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Persecution of Ugandan Bishop Continues In United States

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ular Western mores.” Ah, yes, we gay and lesbian folks really resent those African traditionalists beliefs, which, by the way, were handed down to the Africans through colonialism and right-wing Christian missionaries who have exported their anti-gay beliefs to the continent. As Tarso Luis Ramos, executive director of Political Research Associates, has noted, “Just as the United States and other northern societies routinely dump our outlawed or ex…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…ate Fred Thompson, a rival who helped sink Huckabee’s upstart ambitions in South Carolina, is somewhat more favorable, if only because it is less personal”: Fred Thompson never did grasp the dynamics of the race or the country, and his amazingly lackluster campaign reflected just how disconnected he was with the people, despite the anticipation and expectation that greeted his candidacy. “Many conservative Christian leaders,” including Gary Bauer,…

Neighborhood sign reads: Stop Teaching Critical Race Theory To Our Kids.

Uncovering the (White) Christian Roots of Slavery, Native American Genocide, and Ongoing Efforts to Erase History

By Bradley Onishi

…nd removal of Indigenous people in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia—all these Southeastern states that had Native American populations. In the early 1800s they began to be pushed off the land and then were forcibly pushed off the land [even more rapidly] under Andrew Jackson’s presidency. It was the largest forced migration in the continent’s history. Some 80,000 people were forced from their land, and maybe 20% of them died en route to what is now O…

#WhoIsBurningBlackChurches: Is It Freedom Summer Again?

By Anthea Butler

…hes burned because of arson, lightning or other causes. Meanwhile, several African American female pastors in South Carolina have had threatening letters sent to them, stating, “You and your children will die.” When it comes to racism in America, and specifically acts of violence against black Christians and black churches, the past is not even the past—it is a very present danger. While academics might argue about the death of the black church, r…

Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…from this week until later in the month. From 76 Crimes: A large group of African nations, including Botswana and South Africa, has introduced a resolution opposing the creation of the watchdog position. A vote on that resolution was scheduled for Nov. 8, but it has been delayed. In opposition to the resolution, an amendment that would remove the resolution’s anti-LGBT language has been proposed by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,…

Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

By Gary Dorrien

…liberalism and the civil rights movement. The Brown decision inflamed the South; the busing issue was singular and easily mitigated after the Montgomery boycott; Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t know what to try next; and President Eisenhower did nothing after the Brown decision came down, since he opposed it anyway. Niebuhr had the ear of Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, and he urged Stevenson to say nothing that outflanked Eisenhower on civil…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…, religion and moral values.” Many in Uganda perceive homosexuality as “un-African and un-Christian”, a phenomenon inspired by “Western practices.” Homosexuality is often presented in connection to wider threats to ‘authentic’ African values and traditions. Anti-homosexuality activists have presented homosexuals as “an imminent threat… In predominantly Christian Uganda, many find support for their opposition to homosexuality in the national narrat…

Great White Men, Again?: On Lincoln and Our Civil Religion

By Paul Harvey

…that led to the quote-unquote ‘noble cause,’ and the rise of the Klan and Southern self-protection societies. The abuse of the South after they were defeated was a catastrophe, and helped lead to just unimaginable, untellable human suffering. He has since partially apologized for and retracted those comments, insisting that he should have clarified that he was talking about the congressional refusal to fund the finding and burying of Confederate…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…airobi, Global Institute for Family Integrity (Cameroon and Foundation for African Culture Heritage (Nigeria). Botswana: Anti-Gay US pastor kicked out after saying gays should be killed We reported last week that U.S. anti-gay pastor Steven Anderson, who had celebrated the massacre at the Orlando gay nightclub, had been barred from entering South Africa. This week Reuters reported that Anderson’s visit to Botswana was cut short when President Ian…

Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a campaign calling for decriminalization of consensual gay sex in Morocco. South Africa: Even in ‘Born Free’ Generation, Black Lesbians Face Violence The BBC ran a report this week on anti-LGBT violence in South Africa, telling the story of a lesbian woman who was a member of the “born free generation” – born in 1994, the year apartheid ended – and who was murdered and mutiliated in December. In a country where crime rates in general are high, bla…