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Muslims Need Not Apply—To the White House or Congress

By Julie Ingersoll

…trying to follow the movement is that every time we write about something extreme, it’s dismissed with “well, every movement has its fringe folks.” I started to write this a week ago but had second thoughts because the whole exchange with Joan seemed like a one-off. Then today Salon.com is reporting that Tea Party Nation leader and founder Judson Phillips is calling for the defeat of Congressman Keith Ellison because he is a Muslim. Tea Party Nati…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ople—as purely sexual beings. Foster’s screed is simply a long promo for a new ex-gay movie coming out, and the trailer, three-minutes of nauseating footage, centers around how each of these former homosexuals lived their lives in clubs, engaging in cheap, easy, and often public sex, or were sexually abused. For all the claptrap the religious right yells about how they don’t want to think of us “that way,” the trailer for the film is positively vo…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ial legacy, including the mention of “vices against nature”. Now not even the most contorted of arguments could claim that acts of gay sex between consenting adults are somehow illegal….

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ia punishment of multiple lashes of a cane against 339 people in 2016. The New Zealand Herald reported that the couple was filmed being beaten by a group of “vigilantes” who had become suspicious of the men and “set out to catch them” having sex. More from the Herald: Under a local law that came into force in 2015, people can also be punished for having gay sex with up to 100 strokes of the cane. The recently arrested men – whose identities have n…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…’s a conservative country, but it could be the first country in Asia after New Zealand to endorse same-sex marriage,” Osius told the Blade. “It could be. I don’t think it’s guaranteed. It’s a work in progress just as it is here.” Osius acknowledged the presence of an openly gay ambassador in Vietnam could have a positive impact on the country’s LGBT rights movement. “I will show up with the family that looks like mine,” he told the Blade. “My husb…

Pope Francis Says Teaching Gender Is Nasty; Far-Right Religious Groups Helping Mexico’s Anti-Equality Movement; Colombia’s Peace Deal Killed by Anti-LGBT Campaign?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ased enforcement of laws that criminalize cross-dressing and sodomy, Radio New Zealand reports that Tonga’s LGBTI advocates are planning “a national consultation with government leaders in December to petition for changes to the Criminal Offences Act.” Afghanistan: LGBT community under “threat of death” BBC’s Aria Ahmadzai reports that the country’s LGBT community is “living under threat of death.” The legal situation for LGBT people in Afghanista…

Whether We Call White Nationalism ‘Christian’ Is All About Who Gets to Define Christianity

By Ivan Strenski

…to read the whole thing. No surprise, Tarrant celebrates Pope Urban II’s exhortation to begin the First Crusade with an extensive quotation of Urban’s plea for holy war, a short passage from which I include here. “Let the fire of our repentance raise up the Holy War and the love of our brethren lead us into combat. Let our lives be stronger than death to fight against the enemies of the Christian people.” Tarrant concludes his citation of Urban w…

A Queer New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…2—to continue making waves in 2013. Civil Marriage and Uncivil Religion On New Year’s Day, same-sex couples in Maryland started getting legally married—joining those in Washington state and Maine, where voters had also given a thumbs-up in a remarkable set of November election victories. Pro-equality activists are working to build on those victories with legislative campaigns in Illinois, Minnesota, and several other states to win marriage equalit…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…er-built online virtual “world.” The creator of the virtual Wailing Wall, “Xanadu,” explains that the digital wall, “is a peaceful spot to sit and grieve, pray, meditate, or comfort a friend. The wall accepts self-created notecards that are immediately deleted. The idea is to allow The Wailing Wall to bear away your burden.” Given the fact that both walls seem to function as a sort of “go-between” for the worshipper wanting to communicate with God…

Catholics Across the Globe Reject Vatican’s LGBTQ Cruelty — Others Blame the Sock

By Mary E. Hunt

…come from around the world—from the Philippines and Malta to Argentina and New Zealand. If this were a Vatican trial balloon to gauge support for excluding same-sex loving people, it lost air on liftoff and crashed immediately. There are many casualties, especially young people who are taught such nonsense in Catholic schools. Some African Catholics report that their well-being is in jeopardy because of the statement. To dignify this teaching with…