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International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…dicted that 30,000 people would participate in the service, but the actual number appeared to number around 2,000. “Our prayers will open the sky and the homosexuals will fall, we will be blessed with victory,” said Lee Young-hoon, head of the leading organization in the anti-LGBT coalition. Mexico: Supreme Court embraces marriage, Church and some political officials resist As we have been reporting, the marriage equality movement has been movemen…

I Volunteer to Root Out Christian Extremism

By Peter Laarman

…rtheless put the number at roughly 338,000. I am willing to work with this number until a better one comes along. Of this number, roughly 8,000 congregations claim upwards of 1,000 members; most are smaller, indeed most are much smaller. My concept is this: I think we can create a Christian Honor Corps (CHC) of perhaps 10,000 persons. Persons like myself who take our responsibility to monitor Christian extremist thought seriously and who are willi…

Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book

By Kaya Oakes

…to get more upset about these things until I realized a couple of things. Number one, not everyone’s going to like you. Number two, engaging with these people in arguments is often fruitless. Number three, a lot of times they refuse to listen. And number four, a very small percentage of them are actually crazy. There’s a great scene in a movie called The Trouble with Angels from the 1960s. It’s about a Catholic girls’ school outside of Philadelph…

ABC’s Good Christian Bitches Makes Feminists of Religious Right

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…swallow and fake-smile and tooth-grind any of your anger into non-existence. Well, fine, except that if Christianity is about being nicey-poo because oppression is preferable to overt conflict, then a) you may as well admit to having dispensed with Jesus of Nazareth entirely; and b) wow, what a snore. So I submit that maybe there’s a real need for Good Christian Bitches. Not rich women soaking in Dead Sea mineral baths and schadenfreude, but a g…

Asceticism á la Carte: Fasting for Ramadan as a Muslim Atheist

By Saif Ansari

…to fast, and I should have discarded the practice with everything else the minute I became an atheist. Of course, I do have a reason to fast—it just has nothing to do with God. Fasting is—or, rather, can be—a means of self-control or mastery, especially for someone like me, who in recent years has explored meditation as a means of mindfulness in his everyday life. By repeatedly applying some of the same techniques over the course of my day, I beco…

Supreme Court Conservatives Allow Execution of Muslim Prisoner Despite Religious Freedom Violation

By Andrew L. Seidel

…’s leave aside the horror of Ray’s crime and the question of whether state-sanctioned murder is moral or constitutional. Those are important issues, but so is the rank hypocrisy of the conservative justices on the Supreme Court. We need look no farther than the same-sex wedding cake case the Supreme Court recently decided to find the hypocrisy. There, the court tortured the facts enough to find that the bakery didn’t get a fair hearing and was sub…

Leaked Air Force Legal Opinion Approves Religious Expression

By Paul Rosenberg

…ing a purportedly “private” promotion ceremony, conducted after a mere ten-minute break. Going beyond lax enforcement of recent cases, MRFF President Mikey Weinstein called it “a direct and defiant nuclear attack against the First Amendment’s separation of church and state.” “The JAG opinion is definitely wrong,” Andrew Seidel, counsel for the Freedom From Religion Foundation told RD. Alex Luchenitser, associate legal director for Americans United…

If You Don’t Have Peace You Don’t Have Jesus, Preacher Tells Georgia House of Representatives

By Andrew L. Seidel

…atives, Rep. Trey Kelley invited his father, Doyle Kelley, to deliver a 12-minute harangue on hellfire and damnation. Kelley spent his first 10 minutes on a sermon that detailed how people who do not adhere to his particular brand of religion will be eternally tortured in hell, “Seven million people [in Georgia] … are lost are dying and on their way to Hell.” He read from Philippians 4 and Colossians 3 and even asked for a few “amens.” He also pre…

‘Hey Jesus, Do You Love Me the Same?’: Out Christian Rock Star Trey Pearson on Closeted Industry Figures, His Evolving Faith, and Brand New Video

By Chrissy Stroop

…day Sunday’s success, and where do you see things going now that you and a number of other trailblazers, like Vicky Beeching and Jennifer Knapp (and, although he spent a very long time out of the public eye, Ray Boltz) have begun speaking what was previously unspoken? When I first started to realize that there were closeted CCM artists during my career, and also closeted worship leaders, youth pastors, and people I met in all areas of the evangeli…

Biden’s New ‘Restore the Soul of a Nation’ Ad Aimed at Black Voters Wary of the Frontrunner’s Dodgy History

By Peter Laarman

…assuring images of the former veep with Obama and to Uncle Joe’s good poll numbers. It’s predictable high-budget work, predictable in part because we know in our bones what Biden is up to. Earlier Biden videos and some of his live campaign pitches seemed to be testing out the “healing the soul” concept. In the video announcing his run, Biden also ran footage of the neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville before turning to the camera to intone “and t…