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South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ps, which they will be able to convert to marriages beginning in December. Costa Rica: Survey Shows Split on Religion and Sexuality According to The Costa Rica News, the Ecumenical School of Religious Studies at the National University released the findings of a telephone survey and set of focus groups on the religious beliefs of Costa Ricans. TCRN reports that 69% professed to being active Catholics, but only 4 out of 10 go to church. On homosexu…

Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

By Rob Shryock

…book, A Call to Resurgence, follows that script arguing that only 8% of Americans are “true evangelicals,” while simultaneously, and apparently without a hint of irony, calling on Christians to “stop fighting and unite.” Driscoll’s nose for controversy has earned him a consistent presence in the news cycle, perhaps comparable only to Pat Robertson’s. But unlike Robertson, who’s generally regarded as a kook, Driscoll is stellar at leveraging his b…

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

…y resale. Happy-faced entrepreneurial preachers have been a part of the American landscape since the first circuit riders hit the frontier villages. Even today, there’s no difference between Mike Lindell and a dozen televangelists, save a thousand milligrams of lithium. If you have any doubts about the commodification of the healing grace of God, google it for yourself. There’s a part of American Christianity that believes deeply and sincerely tha…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

…s 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 letter to top publishing companies. Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, president of Interfaith Alliance, said: The Texas SBOE members certainly are entitled to believe whatever they want about our country and its history. The problem arises when their religious beliefs begin to essentially rew…

Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ve equality between men and women, although there is still some way to go. Costa Rica: Family court judge gives same-sex couple common-law marriage This week a family court judge in the city of Goicoechea granted a common-law marriage to a gay couple, Gerald Castro and Cristian Zamora. According to the Tico Times, Along with being the first legal recognition of a same-sex relationship in Central America, the decision could set an example for judge…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…d or indicted for sex offenses” should be exempted from legal protections. Costa Rica: Vice President discusses family connection to human rights issues The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers interviewed Vice President Ana Helena Chacón, who spoke at the Civil Marriage Equality Congress held in San José on November 10. Chacón said her human rights advocacy was prompted by the birth of her youngest daughter, who has Down Syndrome. “I began a fight a…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ects of marginalization and discrimination on the health of LGBTI people.” Costa Rica: Report on municipalities making progress on being officially welcoming Roberto Acuña Ávalos at La Voz de Guanacaste writes that the area “timidly raises its own gay pride flag.” The story reviews nondiscrimination declarations that have been made by local municipalities there and in other parts of Costa Rica. A companion story profiles Albert and Keith Toney, an…

BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

By Joanna Brooks

…or students. Yesterday, at the sports blog Deadspin, Darron Smith—who is African-American and Mormon, and editor of the praised Black and Mormon (University of Illinois, 2004)—argued that the Davies incident is but one in a much larger pattern of honor code harrassment of African-American athletes at BYU. According to Smith, athletes of color, who make up about 23% of the athletes at BYU, make up nearly 80% of the athletes suspended, dismissed, or…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…they are planning, over the next three years, to open offices in Chile and Costa Rica. ADF’s work with the OAS is bifurcated between the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights and their Washington, D.C., office, where the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is housed. ADF quickly established themselves in the system, even managing to meet with the new OAS secretary general the month before he was elected. It should be…

As COVID-19 Spreads, Nicaragua’s Leaders Opt For Trumpian Denial and Misinformation

By Jeannine M. Pitas

…in the global search for a vaccine with better government leadership. “In Costa Rica there is some research on antibodies formed by people who have suffered from the virus. More research could be happening here. There is a lot of potential in Nicaragua, particularly in our universities, that is going to waste.” In the absence of strong leadership, physicians are taking it upon themselves to alert and educate the public, even to their own professi…