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LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…seveni published an op ed in which he supported legislation to prevent the promotion of homosexuality to minors but said he feared “the possibility of trade boycott by Western companies under the pressure of the homosexual lobbies in the West.” As we have reported, the Constitutional Court struck down the Anti-Homosexuality Act on procedural grounds, and lawmakers are pushing for its passage. Museveni has reportedly asked for amendments to prevent…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…s persecuted for its sexually enlightened philanthropy. It’s complex motivations like these that lead many to believe that they’re just one more example of Western organizations using African problems as a prop to promote their own interests….

Global LGBT Recap: Adventists Talk About, Not To, LGBT People; British Muslim Group Welcomes Gay-Rights Activist; Homophobia Exports Continue

By Peter Montgomery

…groups from the United States” who are pushing anti-homosexuality laws and western activists and donor nations who are cutting aid or threatening to do so in response to Uganda’s new anti-gay law. On one side is the anti-homosexuality faction. It is composed of right-wing, neoliberal American evangelicals who have attached serious funding to the campaign. They have also abstracted religious texts against homosexuality as if people’s moralities a…

Russian Parliament Hosts U.S. Anti-Gay Activist Paul Cameron

By Chrissy Stroop

…same-sex relations which, in Cameron’s fact-free worldview, are destroying Western civilization. On Tuesday, Cameron took part in a conference hosted by the news organization Moskovsky Komsomolets (the Moscow Young Communist) where he was joined by Bishop Sergei Riakhovsky, spiritual leader of the Union of Christians of the Evangelical Faith, a large denomination of Russian Pentecostals consisting of some 1500 individual churches. The topic they a…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…at the use of force was justified to protect the rights of other citizens. Western-trained! Economist! (Read “non-ideological”; we love to assume economists have no agendas, but for the invisible hand of the market, which is benign and sacred. Indeed where does capitalism lead us except the best of all possible worlds?). A liberal! A had-been! But you know what? El-Beblawi is still a liberal. For in its otherwise excellent coverage of the military…

“Burka Avenger”: Pakistan’s Middle Class Gets a Feminist Cartoon

By M. Sophia Newman

…strong, who has called Islamic veiling a reaction to swift installation of Western standards in non-Western societies. In her 2000 book The Battle for God, she identified burkas as “a tacit critique of the darker side of the modern spirit” and a way for Muslim women to maintain their identity while transitioning from rural traditions to industrialized urban living. “Burka Avenger,” in other words, may do more to encourage the large majority of Pak…

My God, David Brooks

By John Modern

…nd that is how Brooks sells himself and his politics—he is a choice engine—promoting choice, heralding the individual, and spreading the gospel far and wide, enabling more decisions to be executed by you by making your life easier—you do not have to read Taylor after all! And here I must offer a requisite disclosure: I have read A Secular Age and I am on record as a critic of Taylor’s framing of modernity. Although I am fearless when I talk trash…

Christian Atheism: The Only Response Worth its Salt to the Zimmerman Verdict

By J. Kameron Carter

…es the point inasmuch as whiteness (and therefore the notion of the white, western god-man at its heart) is not a biological notion; it is narrative or a story, which is what Professor Brian Bantum was getting at in his commentary on the Zimmerman verdict. Whiteness is that story that one must aspire toward if one is to be deemed a proper citizen, a proper American. Rather than being biological, then, whiteness is better understood as a kind of di…

LGBT in Africa: Persecution and Persistence

By Peter Montgomery

…iour is largely blamed on the West. Meanwhile, the loudest and most public Western influence on this issue arguably comes from Western preachers, like Pastors Rick Warren and Scott Lively, who actively fund and promote homophobia in Africa In neighboring Nigeria, a draconian anti-gay law passed the House at the end of May. While international human rights advocates have mounted a campaign this month calling on the country’s president not to sign t…

It’s Not Climate Change, It’s Climate Chaos: Lessons from COP22

By Donna Schaper

…92) and the Wallace Global Fund. A third important shift will occur as the Western nations figure out if they can work together, at all, within a Trump presidency. President Sarkozy may indeed put a carbon tariff on American imports. The EU will surely wonder if we are going to play a role either for peace in Syria or for the refugees. There will likely not be a unified Western position. President Angela Merkel’s decision to run for a fourth term…