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Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ntment, they didn’t include the Anglican Church of Canada as they should.” Greece: Orthodox Bishop Says Treat Gays With Respect and Honor, Not Violence and Rejection When Greece voted last year to legalize same-sex civil union, it did so over “fierce opposition from conservative elements in the county, like the Greek Orthodox Church,” writes James McDonald for Out Traveler. Indeed, as we noted last month, Bishop Ambrosios, Metropolitan of Kalavryt…

In Russia It Is Now a Crime to Insult Someone’s Religious Feelings

By Chrissy Stroop

…Paul Sturges, for example, made the following conclusion about the case of Greece: “Complaints leading to prosecution under Article 199 seem to have always concerned the Orthodox Church rather than the other tolerated religions. These blasphemy laws in Greece effectively serve the purpose of integrating church and state and have been used to the detriment of free speech and cultural manifestations on a regular basis.” Unfortunately, a similar outc…

Occupy the Greek Orthodox Church

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…important piece of the puzzle that has not been widely reported outside of Greece. And it involves the Orthodox Church. What has been reported is important, to be sure. The IMF’s and EU’s motives to date have been limited to ensuring that the troubled European banks most heavily implicated in bad Greek debt get repaid. Their shocking austerity measures—pensions cut in half, retirement age increased, huge cuts in social programs, education and heal…

Muslim Stowaways
on the European
Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…ica in 1995 (Apparently, accession to the EU isn’t what it used to be). In Greece, elected members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn refused to stand when Muslim parliamentarians took the oath of office on the Qur’an. Yet read Christopher Caldwell on Europe, and you will find that Muslims are the continent’s “most significant chronic problem.” In “Europe’s Other Crisis,” his most recent contribution to The New Republic, Caldwell presents what may seem a…

Wiccan Prayer in Iowa House Highlights Religious Freedom Problem

By Joseph Laycock

…spiritually evil. This incident occurred almost one year after the Town of Greece v. Galloway decision in which the Supreme Court ruled that “sectarian” prayers before government meetings are constitutional, so long as no one is coerced to participate and the government doesn’t deliberately exclude representatives of other faiths from taking their turn to offer the prayer. In a dissenting opinion, Elena Kagan argued that sectarian prayers are inap…

Predatory Prayer: When Does “Please” Not Mean “Please”?

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…the meaning of “coercion” in the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway, which said the upstate New York town’s practice of praying before meetings could continue because the local governing body wasn’t coercing anyone to participate. In a plurality opinion, Supreme Court Justice Kennedy said you can’t coerce someone to pray “merely by exposing” them to prayer. There has to be something more. But in Greece, board members didn…

Bishop Demands One Million Euros From Gay Group

By Kate Childs Graham

…amation.” Bishop Seraphim of Peiraeus, a diocese of the Orthodox Church of Greece, is asking for one million euros in reparations. His case? Well, the plaintiff stated in an article that the LGBT movement is “morally corrupt, obsessed with satisfying their psychopathological deviation and who have made a life value out of the faeces elimination tract.” Then, a Greek LGBT organization called Synthesis— the defendants—issued a statement in response…

Burying the Future: Youth Violence in Chicago

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…Walcott Avenue to be exact). It’s become a statistic to keep track of: the number of school-age children who are murdered, sometimes on school grounds, during a school year, which means the academic year is properly hyphenated. The punctuation gives bone to the unholy facts, but it also creates another set of suburban record-keeping to conjure with. In other words, it makes the reality more abstract, a bit easier to study as citizens. I teach in D…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…h buildings, starting right around the same time. Talk about luxury on the cheap; it’s hard to deny a feeling of similarity. (The tower is to the Burj as a certain toupee is to hair: might the Trump Tower inadvertently mimic an Islamic motif?) The regal twin palm trees in the foreground are the world’s tallest, at some 3,500 feet each. Recently a falling coconut crushed an entire apartment complex, punching a massive hole that has filled up with…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ciety,” he said. CNN traces the start of the backlash to early 2016 when a number of political leaders began making “unprompted attacks on Indonesia’s LGBT community.” It notes that conservative Islam is a growing political force, evident in the arrest and conviction of Jakarta’s Christian governor on blasphemy charges. The report says human rights activists have been disappointed by President Joko Widodo’s “lackluster” defense of LGBT people. Sal…