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Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…l with the Shariah Commission here, which controls the Hisbah. He added: “This thing is an abomination.” According to the report, gunfire was required to disperse a rock-throwing mob that was angry at a judge who sentenced a young man to twenty lashes rather than to death, as the crowd wanted. The entire harrowing story is worth reading. Nigerian LGBT activists are calling for a global day of protest against the new law on March 7. Meanwhile, the…

Scottish Episcopal Church Angers Conservative Anglicans With Embrace of Same-Sex Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ditional Inuit beliefs about sexuality and family structure, and Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things helps show how a new generation of Inuit are actively “unshaming” their past. “There’s still a lot of thoughts tied to Christianity and traditional marriage,” Yerxa said. “That all came on the heels of being colonized. It’s nice to see the people actively trying to change their community and that’s really what the film is about: their stories. In othe…

Hajj Journal: Using the Toilet at the Grand Mosque

By Amina Wadud

…and only one escalator per floor in another tower. I never did figure out which was which. I knew the fastest way up to the third floor from my hotel, but this was always early and therefore less chaotic. It also involved a wide ramp straight from the outer front court up to the second floor. From there, the double escalators from each floor rose up to the third floor. There is also a partial 4th floor; more of a balcony over the deepest part of t…

Morality and Marriage Vigilantes and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…me sex has almost halved from 30 per cent in 2010 to 16 per cent in 2015, while the number who say they would be unhappy if a relative married someone who has undergone gender reassignment surgery has fallen from around a half to just under a third over the same period. Nicaragua: New web series has queer focus TeleSUR reports on MF, La Serie, the country’s first web series, “which will explore issues of violence, sexual harassment and queerness.”…

The Demographic that Should Keep Rove Awake at Night

By Katherine Stewart

…ajority mostly came from racking up huge margins among Southern and rural whites, while Obama actually captured majorities of whites in many blue states and blue urban areas. The most interesting way to divide whites in America, however, may not be by region, but by religion—or lack thereof. White evangelicals, according to Pew, were as red in 2012 as they’ve ever been. They went 78 percent for Romney, up from 74 percent for McCain. The bad news f…

Great Moments In Bipartisanship: Bible Edition

By Daniel Schultz

…l pins declaring, “THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN – AND THAT’S A GOOD THING.” Washington fashion mavens concur. [Song of Solomon]: removed as NEA funding slashed for 4,359th time. [Amos 5:24]: David Broder insists in column that moderates can overcome “divisive” rhetoric. Harry Reid, Orrin Hatch endorse amendment to Prophetic Licensure Act of 2009 requiring dressers of sycamore trees to stay 500 feet from temple prophets at all times. [Ezekiel…

Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rtive of the gay guy, so I think that regulated them from directly telling him negative things,” she said. Vietnamese mother-son activists Lily Dinh and Teddy Nguyen say family attitudes in Vietnam have changed since the government decriminalised same-sex marriage. In 2013, Vietnamese government officials organized discussions on same-sex marriage, and invited Dinh – who heads a small chapter of PFLAG, a group for parents and friends of LGBT peopl…

Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon

By Kaya Oakes

…in the way of regret. More than a few of the essays share a narrative arc which likely reveals something about what happens when a person is liberated from the rigid nature of a religion with an extremely limited world view. These often begin with the person remembering the breaking-point moment, then explain how the individual was brought up in a family with strict religious beliefs, followed by a description of the person’s post-faith life. This…

Faith-Based Bailout Part 3

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…epresentatives voted down the amended proposal that had come to them from this White House and its Federal Reserve partners, requesting loans amounting to 700 billion dollars for a bail-out of our free-falling credit markets. The subtext of story number one, which will likely become story number two in the next day or so, is the partisan sniping that has already consumed the issue. A conservative core of House Republicans now claim, with a semi-st…

Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…utional amendment to ban same-sex couples and single people from adopting children, something they can legally do now thanks to a Constitutional Court ruling in 2015. A group promoting the initiative cites a number of studies to support their argument that the initiative is needed to protect the best interest of children; among them is the widely discredited New Family Structures Study by Mark Regnerus. Their use of other studies has also been pub…