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Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…03 but the High Court in Dublin refused in 2006 to recognize her marriage. Uganda: Magazine gives LGBTI Ugandans a voice The Advocate profiles Bombastic, a new magazine “by and for LGBTI Ugandans” and its editor Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera. Reclaiming messaging from antigay lawmakers — who had promised a new antigay law as a “Christmas gift” to Ugandans after the “Jail the Gays” law was overturned on a technicality in August — Nabagesera and her s…

‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lls on the Hindu nationalist BJP to look to pre-colonial history: For most Indians, history begins with 19th century British imperialism. Depictions of homosexuality in Khajuraho and in the Kamasutra are hardly known to most Indians, including our politicians. If the BJP really dreams of a Hindu Rashtra, then the first thing it should do is legalise same-sex love, because Hindu India never criminalised it in the past. It was the English Victorians…

Catholic Bishops Meeting For Family Synod; South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church OKs Gay Weddings, Ordination; Court in Malaysia Deals Setback To Transgender Advocates; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…fornia, who was being mistreated by his parents during a family holiday to India. Shivy said his parents confined him to his grandparents’ home in Agra, took away his Indian passport and United States residency card, and compelled him to enroll in a university in Agra. When he ran away, his parents reported him to the police, who searched for him and reportedly harassed activists who had assisted him. The Court’s ruling celebrated Shivani Bhat’s “…

Gambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers

By Peter Montgomery

…ed since December 20. The report estimates that the Anti-Homosexuality Act promoted by some US evangelicals and praised by many Ugandan religious leaders has led to an almost 20-fold increase in anti-LGBT incidents, reports Buzzfeed’s Lester Feder: The incidents documented in this report range from blackmail to eviction to torture. Twenty-four of the documented cases involve physical attack, including one incident in which a woman was assaulted an…

Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?

By Michael Bronski

…h sacred texts as the Kama Sutra and Krittivasa Ramayana. It was not until India came under British colonial rule—with its Christian assumptions about sex—that Section 377, the first Indian law banning “carnal intercourse against the order of nature,” was passed, in 1860. The efforts of modern-day Indian activists—both Hindu and non-Hindu—for sexual rights finally led to the overturning of Section 377, in 2009. A religion is not practiced in a vac…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…Missionary Movement, which it calls “one of the evangelical churches that promotes speech and discriminatory practices against LGBT people” and “conversion therapies.” India: Profile of ‘first LGBT student leader’ ScrollToday profiles Asmita Sarkar, a lesbian student at Jadavpur University described as India’s first LGBT student leader. Cambodia: Photo exhibit using Khmer wedding rituals Charmaine Poh, a Singaporean-Chinese documentary photograph…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…view LGBT people—as purely sexual beings. Foster’s screed is simply a long promo for a new ex-gay movie coming out, and the trailer, three-minutes of nauseating footage, centers around how each of these former homosexuals lived their lives in clubs, engaging in cheap, easy, and often public sex, or were sexually abused. For all the claptrap the religious right yells about how they don’t want to think of us “that way,” the trailer for the film is p…

Muslims Need Not Apply—To the White House or Congress

By Julie Ingersoll

…ing that Obama should be impeached because he is a Muslim (complete with a promo promising free guns, paid for by “a millionaire” who wants you “protected against what’s coming.”) The video in the email is by evangelist Jack van Impe, known for his premillennial rapture theology and his disconnected rambling in Bible verses. It is entitled “President Obama’s Religion in Question” and argues that he is really a Muslim. Joan, who claims in an email…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ding up to this year’s election.“ (For more on Pray the Vote, go here) The promo for Craig Detweiler’s new book Into the Dark reads: “Detweiler, a well-respected film expert and media spokesperson on Hollywood and Christianity, examines forty-five twenty-first-century films that resonate theologically—from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Little Miss Sunshine—offering groundbreaking insight into their scriptural connections and theological applica…

Trickle-Down Metaphysics and the Dawn of a Trumpian New Age

By Michael Schulson

…inciple that imagining creates reality has captivated modern readers,” the promo copy explains. The publisher probably didn’t expect the book to resonate quite so uncomfortably with the political moment when they chose November 8th—Election Day—as its publication date. But indeed, Donald Trump’s distinctive style has roots in the spiritual tradition of which At Your Command and The Secret are both a part. Neville was just ahead of his time. Born i…