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Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…le Bachelet, Chile’s president-elect, is a supporter of marriage equality. South Africa: “Corrective Rape” on Rise? UK’s Independent published a story this week on violent “corrective rape” against lesbians in South Africa. The story is based on two years of reporting by photographer Clare Carter. “Even in the two years I was there the stories I was hearing were getting worse,” Carter told the Independent. “Corrective rape is getting more violent….

South Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate Called “Raghead”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ntended in jest,” Knotts said in a statement. “Bear in mind that this is a freewheeling, anything-goes Internet radio show that is broadcast from a pub. It’s like local political version of ‘Saturday Night Live.’ “Since my intended humorous context was lost in translation, I apologize. I still believe Ms. Haley is pretending to be someone she is not, much as Obama did, but I apologize to both for an unintended slur.” But, as the Free Times reports…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…slamic Cooperation, such as Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. America, South Africa, South Korea and 11 European countries (including Britain, France and Germany) voted against, on grounds that it put too much emphasis on traditional family structures. South Africa unsuccessfully tried to insert language that took account of same-sex marriages and other non-traditional arrangements. Efforts by Western delegations to include the point that fami…

Global LGBT Recap: Ugandan Law Unleashes Vigilantes, Anti-Gay Americans Want to Boost Homophobia Exports

By Peter Montgomery

…ever. And nor is there any moral justification. Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa, among others, attest to these facts.” Museveni signed the legislation on Monday, and on Tuesday the tabloid Red Pepper launched a vigilante campaign naming “Uganda’s 200 Top Homos” and giving names and home addresses of both well-known activists and private citizens, some of whom may not even be LGBT. Attacks may have already left one dead. After Museveni sign…

God TV: Televangelism 2.0

By Sarah Posner

…ion from debauchery to Christ when she was a teenage rock rebel in Durban, South Africa. (Rory is South African; Wendy was born in the U.K. but also raised in South Africa.) First introduced to Christianity at a Billy Graham Crusade, Wendy claims to have come face to face with Jesus while performing with her rock band at a Durban night club. “A few days after her Damascus Road conversion,” reads her biography on the web site for her book, Journal…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…pported the inclusion of sexual orientation in the constitution of the new South Africa, making it the first constitution in the world to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. It was fitting, and significant, that President Barack Obama referred to LGBT people in his remarks at Mandela’s memorial: “Around the world today, men and women are still imprisoned for their political beliefs; and are still persecuted for what they look like, or…

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…attend church, religious disengagement is growing in the black community. African Americans under the age of 30 are three times as likely to eschew a religious affiliation as African Americans over 50. This shift is crucial to understanding Black Lives Matter, a Millennial-led protest movement whose activists often take a jaundiced view of established African American religious leaders. You could say that Breinart is using the same conventional w…

Neo-Confederates and the Revival of “Theological War” for the “Christian Nation”

By Sarah Posner

…sta and Hague, “the cause of the Civil War was theological incompatibility between North and South, the former having ‘rejected Biblical Calvinism.’” Wilkins has written that “there was radical hatred of Scripture and the old theology [and] Northern radicals were trying to throw off this Biblical culture and turn the country in a different direction,” and that “the War Between the States was a war between two different world views: The old way of…

Is Anti-LGBT Legislation the New Southern Strategy?

By Darren E. Sherkat

…d fire a college professor for being gay or lesbian, compared to 8% of non-Southerners. The South is a hotbed of anti-LGBT sentiment because a large fraction of the population identifies as Baptists or with other exclusivist sects, and they also tend to hold literalist beliefs in the Bible. Over 45% of Southerners hold literalist views, compared to fewer than 26% of non-Southerners, while only 12% of Southerners adhere to a secular view, compared…

Rebels Without a Cause

By Jonathan L. Walton

…history and that Confederate symbols are celebrated as rallying points of Southern pride, cultural freedom, and states’ rights. Yet this makes little sense. Heritage and not hate? Cultural freedom and states’ rights? This line of Confederate defense is as historically anemic as it is logically flawed. There is no credible debate about whether the rebel flag points to the legacy of slavery and segregation grounded in white supremacy. Irrefutable e…