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Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he Soviet Union’s assault on the traditional family,” according to LifeSiteNews, which says: …the LGBT movement is opposed by many of the nation’s scholars in the Vilnius Forum, who perhaps value the Christian and Western intellectual tradition more than their Western counterparts because they had to defend it against brutal National Socialist or Communist suppression for decades in the 20th century. Two Christian leaders who led the resistance an…

New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers

By Austin Dacey

…ts Issue,” criticizing atheist activists in the U.S. for comparing their struggles to the struggles of women, African Americans, and GLBTQ citizens. On a global scale, however, secularism most certainly is an issue of civil rights and of human rights. And it’s important to note that the suppression of religious dissent online is being carried out not just by government authorities but also by private corporations. During the Innocence riots, for…

God’s Body, God’s Plan: The Komen Furor and Abortion as Black/Latino “Genocide”

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…Latino family planning and abortion rights advocates understood that reproductive justice was crucial to dismantling a racist power structure. It was true then, as it is now. …

Perry Taps Anti-Gay Crusader and “Prayer Lady” for Florida Team

By Sarah Posner

…the family, in the church and in government. Olsen founded the Tallahassee International House of Prayer after she “received a prophetic word through Cindy Jacobs that God was going to use her as a mighty weapon against the enemy through the prayer movement and that He was going to raise up a physical location that would be a place of refuge for people, pastors and missionaries to come and pray.” (emphasis in original). International House of Pray…

“I ‘Came Out’ For Marriage Equality”: An Anti-Gay Activist Changes His Mind

By Welton Gaddy

…of your work was in social media; I’m sure there was a constant stream of stories and appeals that you were exposed to… What broke through to you from all of that? Well, I did encounter a lot of the personal stories through the social media networks that I built. But that was, like I mentioned earlier, that was through a computer screen; it didn’t really have a personal touch to it. It kind of came across to me as some kind of a talking point, o…

Does the Right Even Know Why it’s so Threatened by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…some agency and power. Like magpies to shiny objects, we’re bombarded with stories about where she and Kelce are going and headlines speculating about her presence at the next football game, all of which distracts us from focusing on government representatives voting on bills that directly affect our lives, healthcare, and future. Yet despite her apparent lack of any meaningful engagement in the political arena, the Right’s conspiratorial hamster…

Why Beth Moore Walked It Back: This Election Season, It’s Tough Being an Evangelical Woman

By Kelsy Burke

…o pursue and achieve their own pleasure. The common thread in all of these stories, in the words of Moore: “It’s tough being a woman.” What this teaches us is that the polarizing language we so often use to describe our social world—secular/religious, feminist/traditional, progressive/conservative—may not actually reflect such disparate experiences of living in the world. Yet these divisions remain real, especially when it comes to the ways people…

Creationism Makes Its Mark

By Lauri Lebo

…device on Zachary, he said he didn’t know if it left a mark. Not Always a Rural Issue Despite the gruesome elements, the story is less unusual than at first appears. According to a poll published this spring in the Public Library of Science Biology, one in eight US high school teachers presents creationism as a valid alternative to evolution. The poll, conducted by Michael Berkman, a political scientist at Pennsylvania State University in Univers…

Love the Scholarship But Hate the Scholar’s Sin?: ‘Himpathy’ for an Academic Pedophile Enables a Culture of Abuse

By Stephen Young

…sinner, hate the sin. Yes, Cook opens by being “appalled” over “the recent news about Prof. Jan Joosten” and urges “compassion … to the innocent children.” But then the paths of sympathy flow to Joosten, not his thousands of victims who vanish behind the strangling shadow of empathy for a man who facilitated their abuse. This response is not a recipe for interrupting the culture of abusive men. It instead relies on a commonsense emotional posture…

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

By William E. Smith

…sizable number of dissenting presbyteries, but is it really accurate? The word “tradition” tends to connote a sense of fixity and stability, an impression that “this is the way marriage always was,” leaving “gay marriage” to represent a sharp and dramatic historical rupture. Yet this way of thinking is only possible because of a certain historical amnesia. In fact, it would be far more precise to characterize the historical “tradition” of Christi…