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Trans Protections in India and Malta; Death-by-Stoning Law in Brunei; Church-State Divides on Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…er offences for which the death penalty could be applied under the revised code, which is due to come into force on 22 April,” the International Law Professor Blog reports. The new penal code has been condemned by the United Nations. England: Priest Defies Church Ban to Marry His Partner; University Bans Anti-Gay Muslim Speakers Last week Rev. Jeremy Pemberton, a priest with the Church of England, married his partner Laurence Cunnington in defianc…

Are We Living in a Simulation? Bad Religion, Bad Media Combine in New Doc, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’

By Shannon Trosper Schorey

…lation theory Mystwood is playing with—he is the universe, the universe is code, his code is part of the important bit, it’s all a simulation, and he’s ready to play. And, importantly, the rest of us might not matter. The language of programming in A Glitch in the Matrix is compelling and difficult. On the one hand, it is literal computer programming. On the other, intentional or not, the movie invokes the language of “deprogramming” that was comm…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ructing the public to report anyone they suspect of being a homosexual or “promoting homosexuality.” As in Uganda, reports AI, Zambian publications have been “outing” individuals. Zimbabwe: Mugabe Denounces Homosexuality (Again) Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 90th birthday by denouncing homosexuality, something he has done many times before. Russia: More on the World Congress of Families, Fears of Loss of Olympic Spotlight We…

Et Tu, Bibi?

By Sarah Posner

…Christians and usher in an Islamic caliphate.” As I’ve said before, Beck’s promotion of the caliphate paranoias is nothing new. Meanwhile, David Horowitz (whose “Islamofascism Awareness Weeks” on college campuses were agitating as early as 2007 about the supposed caliphate’s threats to Western Civilization and “Christendom“) is defending Beck. Just last year, at his Restoration Weekend, Horowitz’s Freedom Center hosted Christians United for Israel…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…use. Slater’s Family Watch International (FWI) has been deeply involved in promoting abstinence-and fidelity-only initiatives in Uganda and has praised Nigeria—where same-sex couples can face up to 14 years in prison or stoning at the hands of Sharia courts—as “a strong role model” for other regional governments “on how to hold on to their family values despite intense international pressure.” The Human Rights Campaign has reported that FWI’s annu…

An American Muslim Responds to Muslim Orgs Questioning Armenian Genocide

By Haroon Moghul

…l and direct means, the Armenian Christian population of eastern Anatolia. Today, Turkey, like much of Europe, is far more homogenous than it used to be. That’s the price of modernity. Ethnic cleansing, population transfer, slaughter. It’s ugly, but we should not look away. The Armenian population was systematically eliminated. That’s genocide. There’s no way around it. Responding to the assertion that it was a civil war, humanities professor Pete…

How Not To Defend Atheism

By Vlad Chituc

…fferent under polytheism than it is in 21st century monotheistic cultures. Today, there is a role for organized atheism—religion holds intellectual and moral authority in a way it previously hadn’t, and this provides something for a movement to organize against. Greece had no clergy or monks who were the gatekeepers to writing and learning, and priests had a very limited role. The only privileged knowledge they claimed access to was of the future,…

Could Orthodoxy Be Having its Vatican II Moment?

By Chrissy Stroop

…a, Jerusalem, and Cyprus, and from traditional Orthodox countries, Serbia, Romania, Greece, Albania, Poland, and the Czech Lands and Slovakia, but also hierarchs who serve in parts of the globe not usually associated with Orthodox Christianity, from Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and from North America. In and of itself, such a universal gathering represents a singular and significant event in the life of the Church demonstrating the new global rea…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…practice of full-immersion infant baptism, including a petition urging the Romanian church to change its practice. The Romanian Patriarch has said no such changes will occur. But neither the incident (no matter how tragic) nor the reaction (no matter how expected) is what I’m interested in here. What interests me is how differently the incident has been reported in the Western media than in traditionally Orthodox countries, and the ways in which t…

No, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is Not Calling for Peace — In Fact, He’s Putin’s Accomplice

By Katherine Kelaidis

…an unprovoked attack and a violation of human rights. Patriarch Daniel of Romania called the violence, “ a war launched by Russia against a sovereign and independent state.” Even Metropolitan Onufry, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that’s still tied to the Moscow Patriarchate—literally, Kirill’s Man in Kyiv—compared the Russian invasion to Cain killing his brother Abel and addressed Putin directly. This difference has not gone unnoticed…