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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

…ilies, which resists the advance of LGBT equality worldwide. This week the Southern Poverty Law Center released its report on the WCF’s gathering in Tbilisi, Georgia last month, which it said showcased anti-LGBT rhetoric and conspiracy theories. Mexico: President promotes constitutional guarantee of LGBT equality; Mormon Church objects As Mexico’s complicated march toward nationwide marriage equality continues, President Enrique Peña Nieto wrote i…

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…

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…

Nikki Haley: Churches Should Take Over Universal Pre-K Education

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…” Yes, just imagine! As in most of the country, and especially in the deep South like South Carolina, when Haley says “faith-based organizations” what she really means is “Christian organizations.” Here in South Carolina, Muslims, Jews, or any liberal faiths like the Unitarian Universalists or the United Church of Christ, need not apply. What Haley proposes to do is put conservative Christians in charge of the earliest learning experiences of chil…

South Carolina Christian License Plates Blocked For Now

By Jonathan L. Walton

…e itself. Many private groups throughout the country have specialty plates promoting a particular organization or cause. In South Carolina this includes fraternities, academic institutions, wildlife organizations and the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry whose state license tag boasts “In Reason We Trust.” Yet none of these were originated by or within the state legislature. A non-profit group can create a specialty tag as long as 400 motorists…

Anti-Gay Forces On Offense in Europe; ‘African Islam’ Challenged by Extremists; Irish Marriage Foes & ‘Sounds of Sodomy’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and Nigeria. Among those featured in the story is Muhsin Hendricksi, a gay South African Imam, and Taj Hargey, founder of the “Open Mosque” in Cape Town. Egypt: Anti-Gay Crackdown Drawing International Attention Over the past year we have reported on the Egyptian government’s use of anti-gay persecution as a means of placating Islamist factions. Meredith Kucherov reported for Human Rights First this week that “the current crackdown is exceptional…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…tical experience, he said. “Being pro-life is your credential.” But across South Carolina—and indeed the country—voters attend tiny churches, Bible studies, and prayer meetings. Their collective views on the candidates are much more difficult to measure and assess. And while they may be consumers of Christian talk radio, or televangelism, or other religious media, they are not lock-step followers of the decisions of elites who met at a ranch in Te…

Obama’s Divisive Choice of Rick Warren

By Michelle Goldberg

…Schultz says of Warren’s role in the inauguration. “He’s big into work in Africa. This will give him a lot of clout over there. Part of the reason this is kind of insulting for me is that Warren has supported some pretty awful people in Africa, including people who think homosexuals should be jailed.” Feminists and gay people have long feared that the Democrats’ much-vaunted new religious outreach would come at their expense, and the Warren choic…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…recognition of civil status documents, including registered partnerships.” Africa: African American LGBT Faith Activist Supporting African LGBTs Alturi profiles Joseph Tolton of the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries whose work in Africa has grown 2009, when news reports about Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act began circulating and Tolton traveled to the country. “I fell in love with the people, I fell in love with the land, I fell in love with the…