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Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…certain religious beliefs – as it is “widely accepted that only those who commit adultery in their past life become homosexual as a form of punishment”. The story says that depite persistent cultural prejudice, there have been “some tentative steps forward,” including public events on World AIDS Day and the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Malaysia: Government hosts competition for videos to ‘prevent’ homosexuality…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…d without jeopardizing their tax-exemption? “Our hands would be tied!” she complained. That would be the point, at least when it comes to political candidates. When a church applies for tax exemption, the institution agrees to abide by certain rules, which are intended to enforce the separation of church and state. Officially, the IRS prohibits “voter education or registration activities with evidence of bias that (a) would favor one candidate ov…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…llar annual budget is funded almost exclusively by ticket sales, and these tickets are not cheap (ranging this year, for example, from $210-$300 depending on time of purchase). This pays for the basic infrastructure as well as expenses like a hefty per-person/per-day use fee charged by the Bureau of Land Management. In addition, a significant portion of each year’s budget is set aside to fund many of the large-scale art installations various parti…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…among British TERFs to call me a man speaking over a woman. https://twitter.com/William_E_Wolfe/status/1496947849589841928?s=20&t=WLumh8kVuyoIoBJFx4iEjg Andrew T. Walker, a professor of ethics and public theology at the Southern Baptist Convention’s flagship seminary and a managing editor of World magazine, a highly influential evangelical publication, got in on the guilt-by-association dunking: https://twitter.com/andrewtwalk/status/1496482488130…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…t seen much change in how it treats its residents of color. https://twitter.com/TefPoe/status/908700582491377666 According to the Mapping Police Violence project, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has the highest rate of police killings per population in the nation based on data from 2013 to 2017. Of the 28 people killed in police encounters in that four year period, 23 were black. And shortly before our trip, the NAACP issued its first…

Reactions to Biden’s Korean-American Secret Service Agent Expose Christian Nationalism’s Anti-Asian Side

By Lucas Kwong

…tps://twitter.com/JovanHPulitzer/status/1351947576950611972 https://twitter.com/DrAfzalNiaz/status/1351747330924556289 https://twitter.com/ForTrump/status/1351915179546652672 https://twitter.com/DataJacob/status/1351952704529190912 https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1351996515527647232 Almost immediately, racist conspiracy theories began misidentifying Agent David Cho as Biden’s “CCP handler.” Tellingly, the accounts that accused Cho vocalized…

Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…blication, Mansfield did an interview with Ben Smith, a writer for Politico.com (the online wing of the Politico news organization). In the column, titled “Bush Backer Pens pro-Obama Book,” Smith writes that the book’s “tone ranges from gently critical to gushing, and the author defends Obama—and even his controversial former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright—from conservative critics, and portrays him as a compelling figure for Christian voters….

Not Peace, But Division? Evangelical Vaccine Refusers Divide Families

By Chrissy Stroop

…ng degrees with evangelical vaccine refusers in the family. https://twitter.com/McWyrm/status/1391821196338008067?s=20 https://twitter.com/alltheth0ughts/status/1391802845452722179?s=20 https://twitter.com/bcmystery/status/1391807014704058371?s=20 https://twitter.com/adbowden/status/1391804376256237570?s=20 https://twitter.com/alltheth0ughts/status/1391803332960956420?s=20 For my part, the Twitter discussion helped me feel less alone. On the mostl…

Including Bono on Glamour’s “Women of the Year” List is Two Steps Backwards

By Sunnivie Brydum

…en credit in spaces supposedly dedicated to honoring women. https://twitter.com/zenbuffy/status/793775650159165440 https://twitter.com/sianushka/status/793713417945223168 https://twitter.com/HOBTempestRose/status/793794280187916288 I’m not a biological essentialist. I take people’s identity at their word. But here’s the thing—Bono self-identifies as a man. He says so right in the Glamour interview. And while the publication tries to explain that w…

#WhiteChurchQuiet: Anything but Outrage Is Complicity

By Andre E. Johnson

…tioned in white churches, and if so how it is talked about. https://twitter.com/aejohnsonphd/status/778405804990795776 https://twitter.com/kmt188/status/778463459998433281 https://twitter.com/thel0rdbyr0n/status/778796398300979200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/NyashaJunior/status/778781467325308928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/frankwilliam77/status/778450830055702528 Many who participated in the Twitter chat shared their frust…