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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

…man rights. BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder has the details. A new report from the High Commissioner for Human Rights circulated on Monday said that LGBT people are victims of “pervasive violent abuse, harassment and discrimination” around the world. More from the Guardian: The rights chief expressed concern about laws enacted or proposed in the past two years to restrict public discussion of sexual orientation under the guise of protecting minors from in…

The Quietly Crumbling Wall of Separation

By Robert Marus

…s or forums of which religious groups might avail themselves. In 1995, the high court handed down Rosenberger v. Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia, in which a Christian student group at the school successfully sued for the right to use funds from a compulsory student-activity fee to pay for printing an evangelistic magazine. Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Center, said the Establishment Clau…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…m,” secretly videotaped his journey to Mecca on his iPhone and other small phones. “I was terrified because they reserve the death penalty for people like me,” Sharma said. Several times he had his equipment seized and video files deleted by authorities. But he persevered with both his spiritual journey and his film. “I was there making this pilgrimage for the thousands of gay Muslims who were too scared to go to Saudi Arabia, who would feel they…

Is Accreditation of Religious Institutions a “Farce”?

By Eric C. Miller

…ecular critics are troubled by the deregulation of faith-based educational institutions, Christian critics may be more so. After all, the stakes are high for both in safeguarding the quality of American higher education….

Young White Evangelicals will Vote Romney, Poll Finds

By Sarah Posner

…hite evangelical Protestants (12.3%). Note two things, then: the religious divide helps Obama, since his support is concentrated in the two most highly represented groups; and the boost Romney would get from millenial white evangelicals voting for him in such high concentrations would not be as helpful as it would be if he polled that high among older white evangelicals. Nationwide, white evangelicals represent about a fifth to a quarter of voters…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ru earlier this month. The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers interviewed a number of Caribbean LGBT advocates who agreed that “the movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in their region continues to lag far behind that in Latin America,” partly because there has been a longer experience of independence in Latin American countries. Erin Greene, director of advocacy for SASH Bahamas, told the Blade that conservative religious bel…

Is the Satanist Behind 10 Commandments Challenge Sincere?

By Joseph Laycock

…spirit gay, according to the Temple. There have also been plans to adopt a highway. However, the most successful campaign to date has been the offer to build a monument to the historical significance of Satan on the grounds of the Oklahoma capital as a compliment to an existing Ten Commandments monument. Greaves says he’s only getting started as the Temple continues to experiment and determine which tactics are most effective. They also have a gro…

Why the King Hearings Should Matter to Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…our religion too was once put on trial by Congress. In 1903, Reed Smoot, a high-ranking LDS Church official, was elected to serve as Senator from the state of Utah. Government leaders, politicians, Protestant churches, and business leaders petitioned Congress that Smoot was unfit to serve because of his affiliation with Mormonism and its outlaw practice of polygamy. What followed was a four-year show political show trial involving more than 100 wi…

The Religious Right Has Come Out of the Closet

By Patricia Miller

…lf-described ‘values voters,’ who measured candidates for office against a high bar of moral character, to anxious and unwavering Trump supporters who have largely dropped these standards for a candidate they believe will deliver policies that benefit them. But it’s easy to argue that that concern about “high moral character” was always a veneer over political expediency because “moral character” was so thoroughly fused with two issues: opposition…

Mexico’s Religious Conservatives Seek Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment, LGBT Activists Defend Secular Government; Cash From Qatar Funds ‘Traditional’ Family Activism Worldwide; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…topped,” he added. …In the release he said it could not be ignored that “a number of individuals, international groups and governments are exerting pressure on our communities to accept sexual practices that have not been previously accepted in most Caribbean communities”. … Although the PPM government has made it very clear it has no policy plans to introduce gay marriage or any kind of legal protection for same-sex couples, the fear that it migh…