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In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…n false allegations against Black citizens. ○ State and local level public policy initiatives that ensure police review boards comprise citizens representing its diverse neighborhoods. Effective policy requires community oversight. ○ The refusal to hire/retain any officer who has a history of excessive force and misconduct. ○ An end to the practice of aggressive police persons not receiving repercussions and prosecution when they cross the justice…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e the Pope’s softening of tone, religious organizations have not budged on policy. Change in Latin America will ultimately come from secular authorities, rather than religious organizations. Uganda: Foreign Minister says anti-gay law no hindrance at UN Last week Uganda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sam Kutesa, who was elected president of the United Nations General Assembly last year over the objections of gay-rights activists, mocked his opponent…

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

…assed,” she said. Senior officials are dead-set on a “no public apologies” policy for incidents of abuse, Volkova says. “This policy explains the patriarchate’s violently homophobic campaigns. The criticism against the gay community are meant to divert the people’s attention away from their own vices.” Both the Orthodox Church and the Kremlin have been aggressively and openly homophobic since 2012, when President Vladimir Putin launched his campai…

Is Christianity Greening? Depends On Who (and How) You Ask

By Daniel Schultz

…ature trails, or underwrite environmental activism through their denominations. Belief, in other words, may be less important than the lived faith. Sometimes, the best way to make change is simply to be the change, and trust that it will all work out in the long run. Or sooner, given how fast the water is rising….

Mexico’s Religious Conservatives Seek Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment, LGBT Activists Defend Secular Government; Cash From Qatar Funds ‘Traditional’ Family Activism Worldwide; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ivists in the Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean alike are hopeful that a change in Aruba, the largest and most significant of the overseas territories, could instigate change in Curaçao and Sint Maarten. The legalization of civil partnerships there would mean all Dutch citizens would have equal rights regardless of their sexual preferences. Ireland: Former president criticizes Catholic teaching on homosexuality Former President Mary McAleese, wh…

Women’s Equality in the Church is No Longer Negotiable

By Mary E. Hunt

…ordination and decision making for women on a par with men, or a complete change in sacramental ministry and governance for all (my preferred future). But it does not mean that women can continue to be treated as second-class citizens in any way whatsoever. Second, if money is the language the Vatican understands best, I suggest that those who have it use it to make change. It pains me to see people pay tens of thousands of dollars to take out ad…

Hold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing

By Mary E. Hunt

…, as voting members of the Synod. This is the first substantive structural change for women in Roman Catholicism perhaps since Mary gave birth to Jesus. Leaders of many progressive groups understandably praised the move. There’s also a provision to change the usual number of 10 men from religious congregations who can vote in synods to five women religious and five men religious. Why they’re somehow in a different category than other lay people re…

“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

…tually has consciousness. It might be thirty years out, but it’s a radical change that many are spending a lot of money [researching]—Google specifically. We think that at some point in the future, people might want to have virtual avatars of themselves. If we had the Empire State Building filled with servers, we could potentially recreate all the neural connections of every single living person on earth. You could fit the entire species in one si…

‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…een gays and the far-right Front National. “Marine Le Pen promises a clear change and everyone wants a clear change—it’s bullshit of course,” Parant says, noting that the FN is currently the only political movement with any momentum. Le Pen has redefined her party as the last defender of republicanism and French nationalism, attractive to those seeking to dodge the charge ofcommunautarisme. Le Pen has also been successful in drawing a connection b…

Pro-LGBT Evangelical David Gushee: “I’m With You and the Church Needs to Change.”

By Sarah Posner

…ribe into bastions of Christ-like embrace of LGBT believers. He is certain change is coming—he’s just not certain how quickly. But he does seem confident saying that decades from now, the anti-gay, “angry” stalwarts of today will look like “the dead-enders on race” did after the civil rights movement. “My mind goes back to 1963, to the white churches in the south,” he says, referring pastoral reaction to the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Chur…