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‘Putin’s Children’ Push ‘Traditional Values’ in Latvia; Jewish Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ In Israel; Sikh Activist in UK Supports LGBT South Asians; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…beaches’ if you say you want to dismantle apartheid. “Repentance is about change of mind and renewal. “There is plenty of evidence of a change of mind, there is a genuine wanting to move on but if you want to move on you have to go somewhere different to where you are now.” He added: “In a lot of this I don’t think the Church has to change its doctrine of marriage – it just has to apply it to same-sex couples.” Nick Duffy at Pink New notes that t…

New Book Stokes Fear of a Muslim Europe

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…nerally the former that changes to suit the latter.” The key word here is ‘change.’ Change is deemed to be bad, if also inevitable. And here the culture clash is between two blocs. The European bloc is defined by its core values: “individualism, democracy, freedom, and human rights” (p. 83), unquestionable goods that Europe has defended in the past and that have not (and, according to Caldwell’s logic, cannot) have an equivalent in Islamic culture…

Captain America v. The Collective: Redemption in Tucson

By Christopher H. Evans

…his audience to hope that the tragedy in Tucson would claim our hearts and change our collective behavior. In his words: I believe we can be better. Those who died here, those who saved lives here—they help me believe we may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us. I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are no…

Will Gender and Sexuality Rend The Anglican Communion?

By Becky Garrison

…next 90 years? How would a shift of Anglican-Catholics to Vatican loyalty change the Catholic Church? The Anglican Church? What will all this church resistance to cultural change mean for equality in the future? As I have reported on RD previously, the media tends to greatly exaggerate the death of the Anglican Communion. In this instance, they made the mistake of assuming that UK Anglicans function like their US counterparts. A quick romp throug…

Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America

By Hussein Rashid and Murali Balaji

…nited States is due largely to how white America views change: If it deems change as a threat to power and privilege, it will use any means at its disposal to undermine that change. For example, laws and racial violence in the South after Reconstruction were meant to eliminate the political clout and enfranchisement of newly freed blacks. Similarly, the Asian Exclusion Act was meant to undermine the economic growth of Japanese and Chinese American…

The Best and the Brightest of the Catholic Bad Girls

By Frances Kissling

…t that the hierarchy only has the power you give it. What are they going to do? Tear out our fingernails? Don’t get me wrong, a lot of the good girls care about women, and being careful is not always a bad thing. We all have our theories of change; BBBGs tend to think it happens at the margins and the good Catholic girls, at least the ones who want change, think it happens at the top. Both are needed. But the last thing we need are men telling us…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…and inconvenient resistance; courageous and inconvenient resistance always changes things—even if that change is slow. As a Muslim, I draw great strength from my faith, which commands me to resist oppression, speak against injustice, and live as an example of God’s mercy and compassion—even [when] doing so is inconvenient, scary, isolating, and difficult. Tynan: I am cautiously optimistic about resistance over the long haul, but less so in the sho…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ransgender, we all have the moral responsibility to speak out. Stand up to change the world. Confront unreasonable pride, prejudice, cruelty and indifference,” Chow, the federation’s secretary general, told the crowd. Organisers said 8,900 took part, up from their estimate of 5,200 last year. Police said 4,700 people attended at the peak of the march, compared with 4,500 last year…. A spokesman for the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau sa…

Religious Right “Compassion” and Other Lies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o top it off you are, according to their god, worthy of death – unless you change. Yes, with that sort of ingrained bullying built into church and society, it would seem hopeless to think that you would have to live your entire life being the subject of condemning sermons, the butt of numerous jokes, and the target of laws banning you from doing many things others enjoy without a second thought – like marrying the person you love. What breeds the…

Obama & Hillary: “Signifying is worse than lying!”

By Tamura Lomax

…t, they must say something. How are we to envision their hopeful ideas of “change” (or here) if they don’t call the structural, institutional, individual, sexism, racism, and other “isms” embedded within the fabric of American culture on the carpet once and for all? Shouldn’t their ideas of “change” include a critique of the bigoted signifying acts, which seek to put both candidates (Obama and Clinton) in their “place” and keep them there? I certa…