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Equality Opponents Try to Reverse UN Progress; Anti-Gay Pentecostal Pastor Elected Mayor of Rio; Indonesian University Official Tells LGBT Students To ‘Normalize’ Or Be Punished; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…l: Anti-gay Pentecostal pastor elected mayor of Rio Evangelical pastor Marcelo Crivella won a convincing victory in a runoff election to be elected mayor of Rio de Janeiro, which Associated Press called “a sign of the resurgence of conservatism in Brazil.” (Some awkward language from online translation) The triumph of conservative Crivella is the latest sign of widespread anger in Brazil towards traditional leftist parties in the midst of a deep r…

Common Ground: Winning the Battle, Losing the Culture War

By Chip Berlet

…The goal of groups such as the Third Way seems to be garnering votes from relatively conservative Christian evangelicals. There is nothing wrong with reaching out to Christian evangelicals and people from other faith traditions; I have been doing it for 30 years. But as an active member of the Christian Left who spent over a decade as a community and labor organizer, I see a problem. As progressives, we should be reaching out to people of faith, i…

The Democrats Got Religion, At Huge Cost

By Sarah Posner

…n the Stupak amendment is a result of the Democratic Party’s pandering to religion as much as it is a product of religious right lobbying. In its quest to “get religion” and build a larger majority in Congress by recruiting anti-choice candidates to run in conservative districts, the party has cravenly punted on womens’ freedom and health. They are absolutely right, and although President Obama came out on Monday against Stupak*, I wonder if he ha…

Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…portrayed as a narco-cult in the media, worship of Santa Muerte is nevertheless a fast-growing new religious movement in the Americas, according to Andrew Chesnut, professor of religious studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of “Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint.” “Mexican Catholics and evangelicals tend to view transgenderism as a lifestyle choice,” said Chesnut. “But the fact that Santa Muerte is outside th…

How (Not) to Understand Romney’s Time as an LDS Bishop

By Joanna Brooks

…dquarters’ inquiries into their activities. On Tuesday, Salon.com’s Justin Elliot selected the most unflattering elements of Romney’s career as bishop to depict the GOP presidential candidate as “an enforcer of the most socially conservative policies of the LDS church.” Salon’s sensationalized story suggests that Mitt Romney was some kind of ecclesiastical Dirty Harry, especially on gender. To put Romney’s record into perspective, it should be sai…

Indonesia’s Anti-Porn Bill is Anti-Pluralism

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…’s most populous Muslim country, it has significant minorities from other religions who feel that this bill is pushing a definition of pornography under the guise of “Islamicizing” the entire nation or riding roughshod over Indonesia’s secular pluralism. There are other issues at hand, as well: the proposed definition of pornography casts a very wide net. Defining pornography as things that “arouse sexual propensity, desires or longings” sets a de…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…that, while Hernandez “had a different version of the facts,” he had nonetheless been relieved of his duties. However, at a hearing to renew the protection order in March, and again in June, Hernandez came to court accompanied by nuns who worked at the Archdiocese’s Centro San Juan Diego: Hispanic Institute for Family and Pastoral Care, where Hernandez had taught. The same month, the Birges discovered that Hernandez had been transferred to the Col…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…ar crime trial of former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor alleged that the televangelist had lobbied the Bush White House on his behalf in exchange for lucrative gold mining contracts—a claim Robertson denied. And in the late 1990s, Robertson was forced to reimburse his Operation Blessing charity after his pilots divulged that its planes were being used to support Robertson’s personal diamond mining business instead of relief work in Zaire (now the…

The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep

By Mary E. Hunt

…ly based. The Polish seminarians’ banner conveys a message. International delegations from France and Ireland had similarly Catholics flavors. But finding Jewish, Protestant, Muslim, Pagan, and other participants was not easy. Evangelical Christians put on a rock concert in a nearby park after the march this year. It was advertised by “Rock for Life” with the logo of a fetus playing an electric guitar. They offered some diversity. The problem is t…

Gimme That Old Spice Religion

By Frederick Clarkson

…house. In light of the Chanceys’ religious orientation and profoundly anti-secular, evangelical world view, it is a little odd that he entered a contest that required him to elide all references to the ways his religious beliefs shape his life and manly character. Whether Chancey’s victory in the Old Spice, Art of Manliness-Man of the Year contest is a harbinger of another run for office remains to be seen….