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In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…off the southern tip of Spain. United Kingdom: Former Tory leader opposes ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in schools Lord Norman Tebbit, a former Conservative Party chair, spoke out against “promotion” of homosexuality in the schools, saying “I think it is damaging to children to introduce uncertainty into their minds.” Kenya: Activist profiled The Star’s Lydia Matata wrotes about gender non-conforming activist Joji Baro. China: Most LGBT people fear…

“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…sh structures would be less potent here? They’ve been pervasive in so many Western societies. People have often asked me, do I think that there’s something in the Anglo-Saxon political tradition that to some degree…is inoculated against that kind of thing? For example, is there more of a positive attitude towards capitalism and markets that inoculates us against the use of fears of Judaism [when we] talk about economic inequality? I didn’t give mu…

It Is Time For American Orthodox Christians to Protest Russia’s Persecution of LGBT

By Katherine Kelaidis

…le. This 400-year period of occupation was only temporarily interrupted by Western Christian empires vying with the Ottomans. When in the 19th century, Serbian and Greek nationalist movements began to throw off the Turkish yoke, independence was often accompanied by interference from the modern Western powers, such as Great Britain, France and the United States. Throughout this entire time, Russia was actually the exception for the most part. At l…

Pope Denounces Gender Colonization; Indonesian Court Considers Islamist Request To Criminalize Homosexuality; Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says No One Has Right to Harm Homosexuals; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o far from the Western [way of] life and can talk at the same eye level as Western people… I identify with almost 80 percent of the Arab world because there is at least 20 percent that I cannot even relate to. I’m talking about fanatic Islam and I’m talking about Muslims that are homophobic. But 80 percent of the Arab world today are fighting the same fight that Europe and America are fighting, the common people who just want to live in peace. I c…

Don’t Overlook Endless War in Rise of ISIS

By Haroon Moghul

…me—the fourth Western-led war against a country that was itself created by Western colonialism—and the results have been disastrous; we had no plan of action beyond booting out the dictator we once backed. More war broke out, involving uprisings, insurgencies, ethnic cleansings and sectarian jihadism in its ugliest incarnation yet. America’s power in the world has dramatically declined, and some conservative commentators seem to believe the way to…

Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…rather his fundamental understanding of social groups. From his privileged Western viewpoint, Harris reduces social collectives to essential types. Where white supremacists subscribe to a typology of race, however, Harris assigns people to groups based on their creeds. It is telling that Harris is such a strong proponent of Samuel Huntington’s widely discredited “Clash of Civilizations” thesis, which posits a civilizational war between Islam and t…

‘Putin’s Children’ Push ‘Traditional Values’ in Latvia; Jewish Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ In Israel; Sikh Activist in UK Supports LGBT South Asians; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ween Russia and the West. Armed with family values, mixed in with the anti-western propaganda, the Kremlin attracts supporters who are not natural allies. Some are even ideological opponents. “We can see how many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilization,” explained the Russian President Vladimir Putin in a speech in September 2013. “We know t…

Solidarity Through Veiling? Backlash Has Been “Personal, Fierce and Vile…”

By Sarah Eltantawi

…ilbab which has only been disrupted by in the past few decades by confused western Muslims. The Wahhabi reform movement (to name but one historical current) has been far more influential in changing Islamic practice than a handful of western Muslims. The thoughts and actions of the wives of the Prophet are the subject of current research which is painstaking, difficult and fascinating. No one can speak with confidence about what at least some of t…

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

…BT issues in the Western Hemisphere Hundreds of people from throughout the Western Hemisphere joined a conference in Tegucigalpa designed to bolster LGBT advocacy in the region. The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers covered the conference. Randy Berry, the special U.S. envoy to promote global LGBT rights, spoke at the gathering that took place at a Tegucigalpa hotel alongside gay Peruvian Congressman Carlos Bruce, transgender Venezuelan National 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

…government’s posturing as the defenders of Christian civilization against western secularism, both government and church officials responded harshly. According to a June 29 story from Interfax: The Russian Orthodox Church has appealed to all Russian advocates of the American model of governance, asking them to think twice about the consequences of the United States’ decision to legalize same-sex “marriages”. “The people who are into ‘democracy th…