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Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that this is not just an Africa problem,” said Kerry Kennedy during a telephone interview from New York. “It’s a problem wherever it happens in the world.” From the story: Uganda is among the more than 70 countries in which homosexuality remains criminalized. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in January signed a draconian bill into law that, among other things, punishes those who enter into a same-sex marriage with up to 14 years in prison. Th…

Do Not Have Sex with This Man

By Sarah Sentilles

…ting their wings to travel away from me. Listen. Can you hear them? Can you hear the spider spinning a web at the corner of my window? Can you hear the elephants, the polar bears, the blue whales, the wolves, the lions, tigers, cheetahs, gorillas, salamanders, frogs, coyotes, cougars? I hear them all. Enough. Enough. Enough….

Goodbye to Amy Winehouse, Living Celebrity Dead

By Mathew Schmalz

…y—an abusive marriage, drug use, and omnipresent paparazzi—were a midnight-blue halo of sanctification. There was a tension in her singing as in her life: her vocal stylings were bright and dark; her days and nights glamorous and desolate. Offerings at her shrine are a material currency in which we buy back some of that dark energy—an energy found in the freedom of contradiction. When I first lived as a student in India 25 years ago, I went to a t…

Christians and Cage Fighting, From “Fight Church” to Mark Driscoll

By Jessica Johnson

…ective, whereby the violence of MMA is reduced to bloodied faces against a blue mat, screeching ambulance sirens, and tough guys who describe their motive to train in terms of defending their wives and bringing people to Jesus at any cost. Unfortunately, any physical or emotional weaknesses that index vulnerability or risk outside of entering a cage with body coiled ready to strike is not balanced by the cinematographic artistry used during the fi…

The Night of the Farting Dog: An Atheist in Freefall

By Beatrice Marovich

…ry. He glided onto the small stage in an oxford shirt layered under a navy blue sweater. His tidy khaki pants were crisply ironed and his blonde hair was swept neatly back and to the side. The effect was a Joel Osteen-ish confidence and charisma. But, as became clear over the course of his tortured, animated performance, Salzman is different; he’s a more vulnerable, more contemplative (and, let’s be frank, far kookier) sort of atheist. In fact, al…

Anti-Gay, Anti Catholic Evangelical Sworn In As Mayor of Rio; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…In 1970, just 5% of Brazilians considered themselves evangelical. Now that number is closer to one-fourth. Fundamentalists have grabbed power in Brazil’s Congress, forming a voting bloc that’s throttled anti-discrimination and hate-crime laws: Lower House President Eduardo Cunha, who claimes Brazil is “under attack” by gays, is trying to overturn the 2013 ruling that brought marriage equality. Jair Bolsonaro, a prominent congressman, recommended c…

Religion Scholars Convene, Have Nowhere to Sit

By Ivan Strenski

…ting that Apple sprinter woman to charge down the main aisle and smash Big Blue’s telescreen. They militate against the informal socializing that feeds intellectual life. Third, Convention-Center-World has yet to learn that the 18th amendment was repealed in 1933. Zoning laws, eliminating alcohol consumption on city property, of course, gives CC-world an out. But, this doesn’t change the fact that CC-world refuses to recognize the fact that schola…

Student Expelled from Sorority for Transphobia Illustrates the Problem with Evangelical Understanding of Pluralism

By Chrissy Stroop

…public figure, in a transphobic TikTok video in which Hines sported a baby blue Alpha Phi sweatshirt. For its part, the leadership of Hines’s sorority responded to her TikTok post by reminding her that the sorority’s commitment to “a pluralistic society” includes refraining from discrimination “on the basis of age, race, sexual orientation, national origin, religious preference, or disability.” A few days later, the sorority’s judiciary board held…

London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y reviewed MyRepublica.com published a brief history of advances in the rights of LGBT people following the establishment of the Blue Diamond Society in 2001. …

In the Name of the Father, Son, and Q: Why It’s Important to See QAnon as a ‘Hyper-Real’ Religion

By Marc-André Argentino

…y QAnon followers as evidence of the effects of Adrenochrome; The Matrix’s blue pill/red pill scene is used to frame the choice to either be a part of the Great Awakening or to remain “asleep”; and the slogan “Where We Go One, We Go All” is from the film White Squall, whose official YouTube trailer’s comments section is filled with QAnon followers (the top-rated comment, with over 5,000 up-votes, reads “Thumbs up if Q sent you here”). The propheti…