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Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ge to be illegal. More from Associated Press: The 5-to-4 decision by the nine-judge panel of the Constitutional Court rejected the arguments of a conservative group, the Family Love Alliance, which believes Indonesia is being swamped by immoral behavior, fueled by the internet and social media. Members of the group wept as it became clear the court would not side with them. Rights advocates had feared judges would criminalize tens of millions of p…

First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…has disputed reports of apparitions at the site, the Holy See’s stance is nearly neutral: the Vatican will not declare an official pilgrimage to Medjugorje, as that would indicate formal approval. For a hierarchy with such a rigid reputation, the Church at the institutional level approaches these local devotions with an interestingly live-and-let-live attitude. Still today, most saints who get beatified and canonized are not big-shot Mother There…

How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes

By Patricia Miller

…ollar Congress,” charging Republicans with overtaxing Americans to spend money on unneeded, big-ticket items. They massacred them in the mid-terms and sent Grover Cleveland back to the White House in 1892. Suddenly in charge again after running against the tariff and the Silver Act, they, like today’s GOP, were in the hook to make good on their promises of returning America to better, simpler days without government interference. Then, the worst d…

Not a ‘Weenie-A** Lodge’: James Ray Trial Begins

By Johnny P. Flynn

…ust after the tragedy Melinda Martin, a former employee of Ray’s, told ABC news that the scene was so chaotic that EMT’s thought at first they had arrived at a more ominous event. “There was vomiting, you know, moaning and crying, and it looked like a mass suicide. It looked like people were on their way out. It was crazy.” Soon after the incident, Lakota spiritual leaders filed suit against the United States, the US Attorney’s office, Angel Res…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…Steve Emerson’s nonprofit Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation funneled nearly $3.4 million to a related for-profit entity (an arrangement that raised eyebrows of tax experts), but that other “experts” in spreading Islamophobia draw big salaries from their nonprofits. Other frequent witnesses in Islamophobic documentaries, including Woolsey, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, have h…

Yet Another Survey Shows ‘Nones’ Growth at Record Levels

By Elizabeth Drescher

…es on religion, spirituality, meaning-making, and self-realization in my Nones Beyond the Numbers narrative survey.* *The survey results will contribute to three intertwined research projects I am currently conducting on the meaning-making practices of Nones. The first, sponsored in part through the Social Science Research Council’s “New Directions in the Study of Prayer” initiative, will explore the plurality of Nones who say they regularly eng…

Sovereign Grace Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Just Got More Complicated

By T.F. Charlton

…ruitful ministry of the gospel over many decades.” Dever recently told Mahaney’s new congregation in Louisville, Kentucky that they should “thank God for [Mahaney]” and that being taught by him is a “privilege” that members “don’t fully grasp.” This stance reflects not only the lengthy friendships and ministry ties with Mahaney pointedly boasted by the authors of both statements, but also by concerns for evangelical reputation and organizational i…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…al-Qaeda]. That’s not including your own extended family: they are often enemy number one.” McDougall reports that religious police use social media to entrap people, and rely on informants. Knowing who the enemy is has become increasingly difficult for gay people. From the ranks of its own religious police force, Isis is believed to have deployed undercover agents to entrap those who have been accused by others of being gay. Elmo, a doctor now w…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…ndly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King (R-NY), minus 45 years f…

Are Conservative Churches Really Winning by Being More Orthodox?

By Daniel Schultz

…that Catholics tend to be more fertile than mainline Protestants, the topline numbers mask a complex underlying situation. According to the Pew Forum’s Religious Landscape Survey, since 1972, Catholics have been about 25% of the total population in the United States. However, white Catholics have been in serious decline during the same period. It’s only lopsided margins of Catholics among immigrant groups (especially Hispanics) that has propped th…