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

…Latin American countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay — countered the African Group’s efforts to postpone the new mandate. A petition to protect the position launched by ILGA garnered the support of 850 human rights organizations from 157 countries. Last Monday the human rights committee of the General Assembly narrowly voted down the suspension attempt and then voted 94 to 3 with 80 abstentions…

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Manslaughter Conviction of Brittney Poolaw Represents Pattern of White Christian Policing of Black and Brown Women’s Bodies

…ocracy given free rein, I suggest you take a look at the recent history of El Salvador. I heard a lot about missionary activity in El Salvador and Honduras in my 1980s evangelical childhood. It seemed like everyone my family knew had some connection to Christian missions in Central America. And those missions bore their toxic fruit. Today, El Salvador has a significant population of mostly charismatic evangelicals that can be counted on to support…

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Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

…Independent Expert. The Daily Maverick has more on South Africa’s actions. El Salvador: Religious leaders push for constitutional restriction on marriage “Ultraconservative lawmakers in El Salvador submitted a proposal to the country’s parliament Wednesday to ratify a constitutional reform to restrict same-sex marriages,” reports teleSUR. The country does not provide any legal recognition for same-sex couples, but the right-wing ARENA party, along…

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Obama at Romero’s Tomb: The Politics of Liberation

…d as Marxist, Oscar Romero was evangelized by the suffering of the poor of El Salvador who had been brutally targeted as insurgents by the death squads of the Salvadoran military. Initially Romero understood the Gospel as a message of peace and reconciliation, not social justice and liberation, which he saw as leading to conflict and threatening Church unity. After he was appointed archbishop in 1977, the repression of the rural poor escalated, an…

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The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

…, making marriage equality a reality in Ireland before the end of the year El Salvador: Human rights groups call for more action in response to anti-LGBT violence Last week Amnesty International responded to a wave of violence against LGBT people by calling for concrete action to fully implement hate crimes legislation, noting that a 2012 law on violence against women was stymied by “a lack of funding and bias against women among government offici…

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The Incredible Shrinking Free Exercise Clause

…ication, there are no unique religious demands that society is obligated to recognize, making Smith one more marker on the road to Charles Taylor’s secular age. One can praise it on the grounds that it protects religious believers and non-believers equally, but insofar as it establishes that religion is not unique, America has lost a protected space where the claims of the secular state could be resisted. …

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The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

…ifficult to imagine a more important repository of the intellectual source code of religious and cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of this source code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the…

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Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating

…s not just a run of the mill revenge seeker, he is into brain-frakking Daniel relentlessly. Promising to “take away everything he loves” he wants to buy Daniel’s Pyramid team, and then destroy everything else. Sounds like old school villain to me. Most intriguing about this story, however, is that if Daniel really did kill to get the MCP, then the foundations of his company and where it would seem to be going fit perfectly together. Murderous crea…

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Dear Scientists: Please Stop Bashing Free Will!

…ingle criterion for gauging the vitality of a life, or a society. Choices, freely made, are what make life meaningful. When people doubt free will, they are more likely to behave badly. After reading a passage from a book that challenged the validity of free will, students were more likely to cheat on a mathematics exam. Others were less likely to let a classmate use their cell phone. “Some philosophical analyses may conclude that a fatalistic det…

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Uncertainty About US Role In LGBT Human Rights Under Trump; Global LGBT Recap

…res the life of LGBT people through the metaphor of Khmer wedding rituals. El Salvador: Human Rights First brief on anti-LGBT violence Human Rights First released a brief about anti-LGBT violence and murder, along with impunity for the perpetrators. Taiwan: Complaints target TV episode featuring gay soldier In Taiwan, where a move toward marriage equality seems to be advancing over the objections of some religious groups, China Post reports that Y…

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