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The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

…can be greater utility or status in speaking Spanish instead of Quechua in Peru, and similarly there’s some kind of status or utility in being a member of a religion or not. Yowza. There’s a lot packed into that fairly simple analogy; or rather, there’s a lot left out. Deliberations over “status” in a colonial context are not matters of utility; they’re exercises in power. Spanish or Quechua was a political decision as much as anything; a decision…

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

…awaiting trial, for a rainbow-themed paint job that the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Vice charged was promoting “emblems of homosexuality.” Taiwan: Marchers hope for marriage equality in near future Reuters reported that on July 11, “[t]housands of gay rights supporters marched through Taipei…months ahead of elections that are likely to usher in a pro-gay party and could make Taiwan the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marria…

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Yo, Gays, Stop Bogarting that Rainbow!

…rainbow flag as a symbol. The rainbow shows up in many flags including in Peru and Ecuador to represent Incan territory. It has also been used by the peace movement as well as the International Cooperative Alliance. What all these uses have in common is that the rainbow flag represents diversity, as Morse rightly claims. However, the overarching meaning of the rainbow flag is one of inclusion. When gay and lesbian people fly the rainbow flag they…

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Mormonism in 92 languages

…, Korean, Kuna, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Quechua (Peru), Quiche, Quichua (Ecuador), Russian, Samoan, Swedish, Tagalog, Tongan, and Ukrainian. Translators will also do their work in real time for local congregations in Albanian, Bislama, Cakchiquel, Estonian, Icelandic, Kiribati, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mam, Nivacle (Chulupi), and Tzutujil. And translators working in Amharic, Efik, Fante, Igbo, Lingala, Twi, and Yoruba will re…

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Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

…n under investigation by the officials in the prime minister’s office for “promoting homosexuality” since mid-March. The organization has been trying to resolve the matter quietly, but activists in Uganda say privately the investigation could be the beginning of an ominous political turn they have long feared — that the law would work not only to destroy the lives of hundreds of LGBT individuals, but also would become a weapon used against critics…

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Gambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers

…We reported in December that Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver had traveled to Peru to urge lawmakers there to resist calls for LGBT equality. That trip has now apparently led to a merger between the NHCLC and a Latin America-based organization called Conel , a group that NHCLC says serves more than 487,000 churches. “This merger is a win-win for both NHCLC and Conela, and we are thrilled to join together to better serve Hispanic Evangelicals worldwid…

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RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

…mpact on democratization: Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, and Peru in Latin America; Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa in Africa; and, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and the Philippines in Asia. Each study in the project addresses the extent to which evangelicalism, a religious movement based on biblical orthodoxy, has helped or hindered the inauguration and consolidation of the democratic movement…

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The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Left’s Challenge Today

…cites examples of U.S.-sponsored counterinsurgency: Venezuela, Guatemala, Peru, South Africa, Mozambique. Once he has placed the United States squarely “on the wrong side of the world revolution,” King delivers the gut punch—the part of the speech everyone remembers if they remember it at all: I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly…

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Global LGBT Recap: “Lavender Fascism,” Rage in India, Pope Francis Ousts Culture Warrior

…Supreme Court verdict.” Baba Ramdev, an anti-gay spiritual leader know for promoting yoga, has backed the ruling and criticized politicians who haven’t supported it, suggesting they must be gay. He says homosexuality is a sickness that can be cured by spending a few days at his Ashram. And amidst controversy over the treatment of an Indian diplomat by law enforcement officials in New York, a senior leader of India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Jan…

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Pope Francis v. Kim Davis: A Vatican Game of Thrones

…at best. Staver lying at the Values Voters Summit about 100,000 people in Peru praying for Kim Davis proves that he’s willing to stretch a story to fit the narrative of Kim Davis as a Martyr and “conscientious objector.” No matter how much he may continue to assert that “Vatican officials approved the visit,” I would suspect the only Vatican official he most likely spoke with was Archbishop Vigano, who let Kim Davis and Staver in the back door of…

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