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Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to condemn these “Zionist forces” for underestimating Egypt’s stability by using various means like atheism, terrorism, nihilism and deviance to destabilize them. “We must confront atheism, nihilism, homosexuality and moral depravity the same way we confront extremism and terrorism,” he said. Jordan: Halloween Banned as Gay, Satanic Gay Star News reported last week, “Jordan has banned Halloween fearing of a backlash from Muslim fundamentalists who…

Why Republicans Don’t Think Obama Is Christian

By Sarah Posner

…or Islamic and the President appear. This is snapshot, of course, and the number of constituents who actually listen to these speeches is infinitesimal. But if elected Republicans aren’t afraid to question Obama’s religious commitments for the permanent record, think of what they might say to constituents in smaller settings, or the well that they are drawing from when they make remarks in Congressional sessions for which they receive no pushback…

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

By Patricia Miller

…ers said in a statement that while it is true that Cordileone is no longer using the word “minister,” he has not “backed off his effort to reclassify teachers and other staff as ministers. […] The Archbishop is still proposing that the teachers and other staff are ‘called to advance this religious mission’ and that their work is a ‘ministry.’ This is not a meaningful change.” According to Ted Allen, who runs the music program at Sacred Heart Cathe…

Netanyahu’s (Republican) Esther Moment

By Sarah Posner

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using the upcoming Purim holiday to justify the need for his speech to a Joint Session of Congress (minus several of them) because the modern-day Persia wants to destroy the modern-day Israel. In an interview on an Israeli radio station, Netanyahu said (via Ynet): We are on the eve of Purim, and we remember the attempts in Persia back then to destroy Israel. Today, in the same Persia, there is a regime…

“LGBT People Have a Lot to Teach Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hen you’re aware of your history… you start to ask yourself if we’re still using the Bible to justify violence, cruelty, and exclusion of LGBT or to justify some of the racism or other things that plague our society… Early on it was nice because I could write and not have everything figured out, but now there’s more pressure, I feel, for me to write posts where I have more figured out. That’s not really me, so I’m in a bit of a writing crisis tryi…

Raelians Push White House for Alien Embassy to Save Humanity

By Joseph Laycock

…he Hebrew Bible–were actually aliens who created humanity “in their image” using advanced genetics. Prior to Rael, the Elohim employed numerous other prophets including Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad. Thus all religions are actually the result of alien contact. To show the Elohim we are prepared to receive their help, Rael was to oversee the construction of an embassy in Jerusalem that would serve as a millennial “third temple.” Originally Earth was…

3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

…of our Lord,” as JesusTweeters.com posits. Curious to see how people were using hashtags on Christianity’s highest holy day, The Cubit tracked Twitter (and, to a lesser extent, Instagram) activity, turning up plenty of clever marketing, post-church tweeting, and historical rehashing. 1) Easter tweets seem to peak after church When do people tweet out their Easter feelings? The Cubit’s analysis suggests that the hours immediately following church…

Rand Paul’s Messianic Campaign Video Shouts “Yes I Can!”

By Gareth Higgins

…art, in footage from The Daily Show briefly quoted saying, “He’s out there using the filibuster the way it’s meant to be used.” Such willingness to speak well of political opponents is typical of Stewart, though I doubt he intended it to be a campaign sound clip used to endorse a candidate whose policy positions are frequently opposed to those espoused by Stewart’s audience (or the comedian himself). The Paul campaign video is audibly grating and…

The Theological Hijacking of Religious “Freedom”

By Timothy K. Snyder

…ctive. And I think that has parallels to the cake-maker. The cake-maker is using his or her artistic ability to make a cake, and that cake communicates something. I think that cake is speech, and it says we celebrate this union. And to force someone who doesn’t believe that same-sex marriage is correct in the eyes of God, I just don’t think they should be forced or compelled by government to use their speech to support someone else’s perspective….

You’re Worse When You’re Hiding The Cocaine: A Moral Psychologist on Character and Blame

By Vlad Chituc

…at you’re making. I think part of the answer might be that people are just using the psychological tools that they have to evaluate human beings to evaluate some of these abstract entities. Now I don’t have good evidence for this, at least not published evidence, but I think that people evaluate entities using this sort of character framework as well. So I think that what’s going on is that people who are opposed to Islam as an institution and as…