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Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…ollege of Law at American University in Washington D.C. and a professor of international and human rights law. The International Association of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Trans and Intersex people for Latin America and the Caribbean (ILGALAC) praised Grossman, who has been honored by, among others, the ACLU of the National Capital Area and the Hispanic National Bar Association. As chairperson of the UN Committee Against Torture, Grossman has criti…

International Religious Freedom Battles Heat Up

By Sarah Posner

…ission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), created in 1998 by the International Religious Freedom Act. On the other, though, Saperstein is one of Washington’s most prominent religious progressives, supporting reproductive and LGBT rights, as well as criticizing this summer’s Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby case (which was decided under RFRA, the statute he championed). Among the 11 Republicans who voted to confirm Saperstein wer…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ghts matter,” commented Jessica Stern, Executive Director, OutRight Action International, in response to the vote. The government of Uzbekistan, representing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), introduced an amendment against the resolution in what was a “veiled attempt to remove the list that included SOGI from the resolution,” according to Siri May, OutRight Action International United Nations Program Coordinator. The OIC amendment lo…

Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

By Frederick Clarkson

…silenced. He had some time to talk to RD about this new role as he and his American Episcopalian guides drove East from Denver to Louisiana, up through South Carolina to Washington DC. ______________________ RD: A number of American human rights experts have said that the killing and forced displacement of the Ngok Dinka people from Abyei in May, and their replacement by the Arab, northern-aligned Misseriya, constitutes “ethnic cleansing.” Is eth…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…whispers of neighbors and friends, as both Paolo Apolito has pointed out. International pilgrimages are much easier now, at least for the middle class that can afford plane tickets to Medjugorje and Civitavecchia. Pilgrims learn from major apparition sites exactly how to watch for the Virgin and what to do when someone spots her. And it’s much easier for the news of an apparition to reach reporters, now that visionaries and their witnesses use vi…

American Anti-Gay Campaign in Africa Opposes “Fictitious Sexual Rights”

By Warren Throckmorton

…rced, gays can be sentenced to death by stoning. According to Family Watch International, Nigeria is a role model. “Aggravated Homosexuality” A nonprofit organization, Arizona-based FWI is affiliated with the World Congress of Families, an Illinois think tank which conducts international conferences to promote their vision for “the natural family”—“the fundamental social unit, inscribed in human nature, and centered around the voluntary union of a…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that previous human rights activists’ killers have gone unpunished. Exodus International: Former ‘Ex-Gay’ Leader Marries in Oklahoma John Smid, former director of “ex-gay” group Love in Action, and who spent 11 years on the board of Exodus International, married his same-sex partner in Oklahoma on Sunday. World Bank: Profile of LGBT Leader At dot429.com, R.A.Schuetz profiles Fabrice Houdart, a Senior Country Officer at the World Bank and president…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ARG News said would threaten sex education and marriage equality. Amnesty International sent a letter objecting to the legislation. Georgia: Officials push for marriage ban in constitution The speaker of parliament and head of the constitutional commission Irakli Kobakhidze, defending the ruling Georgian Dream party’s plan to amend the constitution to ban same-sex couples from marrying by saying it would “prevent ‘certain groups’ from stirring up…

More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nt agreement with an LGBT advocacy group in a lawsuit filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation in a press release it posted to its website said the government’s decision to end opposition to nuptials for gays and lesbians in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights case is part of a broader agreement that includes the introduction of a same-sex marriage bill in the Chilea…

Before We Scold DeSean Jackson and Others For Anti-Semitism We Need To Talk About ‘Chosenness’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…lbany or Washington—are controlled by Jews. I think they are controlled by Americans, and the American Negro situation is a direct result of this control. And anti-Semitism among Negroes, inevitable as it may be, and understandable, alas, as it is, does not operate to menace this control, but only to confirm it. It is not the Jew who controls the American drama. It is the Christian. At the time of Baldwin’s writing these were some of the most powe…