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Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ciety,” he said. CNN traces the start of the backlash to early 2016 when a number of political leaders began making “unprompted attacks on Indonesia’s LGBT community.” It notes that conservative Islam is a growing political force, evident in the arrest and conviction of Jakarta’s Christian governor on blasphemy charges. The report says human rights activists have been disappointed by President Joko Widodo’s “lackluster” defense of LGBT people. Sal…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…waste American money to buy their expensive oil when we could have our own cheap oil?” “Why is he trying to make rich people poor?” “How is it right to punish rich people for working hard and realizing the American Dream?” It was late on a Friday night and I was tired, so I half-heartedly responded by explaining that there are other factors to consider in every charged question she’d been armed with. But I wondered, “Why the hell was the Salvation…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…llar annual budget is funded almost exclusively by ticket sales, and these tickets are not cheap (ranging this year, for example, from $210-$300 depending on time of purchase). This pays for the basic infrastructure as well as expenses like a hefty per-person/per-day use fee charged by the Bureau of Land Management. In addition, a significant portion of each year’s budget is set aside to fund many of the large-scale art installations various parti…

Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy

By Jonathan Root

…oal now is both “preaching the gospel” and “to get people ready.” But this twin mission runs into a problem—and a sales opportunity—because “there’s only four companies that make twenty-year shelf life food.” Of these four, only two pass Bakker’s supposed quality requirements. Bakker’s show is dedicated to making sure you have plenty of opportunities to buy these top-grade survival rations. The up-front costs are high. For example, the Time of Tro…

Religious Hostility to Gay Nigerians; The Pope’s Visit To Africa; Ireland’s Religious Schools Can’t Discriminate Against Gays; Orthodox Church in Georgia Leads Anti-Gay Forces; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ho have to deal with it on a regular basis,” she said. “I have already had phone calls from irate family members: ‘how could I perform the ceremony, didn’t I know this was wrong and not biblical’. I have, in my studies, a different interpretation of a lot of what people say the Bible says. “I believe in the whole Jesus concept. You love people and there is no judgment. They have their belief system and I have mine and I’m living true to mine.” Dom…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…ional or decadent. That said, Neiwert slams those who misuse the term for “cheap political theater,” writing that “inappropriate comparisons tend to obscure the reality of what’s taking place.” So what is the reality? Neiwert recently spoke with Religion Dispatches about violent rhetoric, imprecatory prayer, and eliminationism. Religion Dispatches: You begin the book talking primarily about the excesses of media personalities like Rush Limbaugh,…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…ward pressure that social media places on the quality of online content, a number of news articles did manage to connect the dots between Ferguson and the discriminatory housing policies put in place after World War II. As I have argued before, new technologies tend to augment existing systems of privilege. Yet there is reason to hope that digital media may yet catalyze a more just future. Dear Prudence Before jumping from his capsule, with all ey…

Gay Pride Weekend Draws Mormon Allies and Equality Supporters

By Joanna Brooks

…rejections. They taught us a great lesson on love and forgiveness.” At the Twin Cities Pride parade, 30 LDS people—5 gay Mormons and 25 straight LDS supporters—also marched as Mormon Allies, behind a banner reading, “Where love is, there God is also.” Twin Cities Mormon Allies organizer John Gustav-Wrathall reported that an older gay man came forward to take a picture of an LDS marcher with a “Sorry we’re late” sign. He approached the marcher, exp…

LifeSite Complains that Local Boy Scout Chapter is Not Homophobic Enough

By Katie Toth

…out to all young people and have a positive influence.” York said that the Twin Cities-based Scout council, one of the nation’s largest, will continue to follow a 12-year-old “inclusive leadership selection” practice. “Every council is reflective of their community,” he said. Which makes sense. Large organizations express their identity differently in different places. No matter how hard you try (or don’t try) to enforce a top-down organizational…

Glenn Beck Hijacks It’s a Wonderful Life

By Lauri Lebo

…an of It’s a Wonderful Life, which is set in the fictional town of Bedford Falls. Sure, it’s overly sentimental—Capra-corn, as it’s often called. But there are some terrific themes in that movie. Dare I even say it? Terrific progressive themes. So I was curious how Beck was going to claim this movie for his own. Well, according to Beck, it’s because Wilmington has spurned all federal and state assistance money. To deal with the crushing unemployme…