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Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…have resisted such court orders, Tijuana’s mayor congratulated the couple. Luis Vargas, one of the newly married spouses, commented to a reporter on moral and religious opposition to same-sex couples, saying that as a citizen he pays taxes and contributes money to the church, and that neither the government or the church has found his sexual orientation to be a barrier to taking his money. Dominican Republic: Human Rights First reports on country…

Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Yehudi party due to its part in the IDF draft law, which imposes criminal sanctions on certain yeshiva students who don’t serve in the army, and because it is in favor of granting civil rights to same-sex couples. “There is a community which wants to murder other people,” he said. “It’s their nature and they must murder – so we should give them equality? Why give them equality, because they are murderers?” The Rebbe stressed that he was aware of…

Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…le of Albanian Muslim LGBTI Activist Alturi has posted a profile of Bekim Asani, who “began his activism at age 18 working to rebuild trust between people of different nationalities after the 2001 armed conflict in Macedonia.” Through this work and joining in a variety of other struggles he realized “I can be a great gay boy and a great citizen of my country at the same time!” Being out is important as he works to help other LGBTI people to live o…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ivity with penalties of up to five years in prison: “The proposed criminal sanctions before the Constitutional Court are not only a threat to LGBT people, but to all Indonesians,” said Graeme Reid, LGBT rights director at Human Rights Watch. “Laws that threaten privacy inevitably affect everyone.” The proposed amendments follow anunprecedented anti-LGBT campaign that began in January with a series of biased and false statements about lesbian, gay,…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the 19th century when modern-day Italy came into being. The community now numbers between 25,000 and 40,000 believers, mostly in the north of Italy. Malta: Marriage Equality Law Takes Effect A marriage equality law went into effect in this officially Catholic country on Friday, September 1. Chile: Marriage Equality Law Introduced President Michelle Bachelet introduced marriage equality legislation last Monday, which ABC notes was a week after the…

The Vatican ‘Doubts’ Same-Sex Love, But More Doubt The Vatican

By Mary E. Hunt

…clipped “Negative.” The Responsum, dated February 22, 2021, was signed by Luis F. Cardinal Ladria the Prefect, and Archbishop Giacomo Morandi, the Secretary of the CDF with the explicit approval of Pope Francis, of whom many hoped for better. The rest of the short document was an Explanatory Note, footnotes to other Vatican documents, and a Commentary as if somehow no did not mean no. The backstory: Some German bishops, among others, have been in…

What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ication called The Forerunner, longtime Christian Reconstructionist Andrew Sandlin wrote of Layton and SGI’s evangelical push into northern Iraq: “If we are going to support missionaries, let’s support missionaries who are going around the world to recapture cultures, not simply win a few souls here and there,” Sandlin wrote. “For example, consider Doug Layton in Kurdistan, northern Iraq, who is rebuilding a Christian culture: new Christian school…

Democrats Look to Conservative Evangelicals on Immigration

By Sarah Posner

…uals currently can sponsor their undocumented spouses for citizenship, thousands of gay and lesbian couples face the possibility of their families being separated unless the UAFA becomes law. That Schumer had to plead with anti-LGBT rights conservatives to even bring Republicans to the table points not only to the dysfunction of the Senate (where the majority party needs a supermajority to get anything done), but also to the dysfunctional way Demo…

Wojnarowicz’s Ant-Covered Jesus: Blasphemy or Religious Art?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…istence of Memory, and the infamous 1929 film Un Chien Andalou, (made with Luis Buñuel). When Dalí was a child he found a wounded bat, which he kept, only to return later to find the bat being devoured by ants. Ants are scavengers, feeding off the dead and decaying. It doesn’t take much to realize the main theme of A Fire in my Belly is death. More specifically, it is the vulnerability, penetrability, and perpetually possible disintegration of the…

When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…w others get close to God.” Credo sixteen extols the virtue of patriotism. Number nineteen advises humility and nobility, while twenty-two announces that no woman should fear a Knight, but, rather, should feel protected by him. Twenty-nine reiterates that every Knight should be “firmly and truthfully in the just cause of God.” Numbers thirty-four through thirty-eight prohibit drugs, kidnapping, and mandate drug testing. Forty-three requires member…