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Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

…this month that lesbian and gay people should be killed rather than jailed Malawi’s bishops are promoting misinformation when they claim first that homosexuality is “alien” to Malawians and second that foreign aid is being used to pressure donor nations to adopt LGBT rights. Misinformation is problematic, but doubly so when used to endorse, implicitly as well as explicitly, anti-LGBT prejudices that have and can lead to discrimination, imprisonmen…

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Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

…nduct between men and calls for jail terms of up to 14 years. Details from Malawi24: The Mzuzu high court has ordered Malawi Police and the Director of Public Prosecutions to arrest people engaged in same-sex acts. Judge Dingiswayo Madise made the order in Mzuzu on Monday and warned that any person who disobeys the order shall be guilty of contempt of court. Madise said arrests should continue until there is a judicial review of government’s decis…

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Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

…gnition for other relationships. We, the Bishops of the Catholic Church in Malawi are aware of the pressure that the Government has endured so far from foreign nations and agencies who attach their financial support to values and practices that are contrary to our culture. We applaud the efforts and the courage the Government has demonstrated so far to resist the pressure to adopt such foreign values and practices i.e. homosexuality and abortion….

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Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

…eating gay bishops or approving gay marriage without widespread agreement. Malawi: President Backs Gay Rights, Opposition Politicians Says Gays Should Be Killed President Peter Mutharika wants gay rights protected, his press secretary said on Thursday, signaling that the country may be “one of the few places in the region where there is an opening for political reform of anti-LGBT laws. BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder reminds us that former President Joyc…

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First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

As President Obama signs the health care bill into law today, we are watching the first draft of history. But imagine what students a generation from now will be taught about the most significant overhaul of this nation’s health-care system since Medicare if the conservative activists on the Texas Board of Education are successful at their long-range goal of using the public education system to rewrite history. If publishers kowtow to the board a…

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You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

…It might as well be as old as Moses, given what a commonplace it is for right-wing Christians. The rest of it is a chestnut of its own. We ought to just be grateful that Lindell isn’t enforcing coronavirus rectitude with a hatchet. (Carrie Nation was also an unabashed self-promoter, by the way.) It’s a strand that goes back to Wesleyan perfectionism and Calvinist propriety, some of the deepest roots of American religion. It may look like faith se…

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Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

…ownright bizarre things “Cussing Pastor” Mark Driscoll says, usually while promoting a new book, as well as the ensuing negative publicity and essays critical of Mark Driscoll, which somehow increase the popularity of Mark Driscoll’s new book.  Mark Driscoll has a new book coming out, and with suspiciously good timing, he’s managed to initiate back to back controversies. First, he showed up at John MacArthur’s “Strange Fire” conference uninvited a…

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In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

…stem, in a statement issued by the permanent institution of the Bishops of Malawi, The Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM), and the Evangelical Association of Malawi, co-organisers of the march. “Citizens’ March for Life and Family is an open call to all Malawians to love their country by standing up for what is morally right today in the face of the hugely funded campaign for the ‘killing of unborn children’ (abortion) and legalisation of homose…

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Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

…and abetting, so there was a real fear about providing services,” he says. Malawi: Muslim association calls for death penalty In Malawi, where three men sentenced under the country’s anti-gay laws are appealing to the high court, the Muslim Association of Malawi has called for gay people to be condemned to death. Pink News reports that the association’s Secretary General Salmin Omar Idrussi said: “Malawi is regarded as a secular state but the coun…

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BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

…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…

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