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O(Pinn)ion: Defending Obama’s Choice

By Anthony B. Pinn

…ssues. This invitation, while distasteful in a variety of ways, is a clear sign of Obama’s commitment to compromise, to common ground. Yes, I know; an explanation for this viewpoint—coming from a religious humanist—is in order. Here goes: Obama’s claim to be concerned with change, with the advancement of the country based on shared concerns and vision, had to be played out in more than the political arena. It also had to be true in terms of more p…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of Panama belongs to all those who live in it. From the Mayor’s Office we promote respect for diversity #CeroDiscriminacion.” Armenia: Justice Ministry says couples married in other countries should be recognized The Justice Ministry has confirmed that a same-sex couple married abroad should receive the same benefits in that marriage. China: Targets of sweeping new censorship rules for online media include homosexuality The Chinese government imp…

Pope Francis Walks With LGBTQ People, One Step Forward, Big Steps Back

By Kaya Oakes

…the Vatican had to deny the visit was an endorsement of Davis’ refusal to sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples. On the same trip, however, Francis also had a private meeting with his former student Yayo Grassi and Grassi’s boyfriend. In a video of the meeting, Francis recalls having previously met Grassi’s boyfriend in Rome and gives them both hugs and cheek kisses. The Vatican press office had to scramble yet again and emphasize that the…

It’s Not Just Evangelicals Who Should Worry About World Vision

By Sarah Posner

…n their first letter to Attorney General Eric Holder in September 2009, 58 signatories argued that the Bush OLC’s interpretation of RFRA “provides for a blanket override of statutory nondiscrimination provisions” and “is erroneous and threatens core civil rights and religious freedom protections.” Further: The OLC Memo wrongly asserts that RFRA is “reasonably construed” to require that a federal agency categorically exempt a religious organizatio…

Warpaint: What Does George W. Bush See in His “Portraits of Courage”?

By Sarah Sentilles

…aily life with an altered body and mind in a country with very few visible signs we’re still at war. This is not a new or unusual storyline to find in books about war. But what makes Bush’s book different, what makes his paintings impossible to stop thinking about, is that the artist who created these images is the very person who started the wars that continue to reverberate in the lives and bodies of the people he paints. In Laura Bush’s forewor…

4 Life Lessons from Episode Two of Preachers’ Daughters

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…t not to the point of embarrassing her and her boyfriend by demanding they sign an explicit written contract detailing which behaviors are off-limits. [cough] VICTORIA! [/cough]) Going by the second definition, Teryn, the 30-year-old Koloff daughter, has the healthiest boundaries of the bunch. When her mom, Victoria, is barraging 20-year-old Kendra Koloff for information on what “boundaries” (in the first sense) she’s put in place with her boyfrie…

No Space for American Islam?

By Mark Bergen

…a shadowy leader with insidious motives and relationships. One man held a sign addressed to Bloomberg: “Don’t you know the Mosque has radical ties?” A woman at the hearing railed against a Cordoba Initiative project called the “Sharia Index.” During her statements, an advisor to Imam Feisal explained the project to me. Modeled after the UN Index, it was intended as a comprehensive measurement of quality of life standards in Muslim countries. It w…

A Moral For Holy Week 2010 in the Christian Tragedy of Mark’s Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…at all possible, to pass him by. None of the men who accompany him see any sign that anything is wrong, and so they sleep through Jesus’s clear warning of an approaching storm. Jesus is betrayed by one of his own closest followers, a man who hands him over to the crowd, poignantly enough, with a kiss. The torture to which the man is subject is revealed to us in an unblinking and shocking way. The Roman administrators go out of their way to break J…

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…ventually, a federal judge would strike down the teaching of intelligent design as unconstitutional, noting that it was merely revamped creationism. Intelligent design advocacy groups would retreat and lick their wounds only to reemerge, as they have done recently, pushing for new anti-evolution concepts in the public schools under the guise of “strengths and weakness” and “academic freedom” bills. But that would be more than a year away. At the t…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…epressive society. In March, Lene Segbo, the minister of health refused to sign documents necessary to open the hospital and revoked the licenses of doctors associated with Clitoraid. “Medical organizations should be focused on saving lives and not advertising their religion in an attempt to convert vulnerable people,” he declared. Clitoraid has responded with a campaign of protests and petitions and, in an interview with Afriquinfos, Boisselier b…