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Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…: Anti-marriage equality governor allows law to go into effect without his signature Governor Eddie Calvo, who long resisted marriage equality, allowed marriage equality legislation to become law without his signature. The legislation was passed to bring Guam law into accord with the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling. Governor’s spokesman Julius Santos said Calvo has made it clear he would not stand in the way of progress, but his reli…

War Criminal Henry Kissinger, First Jewish Secretary of State, Had a Lengthy History of Antisemitism

By Noah Berlatsky

…bility of its people,” he said. “The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.” In the early 60s, Kissinger wrote that “The West requires nothing so much as men able to create their own reality,” a vaunting empowerment fantasy inseparable from the implicit colonialism and nationalism. Kissinger imagined great statesmen imposing the triumph of Western civilization upon the globe through sheer force of…

Transitions: Caitlyn Jenner, Gender Identity, and Christians Behaving Badly (Again)

By Daniel Schultz

…ople aren’t going away just because some church leaders declare gender reassignment a sin. For one thing, nobody listens to religious leaders anymore, and, as we’ve seen, sexual identity may go deep, but it cannot touch the full depths or reality of human nature. Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine. Image by Movilh Chile via Flickr. There are always going to be people who don’t fit into the perfect sexual role, no matter how tight…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…ed a campaign against “gender ideology,” which they said was being used to promote acceptance of homosexual relationships and the idea that “a person can voluntarily decide for themselves whether they are a man or a woman.” Among other things, the bishops charged that the World Health Organization and a European anti-domestic-violence effort were sowing sexual confusion among youth. Critics argued that church officials were using the campaign as a…

Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…he resolution’s anti-LGBT language has been proposed by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. Action on the amendment has also been delayed. The International Service for Human Rights is among the groups urging countries to reject the African Group effort. Romania: Orthodox Church helps spearhead push for anti-marriage-equality amendment The Romanian Orthodox Church “dramatically” demonstrated its influen…

RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…make some impact 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 democrati…

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

By Daniel Schultz

…n 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 solve the pro…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…l Mundo, often using methods that were far from primitive. Today, LLDM has significant temples throughout Mexico and Central America, as well as in Chile, Colombia, Spain, and, of course, the United States. California alone has around 40 churches, and there are major congregations in Houston, Atlanta, and New York City as well. Along the way, LLDM has been able to take advantage of a broader growth in Latin American Protestantism—a trend that has…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nt and sad passions.” Candidate pledges and victimhood appeals are tactics promoted by the U.S.-based anti-LGBT, Catholic-minded National Organization for Marriage, which wants to play its hand in the French elections, too. Socialist President Francois Hollande signed marriage legislation on May 18, 2013 amid violent clashes and thousands of protesters decrying the scuttling of traditional family values as the fall of Western civilization. In the…

Vatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline

By Mary E. Hunt

…olded such that all of the bishops were allegedly forced to tender their resignations, the numbers are plummeting. Ten years ago, 73% of Chileans called themselves Catholic. Today that percentage is 45 with reports that in Latin America as a whole numbers are down 20% in the same period. In Switzerland in November 2018, six prominent progressive Catholic women left the Church by filing the requisite papers that relieved them of contributing church…