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Confront Death by Avoiding Fritos: The Gluten Lie, Fad Diets, & Foodie Faith

By Michael Schulson

…ric. No, that’s a good point. I guess I’m saying that we just need to have stories, sometimes. I can tell you a familiar story: long ago, humans lived in an organic, all-natural, divinely-designed garden, free from pesticides and GMOs and processed grains and sugar. Then one day an evil advertiser came along and hissed at them, “Eat this fruit.” And then, boom, we’re cursed with mortality, marital strife, pains giving birth, and we have to do agri…

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ange Gender In a decision released last week, an appeals court judge in Beiruit ruled that a transgender man can legally change his gender. Iran: Activists Say Govt Evades Questions About LGBT Human Rights The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child questioned the Iranian government about the human rights of LGBTI children and about coercive practices children are subjected to in order to “cure” their “illness.” LGBT advocacy organization 6rang re…

New Report: White Evangelicals are America’s Most Anti-Trans Demographic, But Encouraging Data Overall

By Chrissy Stroop

…if we look among Republicans, we can see the difference between those who trust mainstream news and those who trust Fox or outlets to the right of them.” What the right-wing media ecosystem does is push fear-based narratives, representing members of othered groups—immigrants, Black Lives Matter supporters, trans people—as threats. Thus, Jones observes, even if “the bigger war for LGBTQ rights is clearly won,” trans people remain particularly margi…

Did TV “News” Spark Anti-Islam Vandalism?

By Lauri Lebo

…istic, phony “controversies.” It really shouldn’t have to be said, but it’s not a reporter’s job to further the hate propaganda of an extremist organization in the name of “fair-and-balanced” journalism. Try to imagine for a moment the outcry if a news team reported on an “alleged” terrorist training camp in some rural white community. The reporter barges into a church service with a camera and then intersperses the piece with video of the Oklahom…

Most Catholic Bishops are “Moral Heretics”

By Daniel C. Maguire

…d news” for those they insultingly label un-Catholic and outside the cor ecclesiae (heart of the church), the many Vicky Kennedys of the Church who dare to reject the pelvic zone orthodoxy the bishops have substituted for Jesus’ “good news.” To such bishops we owe prophetic instruction, not homage; forthright criticism, not fawning respect. And when they dress themselves in lavish cardinal red and call themselves “princes of the church” let all th…

Pope Praises ‘Complementarity’ & Resists Gay Ambassador; Irish Religious Leaders Spar Over Marriage; Colombian Atty Gen Cites ‘Bogus’ Study Opposing Adoption; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es got legal clearance to marry in Mazatlan, Sinaloa after a Supreme Court ruling. Russia: Court upholds firing of gay teacher A Russian teacher who was fired in December after being outed by an anti-gay activist lost her legal effort to be reinstated, reports Associated Press. Ksenia Kirichenko, the lawyer for a gay rights organization which is representing the teacher, said Thursday that the court this week refused the teacher’s demand to be rei…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…was not an acceptance of same-sex practice or cross dressing. Rather, the new ruling classifies homosexuals and cross-dressers as individuals “suffering psychologically” and committing sinful acts, but society should respect their right to life, hoping that they will eventually see the light. In doing so, he views the issues of homosexuality and cross dressing from three different perspectives: psychologically, socially, and religiously. This dis…

New Spencer Book Denies Existence of Muhammad

By Hussein Rashid

…ced from the academic field that he uses for his legitimacy. These are not new or provocative questions. They are the bread and butter of the field. There are truly challenging books that come out of the academia, including Steven Wasserstrom’s Between Muslim and Jew and Fred Donner’s Muhammad and the Believers, a recent book that deals with many of the questions Spencer raises, but that actually engages with primary material and that has been cha…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…ise and weathered people of the world is the threat of terrorism. The lead news stories all these last ten days have been San Bernardino or Chicago or the French election, moving to the right in Islamophobia. What if good people and decent governments worldwide commit to less than 2 degrees Celsius as a goal and find themselves spending all their money and energy on a security state, which would shut down the very movements that brought the world…

Talking Back to a Mormon Elder: Religion versus Reality

By Brent D. Beal

…or steers. And then there are Roy and Silo, two male Chinstrap penguins in New York City’s Central Park Zoo that successfully hatched an egg they’d been given. And so on. In the case of humans, it’s been around for thousands of years (if not longer). Homosexuality is a part of nature—a part of the world that God created (if you believe that God created it)—and by any definition of the word, it’s natural. Okay, I think, Elder Packer is old. He’s a…