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On Whistleblowing, MLK, Jr., and the Politics of Resistance in the Digital Age

By Kevin Healey

…group hacked into CEO Aaron Barr’s accounts, releasing his private e-mails online and publicizing its actions on Twitter. When critics like former Anonymous member Jennifer Emick accused the group of hypocrisy for violating people’s privacy rights, members of the group sent her highly misogynistic and sexualized threats. In these ways, vigilante groups like Anonymous run the risk of undermining the type of civil disobedience that springs from love…

Russian Orthodox Church Supports Referendum on Sodomy Laws

By Chrissy Stroop

…e open letter to Putin from his blog. There remains, however a petition at Onlinepetition.ru calling for a referendum on sodomy laws. Meanwhile, there are several petitions against Okhlobystin on Change.org as well as efforts to get Apple CEO Tim Cook to cut ties with the Russian company Euroset, for which Okhlobystin—an ordained Orthodox priest on indefinite hiatus from service in the church—serves as creative director. As Global Voices Online’s…

The Creepy Surveillance of Elf on a Shelf

By Kelly J. Baker

…e elves are ubiquitous. They can be purchased from bookstores, Target, and online retailers. Tutus can create girl elves, and sports jerseys can masculinize the boy elves. Parents move elves around their homes, so that the elf is a different spot every morning. Some parents elaborately stage elves making mischief with marshmallow fights and flour “snow” angels. Facebook photos of Santa’s helpers abound as parents document how scout elves act when…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…anti-gay “propaganda” law that had been brought against the creators of an online support group for gay teenagers. The Washington Blade reported this week that activists fear that, with the Olympic spotlight no longer on Russia, human rights activists are worried that lawmakers will consider a bill that would take children away from gay parents. Slovakia: Activists in Uphill Battle Anti-Gay Revision to Constitution According to ILGA-Europe, the Sl…

Arab Spring: Countering the Naysayers

By Maryam Jamshidi

…mpensate for this, I created a supplement for the book, which is available online and includes relevant photos and videos. The word limit also restricted the book’s scope. If I had more space, I would have profiled more organizations (there are so many) and provided additional detail on the initiatives I did include. Some of the groups in this book have incredible histories that mirror the tumultuous events in regional countries. While we so often…

LGBT Affirming Christians Issue Prebuttal to Values Voter Summit

By Peter Montgomery

…st month we noted the creation of The NALT Christians Project, which is an online platform inviting LGBT-affirming Christians to tell the world via video that all Christians aren’t like the anti-gay religious figures prominent in the public arena. Today, the project’s founders, including Christian author John Shore and his wife Catherine and activist Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out, held a news conference at the National Press Club to pre-empt the…

Lindsey Graham and Al Qaeda Share the Same “Allahu Akbar”

By Nathan Lean

…nefarious Egyptian doctor posted “general guidelines for jihad” on several online forums, as if he, of all people, is the authoritative voice for defining such things. Absurdly, for many people on the right, he is, the authoritative voice. Graham and others employ the term precisely in a way that legitimizes that understanding and gives currency to such usage in discourses about Muslims. For them, Zawahiri’s jihad is more correct than the jihad of…

New Study Claims to ‘Explain’ Near-Death Religious Experiences

By Michael Schulson

…oscience. But there’s no need to panic and reassure believers, as Catholic Online recently did, that “faith remains strong” even after this “gruesome study involving rats.” Sure, The Economist is now suggesting that if near-death experiences are divine, then rats must have souls, and there’s always the overeager journalist who will jump to conclusions and claim that scientists have totally and finally solved near-death experiences. But it seems pr…

“Ex-Gay” Gospel Star Donnie McClurkin and the Decline of Public Theology

By Joshua L. Lazard

…s sermon uploaded to iTunes. Only a handful of segments on an even smaller number of news and opinion shows on mainstream media from the historical network channels to the cable news networks actually call on the academy for trained theologians to offer their view on the social issues of the day. This is, in many ways, a slap in the face to academic theology—those same networks would never call on a law school drop out to comment on the legal rami…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ts in Australian society. Opposition was concentrated in suburbs with high numbers of working-class immigrants on the suburban fringes, including locations popular with Islamic communities. Brazil: Conservative Christian activists protest gender theorist Judith Butler At Inside Higher Ed, philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler describes to Scott Jaschik her experience earlier this month in Brazil, where “she faced an ugly protest at which s…