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PCUSA’s Nod to “Traditional” Marriage Understandable, but Not Accurate

By William E. Smith

…ween two humans. And things could get messy when human-divine marriage and human-human marriage overlapped, as I show in my essay in Queer Christianities (NYU, 2014). This means that, for hundreds of years, medieval Christian women could and did marry “traditionally” in a way that Presbyterian women today cannot. Among the reasons Presbyterian women do not marry Jesus, nor even think of it as possibility, is because, as with most Protestants, they…

“What’s the Relationship of Technology to God?”: A Q&A with Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly

By Shannon Trosper Schorey

…have either preceded us or parallel us. Is there something unique about a human mind? Or an alien mind? Or a robot mind? We human scientists don’t have a lot of very good definitions of things like minds or intelligence. For me, a mind is that which produces intelligence, whatever that substrate is, and intelligence is sort of a problem-solving mechanism. It’s a way to come to a solution to a problem. It’s not a binary thing, meaning that it’s pr…

Only The Good Die Young: The Moral Universe of Game of Thrones

By George Schmidt

…amentally a religious category, presupposing a divine judge who “laughs at human pretensions without being hostile to human aspirations.” The Christian realist interpretatively locates irony in spaces of “hidden meaning” that “elicit not merely laughter but a knowing smile.” This “knowing smile” in turn acknowledges the failings in the virtues themselves by revealing absurd juxtapositions of “strength and weakness; of wisdom through foolishness; o…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…alled on Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s “top diplomat,” to raise human rights during an upcoming meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. OutRight Action International urged activists to pressure multinational oil companies to use their leverage. Some European governments have been raising funds to evacuate gay men and expediting visa processing. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley released a statement saying th…

Protests Force Torch Detour in San Francisco

By Lygia Navarro

…Olympics in Beijing, which I understand; they feel very proud. We are only humans—they’re human, and we’re human—and we’ll have a little round-about about what is true.” As the sun began to set, hundreds of Tibetans gathered for prayers and speeches in a sea of traditional dress and the yellow of Tibetan flags. Majora Carter, one of two American torchbearers to flash a Tibetan flag with the Torch drew loud applause with her promise: “The spirit th…

Cloverfield: Sin & Redemption, with Monsters

By Gabriel Mckee

…ore literal sense. Mothra and Varan the Unbelievable are both worshiped by rural villagers, and when modern, urban society intrudes on their turf, they take revenge. Kaiju films take a certain pleasure in unleashing this destruction, and lurking at the dark heart of that pleasure is a sense that, somehow, we deserve it. The kaiju bring punishment; the human drama explains the sin. Godzilla wouldn’t attack Tokyo if humankind didn’t awaken him with…

Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

By Frederick Clarkson

…hs and years, we saw signs leading up to the current crisis. We saw the corruption of the census in 2008 and the obstruction of political participation. We saw protests over the appointment of Governor Haroun—who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide in Darfur—and the razing of El Feid, the home village of his leading opponent. The members of the State Election Committee received threats that they had to declare Haroun the win…

The Night of the Farting Dog: An Atheist in Freefall

By Beatrice Marovich

…e paddles through a pond on a windy day. He stays calm. When his boat is struck by a vessel with a human at the helm, he becomes enraged. Salzman decided that he wanted to think of the dog as an empty boat—a vessel without intention, trying merely to move forward with the current. Not only did he want to think of the dog this way, he decided, but everyone—including himself. It was only during the closing of the performance that Salzman really elab…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mittee evaluates countries’ compliance with the Convention on Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment. Uganda: New documents released in SMUG lawsuit against Scott Lively Sexual Minorities Uganda is represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights in an lawsuit against American anti-gay activist Scott Lively in a novel use of the Alien Tort Statute. This week SMUG and CCR released three expert reports that they say buttress their cas…

Colorado’s Personhood Initiative Fails—For Now

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…tions nor life-of-the-mother exceptions really make a lot of sense if you truly think that a fertilized embryo is a rights-bearing human being. But a life-of-the-mother exception, without a rape exception, gives a pretty clear picture of where the pregnant woman’s welfare fits into the picture. It’s saying, in essence: “Is being pregnant going to actually directly literally kill her? No? Oh, so it might just completely wreck her life and re-trauma…