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What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?

By Bill Berkowitz

…piritual mapping” project. It is currently operational in Central America, Uganda and the Middle East. Otis’ history in Middle East dates back more than two decades to when his father George Otis Sr., a close friend of Ronald Reagan and former Lear Jet executive, set up the High Adventure radio ministry in Lebanon in 1980. Otis put the station in the hands of Christian Falangists during the Israeli occupation. The US State Department tried to shut…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…use. Slater’s Family Watch International (FWI) has been deeply involved in promoting abstinence-and fidelity-only initiatives in Uganda and has praised Nigeria—where same-sex couples can face up to 14 years in prison or stoning at the hands of Sharia courts—as “a strong role model” for other regional governments “on how to hold on to their family values despite intense international pressure.” The Human Rights Campaign has reported that FWI’s annu…

It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts

By Amyn B. Sajoo

…nfined to Muslim-majority societies. Buddhist Myanmar and Sri Lanka, Hindu India, and Christian Uganda and Zimbabwe have done their share of official hate-mongering. So has the United States’ principal ally in the Middle East, Israel. As David Sheen has noted in these pages, none other than the former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, invoked biblical passages to call for the eradication of Palestinians. Far from being an isolated outburst, She…

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…it her analysis of the global implications of the gang rape and murder of Indian medical student Jyoti Singh Pandey, purity culture, whether in India or America, casts “women’s bodies [as]…primarily for procreation or male pleasure… a culture in which women must cover up or be threatened is a rape culture.” [Emphasis mine] If, as Graff writes, purity culture is rape culture, then the submission culture that exists in many conservative evangelical…

Columnist Applauds Russia’s Homophobic Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hat the religious right continues to support (and helps author) bills like Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill, which won praise from the likes of Tony Perkins at the Family Research Council and Scott Lively from Abiding Truth Ministries. Even pastor Rick Warren refused to go on record against the bill until public pressure forced him to tweet a weak protestation. Of course, it’s understandable that the religious right would turn its sights to other co…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…se of forced anal examinations appears to be a recent phenomenon in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. United Methodist Church: First openly gay bishop elected; schism ahead? The Western Division of the United Methodist Church elected openly gay Rev. Karen Oliveto as a bishop, the first in the church whose doctrine bans “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from ordination. Oliveto, currently serving as pastor of Glide Memorial UMC in San Francisco, was on…

Women as Head Pastors Was Final Straw for Southern Baptist Convention — Not Scandal, Sexual Abuse, or Dalliance with Dictators

By Caroline Matas

…greatly exaggerated,” his years-long friendship with vociferously anti-gay Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa has been well-documented, as have his visits with the Ugandan first family. Also apparently unworthy of scrutiny by the SBC’s Credentials Committee are the various scandals associated with Saddleback’s new senior pastor, Andy Wood. In his role as pastor of SBC-affiliated megachurch Echo.Church in San Jose, California, Wood was accused of an “abu…

Wolves Repelled by Christian Rock, Bibles for Porn, Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad

By Michael J. Altman

…h the breakfast’s organizers and their involvement in the anti-gay bill in Uganda. Five faculty members are suing the Air Force Academy over a National Day of Prayer event. And Virginia lawmakers have passed a pro-public prayer law that has many religious minorities worried. Soon to retire Senator Joe Lieberman is working on a book about his Jewish faith and his dedication to setting aside the Sabbath. The Archdiocese of New Orleans released a new…

Ugandan Anti-Gay
Preacher Pays Fake “Ex-Gay” Witnesses to Testify for Anti-Homosexuality Bill

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

With time running out on the current Parliament’s term, Uganda’s Parliament Speaker Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi says it’s unlikely that the “Kill the Gays” bill will come up for consideration. This despite being lobbied by a group led by anti-gay activist Rev. Martin Ssempa, who is lobbying for passage of the bill by paying phony “ex-gay” witnesses to testify. From the New York Times: Mr. Ssempa, reading from the petition, began the meeting by sayin…

A Queer New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…s an internationally recognized human right. The infamous anti-gay bill in Uganda, inspired and backed by some American religious right figures, did not become law in 2012; its supporters will make another push there. Meanwhile, American religious right groups will continue to back anti-gay laws in Africa and around the world. False Witness It is an entirely safe bet that anti-gay religious leaders will continue to misrepresent the much-maligned R…