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Warships, Animals, Pubs Eligible For Blessings From Church of England, But Not Same-Sex Couples; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…aid his work focuses on five areas: Decriminalization of consensual same-sex sexual relations, recognition of gender identity, fighting stigma against LGBT and intersex people, empathy and cultural inclusion. “This is very much reaching out to a broad understanding of religion,” he said. The Trump administration announced that Randy Berry, named by President Barack Obama the first special envoy for LGBTI human rights, “will be continuing in his ro…

Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

…renching accounts of their travails. Journalists and watchdog groups have exhaustively exposed the injustices workers making Nike products endure. Read, for example, this recent article based on interviews of eighteen women in Vietnam who have experienced intimidation, abuse, and threats but say they cannot speak without facing retribution—then go back and watch that “Equality” ad. Nike has come under fire lately for denying the Workers’ Rights Co…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sive” film “The Wound.” The film by director John Trengove is a love story between two Xhosa men set against “ulwaluko,” the Xhosa coming-of-age circumcision ritual. The film’s star, Nakhane Toure, has reportedly been receiving “homophobic abuse” amid boycott calls. From CNN: The furore threatens to cloud a gripping study of inter-generational attitudes towards homosexuality, illuminating a corner of the LGBT community, stifled, if not silenced, b…

What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…accordance with dominant faith traditions? “I have said before that homosexuality is not being our better selves,” Mero says. “But that is from my religious, faith-based framework. And I would say that about somebody that is an adulterer, or somebody who has sex outside of wedlock. Right? I would argue that on a faith basis.” That “faith basis” provides the final, crucial key to understanding Mero’s perception of LGBT rights and “religious freedo…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…s that members of the Homosexual Initiative Vienna (HOSI) said that same-sex couples are better off remaining in civil partnerships under current law than seeking to be legally married: ‘The now remaining legal differences are either, in practice, of very little meaning or expressly wanted by the HOSI Vienna,’ said Lui Fidelsberger, chairperson of HOSI, in a statement. ‘After step child and general adoption, as well as access to reproductive medic…

Is Religion the Only Tool Left for Legal Discrimination?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…change today. “Just as courts have in the past refused to grant religious exemptions from laws that prohibit race and sex discrimination, I think courts should—and ultimately will—reject the argument that a person’s religious beliefs entitle them to an exemption from laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.” But with a new administration—and a potential Supreme Court Justice—that is hugely deferenti…

Humiliating “Kim Davis Bill” To “Protect” Anti-LGBT County Clerks Passes Texas Senate

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ermissible if SB 522 becomes law. The bill also highlights the fact that Texas marital code still only identifies “a man and a woman” as the two parties who may apply for a marriage license. Even for Texas Republicans, this bill is a mean-spirited (though not at all unprecedented) attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage equality in pursuit of accommodating a vocal minority who claim their faith trumps their neighbors’ pursuit…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that criminalize non-hijab-wearing women, drinking alcohol, gambling, and extramarital sexual relations, all of which can be enforced against non-Muslims. Aceh’s LGBT population is also vulnerable to Aceh’s 2014 Criminal Code that bars liwath (sodomy) and musahabah (lesbian sexual action). Aceh province imposed the Sharia punishment of multiple lashes of a cane against 339 people in 2016. The New Zealand Herald reported that the couple was filmed…

Texas’ Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill Is Unconstitutional and Unnecessary, Say Texas Law Professors

By Sunnivie Brydum

…nal origin, no such exception is made for discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. The Establishment Clause has been construed to prevent the government from favoring or disfavoring any particular religion or religion in general. To the extent that H.B. 3859 can be understood specifically to protect and promote certain conservative beliefs about sex and sexuality, it raises serious Establishment Claus…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…tion to people of either sex. Crucially, when the bill was drafted, same sex marriage and opposite sex civil partnerships had not been made legal. It has since been legalised and a number of amendments were made to incorporate that into the legislation. The provisions of the act are expected to be phased in over a 24-month period. Curaçao: Equality activists oppose referendum on marriage Activists said that a referendum on marriage equality “is pr…