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Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…of a local paper, a venue, too, for the repetition of the ISIS analogy in online comments. The logic here links those who would remove Confederate monuments to ISIS both in terms of occupation and of religious war. Those opposed to the monument are presented as a capricious, violently oppressive army, and outsiders to boot—power-hungry and disrespectful carpetbaggers. The comparison is also, of course, hyperbolic, as the use of an actual ISIS tac…

Why I Give Zero F*cks What Anti-Gay Christians Think

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lly condemn homosexuality. I cared so much that I created an Whosoever, an online magazine – back in 1996 with the mission of arguing against anti-gay Christians and equipping my fellow LGBT Christians to do the same. I even wrote a book, Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians, to help others who deeply cared about what anti-gay Christians believed and said cope with the ongoing battle for our right as LGBT Ch…

Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…parade in Jerusalem, police arrested a man from central Israel for making “online threats” against attendees. From i24 News: While Tel Aviv’s gay pride parade, the second largest in the world, is one of the city’s annual highlights, it’s counterpart in Jerusalem, a city sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians, is always smaller and more controversial. Jerusalem’s pride parade was the target of violence in 2015, ultra-Orthodox extremist Yishai Shlis…

A President “Anointed By God”: POTUS Shield and Religious Right’s Affair with Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…nted? I certainly think that the religious right has made it very clear, a number of times, whom they think God would like to be president. That’s not new. It’s possible that I was not following the Pentecostal world as closely previously, but I don’t know of this concerted effort to use media, like [Christian multimedia company] Charisma and these online networks, to really aggressively promote the idea that Donald Trump had been anointed by God…

Bannon’s “Alt-Facts” Satan

By Spencer Dew

…ing to what Michelle Kuo call “the spectral atomization of disinformation” online. The power of Bannon’s Satan resides in illusion, or in keeping his audience trapped in illusion, with no bearing on the really real, no sense of a reality outside the lies, the propaganda, the devil’s version of “truth.” This Satanic power thus depends on a lack of discernment, a loss of grounding. In such a setting, one could never “fact-check” or, to eschew the eu…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…n, who has warned LGBT people against becoming “provocative,” and with any number of European populists who promise a return to a mythical “traditional” past. Gessen notes that a year ago she wrote that she believed Trump would target the LGBT community ”because its acceptance is the most clear and drastic social change in America of the last decade, so an antigay campaign would capture the desire to return to a time in which Trump’s constituency…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…ipated in World Congress of Families summits. Also listed as signers are a number of religious leaders, including Foley Beach, Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America; Catholic Bishop Emmanuel Badejo of Ojo, Nigeria; Lawrence Khongy, pastor of Faith Community Baptist Church in Singapore; and Josiah Trenham, an Orthodox priest who has spoken repeatedly at World Congress of Families gatherings. Vatican: Commentary on gay priest ban; tim…

The Bindi Isn’t Indie

By Yesenia Vargas

…am, Snapchat, Tumblr, and Twitter, and has recently launched a zine and an online store benefiting women’s empowerment in West Bengal. https://twitter.com/SoniyaaaTweets/status/690937895759130625 Kyra splits her time between the U.S. and her parents’ home in Ambala, India. When she’s in the West, she’s used to trading in her salwar khameez and bindi for jeans and a beanie to blend in. But now she’s shocked to see the bindi as street fashion. “It’s…

Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing: A Buddhist Anti-Tech Manifesto

By Max Zahn

…s] that their minds are insane,” said Vince Horn, founder of a podcast and online community called Buddhist Geeks that examines the intersection of Buddhism and technology. “Insanity is directly proportional to the number of hours spent at a tech startup.” In Horn’s view, techies turn to Buddhism, especially the practice of mindfulness, because it calms them down. Simple as that. Tech isn’t any old community—it’s an industry, divided like any othe…

Catholic Church Campaigns Against Gay US Ambassador; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…cutors in Jiddah have proposed raising the penalty for people who come out online to capital punishment. The U.S. State Department told the Washington Blade it was aware of, but could not confirm, those reports. India: International Commission of Jurists Calls For Repeal of Sodomy Law Last Friday the International Commission of Jurists released a briefing paper calling on the Supreme Court to decriminalize same-sex relations. The Court has agreed…