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Why Romney Won’t Stand up to the Bigotry of Bryan Fischer

By Joanna Brooks

…sed mastermind of last summer’s white Christian supremacist mass-murder in Norway, as an “accurate” thinker. And called for the deportation of Muslims. And described Nazism as the invention of “homosexual thugs.” And blamed the genocide of American Indians on the alleged immorality of indigenous people. And, most recently, Fischer argued that the First Amendment does not apply to non-Christians, including (and perhaps especially) Mormons. That’s…

What Makes a Human Bomb Tick?

By Gordon Haber

…use for what Lankford writes of Anders Breivik, who massacred 77 people in Norway last year, most of them teenagers: Instead of trying to prevent Europe’s “cultural and demographical suicide,” Breivik should have listened to the King of Pop. As Michael Jackson explained in his critically acclaimed song “Man in the Mirror,” sometimes the best way you can help others is to “take a look at yourself, and then make a change.” The upshot is that The Myt…

Global LGBT Recap: Ugandan Law Unleashes Vigilantes, Anti-Gay Americans Want to Boost Homophobia Exports

By Peter Montgomery

…okha, the reverend who works with churches and mosques throughout Kenya to promote acceptance of gays. He said he and fellow activists spend most of their time convincing families of LGBT individuals that “Having an LGBT child is not a curse from God.” Makokha said Muslims “are a bit radical when it comes to the dialog on sexuality and faith. The Koran says (homosexuals) should be stoned to death.” But unlike in Nigeria, Kenyan Muslims do not act…

Holy Hipster Mark Driscoll Continues to Fall

By Becky Garrison

…g the top 10 in religion in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway. In January 2012, he became a #1 New York Times bestselling author heavily promoted by his publisher, until Mars Hill removed this designation from his bio following revelations that he had paid ResultSource, a marketing firm that “creates”bestsellers. At present, Driscoll seems to have been dropped by his agent, and his relationship with his current publisher Tyndal…

Imagine No Religion: Sustaining Morality Without God

By Konstantin Petrenko

…The one advantage of religiously-based morality—the fact that it claims to promote “absolute” or “objective” values—is also its greatest weakness. For one, religious ethics require belief in certain theological doctrines or sacred texts, limiting moral discourse to one religious tradition and excluding the majority of humanity. In an increasingly pluralistic and globalized society, religiously-based ethics cannot produce any sort of moral consensu…

Do We Owe Human Rights to the Christian Right?

By Austin Dacey

…favor of the family. The Council also rejected an amendment, introduced by Norway, observing that the primary concern of international law is the rights of individuals, not collectives, and that individuals need protection from violations of their rights perpetrated within families. Resolution A/HRC/29/L.25 is, in the words of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, or C-Fam (designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an “anti-LGBT h…

What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?

By Bill Berkowitz

…s presence, establishing bases in Turkey, Liberia, Indonesia, Germany, and Norway. Can you describe how Servant Group International operates? What is especially distinctive about SGI—and its partners—is its development of a military model of evangelism (‘spiritual warfare’), which includes covert action tactics (‘tentmaking’), intelligence gathering (‘spiritual mapping’). They have an ingrained animosity to Islam, and their Dominionist ‘Kingdom No…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…id showcased anti-LGBT rhetoric and conspiracy theories. Mexico: President promotes constitutional guarantee of LGBT equality; Mormon Church objects As Mexico’s complicated march toward nationwide marriage equality continues, President Enrique Peña Nieto wrote in Huffington Post about initiatives he introduced in May to establish a constitutional right to marry, “independently of gender identity or sexual orientation,” as part of a broader effort…

Secularist Activists Are Being Murdered in Bangladesh: An Ongoing Crisis Causes Many to Flee

By Michael De Dora

…utul and his family left Bangladesh, perhaps forever. Tutul is now safe in Norway thanks to the International Cities of Refuge Network. Like Abir, Tutul remains hopeful: “I hope for a secular and democratic Bangladesh, where people have secure life and enjoy freedom of speech, freedom to publish, and freedom to express.” Still—what has he and his family lost? And what is Bangladesh losing as a result of this unchecked mayhem? Who Will Remain? As t…

Updated: Netflix’s Gay Jesus Upsetting Brazilian Christians Has a Centuries-Old History

By Bernard Schweizer

…well as widespread calls for boycotts in some southern states. Ireland and Norway banned the movie altogether. I recount this history (and much more related to the theme of religion and humor), in my recent book Christianity and the Triumph of Humor, where I also trace the most frequently invoked motifs of irreverent comedy to their antecedents, some reaching all the way back to the Middle Ages. Indeed, some comical ideas surrounding the annunciat…