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Adventists Cancel ‘Holy Sexuality’ Confab; Egyptian Court OKs Deportation of Gays; Mongolian Trans Activist Gives TV Interview; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e Vatican has “abruptly ended its takeover of the main leadership group of American nuns two years earlier than expected,” reports the New York Times’ Laurie Goodstein, who reminds us that “Under the previous pope, Benedict XVI, the Vatican’s doctrinal office had appointed three bishops in 2012 to overhaul the nuns’ group, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, out of concerns that it had hosted speakers and published materials that strayed…

Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…orality, but it was at risk of having its core Muslim values overridden by international human rights claims that embrace LGBT rights.” One of the judges said, “Must all laws that are not in according with the morals and religious have to be synchronized with the local values so this court…[can be] an institution illuminated by the light of God.” The government is opposing the lawsuit, warning that criminalizing sex before marriage would turn crim…

2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…r Egypt’s LGBT community,” adding that “2018 could be even worse.” Amnesty International released a report on “the increasingly discriminatory environment that LGBTI rights groups” face in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. ILGA released its 2017 Trans Legal Mapping Report. GATE published “Gender is Not an Illness: How pathologizing trans people violates international human rights law.” Among the 2017 recipients of a human rights award g…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ay Westerners brought homosexuality to the country. But Musaala criticizes American evangelicals who “parachuted into Uganda and started spreading their message of hate.” Guatemala: US Church offers sanctuary to lesbian refugee The Austin American-Statesman’s James Barragan reports that the First Unitarian Universalist church in Central Austin announced on Thursday “that the church would give sanctuary to Sulma Franco, a 31-year-old Guatemalan imm…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…continent and beyond with the argument that they violate commitments under international human rights agreements. Now, with the UK voting to leave, they believe it has sent the signal that countries can walk away from multinational agreements when they no longer likes the rules. Given how important European institutions have been in promoting LGBT rights both in the region and worldwide, “anything that puts a hold on European progress causes conce…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…agenda upon all.” Latin America: A ‘Rainbow Wave’ In the Emory Journal of International Affairs, Hobie Hunter argues that progress toward LGBT equality in Latin America is an underreported story. (In excerpts below, citations removed for readability). While the region may conjure images of machismo and Catholic conservatism, many countries of the region have actually shown remarkable progress on LGBT rights. In recent years same-sex marriage has…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…are preparing to quit the meeting on the first morning unless the liberal Americans ‘repent’ or the Archbishop throws them out. In what would be a massive challenge to Archbishop Welby’s authority, the conservatives, who represent some of the biggest of the 38 individual Churches in the worldwide ‘Communion’, are then likely move to their own headquarters nearby for the rest of the meeting. While they are unlikely immediately to break their histo…

Conservative Bishops Unhappy At Synod, But Ignore Walkout Call; Australian Religious Leaders Step Up Marriage Equality Opposition; Italy Debates Civil Unions; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ter David Parirenyatw warned gay groups not to protest during the upcoming International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, which begins in late November. Kenya: President Says LGBT Rights Not on Country’s Agenda President Uhuru Kenyatta told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that the Kenyan people have “more pressing issues” to address than LGBT rights. Argentina: Prominent Transgender Advocate Killed Diana Sacayán, a prominent transgender rights advocate…

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

…on groups, held a regional conference in Nairobi, Kenya this past weekend. American Religious Right figures on the schedule included Don Feder of the World Congress of Families, Sharon Slater of Family Watch International, Michael Hichborn of the far-right Catholic Lapanto Institute, In a conference preview, the Southern Poverty Law Center noted: Africa continues to be a nexus of anti-LGBT and anti-choice activism on the part of U.S.-based individ…

Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Indonesia’s first public caning for homosexuality and sparked considerable international outrage. Flogging as punishment is also recognized under international law as a form of torture, but that doesn’t seem to have deterred Acehnese authorities so far. So what prompted the decision to end floggings in public? Media reports suggest that Acehnese leaders are now worried that videos of May’s flogging, which were widely circulated online, make the pr…