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Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…ader. What was the culture of the prison? At night, there was one guard for 800 prisoners. In the Rio prison system there’s no real government presence; state control in the prisons is just a façade. The prison gangs are the most powerful presence, but the church exerts a strong influence too. There were about 400 inmates in the gang camp inside the prison, and 40 to 50 in the church camp. The rest were neutral people who kept to themselves in the…

Equality Opponents Try to Reverse UN Progress; Anti-Gay Pentecostal Pastor Elected Mayor of Rio; Indonesian University Official Tells LGBT Students To ‘Normalize’ Or Be Punished; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and all lost, this time the surveys identified him as clear favorite of cariocas, as told to the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro. “I pray to God that my public life as complicated as it has been, can teach all Cariocas that always comes our time if we do not give up,” said Crivella Sunday before a crowd of supporters. Crivella, 59, is the nephew of Edir Macedo, founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, the major Pentecostal denominatio…

Anti-Gay, Anti Catholic Evangelical Sworn In As Mayor of Rio; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gelical Sworn in as Mayor of Rio Marcelo Crivella was sworn in as mayor of Rio de Janeiro. Crivello, a member of the Brazilian Republican Party is also a bishop in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God who has “preached that homosexuality may be caused by trauma suffered in utero—and that gay people may be the result of a botched abortion. He has reportedly called homosexuality a “terrible evil.” Here’s more from Dan Avery at NewNowNext: Criv…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…a “compassionate” sentence for homosexuals. Sekaleshfar had lectured near Orlando, Florida in April. Canada: Toronto Unity Mosque celebrates 14th all-inclusive iftar The night before the killing in Orlando, nearly 200 people attended Toronto Unity Mosque’s 14th annual all-inclusive iftar – a meal to break the fast during Ramadan — to which it had invited people “regardless of religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, class, dis…

Orlando Massacre and ISIS: The Illusion of Power

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…s—eastern Syria and western Iraq—it is losing ground. The movement known variously as the Islamic State, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (or “the Levant”—wider Syria), or Daesh has been seriously degraded. Air strikes have killed many of their leaders, disrupted their supply routes, and destroyed their weapons caches. Within the last year they have lost some of their major territorial conquests, including Palmyra in Syria, and Ramadi and Sinja…

Mike Huckabee, meet Amy Schumer. And, for that matter, Tony Orlando.

By Sarah Posner

…is like the Holocaust and slavery. For Huckabee, Roe v. Wade is out; Tony Orlando is still in. At Huckabee’s campaign announcement speech today in Hope, Arkansas, Orlando, now 71, performed “Yellow Ribbon,” as well as a song he composed for Huckabee, a hackneyed ode to why he loves America, “our home town.” Huckabee is widely seen as the evangelical’s candidate–not an just an evangelical candidate, but the candidate who speaks to and for evangeli…

After Orlando: Love Wins, But When?

By Daniel Schultz

…ut the same law that buys a venison steak in the Great Northwoods brings a cheap Taurus pistol to Baltimore, to people who also feel unheard and neglected. (Never mind the strange psychology of the “lone wolf.”) So the freedom to live without threat and the freedom to own a gun are at odds. Someone will have to win and someone will have to lose. I mean this quite literally. The only way to have meaningful gun control will be to vote people out of…

Emanuel’s Pulse: A Plea for Black Church–LGBTIQ Solidarity

By J. Kameron Carter

…This condition awakened me to a dream already testified to: Charleston and Orlando, Emanuel and Pulse, togetherness known through each other. To black Christians I say: you can’t be (rightly) against what happened in Charleston at Emanuel AME and indifferent, quiet or not equally outraged about what happened in Orlando at the Pulse nightclub on “Latin night.” Both are sanctuaries. The communion is ecumenical. It is shared. Emanuel and Pulse. Both…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…man Burt II, 29 years old Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32 years old Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 years old Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25 years old Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 years old Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50 years old Amanda Alvear, 25 years old Martin Benitez Torres, 33 years old Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 years old Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26 years old Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35 years old Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25 year…

Post-Orlando, Trump Reveals His Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…n all Muslims, even refugees, from entering the United States (despite the Orlando shooter being born in the US). Perhaps even more disturbing, Trump’s machoism versus ISIS is continuous with his desire for dominance over his political opponents. Every turn in the story affirms his superior intellect or his ability to “break” Hillary Clinton. The more I think about it, the more that little girl’s name seems almost too good to be true. What greater…