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

By Peter Montgomery

…p to 15 years if convicted under multiple provisions, according to Amnesty International. “If passed, this law would further entrench stigma and abuse against people based on their perceived sexual orientation,” Amnesty International’s North Africa campaigns director, Najia Bounaim, said in a statement. India: Pride celebrations called ‘short gasp of breath’ for LGBT people living in ‘choked’ situations In a commentary for the Hindustan Times, Dhr…

Helping International LGBT Families Stay Together

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

Keith Ellison, one of two Muslims in Congress, has cosponsored a bill with Rep. Betty Collum that will help bi-national same-sex couples keep their families together. The bill, which Rep. Jerrold Nadler has been pushing since 2003, is called the Uniting American Families Act, and would allow non-citizen partners of gays and lesbians to gain permanent resident status via the same channels that married couples use. If passed, this bill would obviou…

Purpose-Driven Empire

By Bill Berkowitz

…hat once enjoyed huge popularity have fallen on hard times.” Without Walls International Church, a Tampa, Florida-based charismatic church, “which once attracted 23,000 worshipers and was heralded as one of the nation’s fastest-growing congregations,” is facing foreclosure. Part of Without Walls International’s problem may be related to the 2007 announcement by co-pastors Randy and Paula White that they were getting a divorce. “On Nov. 4 their ban…

John Yoo and Jay Bybee Dodge Disciplinary Action but Recall Nuremberg

By Bruce Ledewitz

…l law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law.” In other words: Margolis’ rejection of the OPR verdict released this week does not preclude Yoo and others from being prosecuted for war crimes internationally; under the Nuremberg framework, Yoo’s conclusion that torture and other actions are condoned by the pr…

Vatican Unhappy with Obama’s Ambassador Picks

By Frances Kissling

…ligion or both and how the US and the UN should relate to the Vatican. Any number of experts on international law suggests that the Vatican does not meet enough of the criteria to be recognized as a state. It has no permanent population; the thousand or so citizens are only citizens as long as they are employed by the Vatican (and of course the fact that there are no more than a dozen women or children among those thousand goes unmentioned.) The V…

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…ment does not collect information on its religious composition, but a 2009 international report estimated the number of Muslims at around 24,000, comprising less than one percent of the country’s population. Most are of Lebanese, Palestinian or Indian descent. Though small, Panama’s Muslim community has grown increasingly ethnically diverse. The first Muslims to come to Panama were African slaves brought over by Spaniards in the mid-sixteenth cent…

Obama’s AIPAC Speech Hardly a Change to Believe In

By Stephen Zunes

…such special interest groups as AIPAC. This speech may have cost him large numbers of these smaller, progressive donors without gaining him much from the small numbers of larger, more conservative donors. Indeed, there may not be a single policy issue where Obama’s liberal base differs from the candidate more than on Israel/Palestine. Not surprisingly, the Green Party and its likely nominee, former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, along wit…

The Lady Vanishes: Trump’s Communications Team Tries to Topple a Monument

By Spencer Dew

…sion with his own person image, as in the recently released transcripts of phone calls with Mexico and Australia, is all too apparent as a dominant and guiding focus) or a problem with those picked to actually “communicate” on behalf of the White House (from a Press Secretary who hid “among” bushes and banned cameras from press conferences to a Director of Communications who, in the early and yet also late days of his short-lived job accused one u…

Gay Marriage Opponents Running on Empty

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…. At the first, about a dozen volunteers spent the night making almost 300 phone calls and collecting pledges of volunteer support and contributions from 50 new supporters. Add that to the five other locations holding similar phone banks or collecting post cards of support, and I’m sure we easily got our 300 today. In addition, Equality Maryland hosted an interfaith meeting to mobilize supportive faith leaders. It was so great to see such a wonder…

Education, Texas-Style

By Lauri Lebo

…nation.” I’ve spoken to board member Don McLeroy quite a few times on the phone and he genuinely seems like someone who wants to be understood and have people appreciate what he’s doing. (I’ve never met or spoken to Cynthia Dunbar, but she strikes me as someone who really doesn’t care what people think of her.) So, I feel like calling up McLeroy and saying, “You, sir, are a cheater!” Because from the perspective of the literal-minded (and fundame…