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Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…y” between the sexes. Estonia: Court overturns ruling that favored lesbian couple A court decision requiring immigration officials to grant a residence permit to an American woman married in the U.S. to an Estonian woman was overturned by a circuit court. The women say they will appeal to the Supreme Court. Hong Kong: Pride participants push for nondiscrimination law Ten thousand people attended the ninth annual Pride Parade. “We hope the new gove…

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Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap

…e illegal for the first time in Indonesian history, and straight unmarried couples could face prosecution. The Family Love Alliance, a conservative Islamist advocacy organization, petitioned the Constitutional Court to broaden existing Indonesian law, which makes adultery illegal but does not ban sexual relations between unmarried people. A decision is expected in December or early next year, after the court hearings are completed… The case is the…

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Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

…alice and misery” that it engendered, including blackmail. That such a law could exist, and that it could take so long to change it, seems absurd today when the House of Commons has 45 openly lesbian, gay or bisexual MPs, and when Prime Minister Theresa May marked the 50th anniversary by apologising for the fact that her Tory party has often lagged in accepting LGBT rights. What no one in the UK seems to have thought of doing is apologizing for ho…

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Duggar Daughters Talk Sex, Courtship, and Fear of Ungodly Men

…thing from education to matchmaking. But for many Americans, their first encounter with courtship culture is via the Duggar family, whose TV show has given them prime access to the larger public. Eldest Duggar son Josh courted and married his now wife Anna (Keller) Duggar under the strict supervision of his parents and future in-laws. 19 Kids and Counting! devoted several episodes to their well-chaperoned relationship. Audiences watched as Josh as…

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Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

…me religious leaders criticized the vote: “Adoption should only be done by couples, and a couple is a man and a woman,” said Manuel Barbosa of the Portuguese Episcopal Conference, according to Diário de Noticias, a Portuguese newspaper. The Parliament on Nov. 27 is expected to consider a measure that would allow lesbian couples to conceive children through artificial insemination. Nigeria: Students reportedly arrested on sodomy charges Nigerian po…

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Mormons Declare Same-Sex Marriage Apostasy, Deny Baptism to Children of Same-Sex Couples; Colombian Court OKs Adoption Over Church Objections; Franklin Graham Praises Putin’s Anti-Gay Policies; Global LGBT Recap

…to adopt children, a victory for the country’s LGBT community. Previously couples could only adopt a child if it was the offspring of one of the partners, but after hours of debate a 6-2 vote was made in favor of adoption. The decision was slammed by Catholic Church officials: Colombia’s Roman Catholic Church immediately denounced the decision as violating the rights of children and going against the wishes of the majority of Colombians who polls…

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

…alians “can hold a civil public debate.” Mr Turnbull and co, meet Margaret Court. … Court asserts that Australia is a “Christian nation”, and because the Bible stipulates that marriage is between a man and a woman, Australian law should do the same. It is, of course, constitutionally and factually absurd to call Australia a Christian nation. Also, being a “Christian nation” didn’t work out so well for Ireland. To answer my son’s question, I suspec…

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Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

…ple to be legally married in Estonia,” according to Gay Star News. Mexico: Court rules same-sex couples entitled to assisted reproduction Mexico’s Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex couples are entitled to assisted reproduction. Under the country’s legal system, the ruling does not immediately change state laws, but means that couples who challenge local restrictions will be able to obtain a federal injunction, or amparo, allowing them to exerc…

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Unbuckling the Bible Belt: “Nashville” and the Nones

…hey venerate new southern gods. And what the show venerates is a non-pop, acoustic, edgy, alt-country ethos that shares little DNA with mainstream contemporary country. As John Jurgensen accurately noted in the Wall Street Journal, “‘Nashville’ is dominated by intimate, acoustic numbers that would fall into the category of ‘Americana.’” No great shock this, since T. Bone Burnett was the program’s music producer in the first season, followed in Sea…

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Will Texas Really Be Able to Undermine Marriage Equality?

…s that accompany a legally recognized marriage. As such, the Texas Supreme Court reasoned, cities and counties may not be required to provide (and may even be barred from offering), in this case, employment benefits to legally married same-sex couples. Determining who is eligible for those benefits requires additional litigation, the court declared, sending the case, known as Pidgeon v. Turner, back to the lower court. Such a narrow reading—co-sig…

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