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Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…response to the U.S. Senate confirming Nikki Haley as US Ambassador to the United Nations, OutRight Action International recounted several of the questions she faced regarding LGBT human rights as an element of U.S. foreign policy: When Senator Booker asked Ambassador Haley during the hearing about her willingness to protect LGBT rights internationally, she responded, “I think it’s very important that we talk about America’s values. We do not allo…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…e moving there, we are not there yet. We are moving on to perfection.” The United Methodist Church, which has more than 7 million members in the United States, is divided over the issue of homosexuality. “This election raises significant concerns and questions of church polity and unity,” Bruce R. Ough, president of the Church’s Council of Bishops, said in a statement after the vote. And some comment from the United Methodist Church’s news service…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…n of requiring any denominational school to act contrary to the guidelines/policy established by the SCES or other religious authorities with a role in denominational education’.” United Kingdom: Christian Counseling Group Denounces ‘Conversion Therapy’ “Britain’s leading body for Christian therapists has instructed its members to stop trying to turn gay patients straight using so-called ‘conversion therapy,’” reported The Guardian on Monday. The…

Proposition 8, The Mormon Coming Out Party

By Michelle Goldberg

…nfluencing American politics. Because it operates at the esoteric level of United Nations bureaucracy and international law and policymaking, the global religious right isn’t nearly as visible as the domestic version. To understand it, it’s necessary to understand the way that women’s rights—and reproductive rights specifically—are increasingly being treated as human rights under international law. Women who have been denied medically necessary ab…

How America’s Charismatic Christianity Helped Fuel the Fantasyland Presidency of Donald Trump

By Eric C. Miller

…ng, until it starts having consequential and problematic effects on public policy—until it starts dictating our foreign policy toward Israel or our response to climate change or our public school curricula, for instance. At that point, when clear principles of science are denied, or when important political leaders are making official decisions according to their belief in the imminent return of Christ—that’s when problems arise. And I do think th…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s raised by the legalization of sodomy and the government’s revised gender policy. Already the churches’ changes to the gender policy have been approved by the government time after time. Yet every time we get the latest version back from the government, some if not all of our approved changes are missing. Now we want to go to the public for a vote on four constitutional amendments, so that the necessary changes will be fixed beyond cabinet or jud…

Perry Taps Anti-Gay Crusader and “Prayer Lady” for Florida Team

By Sarah Posner

…an talking to other Christians about registering and voting.” In November, United in Purpose will host “One Nation Under God” house parties, at which participants will watch video of speakers including Perry, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and the religious right historian David Barton. Both Gingrich and Barton were frequent speakers at Restoration and Renewal Project Pastors’ Policy Briefings. Olsen is, according to the Miami Herald, “one of…

Applaud If You Must, But Let’s Not Forget the Reason Bethany Christian Agreed to LGBTQ Adoption

By Chrissy Stroop

…sidential candidate Barack Obama. And, in an example with parallels to the policy change at Bethany that’s currently making headlines, in 2016, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a parachurch student ministry with recognized branches on many secular college campuses in the United States, purged all staff who supported LGBTQ affirmation and inclusion and banned all such student members from leadership positions, although previously some disagreemen…

LDS Leaders Owe Repentance and Apology for Cruelty to LGBTQ People and Their Children

By Holly Welker

…t the Trump administration but the LDS church embraces a family separation policy. In 2013, writing about the bizarreness of the LDS church and the United States government swapping positions on the legality of polygamous relationships, I invoked the “hideous wound festering on the LDS psyche” and the trauma caused by the church’s graceless experiment with polygamy. The POX created more trauma and exacerbated that hideous wound, in part because it…

Discrimination on the Taxpayer’s Dime? The Fight To Curtail the Overreach of RFRA

By Sarah Posner

…ration’s attempt to impose a constitutionally erroneous and deeply harmful policy—RFRA should not be interpreted or employed as a tool for broadly overriding statutory protections against religious discrimination or to create a broad free exercise right to receive government grants without complying with applicable regulations that protect taxpayers. The Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State…