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Pentecostal With History of Hate Speech Selected as President of Brazil’s Human Rights Body

By Jandira Queiroz

…k so impressed the U.S. conservative group that the ACLJ decided to open a Brazilian branch: the Brazilian Center for Law and Justice (BCLJ). The new organization’s director of operations, Filipe Coelho, told me of the PSC’s ambitions to elect an evangelical president to Brazil who would govern in the name of Jesus Christ. Brazil’s human rights community has become concerned at the growing insistence of evangelical leaders that the country should…

‘Brazil’s Trump’ Bolsonaro Lost — But Anti-Democratic Movements Seldom Accept Electoral Defeat

By Craig Johnson

…election’s results á la Trump. *** This weekend, October 30, the voters of Brazil will go back to the polls for the second time in less than a month in their runoff election. Since Brazil has many political parties there are a lot of runoffs after the first round eliminates many smaller candidates and members of less popular parties. But the most watched and most important of those races is for the presidency, whose original 11 candidates have bee…

Coups of a Feather: The Striking Similarities Between Brazil’s Insurrection and Jan 6 May Be Due to ‘Authoritarian Learning’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ugh about those who planned the Brazilian insurrection yet, the close ties between the American and Brazilian Right stand out. Bolsonaro and his allies have received ample support by the American right-wing in spreading their version of the Big Lie. Steve Bannon, Trump’s former advisor who has received a pardon from the former president, has spent months on his “War Room” podcast claiming the Brazilian election was stolen. Bannon, who called the B…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ture taken while holding a sign affirming their support for LGBT equality. Brazil: Evangelicals on Verge of Electing President? “Brazil’s increasingly powerful evangelical Christians are tantalizingly close to electing one of their own as president next month in what would be a historic shift for the world’s largest Catholic nation,” reports Reuters’ Anthony Boadle. Marina Silva, an environmentalist running neck and neck in polls with incumbent Pr…

In ‘The Evangelical Mission to Spread The Gospel to Muslims’ a Journalist Tells a Global Story About Evangelical Missionaries and the Spread of Right-Wing Ideology

By Daniel Schultz

…ligious revival couldn’t be timelier. Then he took his crusades worldwide. Between 1962 and 1974, Graham personally met the region’s most brutal anti-communist military rulers, including Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, Ernesto Geisel of Brazil, Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay, and Augusto Pinochet of Chile, whom Graham praised as a “great Christian leader.” Graham wasn’t the only American preacher to wage an anti-communist spiritual fight abroad. During…

American Missionary Could Face Genocide Charges, But Brazil’s Indigenous Communities Have a Bigger Problem

By Amy Fallas

…ut the incident, it’s unclear how the case would proceed. According to the Brazilian penal code, criminal charges for genocide can be brought against nationals but foreigners cannot be prosecuted under national law. One possible explanation for FUNAI’s approach is to generate awareness of the detrimental outlook for the agency and the indigenous communities they protect. The incident comes on the heels of growing threats to indigenous sovereignty…

Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Jacobs reported this week on an “epidemic” of deadly anti-gay violence in Brazil, “one that, by some counts, has earned Brazil the ignominious ranking of the world’s deadliest place for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.” Nearly 1,600 people were reportedly killed in hate-motivated attacks in the past four and a half years in spite of Brazil’s image as an open and tolerant place that has long recognized same-sex couple for immigrat…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…or an interview with reporter Charley Walters. CBC reported on the rise of Brazil’s far right and soaring anti-LGBT violence. “Brazil legalized same-sex marriage in 2013 and same-sex adoption in 2010,” says the report by Matt Kwong.”But analysts note that the progressive policies have been met with a hard pushback from groups believing the shift from traditional social mores has gone too far.” Kwong reports that in absolute numbers, “there is no d…

BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

By Joanna Brooks

…de, we sounded a note of caution here at RD about the “dark side” of honor code enforcement. After all, the honor code had been created during the 1960s in an effort by ultra-conservative BYU President Ernest Wilkinson to root out liberals, and honor code enforcement (including anonymous referrals) had been used to bait and harrass feminist, liberal, and gay students, shut down campus free speech, and compromise the privacy of pastoral counseling…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…John Waters for a music video calling for an end to anti-LGBT violence in Brazil. From Kelsey Minor at NewNowNext: Sao Paulo is home to one of the world’s largest Pride celebrations and Brazil passed marriage equality two years before the U.S. But ignorance and religious intolerance still fuel acts of hate in the country: In fact, more than 40% of all anti-LGBT violence in the world occurs in Brazil. Murders of gay and trans people are particular…