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Scottish Episcopal Church Angers Conservative Anglicans With Embrace of Same-Sex Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ion Board of the State Congress announced that the Congress will vote on a new civil code at the end of the year after a couple of months of public forums on the topic. The National Action party, he said, would seek to promote a civil contract but not a marriage. Arturo Sandoval, governor of Jalisco, joined Guadalajara’s Pride march and called for respect, inclusion and tolerance. The governor’s Facebook page included a range of comments both in s…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…where two men were sentenced to public lashings for gay sex under a strict new provincial sharia law. Bangladesh’s legal code prohibits “unnatural offenses,” which it says includes voluntary “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal.” The offense is punishable with life in prison. The law is rarely enforced, but LGBT groups have reported that police use the law as a pretext to bully gay or simply effeminate indi…

Uncertainty About US Role In LGBT Human Rights Under Trump; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…er Rodney Croome. Poland: Pro-LGBT Sister Jeannine Gramick tours Poland At New Ways Ministry’s Bondings 2.0 blog, Francis DeBarnardo profiles New Ways Ministry’s co-founder Sister Jeannine Gramick’s week-long speaking tour in Poland last fall: She was invited for a week-long speaking tour about Catholic LGBT issues, sponsored by the country’s leading LGBT equality organization, “Campaign Against Homophobia,” and its main Christian groups, “Faith a…

Despite Reversal on Hillary and Hellen Keller, ‘Christian Americanist’ Bias Remains in Texas Curriculum

By David R. Brockman

…r high school world history, so that’s what we’ll focus on here.* The Good News … In a standard on major historical turning points from 600 to 1450 CE, students are now required to learn about “the spread of major world religions,” instead of “the spread of Christianity,” as the 2010 TEKS required. (A move by some board members to restore the 2010 language was abandoned after education agency staff noted that the standards cover Christianity’s spr…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…ion. Instead, they should focus on the crucial work necessary to develop a new criminal code that can help ensure all Indonesians have access to justice. Voice of America reported that incidents of “brazen homphobia” are on the rise. LDS Church: Report on plans for a ‘Mormon WikiLeaks’ The Salt Lake Tribune reports on Ryan McKnight, a former Mormon planned to launch a website “where anonymous tipsters – including those who work for The Church of J…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…costs for LGBT people are a result of some abnormal activity. (Yes, that’s code for anal sex. Or gender-affirming surgeries. Or marrying the person you love most in the world, if that person happens to have the same gender marker as you.) Given that it took the president-elect more than three weeks—and upwards of 700 documented hate-crime incidents—to “denounce and reject” the hatred his scorched-earth campaign emboldened, I have zero confidence t…

Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…ernment was proud to stand up for the rights of LGBT people everywhere, by promoting tolerance and non-discrimination and addressing discriminatory laws – especially those that criminalize homosexuality. The first comment on the news story comes from a pastor arguing that homosexuality should be criminalized as a “crime against God and against the Holy Bible.” Columbia: First Same-Sex Couple Registers Overseas Marriage Two men made history this we…

Pope Francis Says Teaching Gender Is Nasty; Far-Right Religious Groups Helping Mexico’s Anti-Equality Movement; Colombia’s Peace Deal Killed by Anti-LGBT Campaign?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…led in the harshest of manners,” he said. Nigeria: Anti-Gay US group opens new chapter An extreme anti-gay US advocacy organization, MassResistance, announced that it has organized its first chapter outside the U.S. “Nigeria is half Muslim and half Christian,” says a blog post announcing the new chapter, “But their bond of morality on these issues is a common denominator in that part of the world.” MassResistance is led by Brian Camenker, who told…

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…ian-American foreignness kind of way.” Gotanda, though, does see something new in Trump’s proposal. “What’s new is this kind of religious based—nominally religious based—exclusion.” The effect, though, is apparent: “Now, the way [Trump]’s using it is clearly based on body. He wants to keep out brown bodies, and it elides into terrorists.” Let’s talk about Nuremberg Even when there is some kind of biological basis for defining a religious group, di…

Is Islamic Homophobia a Western Import?

By Omar Sarwar

…was imported to colonized Asia and Africa, as the British drafted a penal code in the mid-1800s which outlawed same-sex acts. Internalizing the homophobia which underpinned this legislation, colonized Muslims eventually came to regard same-sex love and relations as immoral. “Although EHT might explain the infiltration of law and official politics in colonized Muslim societies, it doesn’t explain precisely how colonial homophobia transformed the e…