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Video: Maddow investigates US ties to Uganda’s kill-gays bill
Rachel Maddow continues her superb reporting on Uganda’s “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” and on the American activists who helped bring it about. In a two-part report on Wednesday’s show, Maddow demonstrates how anti-gay US activists whipped up ho...
Choice of lesbian Episcopal bishop praised by those who know her, blasted by right-wing
Rev. Canon Mary D. Glasspool was chosen Saturday by members of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles to become an assistant bishop in the diocese. If her choice is confirmed by US bishops, she will become the second out gay partnered bishop in th...
Uganda’s ‘kill-gays’ bill is an American product
Uganda’s ethics minister, James Buturo, yesterday defended a proposed draconian anti-gay law “Uganda is likely to pass a bill criminalizing homosexuality in the east African nation,” Jack Kimball reports for Reuters. But he writes that the bi...
Item: Mormons say they never wanted to advertize on Queerty, anyway
::: The LDS church (aka Mormons) insisted in a Wednesday clarification email to Salt Lake Tribune that the church hadn’t ever really wanted to advertize on the gay blog Queerty, despite a proposal for just such an ad that was sen...
Read this: Right-wing Catholic bishops hold US politics hostage
Site: DailyBeast Article: Does God Hate the Kennedys? Author: James Carroll In a DailyBeast feature, Boston Globe columnist John Carroll, whose recent book is Practicing Catholic, “a story of American belief”, analyzes the radical rig...
Video: Rick Warren wants Bible marriage. What does that mean?
Pastor Rick Warren appeared to slightly backpedal in an appearance on Meet the Press this morning about his opposition to marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. See the interview at msnbc.com. He said said this about his opposition to Pro...
Item: Catholic bishops threaten Spain’s politicians over abortion bill
::: Roman Catholic bishops have stepped up their international culture war with a threat issued last week to punish any member of parliament in Spain who votes for a bill that would make abortion more readily available, Paula Brookes rep...
Must read: Box Turtle on new ‘Christian’ manifesto – ‘a war over religious domination’
On Friday, a group of clerics and political activists released a document called “Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience”. The manifesto bears 152 names, including a who’s who of right-wing political/religious activists along wi...
Uganda’s anti-gay law blasted by surprising source - ‘ex-gays’ at Exodus
About 40 people picketed outside of Uganda’s UN mission Thursday, chanting: “Gay rights are human rights. Dismiss the law now!” They were protesting a draft law being considered by a Ugandan member of parliament that would impose draconian p...
Update – US Catholic bishops adopt radically anti-gay letter
logo via ‘lappedcatholic’ As expected, the US Catholic bishops on Tuesday approved a broad new document, called Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan, that sets up new and far stricter guidelines for what the increasingly right-wing bishop...
Right-wing faction decides to form its own Lutheran denomination
Source: Washington Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Bismarck Tribune In August, leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) emphasized the role “bound conscience” and choice, when the the group—which is the largest US Luthe...
Item: Pastors preach hate as ‘protest’ of hate crimes law
::: Even though nothing about the new hate crimes law makes such an action illegal, an ad hoc group of so-called “concerned” clergy planned to rally earlier today in front of the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. in what they cl...
A woman is ordained Episcopal priest in Fort Worth (!)
With a live video feed showing the ceremony on the diocesan website, the provisional bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth today ordained a woman, Susan Slaughter, as a priest. That would not ordinarily be a big deal because there are alrea...
DC archbishop got his start as anti-gay Vatican enforcer
Archbishop Donald Wuerl. Background: Basillica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC The Catholic archbishop of Washington, DC has remained mostly silent so far this week in the midst of a political firestorm...
San Francisco Presbytery OKs ordination of lesbian; Opponents vow appeal
Lisa Larges After an epic 20-year struggle to become a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Lisa Larges’ quest came one step closer to fulfillment last night when the San Francisco Presbytery voted to ordain Larges, who would become the fir...
