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Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…or “homosexual acts” – the men had been dragged naked into the street and brutally beaten by a group of youths. Human Rights Watch said the conviction and prosecution are evidence of “the determination of Moroccan authorities to enforce anti-homosexuality laws, even when the acts in question allegedly took place in a private residence between consenting adults, and after neighbors assaulted them for their supposed sexual orientation.” A Spanish LG…

CPCs Hire Christians Only With Federal Funds? Thank Obama

By Sarah Posner

…stant, and Orthodox) ethical principles and teaching on the dignity of the human person and sanctity of human life.” * * * * Because the TANF funds for the Alternatives to Abortion program are disbursed by the federal government, recipients must comply with Charitable Choice regulations requiring a separation of religious and secular services. Friedewald boasts that not only do his providers keep religious and secular pamphlets separate as require…

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…rows into question all our ordinary ways of speaking about self and other, human and nonhuman, and “being” itself. So it seems to me the modern natural sciences are trying to figure out what anything is when everything is a complex product of mixtures, relations, and recombinations of stuff-and-ideas. You describe your book as an attempt to “come to terms conceptually with the multiverse.” If our universe is indeed just one of many others, would t…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and woman.” At General Conference so far, delegates rejected a proposed Rule 44, designed to provide an alternative to Robert’s Rules of Order for group discernment on complex issues, providing for small group discussion to allow more voices to be heard. This has been described as the debate about how to debate sexuality. From the Methodist News Service: Last year the commission, in announcing its outline for the proposal, also announced it wou…

Beyond Retribution: Bin Laden’s Death in its Cosmic Context

By Eric Reitan

…rospect of dropping our delusions and rationalizations. But sometimes the truth thrusts itself at us in ways we can’t ignore, driving us towards realizations we’d rather flee. Often this is what victim-offender dialogue achieves, bringing offenders face-to-face with the reality of what they’ve done, making it so real they can’t hide from it anymore. And so, as I thought about how I would sentence Timothy McVeigh, I envisioned something analogous t…

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

By Peter Laarman

…en I talk to gay friends about this, they all say the connection is about cruelty and brutality toward animals that are “harvested” or otherwise abused in the industrial food system. Maybe it’s a stretch to say that this extra sensitivity to interspecies cruelty derives from gays’ own exposure to cruelty—but it’s at least an idea worth pondering. 11. Interfaith Bullying Reaches Its Limit Ye Olde Mainline Protestants might be evaporating numerical…

The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

By Bruce Chilton

…important take-home message for readers? At base, I want to show both that human societies, especially in the Abrahamic traditions, resort too easily and without reflection to the sacrifice of their young. Human societies in every time have been plagued by resorting to sacrificing children—literally and figuratively—in times of crisis. We in our time are no exception. Yet the final message of Abraham’s Curse is not pessimistic. In the biblical sto…

Paul Ryan: I Reject Ayn Rand, She’s an Atheist!

By Sarah Posner

…institutions in our local communities that do the most to actually have a human touch to help people in need.” (Institutions with a human touch like the Catholic school in Indiana that fired a teacher, a “grave, immoral sinner,” who pursued in vitro fertilization?) Weigel is channeling not Rand but Ronald Reagan: “what the Church asks of a just society is the empowerment of the poor: breaking the cycle of welfare dependency and unleashing the cr…

U.S. Envoy Minimizes Mounting Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan

By Frederick Clarkson

…sted by the Security Council, recommends an independent investigation into human rights violations, including a possible referral to the International Criminal Court. Amidst escalating calls for intervention, the UN Security Council met privately on July 15. Senior UN staff publicly called for UN and humanitarian access to the area and expressed concern about the reports of mass graves, extra-judicial killings, and attacks on UN personnel. The Int…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…stant, and Orthodox) ethical principles and teaching on the dignity of the human person and sanctity of human life.” In an online video that featured montages with crosses in them, Cynthia Wenz, executive director of The Source for Women of Houston, explained her pregnancy center’s mission. “Our prayer, our calling is to reach every woman considering abortion,” said Wenz, who declined a request for an interview. “It’s obvious. God is calling us to…