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What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n Rights Council’s report with the independent expert position intact. The Sri Lanka Guardian noted that Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Mongolia, Thailand, Vietnam, Turkey and the Korean Republic were among the countries voting to sustain the independent expert position. And, as the AFK Insider reports, South Africa’s government, which had criticized the independent expert position, ultimately voted against the African Group’s effort to kill it. But as Reut…

BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

By Joanna Brooks

…de, we sounded a note of caution here at RD about the “dark side” of honor code enforcement. After all, the honor code had been created during the 1960s in an effort by ultra-conservative BYU President Ernest Wilkinson to root out liberals, and honor code enforcement (including anonymous referrals) had been used to bait and harrass feminist, liberal, and gay students, shut down campus free speech, and compromise the privacy of pastoral counseling…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ti-LGBT lobby in Italy are plotting to force a referendum” on the new law. Sri Lanka: Group With Record of Hostility to Religious Minorities Threatens to Attack Pride Celebration A far-right group has threatened that it will attack a pride celebration scheduled to be held in Colombo in June. The Tamil Guardian posted translations of Facebook posts from the group Sinhale: “How many fags do we have here in Colombo? NGOs are obtaining a good dowry fr…

The Dark Side of BYU’s Honor Code

By Joanna Brooks

…reating serious backlash among BYU students and faculty. Since then, Honor Code enforcement has been conducted through referrals—even third party referrals—of suspect students to a campus Honor Code office, a system of enforcement that has created significant opportunities for abuse. (When I was a BYU student, it was possible to make an anonymous third-party referral.) Honor Code enforcement on campus has been used to bait and target gays and libe…

Buddhism And Politics in Myanmar: An Author Interview

By Matthew Walton

…ntity and Difference, Ananda Abeysekara’s book on Buddhism and politics in Sri Lanka. I’m continually impressed with how effectively he holds onto a framing that sees the very categories whose solidity we usually assume (religion, Buddhism, monk, etc) as only ever coming into view at particular moments, usually moments in which their centrality, resonance or very definition are being contested. It’s incredibly challenging to consistently incorpora…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…brations, adding Montreal to earlier appearances in Toronto and Vancouver. Sri Lanka: Challenges for gender-nonconforming people Human Rights Watch issued a report on discrimination and abuse faced by people who challenge gender norms. Myanmar: Activists urge inclusion of LGBT people under legislation on violence against women The Myanmar Times examines ongoing conversations about protecting LGBT people under a draft law on the prevention of viole…

How a Mormon Spring Break Ritual Came to Include a Whole Lot of “Hare Krishna, Hare Rama”

By Spencer Dew

…tional costume, or language—all things the kids dancing on the lawn of the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple will likely encounter first hand in the course of their global mission work. To Mormon participants, then, the Festival is less “a revival” than “a rock concert with spiritual influences.” It is not understood to be “transformative” in the cosmic, metaphysical manner Das believes it to be, but merely in the social sense of bridging distance betw…

Touch Me, Man, I’m Healed, I’m Straight

By Ted Cox

…the peer-reviewed journal Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. Between 1995 and 2000, the researchers conducted interviews with 202 people who had received various forms of “sexual orientation conversion intervention.” The results? Of the 202 people interviewed, 176 of them (87 percent) viewed their attempts at therapy as a failure. Merely eight participants (3.96 percent, for all you math buffs) reported what the researchers called a…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…aring in a case brought by human rights activist Maurice Tomlinson against TV stations that refused in 2012 to run a 30-second ad calling for respect for the human rights of LGBTI people. Sri Lanka: Equality group releases pride video EQUAL GROUND released “Nothing But Pride,” a music video that encourages people to be “proud and gay.”…

Gambling with God: Ryan Bell’s Atheist Bet

By Linn Marie Tonstad

…to act as if he did not believe. Yet his understanding of the relationship between belief and practice suggests something about how we have come to think of religion in the marketplace approach of contemporary spirituality. Bell treats atheism as a religious practice in which one attends services and reads devotional literature, the “sacred texts” of atheism, as he calls them. The conclusion he hopes for is just what Pascal thought was impossible,…