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As COVID-19 Spreads, Nicaragua’s Leaders Opt For Trumpian Denial and Misinformation

By Jeannine M. Pitas

…in the global search for a vaccine with better government leadership. “In Costa Rica there is some research on antibodies formed by people who have suffered from the virus. More research could be happening here. There is a lot of potential in Nicaragua, particularly in our universities, that is going to waste.” In the absence of strong leadership, physicians are taking it upon themselves to alert and educate the public, even to their own professi…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…they are planning, over the next three years, to open offices in Chile and Costa Rica. ADF’s work with the OAS is bifurcated between the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights and their Washington, D.C., office, where the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is housed. ADF quickly established themselves in the system, even managing to meet with the new OAS secretary general the month before he was elected. It should be…

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…

Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in plain sight and suffering in silence.” Namibia: Men married in South Africa sue government for recognition Two men who were married in South Africa in 2015 sued government officials in an effort to have their marriage recognized, reports the Namibian. One of the men is a South African citizen, and the couple were seeking to prevent the government from treating him and the couple’s son (who they are in the process of adopting) as “prohibited im…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…g billionaires), they decided this year to cover up the crisis with a rhetorical fig leaf. In November, the Court revealed the “ethics code” they’d drafted themselves which, not only isn’t being enforced by anyone except SCOTUS itself, but also has the fingerprints of the Federalist Society and its allies all over it. And, while this attempt to confront a crisis of confidence in one of the nation’s most critical institutions amounts to little more…

When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…nsformative power of the Holy Ghost. La Famila was in line with other Pentecostal movements throughout Latin America insofar as they prohibit the usage of drugs and alcohol, condemn homosexuality, and require that their members become born-again Christians, attend enthusiastic worship ceremonies, prayer meetings, and Bible study groups. The drug cartels have set up evangelical recovery homes across Mexico for backsliders in the style of U.S. rescu…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…, noting specifically improvements in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Uruguay. The report covers areas such as education, labor, health care, and protections against discrimination and violence. Last year the IAHCR released a major report on anti-LGBTI violence in the Americas. The anti-LGBT C-Fam complains that the Organization for American States is emerging as a “global L…

Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nounced that it would match donations to the Yes campaign up to AU$50,000. Costa Rica: Conservative Candidate Hopes LGBT Visibility Will Elect More Christians La Republica reports on the emergence of Vamos, a provincial political party that “responds to the unfulfilled promises of traditional parties that have not wanted to promote a change in the rights of LGBTI people.” Fabricio Alvarado, the candidate of the National Restoration party, hopes th…

How the Catholic Church Changed the Movies

By Patricia Miller

…llywood Censored. The code they designed became the Motion Picture Conduct Code, popularly know as the Hays Code after it was adopted by William Hays, a Presbyterian elder who was hired by the major studios to help clean up the industry’s image after it was rocked by a series of scandals. The code, says Black, “was a fascinating combination of Catholic theology, conservative politics and pop psychology—an amalgam that would control the content of…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…me was chosen. Geronimo was the name given by Mexicans to Goyalthlay, a Chiricahua Apache religious leader (1829–1909), while Americans who lived in the Arizona territory used his name to invoke “terror” in the hearts of white settlers to justify military actions against Indians—including the Apache. Goyalthlay’s early life was undistinguished in Apache society. As a young adult his few attempts to lead military expeditions against the Mexican go…