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Art for Peace: An Interview with Artist Mary Button

…Most recently, she has created works based on peace summit she attended in Kenya. The summit was organized by the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America with the goal of bringing together close to 200 young people from across East Africa to talk about the post-election violence that broke out after the 2007 Kenyan elections. Button found inspiration and challenge when she stepped off the plane in Kenya, an…

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Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

…uman rights in Iran reported that two men charged with sodomy were among six executions carried out on August 6. Four prisoners were hanged publicly in the city of Shiraz (Southern Iran) today August 6. According to the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Fars province two of the prisoners were sentenced to death charged with sodomy. These prisoners were identified as “Abdollah Gh. Ch.” and “Soleiman Gh. Ch.” . Since there was no mention…

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

…arage homosexuality. And as in other English-speaking Caribbean nations, sex between men, in fact, is unlawful in Jamaica, with violators subject to 10 years imprisonment and hard labour, although the anti-sodomy law is rarely enforced. US President Barack Obama cited Jackson’s advocacy in during his April visit to the country. Nepal: Israeli gay couples and infants airlifted from quake damage Amid the widespread human and cultural devastation cau…

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First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

…s a guide for publishers hoping to land the lucrative textbook market of Texas. Texas is the second largest bulk purchaser in the country, second only to the bankrupt California education system. And many other states follow Texas’ lead and buy the same version. So that means students across the country could be forced to read McLeroy’s myopic vision of America’s past. The organization, which champions faith and defends religious freedom, sent a l…

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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

…ndell’s Rupert Pupkin mustache and Rupert Pupkin grin to the cheesy gold text superimposed over bargain-basement CGI clouds and sunshine to evoke some kind of glossy faith implies a rip-off of the tawdriest sort, the kind of remainder-bin book most people sensibly buy for kindling or building walls with. But there’s Lindell nattering away about nearly getting killed over a gambling debt in Mexico as though it were the highlight of his career. Is i…

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Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

…his control over recent years, pushing out dissenters and giving himself “executive elder” status, which makes him basically impossible to remove from his own church. In this world, arguing against Driscoll becomes the ultimate no-win situation: you either agree with him, or, in disagreeing with him, you just prove how much the world is against him, and thus how godly he is. But Driscoll, in being so offensive, is also impossible to ignore, too ex…

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

…ster reportedly plans quiet wedding Luxembourg’s openly gay Prime Minister Xavier Bettel is reportedly planning to wed his partner next week, but is keeping quiet about the details in what AFP calls “the tiny, conservative and mostly Roman Catholic duchy.” The two have been in a civil union since 2010. Mexico: Abundance of patience and pesos needed to get marriage ‘amparo’ We have been reporting on the ongoing spread of marriage to same-sex couple…

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BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

…cohol to lure teenaged athletes to Provo, downplaying the University honor code, then expecting young men to fend for themselves in a highly conservative Utah town where trouble finds black folks fast. It’s a picture not at all surprising to those of us who have attended BYU and witnessed both the differential status accorded to BYU athletes as well as the potential for honor code enforcement abuse. Twenty years ago, when I worked for the independ…

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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

…justice minister has since called for a repeal of the law criminalizing sex between two men. Mohamed Salah Ben Aissa said Article 230, which provides for three years in prison for consensual sex between men, is one of several laws that are inconsistent with the country’s new, progressive Constitution… Kenya: Human rights report say mob violence meets little official response PEMA Kenya and Human Rights Watch released a report this week saying tha…

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Fear of U.S. Marriage Equality Exported to Africa

…while there, because to acknowledge them would be akin to “promoting homosexuality.” Kenyan Republican Liberty party leader Vincent Kidala claimed that 5,000 naked men and women will demonstrate against President Obama, and Evangelical Bishop Mark Kariuki warned against Obama using his visit as an opportunity to “talk about the gay issue.” MP Charles Njagagua even threatened to force the American president out of Kenya should he speak in favor of…

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