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The Question is: What Kind of Football Does God Fancy?

By Jeffrey Scholes

…followers. The game that prompted Wilson’s original comments, back in late January 2015, was a wild one. The Seahawks were down to Rodgers’ Packers for almost the entire game (16-0 at one point), largely due to Wilson’s 4 interceptions. A furious comeback, marked most memorably by a fluky mishap on a fluky play, led to the Seahawks victory in overtime. Wilson’s explanation of his Jekyll-and-Hyde performance relied not on something he did or did no…

Mormons Declare Same-Sex Marriage Apostasy, Deny Baptism to Children of Same-Sex Couples; Colombian Court OKs Adoption Over Church Objections; Franklin Graham Praises Putin’s Anti-Gay Policies; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ck Jonathan signed Nigeria’s Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act into law in January 2014, the leaders of the local Anglican Catholic Church were very much in support of such draconian and antihuman laws. So were the entire Christian Association and their Muslim counter parts. I knew that both the Nigerian government and the religious leaders expected us, the LGBT Community, to put a strong fight and resistance against the law. They were glad when w…

Marriage Equality Is the Next Roe v. Wade… And That’s Okay

By Patricia Miller

…hat first trimester abortion should be legal in December of 1969, but that number increased to 50 percent in May of 1971 and to 57 percent in January of 1972. By contrast, the Post reports that the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC Poll found that 59 percent of Americans support same sex marriage, up from 30 percent in 2004. If a lack of popular support for abortion doesn’t explain the backlash against Roe, what does and what does this portend f…

The Birmingham Church Bombing: How Will We Remember?

By Edward J. Blum

…March on Washington; we were watching and listening to King as we do each January on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a holiday created in the conservative era of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. This year was precious, for it marked the fiftieth anniversary and we commemorated the day with another march, televised like the one in 1963. But on this occasion we discussed and judged it in Twitter feeds, Facebook accounts, and on a host of 24 hour news progra…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…dest rebuke to only the worse of the offenders” have not been upheld: Last January, we spent time together at the Primates Gathering contending for a restoration of godly order within the Anglican Communion. The sanctions passed at that meeting were not in themselves capable of restoring order, but they were a potential first step. At that meeting, we acknowledged the reality of the “significant distance” between us and “expressed a desire to walk…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…al form in the document,” he said. But he said the document does specify a number of halachic principles related to the need “to include homosexuals within faith communities and make them feel at ease in their community.” …He said the document was created in response to the fact “that homosexuals choose increasingly to remain within faith communities, which in the past they would leave because of their orientation. It used to be that you were eith…

South Park Meets the Sacraments at Class for New Catholics

By Zachary Leja

…view of religious institutions as a whole. Another Pew report released in January of this year says that the percentage of millennials who thought churches and religious organizations had a positive effect on the country went from 73 in 2010 to 55 in 2015. Older generations’ views of religious groups moved in the opposite direction, so by 2015 millennials were the least likely to see religious organizations as having positive effects in the U.S….

Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…parations, and Reconciliation After the Genome Alondra Nelson Beacon Press January 12, 2016 When it comes to the search for roots, personal genetic testing is especially helpful for people with few other sources of information about any Old World origins. Not surprisingly, some of the first genetic testing services in the United States specifically marketed their products to African Americans. After the radical dislocation of the Middle Passage an…

Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…y LGBTQ faith-based organization in the region. It works primarily in Anglophone countries but has plans to expand further in Africa, with additional focus on Francophone regions. There is no group or organization in the region that addresses the needs of LGBTQ and MSM Muslims. Mambaonline.com published an interview this week with a lesbian couple whose marriage in December generated media coverage that led to both positive and negative responses,…

What If Animals Believe in God?

By Andrew Aghapour

…—but I would not want to be a dog or cat in many places in the world. Huge numbers, as we all know, are confined in shelters for long periods of time where they likely have rather poor qualities of life. Millions are killed. Humanity was [evolutionarily] shaped by dogs, and we find ourselves treating these animals in a disposable kind of way. When we start to think about it in this register, it’s not just about cruelty anymore. I think it challeng…