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Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that this is not just an Africa problem,” said Kerry Kennedy during a telephone interview from New York. “It’s a problem wherever it happens in the world.” From the story: Uganda is among the more than 70 countries in which homosexuality remains criminalized. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in January signed a draconian bill into law that, among other things, punishes those who enter into a same-sex marriage with up to 14 years in prison. Th…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ts in Australian society. Opposition was concentrated in suburbs with high numbers of working-class immigrants on the suburban fringes, including locations popular with Islamic communities. Brazil: Conservative Christian activists protest gender theorist Judith Butler At Inside Higher Ed, philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler describes to Scott Jaschik her experience earlier this month in Brazil, where “she faced an ugly protest at which s…

Free Yiddish Lessons, Vacation Liberty School, and Brangelina’s Universalism: The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…The issue is dedicated to attacking him and his claims about the church. A Moscow court convicted two art curators of “inciting hatred” against Christians for their 2007 exhibition of various controversial pieces, including an image of Jesus with a Mickey Mouse head. Convicted serial killer David Berkowitz, known as the Son of Sam, has found religion in prison and become a popular figure for some evangelicals. The Church of England continues a con…

The Politics of Anti-Gay Persecution: Gambia, Egypt, Jamaica, Russia, with a Helping Hand from US Religious Conservatives; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…leaked emails include documents related to the “pro-family” summit held in Moscow in September which American religious conservatives helped organize and participated in. The spreadsheet shows confirmed attendance at the conference “gala” from government officials, religious leaders, and activists from around 50 countries. These include France’s Aymeric Chauprade — a member of the European Parliament from the far-right Front National party — the H…

Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…orks throughout the region, told the Blade earlier this month during a telephone interview from Buenos Aires there have been “setbacks in regards to human rights” in Argentina and other countries in “which the LGBT community has gained very strong visibility and (trans-friendly) laws.” Romero added the Roman Catholic Church, gangs, conservative lawmakers and governments and other groups continue to influence people’s transphobic attitudes that she…

Global LGBT Recap: “Lavender Fascism,” Rage in India, Pope Francis Ousts Culture Warrior

By Peter Montgomery

…in’s defiant homophobia continues to set a tone for others in the country. Moscow’s largest gay club, which has been repeatedly attacked since the anti-gay propaganda law went into effect, was set upon by a group of people who dismantled its roof. A popular actor, Ivan Okhlobystin, who resumed his career after becoming an Orthodox priest, announced that he would like to burn all Russian gays alive: “I myself would shove all live gays into furnace….

As Far-Right Surges in US and Germany Debate Rages Over Disqualification of Those Who Would Destroy Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…azi Party], and to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which belonged to Moscow. Subsequent proceedings against the extreme right-wing parties Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei and Nationale Liste failed because the Federal Constitutional Court came to the conclusion that they were not parties within the meaning of the Basic Law. The prohibition of the Neo-Nazi Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) was attempted twice—the first was…

Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…it would not participate in the World Congress of Families’ summit that in Moscow in September – especially surprising since CWA’s Janice Crouse had taken part in a recent press conference touting the event. On March 7, Scott Lively, the anti-gay activist who has reveled in stirring up homophobia around the globe, made the case for American decline and Russian ascendancy based on the countries’ attitudes toward Christianity: It is therefore obviou…

The Invention of a Corporate Christian America

By Andrew Aghapour

…tects of these changes saw them as a challenge not to the Soviet regime in Moscow, but to the New Deal administration in Washington, DC. In the 1930s and 1940s, they popularized a new language of “freedom under God” (as opposed to what they saw as “slavery under the welfare state”), which finally took hold nationally in the 1950s. You track the emergence in the 1940s and 1950s of “Christian libertarianism,” a blend of conservative religion, econom…

Elena Kagan and her Socialist Thesis

By Janine Giordano Drake

…reformation in the early 1910s in New York City. Labor historians far from Moscow (myself among them) are still exploring the different potential alliances that could have been formed. The scrutinized conclusion to Kagan’s paper sounds to me like the typical, pat conclusion of an undergrad in 1981: “The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America. American…