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Vatican Unhappy with Obama’s Ambassador Picks

By Frances Kissling

…Population and Development where the Vatican faced stunning defeats as an international consensus was achieved on a new paradigm for reproductive health which placed women’s needs and rights front and center. While the Conference document was limited in that it fell short of recognizing the need for safe and legal abortion, it refused to accept Vatican attempts to enshrine so called conscience clauses into the document and was forthright in accep…

DeMint Stymies Obama’s Religious Diplomacy Nominee

By Sarah Posner

…erson tells Freedman that the Senator had “concerns” about Cook’s “lack of international diplomacy qualifications.” Freedman acknowledges that others raised those same concerns when Obama nominated Cook (also known as “Dr. Sujay”) in June. Here at RD, Anthea wrote at the time: Dr. Sujay’s resumé, with no discernible international policy experience, her close ties to the Clinton administration, and several ill-defined business ventures, suggest tha…

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

…ur hospitality. They are exercising their fundamental rights guaranteed by international law. Turkey is not doing them a favor. Refuge is a fundamental human right. This is the direction that we need to give to the public opinion…The economic and social burden needs to be shared internationally. But putting that aside for a minute, when the first waves of Syrians started coming into Turkey, their legal status was not recognized. They were called “…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…p to 15 years if convicted under multiple provisions, according to Amnesty International. “If passed, this law would further entrench stigma and abuse against people based on their perceived sexual orientation,” Amnesty International’s North Africa campaigns director, Najia Bounaim, said in a statement. India: Pride celebrations called ‘short gasp of breath’ for LGBT people living in ‘choked’ situations In a commentary for the Hindustan Times, Dhr…

Turning Point Efforts to Export Drag Queen Attacks and ‘Take Back Universities’ Marred by Fringe Associations and Farcical Missteps

By Matthew Boedy

…offshoots have enjoyed modest growth, the question is whether any of these international efforts will finally give Kirk and TPUSA the international success they’ve long sought. The current picture in Australia is bleak, though its leaders are pursuing evangelical support like Kirk has in the U.S. From the moment of its founding in 2020, Turning Point Australia has had a name problem: in Australia “Turning Point” is associated with its leading nati…

Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…oes not extend to general issues of non-discrimination. But as a matter of international law, I think that sodomy laws, as they are sometimes called, that is laws that criminalise private behavior between consenting adults do violate the principle of non-discrimination. So, I would hope that the Supreme Court of India, like in many other instances of human rights [violations] has shown very enlightened and very progressive decisions would also rec…

Helping International LGBT Families Stay Together

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…permissible. Thus, his support for the bill may be off-putting to some in American Muslim communities. But it may give hope to LGBT Muslim communities in America that their sexual orientation is recognized as a part of an acceptable family unit, if not in Islamic law, then in U.S. law. If Ellison does believe that homosexuality is not permissible, he has put his personal beliefs about the LGBT community aside in order to help them keep their fami…

Purpose-Driven Empire

By Bill Berkowitz

…hat once enjoyed huge popularity have fallen on hard times.” Without Walls International Church, a Tampa, Florida-based charismatic church, “which once attracted 23,000 worshipers and was heralded as one of the nation’s fastest-growing congregations,” is facing foreclosure. Part of Without Walls International’s problem may be related to the 2007 announcement by co-pastors Randy and Paula White that they were getting a divorce. “On Nov. 4 their ban…

American Muslim Community Must Search its Soul After Orlando Massacre

By Omar Sarwar

…ugh for us to talk honestly about socially regressive attitudes within the American Muslim community? The reality is that homophobia in the American Muslim community very likely played a causal role in producing Omar Mateen’s hate crime. It certainly wasn’t the only source of homophobic bigotry influencing him, but it was one such source, and that is reason enough for American Muslims to resist the anti-gay sentiment in their mosques and community…

American Civil Religion is Dead, Long Live American Civil Religion

By Peter Laarman

…cultures while they are also expected to understand and respect the common American culture; 4. We acknowledge the nobility of the American experiment even as we acknowledge certain “flaws” that God needs to “mend” (in the prayer-hymn wording of Katherine Lee Bates). Now suppose we update this problematic creed for the sake of telling the truth, junking the impossible notion that God has somehow chosen the United States for a special destiny or is…