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South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

…atives of sexual minorities. I think you see for yourself how the topic is promoted in the international media. A reasonable question under the circumstances is what to expect next?” Tasmagambetov continued. His speech concluded to say that education should be based on building a society capable of resisting the “gay propaganda”. Lebanon: Legal Progress, Continued Peril for LGBTs The Inter Press Service News Agency reports this week on “The Darker…

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The ‘Pro-Family’ Movement Has Little to Say About Family Separation

…greater suffering” than the death threats by police officers in his native Honduras; the 14-month-old baby returned to his mother after 85 days covered in lice and dirt. At this point even if all the children are returned to their families, something that is not at all certain, the experience will likely have longer-term effects, possibly even on the children’s genetic codes. Yet one group has remained largely silent: the “pro-family” movement com…

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Should We Believe ‘Bombshell’ Report on Pope’s Knowledge of Sexual Abuse?

…ng his feet in removing bishops accused of concealing predatory clerics in Honduras and Chile, among other things. It’s entirely possible he blew it here again. The questions raised by Vigano’s allegations deserve answers. At the same time, calls for Francis’ immediate resignation are premature, and all of the available evidence points to a systemic issue, not a problem of a single misguided pope. Even if you completely cleaned house, it wouldn’t…

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This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

…to me the challenge for the church is to see whether we can show we have a better narrative, a more accurate narrative, out of which to generate policy and practice. Dan: Right. I want to come back to that point in a bit, but that gives a good transition into another question. That narrative of the national security state, as you describe it in your speech Counterscript, is fed by various “scripts,” as you call them: therapeutic, technical, consum…

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Is New Pope’s Take on the Poor All That New?

…. The panel, which reflects the geographic distribution of Catholicism far better than the College of Cardinals (which remains heavily European) contains cardinals from the Americas, Asia, and Africa, including Sean Patrick O’Malley, a Franciscan who has been credited with cleaning up the Archdiocese of Boston, which witnessed some of the most egregious cases of sexual abuse and cover up under Cardinal Bernard Law. Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, the A…

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Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

…rg). As a global enterprise, it has also been accused of blurring the line between church and state during its emergency relief work in developing countries. Graham is a powerful figure, having met Kiir and Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir many times to advocate for the country’s Christians. He visited South Sudan in March, prayed with Kiir and the rebel leader Riek Machar, andinaugurated an airport hangar in Kenya. Graham is also anti-gay, backin…

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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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The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

…mative, non-movement conservatives have been standing by and watching and abetting while conservatism has been hijacked by power-hungry ideologues. As I point out in the book, movement conservatives have made a travesty of conservatism, resembling nowadays something closer to the radical right-wing revolutionaries of the 1990s Patriot movement than anything you might actually describe as conservative in the traditional sense. I do think that a num…

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What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

…John Paul, demonstrating the extraordinary cross-pollination that occurred between the pope and the Christian right on the issue of abortion. But it’s the first part of this formulation that should attract notice. It was George W. Bush, when he was running for president, who talked about “creating a culture of life.” But in Bush’s formulation it was to assert that he wouldn’t back the kind of draconian laws, that Pence has supported as governor of…

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Trump Considers Pulling USA Out Of Human Rights Council; Indonesian President Blames Democracy For Rise of Militant Islamism; Global LGBT Recap

…s. India: Materials targeting adolescents challenge gender stereotypes and promote respect The Health Secretary published materials designed to be used by adolescent peer educators on health issues. The materials aim to dispel gender stereotypes and promote relationships based on respect, reports Abantika Ghosh in The Indian Express: The legality of homosexuality may still be an open question for the judiciary and the Government is yet to change t…

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