Wingnuts: Bishop doesn’t want gay tourists at Vatican
When photographers Alek and Steph visited the Vatican for Oh La La, they found it teeming with homos homoerotica. And they didn’t even get around to checking out St. Sebastian. Bishop Janusz Kaleta, left, and helper photo: catholic-kazakh...
Report: Kiss-in protests led to LDS support for Salt Lake gay-friendly law
Source: Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News, KSL, Fox13Now Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City The powerful Salt Lake City-based LDS (Mormon) church announced Tuesday that it will support a proposed pair of Salt Lake City ordinances that would make it ille...
Item: Minn. Episcopalians pick Spokane priest as next bishop
::: A 50-year-old priest from Spokane, Wash. was selected today to become the next bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota, Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Nearly 500 clergy and lay delegates meeting at the diocese’s annual conv...
1000 in NJ demonstrate against Westboro’s message of hate
Protesters hold up signs in New Brunswick, NJ to counter the Westboro Baptist Church photo: Joe McLaughlin, Gannett New Jersey Six members of Westboro Baptist Church who showed up in New Brunswick, NJ to display their notorious bigotry were greeted...
Activist video portrays dangerous homophobia of Islamic sharia
An activist group released a slickly-produced and intentionally shocking video to YouTube this weekend in which one of the thousands of people who attended a Sept. 25 “Muslim Day of Prayer” in Washington, DC is prompted by a member of the activi...
Item: Court tosses out Westboro verdict
::: A federal appeals court has tossed out a $5 million verdict levied against the notoriously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church after members of the church protested outside the Maryland funeral of a marine killed in Iraq. The 4th US Cir...
Mormon leader dismisses science, says homosexuality can be ‘overcome’
In an address to an “ex-gay” Mormon conference in Salt Lake City, a leader of the LDS church claimed that people who are attracted to members of their own sex can change. A University of Utah psychology professor and researcher called the remark...
Item: NJ Catholic bishops target marriage equality
Catholic bishops in New Jersey have launched a campaign against marriage equality in anticipation of a possible vote on the issue by state legislators sometime after the November election, the Star Ledger reports. Bishops in the state last week direc...
Some Lutherans celebrate, others mourn church’s new LGBT inclusiveness
Source: Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, Fox News, Charleston Gazette, Christian Post, Episcopal Life, Des Moines Register The elected leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) – the nation's largest Lutheran denomination...
Video: Even gay white folks can’t clap
OK. So I must first admit that I wouldn’t do any better if I were (for some strange reason) in the crowd, but really… This very white crowd of Lutherans don’t do such a good job of clapping, despite what sounds like a pretty good gay chorus, ...
Item: Lutherans recognize same-sex relationships
::: Lutherans meeting at their biennial convention in Minneapolis approved by a 60.63 percent margin a resolution that would allow congregations, at their option, to “recognize, support and hold publicly accountable life-long, monogamo...
A primer for this week’s Lutheran debate over LGBT ministers and couples
A month ago, the Episcopal Church held a meeting of its national rule-making convention at which church members considered hundreds of issues, but one of the most divisive resolutions they considered dealt with whether LGBT members of the denominati...
Poll on religious habits offers odd, fascinating snapshot of LGBT people
A fundamentalist Christian pollster set out to find out about LGBT folks and came up with some results that seem to have surprised the pollsters. The money quote supplied by the survey’s chief pollster is: “People who portray gay adults as godle...
Two Episcopal dioceses pick gay, lesbian priests as bishop candidates
Episcopalians in both the Diocese of Los Angeles and the Diocese of Minnesota announced this weekend that they will consider slates of candidates for bishop that include gay or lesbian priests. On Saturday, the Minnesota diocese announced that a se...
Dutch/US couples marry; Milk honored; Lesbian bishop, don’chya know?
::: Five American-Dutch gay couples were married Saturday on the canals during Amsterdam’s annual gay pride festival. The ceremonies, performed by Amsterdam’s mayor, were an implicit criticism of the lack of same-sex marriage in most...
