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Gambia: President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers Fiercely anti-gay President Yahya Jammeh, who has called gay people “vermin,” went a step further last week, threatening to kill Gambians who seek…

T. Allen (Terry) Hoover, a gun rights advocate and former deputy sheriff, once had a pink submachine gun made as a gift for his wife.

Perhaps it wasn’t just the pope’s health that sent him into retirement, but his consternation at our increasingly networked lives.

Greenesmith details the repressive rhetoric expressed at a recent convening of international anti-trans advocates and activists, who gathered to strategize following a harmful new ruling against the right to care for trans youth in the U.K.

Paul Cameron is a psychologist who claims homosexual people are a danger to public health and the social fabric of America. His studies explicitly argue that homosexuality is a disturbing psychological illness. Cameron often makes links between homosexuality and child abuse, pedophilia, a shorter life expectancy, poor parenting skills, drug abuse, and violent crimes.

Yesterday, I and about 40 others crammed into the Springfield, MA, office of Arise for Social Justice, fresh from the first oral hearing of the lawsuit brought by Ugandan gay rights activists against Scott Lively–the notorious holocaust revisionist who, as PRA broke in 2009, traveled to Uganda to promote the virulent homophobia that lead to the “kill the gays” bill.

While the LDS Church’s leadership role in the passage of Proposition 8 may have been a surprising new direction for observers here in the United States, the Church has been instrumental in the organization of a world-spanning alliance of right-wing Christians and Muslims.

The nomination of a “traditional” woman to so high a position publicly unearthed the conflicting views on feminist identity buried within the conservative Christian community.

The gracious, affirmative, and arguably universalist tone of Pope Benedict’s encyclical (in marked contrast to his 2010 letter, with its emphasis on the authority of the priest as this fed upward through the hierarchy of the Roman Church) is more than a nod to the new digital social reality. Sure, it’s perhaps a little silly for the Pope to be “inviting” Christians into locales through which most have been travelling regularly for several years by now. But it is nonetheless important that he has offered his spiritual and ethical leadership into the increasingly digitally integrated world.

Reports from several international LGBT gatherings: The Interfaith Diversity Network of West Africa (IDNOWA), founded in 2016, reported on its August gathering in Accra, Ghana, which drew more than 30…