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Lowes Bowed to Pressure from Man with THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS

By Sarah Posner

…people in All American Muslim are not real to him. According to the FFA website, the show “profiles only Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks.” The real Muslims, FFA maintains, are “Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish.” Caton is a big fan of the shari’ah scare industry, citing Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer on his website. Following the Low…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…at permit same-sex couples to get married. Northern Ireland: Minister asks officials to prepare for marriage equality Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has reportedly asked officials “do the groundwork” to prepare for marriage equality legislation that he believes could be passed in this assembly term. Israel: Pride killer sentenced The man convicted in April of killing a teenager at last year’s pride celebrations in Jerusalem has been sentence…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ut the government struck down those laws after the Supreme Court decision. Officials also now allow gay couples to adopt children. In recent days, Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla also signed two executive orders that allow transgender and transsexual people to change their gender on their driver’s license and protect their rights when seeking medical services. You can see a collection of wedding photos at Huffington Post and more at TelesurvTV. Nort…

We Would Be Wise to Pay Attention to Trump’s Apocalyptic QAnon Posting Spree

By Thomas Lecaque

…o have a country at all.” And before that an image of a host of government officials under the title “American Coup d’Etat” with “a Truth” from Trump loyalist Kash Patel pinned to it. And if you get down far enough in the re-Truths, you get to this: “All Roads Lead to Obama. ReTruth if you want Public Military Tribunals.” Perhaps the most basic, fundamental, and widely known promise of QAnon: that it ends in military tribunals and mass executions….

Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?

By Sarah Jaffe

…being an atheist city councilman in a state that still requires government officials to believe in “Almighty God.” And if Shuler can fend off a primary challenge, he may still lose the support of his right flank to a newly-drawn district that’s even more conservative than before. The incumbent’s primary challenger, Cecil Bothwell, actually prefers the term “non-theist” to “atheist.” “I know that some atheists feel that stance ducks the issue and t…

Russian Orthodox Church Supports Referendum on Sodomy Laws

By Chrissy Stroop

…Church-Society Relations functions in many respects as the public face of official Orthodoxy, exhibits a pattern of such behavior. He has praised the radical Orthodox activist known as Dmitry Enteo, for example, and even joined with Enteo in a prayer service for the passage of laws against abortion, ‘propaganda of homosexuality,’ and blasphemy. Chaplin’s is a prominent voice among Orthodox Russians, and the message he consistently sends is that t…

America’s Most Famous Catholic Scores Late Night Slot

By Sarah Posner

…an and the Rev. James Martin, author of “Between Heaven and Mirth” and the official chaplain of Colbert’s show. Colbert, who has taught Sunday school classes to school-age children, said people in comedy often don’t understand how he could remain Catholic. But he said he views the church as teaching joy, which he called the “infallible sign of the presence of God.” “I love my church — warts and all,” he said, before an audience of about 3,000 chee…

The Real Mormon Moment

By Joanna Brooks

…headquarters in Salt Lake City has been the subject of speculation; Church officials deny high-level coordination. But it’s also being reported that the stage may have been set for Kelly’s excommunication court when one high-ranking LDS official remarked at a regional leadership meeting in Virginia that support for women’s ordination should be considered a form of apostasy. That instruction and the news of the pending courts seems to have created…

Do Catholic Responses to Stem Cell-Derived Covid-19 Vaccines Open a Door to a New Era in Health Care for LGBTQ+ and Others?

By Marianne Duddy-Burke

…crisis exists for people dealing with gender dysphoria, for whom Catholic officials also ban critical services. Lack of access to supportive health care increases the risk of depression, anxiety, substance abuse, homelessness, poor educational outcomes, vulnerability to violence, and suicide among transgender and nonbinary individuals. While the proportion of the population directly impacted by this crisis is relatively small, although no less de…

Robertson’s Organizations Persist in Calls for Probe of Congressional Muslim Staffers

By Sarah Posner

…ited to prayer meetings, which, as Khan told me earlier this week, are not official CMSA functions, but are run under the auspices of the House Chaplain. (See the House Chaplain’s website for evidence of the prayer meetings being open to the public, like other religious meetings held under the Chaplain’s auspices.) What’s more, neither Fox nor ALCJ have produced evidence any of these individuals were invited by the CMSA; as Khan noted, the prayer…