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Black Media Fails Its LGBTQ Community

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…erican sister. While police brutality is both unbridled and rampant in the African American community, this story carries a special shock. When an African American woman is hit repeatedly by an officer with with handcuffs wrapped around his knuckles, and an African American nurse goes directly to the offending white officer to see if he’s okay we get a hint of another cultural marker—Johnson is a transsexual. Monica Roberts, founder of the African…

Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

By Robert P. Jones

…2023 American Values Survey found that 44% of White evangelical Protestant Republicans preferred Trump to be the 2024 nominee for president, compared to 23% who preferred DeSantis and 5% who preferred Haley. Against this backdrop of White evangelical support for Trump, a broad, unsupported hypothesis has re-emerged that Trump’s stalwart continued support among White evangelicals can be explained by his strength among what I’ll abbreviate as WEINO’…

Double Helix: Science & Religion as Cultural Kindling; A Response to The New Republic

By Arri Eisen

…dling and fires sell books—but let’s relax and go a bit deeper. In The New Republic, Jerry Coyne, a respected professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago, reviews two books that attempt to reconcile science and religion: Karl Giberson’s Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution (HarperOne, 2009) and Kenneth Miller’s Only A Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul (Viking, 2009). Coyne’s own contri…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…nimated video about the role American evangelical activists have played in promoting anti-gay policies in Russia. Dominican Republic: Religious resistance to gay ambassador We reported last week on the response of some religious leaders in the Dominican Republic to the appointment of openly gay U.S. ambassador James “Wally” Brewster and his decision to meet with local LGBT activists along with his husband. Andrés Duque at Blabbeando reports on con…

Federal Panel Upholds DC Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Wright’s logic about “our republic form of democracy.” We don’t live in a “republic form of democracy,” we live in a republic. Now, if we lived in a democracy, then we’d all have the right to majority rules, where people could just vote willy-nilly on everybody else’s right to do this or that. But, we live in a republic, which is a representative form of government. The people elect representative bodies that are guided by laws and regulations—lik…

‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…or the overturning of Roe—and now, he and others were feeling abandoned by Republicans, in light of the recent attempt by Republicans to appear, at least publicly until the election, less draconian in their anti-abortion stance, given the public backlash against their policies. Amid recent chatter that Republicans might soften the language on abortion, the RNC released its 2024 platform two days ago which gives zero indication that the GOP has “so…

Show Me the Way of the Hebrews: The Making of an African American Rabbi

By J. Lester Feder

…enior thesis is the only in-depth history of the congregation.) A group of African Americans who thought of themselves as the children of Israel yet who worshipped Jesus Christ—this is not as odd as it may at first sound. Around the turn of the 20th century, some of the children their forefathers’ white masters. The Hebrew bible’s exodus narrative had long made it central to black theology, making Judaism a logical model for crafting a new faith f…

We Were Here Before September 11th

By Amina Wadud

…ilm produced and directed by a young African-American (whom I knew when he was a toddler), is opening up in Chicago. It opened last week in New York to grave reviews and a few awards. If you are near by I hope you check it out: “Mooz-lum”, the movie. It is not the story of every African-American Muslim but it is a story about African-American Islam, in one of its many reflections. We are here. We were here before September 11, 2001. Since we survi…

Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…convincing was this product launch, complete with Facebook ad campaign and promotional website including a promo video that went viral, that a number of customers were disappointed and angry to find out that it was a fake. Part of the confusion seems to have been that the launch occurred on March 28, not the customary April 1. But just as important was consumer demand. Enough people were convinced by the slick product rollout that they actually wa…

Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in the Maldives under Sharia law, and with the publication of a new Penal code in 2014, also under national law, and may be punishable by death penalty. The new Penal code transposes into national law provisions which were previously just in Sharia law and applicable to Muslim citizens. In any case these new provisions have not been put into legal practice so far and there is no record of trials for homosexual practices in the aftermath of the ne…