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Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

…Nike’s unwillingness to permit long-term audits by the WRC will “set labor code reforms back 15 years,” according to Kline. He and students at Georgetown have called on the university to end its business relationship with Nike. Villanova students created a petition, underscoring the conflict between the university’s Catholic values and Nike’s complicity in worker exploitation. Administrators at universities including Cornell, Rutgers, Oberlin, Geo…

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Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

…der ideology.” But the Ministry of Education has defended the curriculum’s approach to gender equality and say they will stick with it. According to EL PAÍS, Pastor González Cruz, “the visible face of the World Missionary Movement,” said in a homily before the march that “homosexuals are rotten, corrupt and unhappy people, and they are condemned to death.” Australia: Interview with openly gay imam on Islamophobia and homophobia At Vice, Mahmood Fa…

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What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights

…birth, like physiological issues that cause… [an] anomaly—if those things happen, they happen, but it doesn’t change the norm, if you will.” Arguing that his view has been confirmed by his Mormon faith, modern science, and his own research—including a controversial 2016 study that claimed to debunk the “born this way” hypothesis—Mero rejects the self-determined identity of trans women, specifically. While he acknowledges that these women believe t…

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Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

…tic rather than staging risky, unsanctioned gay parades. The group had not applied for a permit in Chechnya, but in another Muslim region in southern Russia, Kabardino-Balkaria. The mere application there — denied, as usual — had prompted an anti-gay counterdemonstration. Russian leader Vladimir Putin has allowed authorities in Muslim-majority Chechnya to impose a strict code based on their interpretation of Islam. Official attitudes toward homose…

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Is Religion the Only Tool Left for Legal Discrimination?

…on is an outlier among current case law, and is likely to be overturned on appeal, says Elizabeth Platt, director of Columbia University School of Law’s Public Rights/Private Conscience Project. Similarly, she points out, a sweeping Mississippi “religious freedom” law that protected certain beliefs about appropriate sexual activity, legal marriage, and gender identity, has been smacked down in federal court, and was handed a full injunction one da…

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Humiliating “Kim Davis Bill” To “Protect” Anti-LGBT County Clerks Passes Texas Senate

…f SB 522 becomes law. The bill also highlights the fact that Texas marital code still only identifies “a man and a woman” as the two parties who may apply for a marriage license. Even for Texas Republicans, this bill is a mean-spirited (though not at all unprecedented) attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage equality in pursuit of accommodating a vocal minority who claim their faith trumps their neighbors’ pursuit of life, lib…

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Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

…an political class is ashamed of it.” Tanzania: Government cracks down on ‘promoting gayism’ At BuzzFeed, Edith Honan reviews the country’s crackdown on LGBT people and any groups deemed to be “promoting gayism” and the consequent threat to public health. Gay sex has been a crime in Tanzania, punishable with life in prison, since British colonial rule, but there is no record of anyone serving serious time for it. LGBT Tanzanians have always been a…

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Texas’ Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill Is Unconstitutional and Unnecessary, Say Texas Law Professors

…he child’s best interest or expressed preference. The Texas administrative code grants children in foster care a range of rights, including: the right to fair treatment, the right to receive educational services “appropriate to the child’s age and developmental level,” the right to have the child’s religious needs—which may be distinct from the religious beliefs of the agency—met, and the right of children to “not be pressured to get an abortion,…

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Satan, Contributor to Teen Vogue‘s New “Sodomy” Section?

…ception. Cardinal Ottaviani is rumored to have said something like, “If we approve contraceptives, then we lose a main argument against homosexuality.” I have no idea whether that story is true, but it’s logic is certainly familiar—and not only among Catholics. There is at least one more thing concealed in all these supposedly religious fulminations against Teen Vogue. Many of the writers are evidently shocked that the magazine is talking about se…

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Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…ally attacked inside his home in Tegucigalpa. Bermuda: Government will not appeal marriage equality ruling, promises to protect churches. Premier Michael Dukley said that while the government will not appeal the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling, his party, the One Bermuda Alliance will introduce legislation “to protect churches from being forced to perform any services that are contrary to the central tenets of their faith.” The platform o…

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