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Global LGBT Recap: Adventists Talk About, Not To, LGBT People; British Muslim Group Welcomes Gay-Rights Activist; Homophobia Exports Continue

By Peter Montgomery

…e subject of an investigation about whether he violated his town council’s code of conduct, which includes a clause saying that councilors must treat other people with respect. In the U.S. meanwhile, a congressional candidate who blamed gays for tornadoes and autism won the primary and will be the Republican challenger to Rep. Jan Schakowsky. Taiwan: Church-Sponsored ‘Happy Family’ Rally Draws Pro-Equality Protesters, Including Buddhist Nuns On Su…

Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

By Preston Davis

…on to overshadow the long shadow of apartheid. President Zuma sees 2010 as South Africa’s most significant year since 1994, the year apartheid ended. This could be the case. A tilted economy remains in South Africa (as in the entire globalized economy), setting in unreasonable and unnecessary suffering, but hope remains. These are Mandela’s children. A new cultural memory is building to replace the old. This could be the time for the beautiful gam…

South Dakota Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Urges Pastoral Endorsements

By Mark Bergen

On May 14, Gordon Howie, a Republican candidate for Governor in South Dakota, called on churches to rise in an act of defiant insurgency: buck federal law and openly endorse a candidate. Preferably him. His invitation, evocatively named the “Pulpit Challenge,” was answered affirmatively by at least one pastor. The Rapid City Journal reports that on Sunday, May 15, at Liberty Baptist Tabernacle, the parish minister, Rev. H. Wayne Williams, stated…

Feared Taliban Leader Killed, But Military Strategy is Not the Answer in Afghanistan

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…egional solutions—rather than international military intervention—might be used. One such organization is the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation, in which India plays a dominant role but the group also includes Afghanistan along with Pakistan. Equally relevant is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), consisting of China, Russia, and four Central Asian countries; Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and India have membership as observer…

Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…ause,” though this name speaks in the classic double-voicedness of the Old South (think, “bless your heart” as meaning anything but). The “cause” on which this civil religion is predicated—white supremacy and white nationalism—is understood as worth maintaining at the cost of blood and never truly “lost,” merely suffering through a period of oppression which will culminate in a triumphant return. The south will rise again, or, as the words of New…

South Park Meets the Sacraments at Class for New Catholics

By Zachary Leja

…by the secular trinity of shopping, computers and TV. But even Father Shea uses tech in his RCIA class. Damien thinks the use of the videos might be the older Jesuit trying to cater to the younger college audience—a good guess, given Father Shea’s assessment of millennial culture. One of the clips Father Shea plays during class is an animated video on baptism. The poorly drawn cartoon characters wobble around the screen, acting out how the sacrame…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r-holders are answerable to the people whose lives and rights they affect. South-South News includes another analysis of the process and document. Iain Levine, director of programs at Human Rights Watch, says that even in the absence of direct language for LGBT persons in the SDGs, the overarching imperative of anti-discrimination and anti-marginalization pervades strongly and will likely impact national-level decision-making. “For all human right…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…. (Note: Allen uses male pronouns and “transgendered” in his story; I have used feminine pronouns and would use “transgender.”) It’s safe to say that indicators from the Vatican are mixed: As the year drew to a close, Bishop Charles Scicluna of Malta invoked the Pope in opposition to a proposed law that would allow civil unions and adoption by same-sex couples; the bishop said the pope was “shocked” by the law and encouraged him to speak out again…

His Life in Our Hands: Remembering Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…lerk, before serving as the first freely elected president of a democratic South Africa. But his presence to the people of South Africa and to many around the world was much more than as a political figure, even a powerfully transformative one. In an interview earlier this year, when Mandela was hospitalized for the pneumonia to which he would eventually succumb, Anglican priest and justice advocate Michael Lapsley called Mandela “everybody’s fath…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…why people take risks people in the West would never even contemplate. Because, after all, you’re only going to get flattened by an accelerating Porsche Panamera, the family car of choice here, if God wants you to, and what better way to meet your maker than relaxed after some Lipton Yellow Label? But because I couldn’t snap a picture of this mythic hero, I offer you the next best thing: Something that likewise makes no sense, and makes you stop…