatively brief tenure the damage had been done. Over the past decade, the OCA has continued to follow the path that Metropolitan Jonah laid for it. It should not go unnoticed that Metropol…

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Ohio Catholic School Teachers Required to Sign Morality Clause

Following a series of high-profile cases around the country where gay and lesbian individuals were fired from Catholic schools after marrying their partners, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has rolled out a new employment contract with an extensive morality clause that attempts to police the private lives and public expression of Catholic school employees. The contracts instruct employees to refrain from “conduct or lifestyle that’s in contradictio…

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Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

…ncreased international human rights scrutiny. Even if the president should sign the protocol, there will still be a long road to U.S. ratification. But his signature would mark a huge first step.  9. Sex Tourism of the Christian Right The clever tag is Jeff Sharlet’s, not mine. Our Christian theocrats may have taken a licking at the polls here at home, but they remain remarkably successful in taking their pelvic politics overseas via international…

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