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In a piece published in Le Point on January 12 th (translated and reprinted in Sightings on January 30 th) eminent philosopher-theologian Jean-Luc Marion declared, “France is at war; we can no longer…

The Boston Globe reported this week that the U.S. State Department will appoint a special envoy “to advocate for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people overseas.” Legislation…

“I got kicked out of the last mosque where I felt safe,” says mosque co-founder.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day was observed around the world this week. While America’s globetrotting anti-gay religious activist Scott Lively may blame gays for the rise of the Nazis and the…

Laïcité is not equivalent to the American notion of “secularism.”

This week the Human Rights Campaign released its list of countries to watch in 2015, both countries “where the fight for equality is making progress” and “those where the fundamental rights of LGBT…

Can religious ideology really be blamed for the massacre at Charlie Hebdo? Responding to the New Yorker’s George Packer and others.

In our precap of global LGBT stories we expect to follow in 2015, we discussed the global culture war and specifically religious conservatives’ use of “religious liberty” claims and demonization of…

It’s all too depressingly predictable and sickeningly familiar.

Q: So where does this leave us? Do Muslims condemn terror? A: If I speak, it is used against me, and if I do not speak…