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Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

…g forces to reach a wider audience and gain political influence. “Until the 1990s, [LGBT] groups’ concerns were limited to discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity,” Diego Sempol, a history professor and member of Ovejas Negras, says. “But people are not only excluded for being gay, lesbian or trans, but for being an unemployed gay [person], a black lesbian or a poor trans woman.” The gay pride parade of the 1990s, w…

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For Unto (Some of) Us a Child is Born: Handel’s Messiah and the Voice of Empire Rising

…course, their North American “cousins”). Which brings us back yet again to 1742 and Messiah and all the wealth and power of 18th century Britain: a wealth and power extracted primarily from Black bodies. We should note that imperial triumphalism was everywhere in Georgian England, not just in the work of Handel and Jennens. Take, for example, this verse in the Isaac Watts hymn “Jesus Shall Reign,” composed during this same period: From north to s…

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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

…charoen reported this week that “some activists are concerned about Section 17, which is seen as a barrier to creating equality.” Women’s rights advocate Anjana Suvarnananda has praised the legislation as an advance for the rights of LGBTI but that it still has loopholes that could be used by an employer to discriminate in hiring. Section 17 says any act by the public and private sector that concerns the freedom, security and protection of others,…

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Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

…ish passport for her son, reported the Irish Sun. The denial was based on a 1965 law, which recognizes as a child’s mother the person who gives birth to the child. She was told that, because his mother is British, her son “cannot be regarded as an Irish citizen.” But Katie, who lives with Holly in Suffolk, England, said: “We are so frustrated and heartbroken that we can’t get an Irish passport for our son because of an antiquated law passed in 195…

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Huckabee Says Obama is “Pretending to Be a Christian”

…ariety of faux ecumenism can be traced to the evangelical resurgence of the 1950s and 60s, particularly the work of another Southern Baptist pastor, Billy Graham. In his early, Red-baiting years, Dr. Graham hewed to a line similar to that of today’s religious right. Yet, as his ministry style matured over the years, he worked with a broadly ecumenical coalition, including many mainline Protestants. In his own way, he strove to be genuinely ecumeni…

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We’ve Finally Begun to Confront White Christian Nationalism; But What About Its Source Text?

…onal innocence and good will. In fact, once I heard Reverend Wright’s April 13, 2003 sermon, “Confusing God and Government,” in its entirety, I also took issue with it—though not for the same reasons most of America did. While millions castigated Wright for going too far, I felt he hadn’t gone far enough in one key area of analysis that remains the elephant in the legacy of white American Christian imperialism. It wasn’t enough to expose white Ame…

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The Lament of the Christian Disney Dad: What Evangelicals Really Hate About ‘Wokeness’ at Disney World

…gle Cruise, removing a scene depicting sexual violence from Pirates of the Caribbean, and retheming Splash Mountain after The Princess and the Frog (2009) rather than the racist 1946 film Song of the South. He wants to believe in magic, but wokeness is breaking the spell. Unlike his predecessors, though, VanBoskerck’s primary complaint isn’t that Disney is promoting behaviors he considers sinful. Rather, he’s upset because these “politically motiv…

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Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

…dies like the CCK — an alliance of churches that claims to represent around 12 million Christians — wield significant social and political influence in the country. Seoul Mayor Park Won-Soon, a former liberal activist, was last year forced to dump a proposed city human rights charter, which included protections for sexual minorities, after a storm of criticism from the same Christian groups. Since then, a handful of Christian activists have become…

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The Problem with Pew’s Science & Religion Poll

…et of Americans respond to leading questions, posed by strangers, over the phone. But it’s science! Public opinion polling ends up existing in a strange gray space between science and journalism. A Pew report is definitively not a scientific paper: its goal is to serve media outlets, not to advance a body of academic inquiry. It’s not peer-reviewed. Its methods lack the scope and rigor of a formal social science study. That doesn’t make these repo…

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Religious Hostility to Gay Nigerians; The Pope’s Visit To Africa; Ireland’s Religious Schools Can’t Discriminate Against Gays; Orthodox Church in Georgia Leads Anti-Gay Forces; Global LGBT Recap

…d to be in opposition to their values. It is that anger that led to the May 17 attack. Ana says the attack “was and is still viewed by the Church as a clash of cultures, a justified defense of Georgian tradition in the face of encroaching Western influence.” ISIS: Executions of gay men continue; cited by UK’s Cameron in debate on military action Bassem Mroue reports for Associated Press on the ongoing targeting and killing of gay men by Islamic St…

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