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Death Couture: Not For Halloween Only

By Stephen Andes

…al media has bought what they are selling. The Roman Catholic hierarchy in Mexico faces the uncomfortable choice of how to respond to La Santa Muerte, an image that has now been monopolized by criminals. Still, thousands of Mexican Catholics not associated in any way with the drug trade remain devotees. As recent polls conducted by both Latinobarómetro and Consulta Mitofsky have shown, popular confidence in the Church still remains stronger than o…

Mexico’s War on Saint Death

By Joseph Laycock

…demonstrations, a new factor came into play: swine flu. Fear of the disease has caused church attendance to drop by as much as 60 percent in Mexico City. At the same time, devotion to Santa Muerte is said to be higher than ever. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged to help Mexico against the cartels, and various NGOs have offered aid against the swine flu. While Mexico’s troubles cannot go on forever, it is not clear what the future hold…

Pope Francis Says Teaching Gender Is Nasty; Far-Right Religious Groups Helping Mexico’s Anti-Equality Movement; Colombia’s Peace Deal Killed by Anti-LGBT Campaign?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…pain and expanded to Latin America three years ago, including a staffer in Mexico and a list of 500,000 members in the country. (CitizenGo also includes Brian Brown of the US-based National Organization for Marriage and World Congress of Families on its board; he was in Mexico City for the Sept. 24 march.) The story makes it clear that the president’s decision to push for national constitutional change to guarantee marriage equality caught support…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…ic. At least one neighborhood during this time had a warning system—a bicyclist ringing a bell—that helped locals identify and expel door-to-door evangelists. But Aarón had military connections in local government, and roots in the region. Elisa had been born in the city. After two decades of civil war and social reform, rural migrants had swelled Guadalajara’s working classes. Aarón soon built a following among poor Guadalajarans, in part by offe…

US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…they’ve already won make marriage equality all but inevitable. “Outside of Mexico, and even inside of Mexico, these advances are not widely known,” Méndez said. “It is very slow, it is very invisible — but it is irreversible. Dominican Republic: Religious, political leaders criticize push for LGBT tourism The openly gay US Ambassador to the Dominican Repuiblican, James “Wally” Brewster, criticized comments by Tourism Minister Franciso García’ that…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…month, which it said showcased anti-LGBT rhetoric and conspiracy theories. Mexico: President promotes constitutional guarantee of LGBT equality; Mormon Church objects As Mexico’s complicated march toward nationwide marriage equality continues, President Enrique Peña Nieto wrote in Huffington Post about initiatives he introduced in May to establish a constitutional right to marry, “independently of gender identity or sexual orientation,” as part of…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…“It was Hadash — which partnered with the Islamic Movement and Arab nationalist party Balad in the Joint List ahead of the March 17 elections — that drafted legislation recently prohibiting discrimination in employment and in the education system based on sexual orientation.” Vatican: Pope Francis emphasizes ‘complimentarity’ in marriage At Pink News, Joseph Patrick McCormick reports, “The Pope made the comments on Sunday [June 14] during Rome’s a…

International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f whom have resisted efforts to embrace equality legislatively. This month Mexico’s top court issued a ruling that should push states toward compliance. From a July 1 Reuters story: Now that Mexico’s top court has given the green light to gay marriage, a host of states should bring their laws into line, a Supreme Court justice said. The court ruled in a decision published on June 19 that laws restricting marriage to a man and a woman were unconsti…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…an military chasing Geronimo through the mountains of Arizona and northern Mexico. The two are very different, of course; the Apache leader was born and raised in the mountains of Arizona and New Mexico and was fighting to stay free in his own homelands, while Osama bin Laden, who may have adopted the ways of mujahedeen, including their dress and customs, was an outsider rejected by his own family and country. He was only able to survive by hiding…

The Dark Side of BYU’s Honor Code

By Joanna Brooks

…l historians Bryan Waterman and Brian Kagel. In 1967, he removed the Honor Code from student control and enforcement, implemented stringent dress and grooming standards, and enlisted local bishops to act as agents for the university administration, creating 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 of…