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Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…ncluded. But Johnson was wrong. Today, the Anglican Church in Nigeria is a central player in a vibrant and aggressive religious marketplace. Along with Pentecostal churches, other so-called “mission denominations,” and, yes, Islam, something like twenty million Nigerian Anglicans compete for attention. And they do so as part of a world Church. The church’s official name is Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), indicating the way in which they se…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…re different in parts of Serbia. But some journalists were in a village in central Serbia where part of my family come from. They saw a couple of people just drinking beer in front of the local store and they asked them about me, and they replied: ‘Well, listen, in this part of Serbia we grow raspberries, fruit and vegetables, and we do not grow discrimination.’ Netherlands: Anti-LGBT U.S. Ambassador called ‘a Dutchman from the Netherlands of the…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…hat provide AIDS-related services, which Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu said promoted homosexuality. Gay sex between men is severely punished in Tanzania. Those convicted could receive anything from 30 years to life imprisonment. However, there is no such ban on lesbian sex. Until recently the gay community in Tanzania had not be subjected to levels of discrimination seen in other African countries, such as neighboring Uganda. Politicians had largel…

Trayvon Martin and American Exceptionalism

By Anthea Butler

…it alone. So much of what I teach is about the violence and pathos of the African-American experience, that I have to say what is in my heart. It grieves me to know Trayvon died in such a horrible way, but it does not surprise me. Violence is at the core of much of the African American experience. As a scholar, I know that black lives and bodies are cheap in the psyche of “white America.” If we aren’t dancing, catching a ball, or cleaning houses,…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed to organize an anti-Western bloc, it has encouraged other former Soviet republics to adopt similar legislation. In Central and Eastern Europe, right-wing political parties have found electoral success, stoking nationalist fervor and accompanying the escalation of violent hate crimes against LGBT people, migrants and refugees, Muslims, and Roma in Poland, Bulgaria, and elsewhere. In Sub-Saharan Africa, long-serving strongmen cynically deploy hom…

Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…-life stance became the default position of white evangelicals, and then a central platform of the Republican Party. The Handmaid’s Tale was Atwood’s thought experiment about what it looked like for the state to take women’s fertility choices away from them. She listened to what the Christian Right was saying about sexuality, gender roles, patriarchy, homosexuality, and the God-given differences between men and women, and imagined an extreme versi…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The “call to reflection and action for the African continent” was named “The KwaZulu Natal Declaration.” Full text is available at Momba Online; excerpts below. Aware of the traditional leadership roles that academics, religious institutions, and churches in Africa have played in promoting social justice and human dignity, Troubled by the misuse of religion to further marginalize and exclude sexual minorities from s…

Resurrecting Marley at 70: Rastafari History in 5 Songs

By Darren J. N. Middleton

…948, Selassie donated land associated with Shashamane, which is located in central Ethiopia, for African expatriates, and the Jamaican government sent a delegation there in 1961. This group spoke to Selassie, who reassured them that he was serious about repatriation for those in the African diaspora. The first settler, Gladstone Robinson, arrived in Shashamane in 1964, and Noel Dyer, the second, and a key spokesperson on John Dollar’s 1992 documen…

At Moms for Liberty Summit, ‘Mama Bears’ Declare Spiritual War on the ‘Radical Left’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ater and sunscreen. Inside, Moms for Liberty, who claim to be champions of free speech, used this display of their fellow Americans exercising their 1st Amendment rights to paint themselves as victims of the “radical Left” and the “Marxists” who have forced them to endure unjust abuse and vilification (even as they claim that the pushback really is proof that they’re doing the right thing). Yet the mood, amongst all this talk of sacrifice and war,…

Don’t Buy Alito’s Assurances: Here’s What Happens Next After Roe Falls

By Brynn Tannehill

…ill overturn the filibuster and vote to ban abortion nationwide in 2025 if Republicans are able to gain control of the House, Senate, and White House. Louisiana is already moving to challenge Griswold by defining fetal personhood in such a way that anything preventing implantation (such as IUDs or the morning-after pill) would be regarded as homicide. Republicans at both the state and federal level are promising to ban birth control. Senator Mike…