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Gimme Shelter: Queer Space Is Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…ce is safe space. Pastors, priests and rabbis who opened their churches to Central Americans did so at great risk: congregations sometimes turned against them, some were sent to jail, others shunned. When Omar Mateen entered Pulse Nightclub armed with a legally purchased automatic weapon, he did so on Latin Night. As the names of the victims began to roll out, the list did not sound much different than the names of refugees who fled Central Americ…

Unfair Treatment of Women Clergy in the PCUSA and Presbyterian Korean Community

By Gloria Chough

…gs, not knowing how critical they were. After serving faithfully at Korean Central for eleven years, I was informed in 2015 that all paid staff members were being asked to resign. I later learned only that only two of us had been asked to leave, myself and the youth director. To add insult to this injury, because Korean Central had never provided me with a contract, I was unable to claim the $27,000 in severance I should have been entitled to. Wit…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mbers included Capt. Adir Gabbai and his husband Din as well as their dog. Central America: Profile of Central American LGBT refugees The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers writes from El Salvador about LGBT migrants fleeing poverty and violence in Central America. Japan: Report on scope of school bullying According to a survey by a nursing school professor in Osaka. “More than half of LGBT people in Japan were bullied in school and nearly 70 perce…

Why I Will Not Submit to Arrest, Or, the Problem With Moral Mondays

By Amy Laura Hall

…rking for beautifully fruitful change. But a movement revolving around one central hero is not conducive to the long-game sort of work toward equality and democracy. And a movement revolving around one central, authoritative, masculine, politically and religiously charismatic hero is simply not true to the best of Southern populism. At our best, people in the South have agitated for change in break rooms, classrooms, prison yards and such, pausing…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…advocates say it could draw members from across current political divides. Central America: Religious conservatives oppose USAID’s HIV Efforts Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch reports that William Murray and his Government Is Not God PAC are complaining about the U.S. Agency for International Development’s support for efforts to fight HIV/AIDS in Central America by tackling the stigma that surrounds it. “In short,” the group says, “your tax doll…

Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…e back” rhetoric of the anti-abortion sites dovetails with the rhetoric of Republican politicians. It’s not yet clear why Chen left the embassy, or whether his departure means anything about the degree to which the U.S. government supports him. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney called the Chen incident “a day of shame” for President Obama, assuming the U.S. faltered in its support for the dissident. Urging Obama to take a tougher line wi…

Turkey and Egypt: Islam’s Future?

By Haroon Moghul

…geographic Muslim world; Turkey has historically had a profound impact on Central Asia and the Balkans. They’re also more likely and able to challenge Iran and Saudi Arabia for the authority to speak to Muslims. These are far better places to look to for future directions in Islamic thought and practice. Cairo and Istanbul, for example, will fairly or not overshadow Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta, if only because they’ve been central to the Muslim ima…

House Health Care Bill Discriminates Against Religious Freedom

By Gordon D. Newby

…f faiths will be subjected to limitations that will contravene their faith’s most well-considered and cherished views about the major questions of life, reproduction, and freedom of religious conscience; freedoms imagined by our nation’s founders as central to the nature of our country….

The Bible Says… and Other Myths About Scripture

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nt establishment created a world in which Protestants could now argue more freely with one another. One purist sect, the “Puritans,” complained of the laxity of their quasi-Protestant brethren, and their less than pure theologies. A great many English language Bibles proliferated under Queen Elizabeth, and since every translation is also partly an interpretation, they presented subtly and not-so-subtly different theologies as well. My favorite exa…

Spiritualism and Sex Meet Evangelical Censorship, 19th-Century-Style

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…lege-educated cohort who would enjoy discussing things like religion, sex, free speech, censorship, women’s rights, blasphemy, and obscenity. It was not finally an audience of specialists I dreamed of but free-ranging brainiacs—in other words, readers with some of the daring spirit of nineteenth-century amateurs. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I am definitely hoping to offer my readers good, even artful,…