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Uganda’s Anti-Gay Bill Reintroduced in Parliament Today

By Peter Montgomery

…nfamous kill-the-gays bill has been reintroduced in Parliament. The bill stalled last year in the face of international pressure, including condemnation from the U.S. State Department, but its backers have never given up. The legislation and the violent anti-gay rhetoric promoted by its supporters have been part of a wave of anti-gay campaigns in Africa backed by American anti-gay evangelicals. That campaign has had deadly consequences: just over…

Vatican: Gay Rights Opponents are Real Victims

By Joseph M. Palacios

…l and well-funded voices of religious fundamentalism in the United States, Africa, and Latin America. There is an easy solution to the hierarchy’s increasing distance from the laity and ordinary clergy: just as the Church finally acknowledged slavery and racial segregation to be wrong and finally recognized full equality for black people, it can acknowledge that homophobia and sexual orientation discrimination and violence are wrong and recognize…

Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

…ars. With her graying hair in its bobbed cut, her twinkling blue eyes, her African jewelry, and her matter-of-fact presentation, she’s a beloved figure in Mormon feminism and a role model to young Mormon feminists. We sat down for breakfast in Boston recently. Our goal? To get the whole story of Mitt Romney’s most famous Mormon critic told once and for all. Her message? Yes, Mitt has issues, and no, he does not represent the whole Mormon story. __…

What Do Islamophobes Have in Common with the Taliban?

By John Feffer

…ll prevalent today. To understand Islamophobia in other parts of the world—South Asia, Africa—I would have had to immerse myself in the history and cultures of those parts of the world, and frankly I am just not familiar enough with those regions to undertake such an inquiry. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? The biggest misconception is that Islamophobes are only concerned about Muslim extremists. In fact, the most pro…

Can Atheist Billboards Kill Religion?

By Anthony B. Pinn

…spread of Pentecostalism in Brazil, Prosperity Gospel-styled ministries in Africa, and so on. A word of advice to atheists and humanists: deconstruct theistic models of religions—and expose the illogic and destructive thought and practice by those that have done so much graphic damage to human existence; but don’t be delusional concerning the outcomes of such effort.It might be cathartic for atheist and humanists to broadcast their disdain for rel…

Gay, Black, and Quaker: History Catches Up with Bayard Rustin

By Leigh Eason

…Americans. He maintained a vital lifelong interest in the independence of African nations, visiting Africa several times. He advocated for labor rights and was a longtime ally of union leader A. Philip Randolph, for whom he continued to work after the March on Washington. And, consistent with the long Quaker tradition of pacifism (“all wars and fightings with carnal weapons we deny”) Rustin was a tireless peace activist, working with both the Fel…

Inventing Jesus: An Interview with Bart Ehrman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ed by Albert Schweitzer, the famous humanitarian and medical missionary to Africa. When he was in medical school he wrote his most famous book, The Quest for the Historical Jesus, in which he argued this basic idea that Jesus was an apocalypticist. Since then, it’s been the dominant view among scholars—even though laypeople don’t have this view. You also assert that Jesus was wrong about some things. Well, he was wrong about the date, since the en…

GOP v. GOP on LGBT

By Peter Montgomery

…xample, or to raise children, or to be protected against discrimination on the job. Many religious right leaders vehemently opposed the Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v. Texas, which overturned state laws that made gay people de facto criminals. And many are actively urging politicians in Africa and elsewhere to make or keep homosexuality a criminal offense. Given the continuing influence that the religious right has in the GOP, as reflected in…

How to Prevent Ethnic Cleansing in Syria

By Haroon Moghul

…tions were gradually cleansed, frequently through blood and fire, while in South Asia, mere talk of new boundaries in the 1940s precipitated horrific violence. That process has begun in the Arab world, or at least threatens to, and we would do well to pay closer attention. There are, I would argue, three regions the Arab world can be loosely divided into. Across the northwest, we have the “Maghreb,” made up of large, overwhelmingly Muslim, sparsel…

High Ark: A Geologist on the True Meaning of Noah’s Flood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…described Noah’s flood. Their floods came from the sea in giant waves. In Africa, flood myths are somewhat more scarce, because floods themselves are rare, and they can be life-giving events. The Chinese flood stories are more about control of nature… the point is not “which one of these stories is true.” The point is to connect the stories to actual facts on the ground. One of my favorite places is the Valley of the Tsangpo River in China, where…