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African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ion of Jesus Christ, drew some media attention this week after a poster on Reddit said his wife’s father-in-law was leaving his family to join BLGM, as he calls himself. The self-proclaimed messiah says former Pope Benedict “planned to officially proclaim him the second coming in March, 2013, only to have the announcement foiled by Pope Francis, who he refers to as ‘the anti-Christ.’” His Facebook page announces that he is also “ Sri Krishna the S…

Call Yourself Evangelical, Isaiah 11, or Orville Redenbacher, But Don’t Organize Under it

By Daniel Schultz

…lpful to think about how we deliberate. I once overheard a conversation on Reddit that went like this: someone asked philosophers if they actually used terms for logical fallacies in their discussions with one another. I imagine, the commenter said, that it’s just one That’s an ad hominem! or Post hoc ergo propter hoc! after another. The answer was, of course, no. That would be a waste of time, because using a formal term only leads to arguing abo…

Will Doctors Ever Prescribe Psychedelics?

By The Editors

Last week on Reddit’s genius Ask Me Anything series, Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) took readers’ questions. MAPS has been around since the late 80s and has done some intriguing work on intersections of health, society and trippy drugs, or in their words, they’re “a membership-based, IRS-approved non-profit research and educational organization working to develop psychedelics and marijuana i…

What Does It Take to Fell a White Nationalist? (Hint: Pedophilia)

By Anita Little

…losophies that had been rightfully relegated to the internet backwaters of Reddit, 4chan and 8chan became national directives. Yiannopoulos, like Breitbart and like President Trump, ceased to be a joke. His troubling views became romanticized and legitimized. The question remains: why did it take so much? Besides having one of the most punchable faces on the internet (after Martin Shkreli, of course), you would think a man who used his platform fo…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…good move. When I got to the lobby another something told me to dig out my phone and check it for messages. Sure enough, I had one from an unfamiliar number. A woman’s voice said Bedi was still sleeping, exhausted from the previous day’s overseas flight, and needed to reschedule our interview for that afternoon. I called the number back, convinced the opportunity was lost. “I’m here at the hotel now, but I’m booked solid this afternoon—” “Hold on,…

What’s More Frightening Than Snakes on a Plane?

By Devin Kuhn-Choi

…an ad in a local shop or community center. Last minute emergency? Call the airline right away to see about possibilities for accommodating your needs. Likewise, if one is ardently anti-abortion for moral reasons, rather than only focus on making it illegal, prevent it by limiting unwanted pregnancies: help ensure adequate, healthy sex education and contraception are available to those who need or want them. Work to make affordable, quality prenata…

Penn Jillette’s Signs You May Already Be an Atheist

By Steve A. Wiggins

…rust I have in the TSA before, Jillette’s rant in “Penn’s Bacon and a Kiss Airline” was like finding a long-lost brother; another guy who feels it is criminal to be viewed naked by strangers—involuntarily—is a true freedom fighter. This is a comedian with a conscience. He may come down on the wrong side of many traditional issues (global warming and sexual mores, e.g.), but he is keenly aware that too many people suffer. Theodicy in motion. In the…

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men “Stand Up” for “Religious Freedom”… On a Plane

By Kara Loewentheil

…work, you try to make it seem like complying is really in the person’s own best interests: you offer to pay your seatmate to vacate, or you claim that contraception is harmful to women. Third, if none of that works, you create costs for both the authority attempting to regulate you and the innocent bystanders around you in the hopes that if you create enough problems the authority in question will cede way (in other words you block the aisles for…

What the Lost Finale is Really About

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…Is it worth watching? Plenty of writers have chimed in, proclaiming it the best show ever on regular television, that standard television will never be the same, that the ending leaves much to be explained. Jumping the gun, or perhaps the shark, writers from the LA Times, USA Today, NY Times, and many other major outlets have already weighed in, well before the finale sinks in. What then am I offering in the midst of the hullabaloo? Why write befo…

Hajj Journal: M & M

By Amina Wadud

…though this, the men would hover around the tent entries, send notes, make phone calls, actually get their phone cords recharged, and send food and drink through every possible opening in the tent. As far as I could tell, it was always the men hanging around our tent and not the women hanging around the men’s tent. Pretty funny if you think about it. They were like lost puppies without their women. Yet patriarchy would have us think they are the m…