Search for "북창동휴게텔▤【UH010.com】◈북창동OP사이트↓북창동휴게텔 북창동건마▽북창동유흥* 북창동유흥업소"

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ifferent to the erosion of the family given its consequences for the wider community.” Abbott referred to one of his sisters’ same-sex partner, saying he doubted that marriage equality would make her any more part of the family, because it was their commitment that mattered. Still, he did not budge from his opposition to marriage equality: Not long ago, most gay activists rejected marriage as an oppressive institution. Now, they demand as their ri…

Kavanaugh’s ‘Jesuitical’ Response to ‘Abomination’ of ‘Roe v. Wade’ in 2006

By Mary E. Hunt

…sing subtle or oversubtle reasoning; crafty; sly; intriguing. – dictionary.com After many years of Jesuit education, I recognize dissembling jesuitical remarks when I hear them. To wit: At a 2006 hearing to name Brett Kavanaugh to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Senator Chuck Schumer asked now Supreme Court Justice nominee a direct question: “Do you consider Roe v. Wade to be an abomination?” Mr. Kavanaugh replied: “If confirmed to the D.C. Cir…

The Sex Scandal Following Whole Foods’ Guru

By Michael Schulson

…if its leaders—particularly the CEO—are not learning and growing as well. Companies can become blocked from essential organizational evolution if their founder is psychologically and spiritually stuck. One can sympathize with Mackey’s dilemma: the very language of this statement, with its emphasis on spiritual evolution, seems drawn directly from the writings of Gafni and his fellow travelers in the New Age movement. It’s harder to sympathize wit…

Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC

By Frederick Clarkson

…what four days of carefully choreographed sermons and violent imagery had come to with only weeks to go before the presidential election. A political paradox Image: YouTube/UPPERROOM The politics of the NAR are paradoxical. They assert that we’re living in a biblically prophesied End Times, in which The Church as they understand it, and God’s angels, join forces to battle the demonic forces of Satan. They suggest the battle is nigh and that peopl…

Apocalypse Left and Right: A Graphic Primer

By Dan Archer

…fe Politics. Read it online via Google books here. Panel 6: May 2009 Salon.com article, “O’Reilly’s Campaign Against Murdered Doctor.” Panel 7: See Southern Poverty Law Center’s Spring 2005 Intelligence Report, “Holy War.” Panel 8: See The Unhappy Gays Amazon page for more information. Panel 9: Visit here for more information on the Left Behind series. Panel 10: Visit here to plan ahead for yourself. Panel 11: Visit the book’s Amazon page for more…

‘Landmark’ Speech From LDS Leader on LGBTQ Rights and Religious Freedom Was More Like a Sunnier Groundhog Day

By Aly Marino

…ion from a faith that frowned on gays and lesbians to one becoming more welcoming and compassionate.” Of course they may have pulled the trigger on that article a bit too soon as the Church would, just days later, “sen[d] seismic waves through the Mormon community,” with its new policy barring the children of married gay parents from membership or baptism. In a speech now scrubbed from an official LDS website, Elder D. Todd Christofferson called s…

The ‘Pro-Family’ Movement Has Little to Say About Family Separation

By Sophie Bjork-James

…s://twitter.com/GaryLBauer/status/1011566286109839362 Yet another response comes from James Dobson, who, despite decades of political commentary, is choosing to sit this one out. Instead, it’s business as usual at Family Talk, his radio program, where Dobson has been busy hosting a three-part program on “Confronting Guilt in Motherhood” and, in another tone-deaf moment, tweeted a link to a blog post on the importance of a mother’s presence to her…

Anti-Gay Evangelicalism is the Norm: A Less Rosy Take on the Evangelical “Tipping Point”

By Chrissy Stroop

…ecognize that the “messy middle” is making a genuine effort to listen with compassion. Whether this middle space will end up becoming a transitional halfway house to full LGBTQ affirmation remains unclear. While I genuinely do not know the extent to which evangelicalism is capable of a thorough sea change, I do know that even if that day is coming, there’s something more than a little off-putting about the gleeful amens shouted by more progressive…

Manhattan Declaration Asks: What If Jesus Had Been Aborted?

By Sarah Posner

…al question is: What if Jesus had been a magic Woody Allen Zombie? youtube.com/watch?v=_SFdUJ… MT @SarahPosner What if Jesus had been aborted? — peter manseau (@petermanseau) December 23, 2011 Wait. Isn’t God powerful enough to find another incubator? #ifJesushadbeenaborted cc: @sarahposner — Mel. (@melballoons) December 23, 2011 @sarahposner Mary would have been forced into a dangerous, back-manger procedure thanks to thugs like the Manhattan dec…

Tim Pawlenty’s Dilemma: How Far Will His Anti-Choice Extremism Go?

By Sarah Posner

…cessful in their attempts to enact fetal pain provisions. Fetal pain was becoming a rallying cry for anti-choice activists at that time, after the judge in a case challenging a late-term abortion ban refused to hear evidence on it. Ertelt heralds another Pawlenty-signed law from 2005, claiming that “Minnesota was also the first to give women information on fetal pain — coming well in advance of the new trend of banning abortions based on that scie…