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Was Ghana Anti-Gay Scare Just Politics?

By Warren Throckmorton

…es has little support in fact. Knight concluded, in a blog post titled Did Ghana register 8000 homosexuals? The facts behind the hype that: the real story is of a rather low-key workshop that has been sensationalized by the press, possibly with the collusion of a local doctor. The press reports are designed to create fear as are the unrepresentative group of Muslims claiming an imminent Sodom and Gomorrah for Africa. While the accuracy of the orig…

Ghana’s LGBT Population Safe From Persecution, But Not Prosecution

By Warren Throckmorton

…told Joy FM that she is only prepared to talk about the current debate in Ghana about rights for homosexuals in Ghana. Speaking about current law, Commissioner Lamptey said “homosexuals have rights as individuals that don’t need to be legislated… against non-discrimination, against defamation.” Lamptey then said even murderers have rights in Ghana, adding “if you attack a murderer, the state will protect that murderer’s right not to be attacked.”…

Ghana Moves to Arrest Gays and Lesbians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n Association of Ghana [GALAG] disputes. “We have no clear estimate of the number of GLBT in Ghana,” they stated, but did say they had research to support that perhaps 2,000 were living in Accra and Tema. “Each of these men and women contributes positively to Ghanaian life,” they asserted. The Christian Post reported that Rev. Dr. Fred Deegbe, General Secretary of the council, blamed Western influences for the existence of gays and lesbians in his…

An Historic Meeting: African and African Diaspora Women Convene in Ghana for First-Ever Religion Conference

By Rosetta E. Ross

…aders and executives from Africa and the United States; representatives of Ghanaian Muslim women’s groups and Ghanaian traditional leader, Nana Amba Eyiaba, Queen Mother of the original Cape Coast area; as well as college, seminary, and university professors from Africa and the United States. Beginning with its opening ceremony, the meeting celebrated the diversity of African-descended women even as it sought to build upon the commonality of Afr…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

Some Christian and Muslim Leaders Urging ‘No’ Vote in Australian Mail Ballot on Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…homosexuals. Canada and Ghana: Activists urge Canada to speak up for LGBT Ghanaians, drawing death threats LGBT equality activists created an unofficial “Ghana pavilion” at the Folklorama festival in Winnipeg, reported the CBC last week. Wearing pink shirts with “Ghana pavilion” and the country’s flag on the front, and “LGBTQ Equal Rights Now” on the back, the activists have been gathering signatures on a petition asking Prime Minister Justin Tru…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…es attacks from multiple directions: In the past few months, the bishop of Ghana’s methodist church delivered a speech criticising homosexuality, a law lecturer spoke on the radio calling for a “blistering crusade”, and a high-profile spiritualist cited tattoos as leading to “unexpected consequences” like homosexuality and prostitution. The Guardian’s Chris Matthews profiles Solace Brothers Foundation, an LGBT advocacy organization in Accra, and t…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…, not the fourth century … You’re not free to practice your religion in my airline seat.’ ‘This is male entitlement .. the height of male arrogance.’ One comment referred to this as a ‘back of the bus’ issue; as in, women being asked to move in such circumstances was tantamount to assigning them a lesser status as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accom…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…