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Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…aturday I will attend a family program. This I consider to be my duty.” Slovakia, as a rather conservative and predominately Roman Catholic country, currently does not recognize same-sex partnerships, and defines marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman. The proposal would strengthen the already conservative status quo and make it hard for any progressive legislation in the future. Slovak people were asked whether they agree with…

Malta Adopts Marriage Equality Over Objections of Catholics and Evangelicals; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of the “Freedom Bus,” which is part of a campaign that CitizenGO, a conservative Spanish organization, has launched with the support of evangelical and Catholic organizations, clashed near the presidential palace. Neo-Nazi groups are among those who reportedly took part in the protests. A number of people were injured during the clashes. Activists also claimed they were attacked by religious groups on the street who accused them of pedophilia and…

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph: The Disgusting Religious Defense of Roy Moore

By Daniel Schultz

…ous purity sets in, that virgins became those who have never taken part in vaginal intercourse. Even so, a notorious anti-sex crab like Augustine addresses rape as a cause for pastoral care, not judgment, and Aquinas flatly declares that rape victims cannot be said to have surrendered their virginity. This seems relevant. Mary’s sexuality belongs to her, not Joseph, not even God, because only she can choose to give her whole heart. Without that ch…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…litical landscape. Its strength has never been in the raw numbers of conservative evangelicals and conservative Catholics. It has always been in the breadth and depth of its cultural and political organizing capacity. These developments are further evidence of that. This was always the avenue to power. What we’re now seeing is some of what they intend to do with that power now that they’ve got more than they ever thought they would achieve in thei…

‘Religious Liberty’ and the Origins of the Evangelical Persecution Complex

By Randall J. Stephens

…“any comment short of adulation is considered a smear . . .” Today’s conservative evangelicals see any straying from what they consider God’s plan for America as a kind of national apostasy—the liberty of Bible believers was and is under threat. In this fear they bear the imprint of Hargis and his contemporaries. In January of 1963, for example, the Christian Crusade organized an anti-Communist rally in Boston. With vocal opposition in the region,…

Liberty University’s In-House Conversion ‘Therapist’ Retires, But Will the Christian School Cease This Discredited Practice?

By Lucas Wilson

…not hurt students anymore with his lies and deceit.” Coomer, now living in Richmond, VA, underwent several years of conversion therapy with Emerick, but what stands out in his memory is the emotional manipulation: “He would guilt trip me into confessing my ‘sin.’ And he always addressed me as ‘kid,’ like he was being sweet or something. And he often said, ‘I love you, kid.’” Tyler Milton, a 2016 graduate who also underwent conversion therapy at Li…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…h buildings, starting right around the same time. Talk about luxury on the cheap; it’s hard to deny a feeling of similarity. (The tower is to the Burj as a certain toupee is to hair: might the Trump Tower inadvertently mimic an Islamic motif?) The regal twin palm trees in the foreground are the world’s tallest, at some 3,500 feet each. Recently a falling coconut crushed an entire apartment complex, punching a massive hole that has filled up with…

“As Orthodox As They Come”: A Backstage Conversation With Rob Bell

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…striction at a deep energetic level.” “Institutions arc towards self-preservation,” he said, while “innovations happen in garages.” During the VIP event, Bell praised the startup mentality and told self-deprecating stories. He somehow managed to come across as the consummate outsider while relating a Deepak Chopra anecdote to a room of hundred-dollar ticket holders. We sat down with Bell in the green room an hour before the formal show. In person,…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…sia under Putin. The WCF website has featured a quote from local sponsor Levan Vasadze saying, “The West is attacking our Christian culture with atheism, new forms of socialism and sexual radicalism – worse than what we saw during the last 25 years when we were part of the Soviet empire.” Georgia’s Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II is scheduled to address the gathering. In an in-depth preview of the conference, EurasiaNet’s Giorgi Lomsadze notes that the…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of the ceremony, that she could not perform the marriage, and no one was available to provide an explanation…. The head of the Civil Registry office, Guadalupe Adriana Nevarez, said there were inconsistencies in the signatures of two of the witnesses, and that there was problem with a federal identification document. The couple and their supporters said the city’s position was simply the latest example of the city’s unwillingness to perform a sam…