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Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…utharika wants gay rights protected, his press secretary said on Thursday, signaling that the country may be “one of the few places in the region where there is an opening for political reform of anti-LGBT laws. BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder reminds us that former President Joyce Banda had asked parliament to overturn the colonial era sodomy law in 2012, an effort she abandoned, while imposing a moratorium on its enforcement. The issue has been brought…

Rush Limbaugh’s Race-Baiting and Gaslighting of Obama Paved the Way for Trump

By Ian Reifowitz

…ieve that—with many of them believing he’s a Muslim. Rush Limbaugh bears a significant degree of responsibility for people holding those false beliefs about Obama’s religion. Over and over again, the host questioned whether the 44th president was really a Christian, and suggested that he might be some sort of ‘secret’ Muslim, or harbor pro-Muslim and anti-Christian sympathies—since, apparently, if one is pro-Muslim that means, by definition, one m…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…isions on what constitutes a family.” Australia: Marriage quality bill ‘consigned to scrap heap’ by Prime Minister After a weekend in which thousands of marriage equality supporters rallied, a marriage equality bill was introduced this week by Warren Entsch, a “progressive redneck” former crocodile farmer who broke party ranks. The bill continues to be opposed by the socially conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott, a former Roman Catholic seminar…

Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

By Joanna Brooks

…tion about polygamy came, I imagined listeners in Wales and Bangladesh and Kenya, listeners who had no concept of Mormonism, perhaps, beyond the most rudimentary and familiar stereotypes; including nineteenth-century Mormon polygamy. I squeezed my eyes shut. “No,” I said, “we no longer practice polygamy,” agreeing this time around with the LDS Church public-relations official. As I did, I registered an old, familiar, sinking feeling. I tried to te…

On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

By Ashley Makar

…as lines across his forehead in rows of concentric curves—a ritual scar to signify his tribe, the Dinka Ngok. “Since the time that I’m tired, until this moment,” he told me, “it’s like a fire in my heart.” He says he’s been tired since 1965, almost twenty years before he was born, when 72 Dinka Ngok were massacred in a Misseriya town. As a Christian, like most Dinka, he is also tired of the Khartoum government’s attempts to Arabize and Islamize al…

Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Kiir and the rebel leader Riek Machar, andinaugurated an airport hangar in Kenya. Graham is also anti-gay, backing Russia’s draconian laws against sexual minorities. He told delegates at a recent Oklahoma State Evangelism Conference to “get involved in politics. [The] gays and lesbians are in politics [and] all the anti-God people are.” Despite repeated requests, the group refused to provide details on the amount of money it currently spends in So…

Not a Review of Would You Baptise an Extraterrestrial?

By Nick Tabor

…ed the Jesuits, whose avowed mission is to “find God in all things.” After signing on in 1989, the order assigned him to study philosophy and theology at Loyola University Chicago, where he confronted theories of science for the first time. He found resonance in the historical realism school, which acknowledges the sociological factors in scientific research but still holds that science has “some validity” in describing reality. The books he’s wri…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…signed from the church using an online system that aims to ease people’s resignation.” According to Finland’s YLE, resignation also means a withdrawal from paying taxes to support the church, which is its main source of income. The first marriages would not take place until 2017, and Paivi Rasanin, leader of the country’s Christian Democrats, has reportedly said she will fight the law. Latvia: Ruling Party Official Praises Nazi Killing of Gays, Sa…

Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…lical preacher, is frequently quoted in the media. Southeast Asia: ‘Modest Signs of Change’ in ASEAN Countries Writing for The Diplomat, Kirsten Han looks at “modest signs of change” in the direction of LGBT acceptance in Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): With 10 Southeast Asian countries represented, the ASEAN SOGIE Caucus is a network of human rights activists doing work related to issues of sexual orientatio…

The Martyrdom of Cecil the Lion

By Jacob J. Erickson

…y partner driving down a dusty dirt road. We’re traversing our way through Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve. We’re camping, our little tent tilting in the Mara’s wind, lit by the most brilliant of stars, and visited by elephants and zebra and buffalo and lions in the night. We’ve wrecked nearly three tires on the roads, but every breakdown is an occasion to take in the wildness of the place. When it comes to other human creatures, we are alone…