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Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to new reports, lawyers for pro-marriage-equality groups plan to file a legal challenge to a mail vote if it is not specifically authorized by the Senate, and anti-marriage equality groups are threatening a campaign against the ruling coalition if it goes ahead with anything other than a full plebiscite: Aside from the legal threat, the Turnbull Government is facing pressure from the Australian Christian Lobby. The ACL is threatening to campaign a…

Puerto Rico Prays for Truth: Reporter David Begnaud’s Sacred Mission

By Spencer Dew

…s in the face of a storm of hot air and fake news masking inaction, political calculation, and active unconcern. On September 20, Hurricane Maria tore into Puerto Rico. Six days later, President Trump held a Situation Room meeting to discuss the disaster. On October 3, during a brief visit to Puerto Rico, Trump declared the hurricane and its aftermath did not represent “a real catastrophe” and congratulated the Puerto Rican people on how few of th…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…d provided Saturday to The Associated Press, the 62 signatories issued a “filial correction” to the pope — a measure they said hadn’t been employed since the 14th century. The letter accused Francis of propagating seven heretical positions concerning marriage, moral life and the sacraments with his 2016 document “The Joy of Love” and subsequent “acts, words and omissions.” The initiative follows another formal act by four tradition-minded cardinal…

Rev. Rob Lee Lost Congregation For His Anti-Racism Speech: Here’s Why He Should Have Packed His Bags First

By Daniel Schultz

…flourish in the UCC. Pastors can take things as far as their congregation will allow them, and no more. Which brings us back around to why I wasn’t exactly surprised to hear that Rev. Lee had been canned. Sunny Hostin of The View asked Lee about a sermon he gave after the recent attack on Charlottesville by white supremacists. Quoting from the sermon, she read: If you are silent at a moment like this, if you do not condemn the racism through what…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…harmful and damaging we have seen so far” in Europe. The Spanish Evangelical Alliance also opposes the legislation and has gathered nearly 10,000 signatures on a petition against it. Earlier in the summer a network of Latin American Christian groups called the Ibero-American Congress for Lie and Family warned that the legislation was putting Spain on “the road to totalitarianism.” HazteOir, a Spanish organization that is part of the World Congres…

Buddhism And Politics in Myanmar: An Author Interview

By Matthew Walton

…olitical thought; for example, assuming that calls for “democracy” necessarily align with Western liberal democratic notions (that are themselves quite varied). Is there anything you had to leave out? The dissertation had quite a bit more comparative content, with other Theravada cases and also with writers and ideas from the Western tradition of political thought. Most of this had to be cut to make it a more Myanmar-focused book, but it’s all com…

I Created the Hashtag #EmptythePews Because It’s Time for Evangelicals To Walk Out of Toxic Churches

By Chrissy Stroop

…ervative Protestants. Former George W. Bush strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew John Dowd tweeted: Not a single member of Trump’s Evangelical Council has resigned. We have learned corporate America has a greater moral compass. So so sad. — Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) August 16, 2017 Meanwhile, prominent evangelical Trump supporters were either praising Trump or tweeting about anything and everything that had nothing to do with Nazis…

Why I Give Zero F*cks What Anti-Gay Christians Think

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hristians to do the same. I even wrote a book, Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians, to help others who deeply cared about what anti-gay Christians believed and said cope with the ongoing battle for our right as LGBT Christians to actually exist. Now, two decades after starting that magazine and nearly 10 years after the book’s publication, I have no more fucks left to give. I can’t pinpoint the moment of my…

A President “Anointed By God”: POTUS Shield and Religious Right’s Affair with Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…powerful. I’ll give you Mike Pence as a vice president. I’ll make abortion illegal. I’ll do all that for you.” And they took the deal. They turned out a huge majority of their voters, of their people for him, and now he’s paying them back. They’re deliriously happy with him. They don’t care that he lies every time he opens his mouth. They’ve already convinced themselves that God uses imperfect people. God used King David, God used all these other…

Alex Jones, Performance Artist, and the Duelling Meanings of ‘Sincerity’ in Politics and Public Life

By Spencer Dew

…Is a world of ubiquitous surveillance (by self, others, and state) necessarily also a world of ubiquitous performance? Liberal critics cling to that original, Protestant concept of sincerity, believing in the power of belief. Their read on the world is predicated on a similarly Protestant model of private human depth, wherein there’s an active intellectual inner life, debating and discerning, before one speaks or writes or acts in public. But “in…