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

By Peter Montgomery

…of the State Congress announced that the Congress will vote on a new civil code at the end of the year after a couple of months of public forums on the topic. The National Action party, he said, would seek to promote a civil contract but not a marriage. Arturo Sandoval, governor of Jalisco, joined Guadalajara’s Pride march and called for respect, inclusion and tolerance. The governor’s Facebook page included a range of comments both in support and…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…donesia’s conservative Aceh province has enacted a strict Islamic criminal code, local government officials said late on Friday, criminalizing adultery, homosexuality, and public displays of affection outside of a legally recognized relationship. Aceh is the only province in the Muslim-dominated country to adhere to sharia, Islamic law, which puts it at odds with other provinces where the vast majority of the population practices a moderate form o…

This is No Ordinary Anti-Blackness — The Racist History of the Pet-Eating Conspiracy

By Kyrah Malika Daniels and Dianne M. Stewart

…mythologies. Even without ever mentioning the words “Black” and “Haitian,” code words such as “immigrants,” “criminals,” and “illegal aliens” are indirect signifiers of Blacks, Haitians, Africans, and other targeted non-White groups. Such racecraft speaks to a peculiar devotion to America’s most treasured civil religion—Whiteness. It’s little more than a twenty-first-century performance of America’s long legacy of Black voter suppression that redu…

The Dark Horse ‘Stop the Steal’ Scenario: NAR Leaders Sought ‘Trojan Horse’ in Election Offices Filled with ‘Christian Patriots’

By Frederick Clarkson

…m leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) which have loomed over the 2024 election since the last presidential election. Many leaders of the NAR participated in the Stop the Steal activities before, during, and since January 6th, and many remain election denialists. But what’s gone largely unnoticed are efforts, by this, perhaps the most significant religious movement of the 21st century, to train people to infiltrate election offices as el…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…uban Foundation for LGBTI Rights, who said he has faced increasing persecution by agents of the government or criticizing Mariela Castro, daughter of Raul Castro and leader of a government-approved organization that advocates for LGBT rights. Kenya: Ugandan refugees imprisoned after protesting conditions in camp 76 Crimes reported that 17 LGBT Ugandan refugees were sentenced to a month in prison after being transferred from one refugee camp to ano…

International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e ruling could strengthen opposition to U.S. policy. Medard Bitekyerezo, a Ugandan politician leading the push for tough anti-gay laws, said events in the United States would “invoke more disgust” in the east African country and make domestic legislation against homosexuality more pressing. “The U.S. Supreme Court’s declaration shows the West has become totally disoriented and descended into a Sodom and Gomorrah society,” he said, referring to the…

Persecution of Ugandan Bishop Continues In United States

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ted States. As Rev. Senyonjo tours the United States speaking out against Uganda’s still pending “Kill the Gays” bill and trying to foster some compassion for the plight of gays and lesbians all around Africa, the conservative Institute on Religion and Democracy is crying foul and accusing the Bishop of trying to get Western countries to use their influence in Africa to help accomplish the “acceptance of homosexuality in Africa.” The IRD, bankrol…

Addressing Homophobic Rhetoric, and Not Just the Anti-Gay Initiatives in Africa

By Sarah Posner

…lar biblical positions on homosexuality,” as do other religious leaders in Uganda and in Rwanda, which is Warren’s first “purpose-driven nation.” A law criminalizing homosexuality (although with lighter sentences than in the proposed Ugandan law) has been proposed in Rwanda. There, the Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini, head of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda, has said, “Even when the government decides to legalise homosexuality our church…

Election of New Lesbian Bishop Reveals Tensions in Anglican World

By Jeanne Carstensen

…copalians over Glasspool but only issued an anemic, and tardy, response on Uganda, where the Anglican Church is very influential. Carol Anderson had “high hopes” for Williams, but believes “he’s bent over backwards to listen to only one segment of the Anglican Communion.” “Electing a woman bishop who happens to be a lesbian is not the same kind of affront to the gospel as killing somebody. I’m sorry, but they just don’t measure up,” Anderson said….

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he Gambia’s increasing status as an international pariah. Just weeks after Uganda’s Constitutional Court struck down the newly adopted Anti-Homosexuality Act in August 2014, the Gambia adopted a law closely modeled on Uganda’s which included a life sentence for “aggravated homosexuality,” defined as including cases like when someone repeatedly has same-sex intercourse, when the accused is HIV positive, or when the accused has sex with a minor. Kaz…