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Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…d coalition. Some came from the political right and far-right: there were well-heeled Catholics from posh parts of Paris, poorer ones from the provinces and some Muslims. Some supporters even spoke the language of the anti-capitalist left, arguing that gay adoptions and surrogacy might lead to a heartless market in embryos. To some extent, the movement simply capitalised on the general unpopularity of François Hollande, then the Socialist presiden…

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…with a single standard for Christianity. You’d have some conservative evangelicals telling Mormons that they aren’t really part of the club. Many would question the bona fides of prosperity gospel preachers. There would be small Bible churches insisting that everyone else is a heretic. Plus, some people would be confused about themselves—do I really count? Do I want to count? The difference is that, in the West at least, Muslim communities tend to…

Is Islamic Homophobia a Western Import?

By Omar Sarwar

…nny. It also makes sense to probe beneath a colonial subject’s “surface-level” religious reasoning to uncover the deep causes of their internalization of colonial homophobia. But we still need specific evidence to show that the subject succumbed to this internalization—in the form of a statement or some particular aspect of their behavior. Consider, for example, a modern jihadi militant who kills innocents in the name of God. Such a militant’s psy…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…l Vauxhall Tavern, a “legendary gay venue” from developers. Turkey: Pride celebrations cancelled under threat from Islamists Organizers of Istanbul’s pride parade, scheduled for Sunday, June 26, called it off after local officials banned it in the face of threats from Islamist hard-liners. When a German Member of the European Parliament joined a group of activists attempting to read a statement to reports on Sunday, police detained her and others….

An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right

By Christopher Douglas

…ac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, and the evangelical bestseller The Shack, by William Paul Young, which is sort of a Book of Job meets Criminal Minds and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit novel. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? There are lots of great books on American literature and religion—Tracy Fessenden, Amy Hungerford, and John McClure have done great work. Susan Harding has a…

Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that the real work lies ahead. We call on the Council to act quickly and deliberately and to lead the church as promised. Today, we commit to hold the COB accountable for finally bringing justice to The United Methodist Church.” UMC members have spent years wrangling over whether to allow bishops to ordain LGBT people and give pastors the ability to officiate same-sex marriages, with the debate typically hinging on a demographic question: Accordi…

What American Flag-Worship Looks Like to a New Citizen

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…use to express our faith become our faith, and predict our actions. So when a child comes home convinced that she is “praying to the flag,” what are we teaching her to believe, about her country, about her religion, and about the real possibility of “liberty and justice for all”?…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…nts yet attacks on same-sex marriage campaigners, some violent, have gone relatively unnoticed. … Melbourne University’s Associate Professor Sally Young, an expert in political campaigning, said the tone of the campaign may have now pushed some people into the No column. “It’s tapping into what the No side is talking about, which is a fear of change.” The Catholic Church is “ramping up its involvement in the same-sex marriage debate,” reports Emma…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…voted in support of the bill.” Adds Bayoumi, “Incidentally, Chancellor Angela Merkel, now widely seen as the pre-eminent guardian of western liberal values, voted against the bill.” BBC News reports on a Berlin mosque where “men and women pray together, women are allowed to lead Friday prayers, and gay, lesbian and transgender people are welcome.” “Our mosque is open for everybody,” says mosque founder Seyran Ates, a German Turkish-born lawyer an…

Catholic Church Campaigns Against Gay US Ambassador; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…visiting schools and attending public events with Satawake. A group of intellectuals and religious leaders in the predominantly Catholic country earlier this year urged Medina and the Dominican Ministry of Foreign Affairs to declare Brewster “persona non grata” because of a U.S.-backed education initiative they contend seeks “to turn our adolescents gay.” In an Associated Press story by Ezequiel Abiu Lopez, local activists said that in spite of t…