Anti-Gay Forces On Offense in Europe; ‘African Islam’ Challenged by Extremists; Irish Marriage Foes & ‘Sounds of Sodomy’; Global LGBT Recap
In our precap of global LGBT stories we expect to follow in 2015, we discussed…
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Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap
Transgender Day of Remembrance was observed around the world on Thursday to memorialize victims of…
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This week’s global LGBT justice roundup, with a focus on Africa.
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The Other, Forgotten Apocalypse of 2011
I think I can safely assume that for most Americans, Camping and his miscalculated (and then re-calculated) doomsday predictions are of more curiosity than true salvific concern. Camping has been buried by subsequent news cycles and is the latest member of a cadre of religious leaders whom the Apocalypse passed by. But while May’s Apocalypse seems to have skipped over most of the world, it did land squarely on a hilltop in north-western Vietnam. It would behoove us to take notice of the complex and unexpected ways in which this spring’s apocalypticism rippled across the world…
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The fact is that we are already committed to war in Afghanistan; we are already in. And while many of us may want to get out, the question is how?
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By the Way: McNamara, Dead at 93, Lived Long and Rueful Life
What went through the mind of this haunted man with the “thousand-yard stare” in his later years as he shuffled back and forth to work just “a hand grenade’s throw” from the Vietnam War Memorial?
Read MoreReflections on an Ineffective Negro Leader
Despite our annual effort to remember it differently, Dr. King was universally criticized for his refusal to be a good “Negro leader”.
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A flock, maybe, but certainly not sheep; nuances of the pulpit-pew relationship.
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