Ross Douthat on the Brink
Before I tell you why Ross Douthat’s latest New York Times column, “Germany on the Brink,”…
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Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap
Hundreds of people attended last weekend’s conference on global LGBT activism in New York. At…
Read MoreCatholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap
Intersex Awareness Day was observed around the world on October 26. In what one advocate…
Read MoreMarriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap
Islamic State: Nine men reportedly executed for sodomy; UN Security Council hears testimony Islamic State…
Read MoreWhat Irish Marriage Vote Means for Catholic Church; The Lonely Fight for Equality in Belize; Progress and Backlash in Tunisia; Global LGBT Recap
The big news of the week was Irish voters’ overwhelming “yes” vote on a…
Read More‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap
University of Pennsylvania senior Katie Sgarro writes about her involvement with friend Sayid Abdullaev in…
Read MorePeru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap
We have reported on the appointment of the first U.S. Special Envoy for LGBT Equality….
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What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History
In The Mirage, 9/11 is actually 11/9, the day when Christian fundamentalists from Texas slammed airliners into Baghdad skyscrapers, sparking a war on terror that rages across a nearly unrecognizable North America. Will Americans go for a book where the world power is the United Arab States and the lead characters are almost all Arabs and Muslims?
Read MoreWolves Repelled by Christian Rock, Bibles for Porn, Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad
The week in religion.
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Pope Benedict’s Blind Spot on Holocaust
On numerous occasions Pope Benedict has ignored the connection between Christian anti-Semitism and Nazi racial anti-Semitism, and when posed a question about German responsibility for the Holocaust he fails to address it directly.
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