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Art for Peace: An Interview with Artist Mary Button

By John Shorb

…eautiful, visual material culture full of hope. Do you think that peace in Kenya is possible? What role does art play in this? I do think peace is possible in Kenya. I even think it’s possible in the United States. I think art has an incredibly important role to play in the pursuit for peace because it is this amazing way to channel a sense of collective urgency. I was just taken aback by the incredible energy that manifested itself the minute we…

Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…perceptions that NGOs provide handouts while the government does nothing. Kenya: New Bill Calls For Public Stoning of Gays A Kenyan “kill the gays” bill has been introduced by Edward Onwong’a Nyakeriga of the Republican Liberty Party. It would include the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” as well as lifetime jail sentences for running ‘brothels for homosexual purposes,” which Pink News suggests could be used against anyone who lives wi…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…zations Co-ordination Act since 2012 but had been rejected on grounds that Kenya’s penal code criminalized gay and lesbian associations. This time, things were different, with the court ruling that refusing to register the organization was an infringement of the constitutional rights of association for LGBT people. The judges said registration was not about the moral and religious views of Kenyans, since the constitution does not set a limit of ri…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

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…

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

By Daniel Schultz

…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…

Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

By Rob Shryock

…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…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…id it was the U.S. position that “all people are created equal.” Openy gay Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainana criticized Ruto’s comments, saying “Kenya’s deputy president joins an important tradition by Africans in power to spread hate in church on a Sunday.” Reuters notes that Ruto has been charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court “for his alleged role in stoking ethnic violence after Kenya’s 2007 presidential electi…

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…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…entity” and that official response has been inadequate at best. “President Kenyatta recently described gay rights in Kenya as a ‘non-issue,’” said Lorna Dias, executive coordinator of the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya, an umbrella organization of which PEMA Kenya is a member. “Our response is that being gay or lesbian is a non-issue, but being harmed because of who you are is a serious issue. And the government can’t abdicate its responsibili…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Kenyatta, the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, National Congress of Churches Kenya, and the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops. The event was convened by the Kenya Christian Professionals Forum, which says the group came together around provisions in the then-proposed Constitution that they unsuccessfully opposed harm protections for “family, life and religious freedom and social justice.” The group now sees “a need for concerted efforts to influe…