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The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…ith in His sovereignty.” Counterfeit Christians? Last August, The Response appeared to be an effort to get the religious right to coalesce around a Perry candidacy. But since his spectacular free-fall, some of the most visible promoters of The Response have abandoned him for other candidates: Don Wildmon, the founder of the virulently anti-gay American Family Association, which bankrolled the event, endorsed Newt Gingrich just before the Iowa cauc…

Neo-Confederates and the Revival of “Theological War” for the “Christian Nation”

By Sarah Posner

…Operating within this historical trajectory, therefore, the League of the South has utilized the theological war thesis to promote a Christian nationalist commitment to constructing a new Confederate States of America. An early advocate of the theological war theory, Sebesta and Hague maintain, was Robert Lewis Dabney, a 19th century clergyman who published a biography of Stonewall Jackson, and a theological dissertation on the meaning of the Civ…

Call it ‘Christian Globalism’: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part III

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…active in Asia, Australia, Canada, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, South Africa, South America, Ukraine and the US. CIGN envisions the church as “God’s instrument to establish and extend God’s Kingdom until the literal coming of Christ to reign over all the earth.” Towards this end, CIGN believes that “God has entrusted the church the solemn Biblical responsibility of being the conscience of society, culture and government” and therefore i…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…violence against LGBT people. Anderson was recently banned from the UK and South Africa and deported from Botswana because of his virulently anti-LGBT rhetoric. But many other anti-LGBT groups cloak their rhetoric in terminology like “support for the natural family,” which sounds benign on the surface but actually excludes any family structure that does not follow the so-called “one man/one woman” model. Kenya has been a particular focal point of…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…recently vowed to deport foreigners who “campaign for homosexuality.” Pan Africa ILGA strongly denounced the arrests as part of a pattern of arbitrariness and abuse of power in Tanzania and other African countries. Indonesia: Government rejects most UN recommendations; ban on unmarried sex could snare tourists Human Rights Watch criticized the Indonesian government for accepting two vague pro-human-rights recommendations made by the UN Human Righ…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…hat grant allowed me to also interview activists who are LGBTIQ Muslims in South Africa, the Netherlands, Britain, USA and Canada. I am now preparing a book that features their interviews, to show both the variety of activist activities they engage in and the common issues that they face. That book will be published soon by NYU Press and will be entitled Voices of Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Muslim Activists. I know you have already commented a…

United Methodist Church Votes Against Israel Divestment

By Shalom Goldman

…ership in the anti-Apartheid struggle that led to the end of White rule in South Africa in 1994, called for a similar set of divestment campaigns to “to force an end to Israel’s long-standing occupation of Palestinian territory.” Campaigning against the Israeli occupation is not a new cause for the former Anglican Archbishop of Capetown, South Africa, who won the Nobel Prize in 1984. And confronting the indignation of Jewish and Evangelical Christ…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine issued a report in May mapping and appraising HIV prevention and care interventions for men who have sex with men in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, countries in which homosexual conduct is illegal. The appraisal was commissioned by the Sexual Health and Rights Program, which is coordinated by the International HIV/AIDS alliance. Among the community and structural level interventions consid…

Resurrecting Marley at 70: Rastafari History in 5 Songs

By Darren J. N. Middleton

…er heroes, like Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere, and even South Africa’s Steve Biko. Having taught African religions in the States for more than twenty years now, I can say that it’s well time they should. Just as civil rights triumphed over Jim Crow, immigrant patterns in the US began to change radically, complicating not only the traditional white-black binary but the very nature of black America, which now reflects the diversit…

Gambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers

By Peter Montgomery

…major step forward in the fight for LGBTI safety, respect, and justice in Africa. Many conservative lawmakers and faith leaders in Africa—urged on by their U.S.-based conservative benefactors—will undoubtedly argue that this resolution is part of some imagined international “gay agenda” to create new, special rights for LGBTI people. But the ACHPR has simply affirmed that the application of existing human rights standards should also apply to tho…