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No Turkey for Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant

By Johnny P. Flynn

…ical mind—have been applied in recent months to another tribal man, Luo of Kenya, who occupies the Oval Office at the moment. As an Indian militant I am discouraged, but not surprised, that the mainstream media has so far failed to recognize the stomp-down amazing fact that we not only have the first African American president, but the first tribal president in American history. Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars through genealogists…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…a sizable portion of the population continues to believe Obama was born in Kenya, about half of Americans continue to say they don’t accept the reality of evolution. The big difference between the Kitzmiller trial and what we’e witnessing today is that the Seattle-based Discovery Institute (intelligent design’s chief champion) at least pretended it had developed a legitimate scientific theory—even though, to this day, there remains not one peer re…

Uganda’s Radical Anti-Gay Measure and the American Religious Right

By Michelle Goldberg

…the spectacle of Sarah Palin’s anointing at the hands of Thomas Muthee, a Kenyan Pentecostal and witch-hunter who has boasted of driving a woman with evil powers from her Nairobi suburb. Meanwhile, African leaders—including many politicians—have adopted some of the American right’s most viciously homophobic rhetoric. And Uganda isn’t the first African country to step up persecution of gay people. “Since the late 1990s, the Anglican archbishops of…

The Martyrdom of Cecil the Lion

By Jacob J. Erickson

…o tears on his show describing the event. Recognizing the pop-value of the news, Buzzfeed tracked all the reactions to Palmer’s story. The outrage is often directed (in some ways rightly) toward an individual. The events often make news due to the “celebrity” status of large animals like lions. Last year the press picked up the controversies surrounding nineteen-year-old Kendall Jones as she posted pictures of animals she’d killed in Africa. Last…

Global LGBT Recap: Mandela and Equality; Elton John Defies Russian Ban; Fake-Healing of AIDS

By Peter Montgomery

…te-owned news agency described by the BBC as relatively even-handed in its news coverage and replacing it with a new agency that will be headed by a ferociously anti-gay Putin loyalist, Dmitry Kiselev. More encouraging news out of Russia was singer Elton John’s defiance of the anti-propaganda law: at a December 6 concert in Moscow. The Washington Blade reports that John told the crowd he is “deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislatio…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…James Macharia for Reuters, Aden Duale, majority leader of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s ruling Jubilee coalition, said homosexuality is “as serious as terrorism” but said Kenyan anti-gay laws are already tough enough. RD contributor Jay Michaelson writes in The Daily Beast that some western activist strategies may be causing more harm than good. Reflecting on the anti-gay wave moving across Africa as LGBT people are made scapegoats for colonialism,…

Op-Ed: God’s Will in Iraq: Sarah Palin and America’s Global Mission

By Joel Schalit

…the last twelve months, a mixed race Senator from Illinois, with roots in Kenya, and bearing an Arabic middle name, became the front-runner in a campaign to take over the US presidency. Nothing could augur a more dramatic shift, culturally as well as ideologically, than this. Though a religious Christian, Obama is, in the eyes of many Americans, the opposite of Palin. Reason instead of revelation, democracy, not theocracy, education instead of pr…

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ted suicide in the U.S. since early November, when the Church instituted a new policy declaring Mormons in same-sex marriages apostate and refusing to baptize children living in those families. Earlier this month, the LDS Church declared that its new policy was officially a revelation from God to the prophet, LDS President Thomas Monson, a move that gay Mormon activist Mitch Mayne said leaves LGBT Mormon youth with “a bleak Sophie’s Choice: either…

Witches, Fine… Does Sarah Palin Believe in Religious Tolerance?

By Lisa Webster

…this video that Muthee’s now-notorious witch-defeating exploits in Kiambu, Kenya are chronicled. The Christian Science Monitor wrote about Muthee, back when the video came out, and what really stands out about that article now, when we have someone like Sarah Palin in the spotlight, (or in the headlights, a stunned moose) is that these spiritual warfare types believe that anyone who is not their kind of Christian can and must be ‘targeted’ for con…

Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…d legislators with 300,000 signatures opposing marriage equality. Nigeria: New York Times on Deteriorating Situation for LGBT People The plight of LGBT people in Nigeria continues to worsen in the wake of President Goodluck Jonathan signing a harsh anti-gay bill into law in January. The New York Times’ Adam Nossiter reports that the law not only bans marriage, but makes it a crime to join or support a gay organization or “directly or indirectly” m…