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By Peter Montgomery

…and Poland also ban same-sex marriage.” South Africa: President ‘Respects’ Ugandan Law; Gay Judge Publishes Memoir In response to a parliamentary question this week, South African President Jacob Zuma refused to condemn Uganda’s anti-gay law, writing, “South Africa respects the sovereign rights of other countries to adopt their own legislation. Also this week, Edwin Cameron, an openly gay judge who joined South Africa’s Constitutional Court in 200…

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…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ong” to claim that anti-gay beliefs are inherent to their culture. Gambia: Uganda-Like Anti-Gay Law Moves Forward Gambia’s brutally anti-gay President Yahya Jammeh has called gay people “vermin” and threatened to kill Gambians who seek asylum in Europe. The Washington Blade and Associated Press reported this week that Gambia’s National Assembly has passed an anti-gay bill that includes life sentences for “aggravated homosexuality.”From the Blade:…

The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment

By Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

…that Clinton’s role was damage control as the Family struggles to make the Uganda bill “go away”) Clinton’s speech also underscored the Family’s influence in pushing her stance on reproductive freedom rightward. In her address, Clinton sentimentally recalled meeting Mother Teresa at the 1994 National Prayer Breakfast. Mother Teresa had used her platform as guest speaker to chastise the Clintons (standing right beside her, smiles stretched to the b…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…xperience extreme discrimination and persecution. These countries include: Uganda, Rwanda, Cote D’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (“DRC”) and Kenya.” More from the press release: Until April 30, 2015, Pastor [Joseph]Tolton will be on the ground working to counter this effort and provide an uplifting alternate narrative. The message advocates for inclusion, economic justice and the reconciliation of all people of African descent globally. “As…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…e rural villagers suffer from AIDS, dysentery, and political violence. The Ugandans say they have no use for this American religion; it doesn’t help their situation. But when the chubby, bespectacled geek (a Mormon who has never read the Book of Mormon) invents “scriptural” stories in the form of practical allegories, with embellishments borrowed from Star Trek, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings, the Africans respond enthusiastically. When confront…

Speaker Mike Johnson to Allow Privately Run National Prayer Breakfast into the Heart of the Capitol

By Jonathan Larsen

…Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), the co-chair of last year’s prayer breakfast, to Uganda. In his keynote speech for Uganda’s National Prayer Breakfast, Walberg urged national resolve against pressure by the U.S. and others to drop its death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.” Pres. Joe Biden is expected to participate despite the controversy. He even greeted The Family’s guests remotely last year, presumably unaware that he was addressing some of the…

Expelled: Christian Student Claims Discrimination, But Judge Says No

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ntended she violated school policy and the American Counseling Association code of ethics. That code, by the way, is clear about what is expected from counselors: Counselors do not condone or engage in discrimination based on age, culture, disability, ethnicity, race, religion/spirituality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status/partnership, language preference, socioeconomic status, or any basis proscribed by law. Counselors…

Challenge to ‘un-Africanness’ of homosexuality; LGBT Catholics in Africa face church cooperation with persecution; lesbian cartoon project debuts in bangladesh under shadow of violence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ident Yoweri Museveni used in a ceremonial signing of the anti-gay bill in Uganda. This year Gambia’s president Yahya Jammeh called for gay people’s throats to be slit. Alimi says it was a huge task to prepare to teach a course on pre- and post-colonial sexual orientation and sexual identity in Africa. In digging up facts I found that, while many Africans say that homosexuality is un-African, African culture is no stranger to homosexual behaviours…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…se of forced anal examinations appears to be a recent phenomenon in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. United Methodist Church: First openly gay bishop elected; schism ahead? The Western Division of the United Methodist Church elected openly gay Rev. Karen Oliveto as a bishop, the first in the church whose doctrine bans “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from ordination. Oliveto, currently serving as pastor of Glide Memorial UMC in San Francisco, was on…