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Anglican Communion Gets Anti-Gay Secretary General; Black Gay Christians Challenge Conservative Evangelicals in Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…vorce, which voters did by a narrow referendum in 2011. (The vote left the Philippines and the Vatican as the world’s only countries with no provisions for divorce.) The law — which goes beyond those its fellow European Union members have passed — would allow for someone to change their legal gender through simply filing an affidavit with a notary without a significant waiting period, eliminates any requirement for medical gender reassignment proc…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…en for sodomy) and in nations where equality is gaining traction, like the Philippines (whose government is debating the specifics of an anti-discrimination bill). “You have to work in the places that are most unsafe,” she said. “But you also have to push the bar higher, because pushing the bar higher benefits all of us.” Media Matters reviews the anti-LGBT credentials of several legal scholars promoting “religious liberty” laws that would allow o…

African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ian Christian Lobby is attacking an anti-bullying program, arguing that it promotes “radical sexual experimentation.” From Pink News: The Safe Schools Coalition Australia (SSCA) scheme – which is also available in Victoria, Tasmania, The Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales – is fully federally funded and has been used to make schools in the area, as Brisbane Times puts, “more inclusive for same-sex attracted, intersex and gender diver…

No Schism Here: Hillary v. Sanders and Party Unity

By Daniel Schultz

…can United Methodist Church includes conferences in Africa, Europe and the Philippines. “Schism” is about the dirtiest word in Methodism, behind only “apportionments.” The desire to stay together has caused the UMC no end of headaches, since it locks together liberals and conservatives in an uneasy marriage. But they figure it’s more productive than becoming a bunch of wild-eyed separatists (like my people). I’m generally hesitant to read too much…

The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

By Terry Shoemaker

…ly, including a court-sized mural depicting Bryant and his daughter in the Philippines. A man in North Carolina even made a custom casket in honor of Bryant that’s currently on display at the Staples Center. During this year’s All-Star game, one team wore Kobe’s number 24, while the other wore number 2, Gianna’s uniform number. The MVP award, given this year to Los Angeles Clippers’ star forward Kawhi Leonard, was renamed permanently for Kobe Brya…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…urch. Early Christian missionaries went to the continent of Africa and the Philippines and Christianized people with a very, very conservative brand of Christianity. That’s what they were given and that’s what many still believe. We are trying to be a global church that is accepting of all people, and I’m trying very hard to accept my African United Methodist brothers and sisters and make space for them. But at the same time, they are trying to ta…

Why Changes in Reporting Won’t Fix the Catholic Church’s Sexual Abuse Problem

By Angela Bonavoglia

…, I witnessed the Brooklyn diocese transfer back to his home parish in the Philippines a priest I had just interviewed—one among six priests who had taken a teenage girl to an LA hotel room they had rented by the hour—we’ve seen three popes fail miserably and disgracefully to fully come to terms with this crisis. Pope Francis issued his three-page mea culpa nearly a week after the release of a scathing Pennsylvania Grand Jury report on 300 priest…

Obama To Skip Golden Temple: Part of A Larger Problem With Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…The New York Times reports that during President Obama’s upcoming visit to India, he will not visit a Sikh temple because he might be perceived as Muslim. The idea of president as professor and president as uniter is now officially dead. The mere fact that such a consideration would come into play tells us how much we fail to adequately talk about religion except as a political tool. Since the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama’s supporters have co…

It’s Up to You, New York… To Oppose Islamophobia

By Randall Balmer

…ll Manhattan, Henry Hudson, an Englishman under contract to the Dutch East India Company, nosed the Half Moon through the same Narrows and struggled north on the river that now bears his name. The first group of settlers to disembark in Manhattan were Walloons, French-speaking Belgians, followed shortly by a modest influx of Netherlanders, Germans and French. English Puritans bracketed Dutch settlement on Long Island, while Swedes and Finns became…

Good Hair, Good God! The Divine Politics of African-American Hair

By Anthea Butler

…hat the hair cut for temple sacrifices is now the number-one export out of India. The fact that tonsure, a religious act, has turned into a profiteering scheme is remarkable. But there also exist unscrupulous people who are stealing women’s hair, either while they sleep or in movie theaters where their braids or hair hang over the seats; while a woman is enjoying the latest from Bollywood, someone is cutting her hair and exporting it to be sold in…