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Conservative French Catholics a ‘Rightwing Patriarchal Bunch’?; Indonesian Prez Decries Anti-LGBT Discrimination; Romanian Prez Warns Against ‘Religious Fanaticism’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…acks. The article quotes Drexel University’s Phillip Ayoub: Ayoub said populist politicians in Poland, Hungary and other European countries were presenting gay rights as a threat to family values. “That’s been promoted by key figures around the globe including the Russian state and the Orthodox church,” he said. As tensions with Brussels spiralled over Ukraine in 2014, some of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supporters took to calling Europe “G…

US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…“propaganda,” legislation that has been used to target activists and journalists in Russia. The bill’s sponsors promote it as a measure to “protect children from harmful information.” Member of Parliament Aldan Smayil said the legislation’s intent was ““to protect children from information that kills the feeling of warmth and humanity, which is harmful to the health and psyche, promotes violence and is, in short, spiritually devastating to the you…

Conservative Bishops Still Mad at Pope; Oligarch Launches Orthodox Network; Yoga Won’t Change Sexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…te Qantara, an effort by the German government and the Goethe Institute to promote dialogue with the Islamic world, has published an interview with South African Imam Muhsin Hendricks, in which Hendricks discusses his struggles to reconcile his faith and sexuality and his approach to interpreting the Koran. Italy: Rome Mayor May Take Marriage to European Court We have previously reported on efforts by the national government to shut down actions t…

Thanksgivukkah, With a Side of Christmas Envy

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ic piety, and Norman Rockwell-ian family celebrations. Long ago, it seems, South Park featured the young Jewish character Kyle Broslowski singing “It’s hard to be a Jew on Christmas.” Though he ultimate reconciles himself to his Jewishness, he also bemoans his social position. “I can’t sing christmas songs or decorate a christmas tree, or leave water out for rudolph ’cause there’s something wrong with me! My people don’t believe in Jesus Christ’s…

Book of Mormon Musical Creators Do Owe Mormonism a Big Thank You

By Joanna Brooks

The godless, potty-mouthed creators of South Park publicly thanked Mormonism’s founder Joseph Smith Jr. Sunday night, as they took home nine Tony Awards—including Best Musical. “You did it, Joseph,” Trey Parker gleefully declared, “You got the Tony!” And they should thank Joseph Smith. And all of the other famous and regular Mormon people who together have created the most rich and compelling new religion in the modern world. There would be no Bo…

Nebraska Latest State to Declare Open Season on Abortion Doctors

By Lauri Lebo

…ldn’t get any more, well, extreme. Earlier this month, Rep. Phil Jensen, a South Dakota Republican lawmaker, had proposed an amendment to a bill to expand the legal definition of justifiable homicide by adding language that said a homicide is permissible if committed by a person while resisting an attempt to harm that person’s “unborn child or the unborn child of that person’s spouse, partner, parent, or child.” Last week, the bill, which had made…

Apoplectic about Abortion: One Woman’s Emotional Roller Coaster

By Donna Schaper

…o even bring up the possibility (just raised, and thankfully dismissed, in South Dakota) of encouraging people to murder doctors who do abortions is to move beyond apoplectic, where even rage doesn’t protect our souls. I am now praying for my mental health as a mature woman. I am praying to learn what Jesus could do, which is to love my enemy and be good to those who hurt me. As an adult, and a woman, I know my rage is hurting me as much as it i…

A Comedy Writer Confronts ‘Mind-Shredding Evil’ in Uganda

By Frederick Clarkson

British comedy writer and celebrity journalist Jane Bussmann had a revelation while interviewing actor Ashton Kutcher at a Hollywood café: She really had to find something more meaningful to do. So she embarked on a Google quest for the most evil man in the world and found Joseph Kony, head of the Uganda-based Lord’s Resistance Army. “In a dramatic change of direction,” according to the jacket of the resulting book: [S]he set out for Africa to in…

Judge Rules Law Prohibiting Picketing Outside Military Funerals Unconstitutional

By Julie Ingersoll

…f families of the deceased to mourn in private against what is clearly political speech—although legal efforts to stop the church’s protests were not raised when the target was gays but only now the target is the families of soldiers. Of course, if you watch South Park (or if you are twenty-five or younger) you know that the meaning of the term “gay” has changed such that it is Phelps himself who is gay. Stay tuned for more developments as this qu…

“Outlaw” Christian writer, Reynolds Price, 1933–2011

By Joanna Brooks

…o single word condemning or seriously questioning American, not to mention Southern, racism from the pulpit of my family churches or that of Duke University in my childhood and youth. Nor do I think that any prior member of my family, in the major Protestant churches of North Carolina, can have heard any such word from at least the end of the Civil War till, say, the mid-1960s (and the cliché continues to hold—no hours in America are more segregat…