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

By Peter Montgomery

…the ministry of health about hospital staff who mocked one of the victims. Mexico: Marriage Equality Spread Continues The first marriage between two men who did not receive an amparo, or federal court injunction, in Guadalajara was held last week; as was the first same-sex wedding in Guadalajara. The ongoing spread of marriage equality across Mexico is being tracked by journalist Rex Wockner. Japan: Gay-Friendly Workplace Policies Reflect Company…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…slam,” he commented. Uganda: Anti-Gay Law Becomes Political Weapon Against Nonprofits Ugandan officials are using the infamous Anti-Homosexuality Act to target a leading nonprofit organization, leading activists to fear that it indicates how the law will be used as a political weapon, reporters BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder. The Refugee Law Project, whose office hosts the coalition of organizations opposing the anti-LGBT law, has been under investigatio…

Scottish Episcopal Church Angers Conservative Anglicans With Embrace of Same-Sex Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hem into alignment with the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. Due to Mexico’s legal system, that court ruling did not automatically overturn restrictive state laws and couple are required to seek amparos, or court injunctions, allowing them to marry in jurisdictions that have not yet changed their laws. In the state of Veracruz, the president of the Political Coordination Board of the State Congress announced that the Congress will vote on a…

Stop the Coup 2025 Founder on the Dangers of the Heritage Foundation’s Authoritarian Playbook

By Daniel Schultz

…so caught up in talking about social issues or identity politics that they stopped talking about the rule of law. They stopped talking about the democracy that they wanted. Now that they’ve lost their rights, that’s what they’re working on. They think they’re gonna end up in five years or 10 years or 15 years with a stronger democracy but at a high, high cost. This is again where faith communities come in, which is the critical work of talking abo…

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…lies of Isle de Jean Charles from hurricanes and anything else the Gulf of Mexico throws at them. Isle de Jean Charles is like other communities scattered throughout the wetlands of coastal Louisiana that fall outside the federal levee system. The seventh largest delta on the planet, these wetlands contain 37 percent of the marshland in the United States and the largest commercial fishery in the lower 48 states—to say nothing of the largest offsh…

Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…opposition Nationalist Party: During their time in power, the Nationalists stopped earlier efforts to pass same-sex marriage bills, including one introduced in 2013 that met opposition from Christian groups that gathered signatures from about 400,000 naysayers. Barbados: Anti-gay US activist speaks at church rally on ‘traditional family’ US anti-gay activist Judith Reisman was among the speakers at a rally on protecting the traditional family orga…

African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ity and viewed with unease by some Israelis for his brand of nationality.” Mexico: Marriage equality advances; opponents take to the streets An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 people marched in Guadalajara, Mexico, in an anti-abortion and anti-gay protest organized by a coalition called Jalisco Is One for Children and, as reported by EFE, supported by the archbishop of Guadalajara, Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega. LifeSiteNews reported that similar mar…

Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ersecution based on their sexual orientation throughout Maldives in 2014.” Mexico: First gay couple marries in Tijuana Marriage equality continues its steady spread in Mexico over the objections of Catholic leaders. The first gay couple to be married in the city of Tijuana had a civil ceremony on Wednesday after they received an amparo – an injunction – from the federal Supreme Court of Justice. Unlike some other localities who have resisted such…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…ell. After he came out as a gay man in the 1990s, White began to integrate nonviolent principles of social change into his efforts to reshape the anti-gay cultural institutions of which he had been a part. Thus both the tactics and the language used by the participants in Soulforce’s Equality Ride, which was first launched in 2006, bear a strong family resemblance to the culture of the American Civil Rights Movement. “Injustice anywhere is a threa…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…es would talk to me and let me do interviews. There were times when I made phone calls to inmates’ family members to let then know that visiting times had changed, to save them a long trip to the prison. I also visited the families of inmates with pastors and other volunteers to bring food, sometimes a gift a child’s dad had made. I basically become part of the lives of the people whose lives I wanted to document. How did a project you undertook f…