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Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

…ians Face Violence The BBC ran a report this week on anti-LGBT violence in South Africa, telling the story of a lesbian woman who was a member of the “born free generation” – born in 1994, the year apartheid ended – and who was murdered and mutiliated in December. In a country where crime rates in general are high, black lesbians in poor townships face particular risks and often suffer the most violent crimes. As women, they’re vulnerable in a cou…

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Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

…” …“While some Kenyan leaders have attempted to paint homosexuality as ‘un-African,’ the African Commission resolution cements what many African human rights advocates have long said – that it is violence and exclusion that are un-African,” said Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “Kenya should uphold this resolution and protect, rather than persecute, sexual and gender minorities, at the coast and wherever anti-LGBT violence exi…

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Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

…hat has continued since the formation of a “unity government” in 2008) the African Centre for Law and Justice is injecting itself into the political process of drafting a new Constitution that will supposedly pave the way for new elections. The African Centre for Law and Justice is aiming to do in Zimbabwe precisely what the religious right seeks to accomplish in the United States: declare the country a “Christian nation” guided by biblical princi…

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Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

…eported on actions by US law enforcement agencies that had tipped off West African authorities to the travel of at least one plotter involved in a failed coup attempt. “In doing so, U.S. officials may have at least indirectly helped to protect the president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, who has drawn international condemnation for his dismal human rights record, his violent rhetoric against gay people and bizarre beliefs such as his claim to have conco…

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Catholic Sex Teaching is No Laughing Matter

…tries criminalize consensual acts between persons of the same sex. Even in South Africa, the first country in the world to constitutionally ban discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, anti-LGBT violence is a major problem, with “corrective rape” and murder of lesbians on the upsurge. At the same time that anti-gay violence is growing in Africa, the number of African Christians, including Roman Catholics, continues to increase. Catholi…

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Hey Hey, Ho Ho White Jesus Has to Go… But The Issue is More Complicated Than You Think

…rican-American humanity through identifying the positive representation of Africa and people of African descent that serves as theological anthropology. This means that African Americans have affixed their notion of what it means to be Black and a full human being in an anti-Black racist world, to their relationship to positive “Black” biblical personalities or God as Black, whether phenotypically (physical appearance) or ontologically (being). Th…

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TOMS Shoes Gives Focus on the Family the Boot

…dren in Africa. Focus was seeking to become a distributor of TOMS shoes in Africa, until Mycoskie was called out by the magazine Jezebel for his participation in the event. There’s nothing inherently political about distributing shoes to African children, of course. In theory, it’s a good thing for Focus to spend less time trying to police sex and more actually helping people, but they’ve not really cut back on the former. And Focus On The Family…

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

…nts currently living in Europe. “They facilitate the continuous looting of African resources by the same forces that enslaved Africans; who still believe that we blacks are monkeys and not human and, therefore, should not benefit from our Allah-given vast natural resources that we have on the African continent.” “This being the case, the Republic of The Gambia will never be a party to the so-called EPA with the European Union as it is designed to…

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Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

…rts, an editorial in the Southern Cross, a newspaper run by the bishops of South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland, criticized the law, and called on the Catholic Church in Africa to “stand with the powerless” and “sound the alarm at the advance throughout Africa of draconian legislation aimed at criminalizing homosexuals.” Discussing this division among Catholics, William Lindsey writes at Bilgrimage: As Kevin Clarke indicates, the Southern Cross ed…

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