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Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…arried couple or the partners not to be a bar to their right to adoption. “Non-heterosexual couples will be equally entitled to adopt a child,” it says. The Hindustan Times reports that a group of students alarmed by reports of “honor killings” has proposed a law protecting inter-caste and inter-religious marriages, and include marriage equality for same sex couples in their draft. From one of the students: “Our draft applies to not only inter-cas…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…rliament has gradually adopted Sharia-inspired ordinances that criminalize non-hijab-wearing women, drinking alcohol, gambling, and extramarital sexual relations, all of which can be enforced against non-Muslims. Aceh’s LGBT population is also vulnerable to Aceh’s 2014 Criminal Code that bars liwath (sodomy) and musahabah (lesbian sexual action). Aceh province imposed the Sharia punishment of multiple lashes of a cane against 339 people in 2016. T…

Churches Can No Longer Hide the Truth: Daniel Dennett on the New Transparency

By Andrew Aghapour

…ll be more religious switching within Western culture from Christianity to non-affiliation. But the percentage of unaffiliated believers will actually go down as a percentage of the global population. But of course that’s a projection, and it’s based on the analysis of trends that are seen today. My suspicion is that they are underestimating the importance of this new transparency. It takes twenty years to grow a Baptist, and twenty minutes to los…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…nishing up an article about Santo Toribio, the patron saint of migrants in Mexico, and how his ascension in importance in the Mexican canon has rescaled the town he comes from. People don’t think about religion as a mechanism for urban restructuring and rescaling. They don’t realize that there is a global religious map with its own unique hot spots that differs from the global economic or political map. I am also really interested in where people…

Why Bill Maher Gets a “C” in My Introduction to Religion Class…

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…o Religious Studies course, right next to Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and other sort-of-atheists. (I’m talking the nerdy academic’s version of “fantasy football” here.) And I give them the assignment I always give to my eighteen-year-old students: come up with your own definition of religion, see if you can put it in a sentence, and then give some paragraphs of support to back it up. The assignment has no singular answer, of…

Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

By Frederick Clarkson

…have requested the “urgent intervention of the international community to stop the killings and restore peace in the region.” What kinds of interventions—and by whom—do you think would be most helpful? And what do you think will happen if those interventions do not occur? President Omar al-Bashir and other northern leaders are known to the world for the genocide they carried out in Darfur and other places. The UN, as a body for keeping human righ…

Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…et. The Kyoto Protocol, which commits industrialized countries to internationally binding emission reduction targets, was the first climate treaty to emerge from this process. It was passed at COP3 in December 1997 at Kyoto, Japan and came into force in February 2005 when a sufficient number of developed countries signed the agreement; the United States did not, hampering negotiations for the next decade. A successor agreement, involving all count…

Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and final reading is expected soon. “There is a coalition for justice and non-discrimination of which I’m a member. We’re doing everything possible to stop the draft law.” Malaysia: Comedy Film with LGBT Themes Banned Banglasia, an irreverent comedy film, has been banned by authorities because it mocks the government and “accentuates negative sociocultural lifestyles such as lesbian gay bisexual transgender (LGBT).” Thailand: Gay American-Spanish…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ly says the support is based on an element of SVP’s ethos, which is “to be non-jundgmental when its assistance is sought.” Israel: Gay Rabbi Installed at Conservative Synagogue Gay Asia News reports that Rabbi Mike Goldstein, a native of England who has lived in Israel since 1989, was installed as the leader of Adat Shalom Emanuel, the only non-Orthodox synagogue in the city. According to the report, Israel’s Masorti (Conservative) movement approv…

In Case You Missed Them, the Top Pope Francis Quotes of 2016

By Patricia Miller

…OP contender Donald Trump in February on his return from a six-day trip to Mexico, where he visited the U.S.-Mexico border. In response, Trump called Francis “disgraceful.” Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, as in the one that I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear. –On the same trip, Francis suggested that women could use contraception to avoid becoming infected with the Zika virus, which had been…