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Is the Growing Anti-Pope ‘Rad-Trad’ Community Poised to Become ‘Qatholics’? History Isn’t Encouraging

…nfiltration of the American Catholic Church is now giving way to a growing number of “Q-atholics.” PRRI’s March poll on QAnon’s influence in religious groups has been widely discussed, mostly with regard to evangelical Protestants, but 16% of Hispanic Catholics and 11% of white Catholics agreed with the core QAnon idea that the world is being run by a secret group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles running a global sex-trafficking operation. This sti…

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RD10Q: Living Without God

…fact about one-quarter of Americans are secularists. I explain that in the October 20 USA Today, and in the introduction to the book. C) “To not believe in God means that you think you’re smarter than believers and/or you hate religion.” In fact, believers and nonbelievers will both be around for a long time for come, and we need to work out ways of living together in mutual respect. This runs counter to a usual stance of many nonbelievers and bel…

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Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap

…and FARC rebels in November (after voters rejected the first agreement in October “against the backdrop of anti-LGBT rhetoric from religious and conservative groups that opposed it.” Bermuda: Religious groups preserve tax status Over the objections of some LGBT equality supporters, the government granted charity status last year to Preserve Marriage, “a Bermudan religious organization that openly argues for ‘traditional’ marriage,” reports Nonpro…

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Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

…ilies and American Religious Right groups. I reported on the initiative in October for Right Wing Watch: The proposal would allow member states to have more inclusive definitions of marriage within their borders, but they would not be recognizes under European Union law, and other countries would not be required to recognize them. More specifically, the Mum, Dad & Kids proposal would eliminate Article 2 (2) of a 2004 European Union directive on fr…

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Anti-Vaxx Cardinal Burke, Just Off the Ventilator, is Becoming a Living Anti-Abortion Martyr

…ets with the agenda of the Pope’s synod on the family, which took place in October of 2014. Burke felt that the Synod was too accommodating to divorced Catholics seeking annulment and left room for them to receive Holy Communion “something that would, in fact, constitute a change in Church teaching, which is impossible.” After the Synod, in a highly unusual move, Francis quickly demoted Burke, naming him to the ceremonial position of Cardinal Patr…

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Mars Hill May Be Disbanding, But Big Questions Remain

…nt resignation from the Mars Hill Church network he co-founded in 1996, on October 31, 2014 a notice appeared on the church’s website announcing that they’re essentially disbanding and that the campus locations will merge, become autonomous churches, or cease operation. Already two locations (Bellevue and Spokane) have filed the necessary paperwork with the WA Secretary of State (SOS) to become incorporated as separate entities. But even though th…

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Not a Review of Would You Baptise an Extraterrestrial?

…he excellent 2000 memoir Brother Astronomer. His newest title, released in October and co-authored with his fellow Jesuit Paul Mueller, is sometimes startlingly profound, despite its colloquial tone. Last month he also received the prestigious Carl Sagan Medal, given each year to a scientist who helps educate the public on planetary science. Not many living scientists are immersed so deeply in contemplative religion, nor are there many contemplati…

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Catholic Bishops Meeting For Family Synod; South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church OKs Gay Weddings, Ordination; Court in Malaysia Deals Setback To Transgender Advocates; Global LGBT Recap

Sunday, October 11 was National Coming Out Day. The Canada-based Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights is featuring Telling Our Stories, a video portrait series. These countries were selected for Envisioning’s research on two grounds: 1) a shared legacy of British colonial laws that criminalize same-sex intimacy and 2) partnerships with local grassroots LGBT organizations working for human rights…Through the voices of the 31 people in these 25 por…

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Respectability and Its Discontents: Missing the Louche, Loud, and Lovely World of Sexual Outlawry

…ans like Cleve Jones, who will lead a massive queer march on Washington in October. Evident in the powerful political emergence of the transgender community. Too many commentators like to say that the 1970s marked the “adolescence” of the queer movement and that the AIDS crisis of the ’80s saw a more mature movement emerge. Mostly that’s just a stupid thing to say. The 1980s showed beyond any doubt that we’re capable of enormous compassion, sacrif…

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“A Morman President?”

…Look what came in the mail—personalized—to my workplace yesterday: It’s starting to feel a lot like October. Discuss….

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