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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…w many taraweeh to pray and then we think that because we can’t agree on a date (get it, date? Ha! [I’d say ‘I kill me,’ but we’re already in brackets and imagine how that could be misinterpreted!]), we’re all going to hell, and that explains why we can’t get anything done, as opposed to, say, not trying to get anything done, which might explain things. Also we like crescent moons, because they tell us when we’ll be hungry and when we’ll be partyi…

Malta Adopts Marriage Equality Over Objections of Catholics and Evangelicals; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ported for PRI on the situation of LGBT Ugandans who have sought asylum in Kenya. Homosexuality is also illegal in Kenya, Onyulo notes, “but enforcement of the law has been more sporadic than in Uganda.” Iraq: Activist says anti-LGBT violence sparked by western intervention Amrou Al-Kadhi, an Iraqi living in the United Kingdom, wrote a column this month saying that deadly violence against LGBT people in Iraq had “escalated dramatically” since the…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y the West on Iranians and the Iranian government does not recognize that. Kenya: Journalist Slams Kenyans For ‘Preaching Water, Drinking Wine’ Denis Nzioka notes that television journalist Larry Madowo criticized Kenyans for claiming they hate homosexuality at a time when Google listed Kenya as the world’s top country for searches for gay porn. Madowo wrote in the Daily Nation that Kenyans are “preaching water, drinking wine.” Says Madowo, “In a…

Denzel’s Profane Preaching: A Religious Movie for the Rest of Us

By Sean S. O'Neil

…d gathering—on his way to a lurching belly-flop in an adjoining field. But Flight, like most of the other religiously-themed scripts to which Washington agrees to lend his star power, is no Kirk Cameron morality play. As in The Book of Eli, in which Washington played a post-apocalyptic loner who creates a trail of gore during a violent spiritual pursuit of the lone remaining copy of the Bible, the celluloid preaching in Flight is rated R. In addit…

Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…le’s love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change. “So we’ve changed it.” Kenya: Anti-Gay Member of Parliament Calls ‘Stone the Gays’ Bill Unnecessary We reported last week that a bill calling for stoning gays to death had been introduced in Kenya. Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin notes that many passages come directly from Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act. The author of the bill, Edward Onwong’a Nyakeriga, is reportedly a devout S…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ngly, a hard right-wing, Opus Dei leaning, anti-marriage equality, climate change denying Catholic PM has been replaced by a progressive Catholic who is passionate about action on climate change, dedicated to marriage equality, and committed to making Australia a constitutional republic. Interesting times ahead for us – but now we have a PM with some real vision. That is something to celebrate.” Turnbull is, however, sticking to Abbott’s controver…

Along Came a Spider: What the Pope Doesn’t See

By Anthea Butler

A few years back, Chris Rock dropped a nice spoken word ditty called No Sex in the Champagne Room. I am 100% sure Father David Dueppen, a priest in Miami, Florida, has never heard it. Why? Because not only did he spend $1800 dollars in the champagne room of a club called Porky’s, but he also had a sexual relationship with the stripper he spent the money on, Beatrice Hernandez. And if that weren’t fascinating enough, she claims that he promised he…

Belize Overturns Sodomy Law Defended by Religious Right, Ugandan Officials Will Continue to Suppress Gay Groups, And More on the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…East Africa: Family with gay brothers flees Burundi; harassment follows in Kenya In “Young, Gay, and on the Run in East Africa,” Jacob Kushner writes for TakePart that “LGBT people in Uganda, Kenya, and other countries are often disowned by their families and face violence and discrimination.” The story profiles two gay brothers and their mother who fled Burundi after a family land dispute turned violent. The family ended up in the Kakuma refugee…

Huckabee on Obama vs. “Average Americans”

By Sarah Posner

…ee realized later that Obama spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, not Kenya, and despite failing to take on Malzberg’s birtherism on the air, admitted that he knows Obama was born in Hawaii. Here’s Huckabee’s statement, in which he goes on to wonder if Obama is a real American: “Governor Huckabee simply misspoke when he alluded to President Obama growing up in ‘Kenya.’ The Governor meant to say the President grew up in Indonesia. When the Gov…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…seats with a male so the Orthodox Jew may have his religious views accommodated. Often the woman is offended; sometimes she refuses to move. This has made for many challenging situations and some flight delays. A significant theme in the comments was frustration expressed by women—and by men on their behalf—about the male privilege woven into religion and exercised by the Orthodox men in this situation. Here is a representative sample: ‘Why is se…