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Bishops Claims Fail to Derail Marriage Equality in Uruguay

By Peter Montgomery

…the ruling is felt throughout the country. Last week, the Supreme Court of Mexico ruled in favor of three same-sex couples who challenged the constitutionality of the marriage ban in the state of Oaxaca; marriage equality is already the law in Mexico City. The ruling on Oaxaca’s law does not automatically make marriage legally available to all same-sex couples; in the wake of the ruling, reporters struggled to clarify rules that seemed to indicate…

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

…urnalist Rex Wockner tracks the complex march of marriage equality through Mexico’s legal and political system. Mexico City’s pride celebration on Saturday reportedly drew 100,000 people. Australia: Marchers push for marriage equality legislation In advance of July 2 national elections, marriage equality rallies were held across the country on Saturday, with marchers “calling on whichever party wins a July 2 national election to quickly introduce…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ficially considered undecided. Mexico: New national LGBT movement launches Mexico as a new national LGBT movement, The Movement for Equality in Mexico, where religious conservatives are leading resistance to President Enrique Peña Nieto’s call for a constitutional guarantee of marriage equality nationwide. Among the principles and goals spelled out on the group’s website is this quote from actor and activist Felipe Nájera: “When human rights can o…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…assent last Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the privy council said on Monday. Mexico: Marriage and family equality continue to advance over local resistance As a sign of some continued local resistance to marriage equality, the Civil Registry in South Baja California refused to register a newborn child as the son of two women who are married. After a few weeks of back-and-forth with government officials, the couple’s lawyer said he will ask the feder…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…f same sex couples seeking an injunction allowing them to marry, but under Mexico’s governmental structure, five such injunctions, or amparos, must be awarded to couples or groups of couples from a given state before that state’s law is considered changed for all couples. Mexico’s complicated legal march toward marriage equality is tracked by journalist Rex Wockner. Brazil: Gay mayor marries longtime partner Edgar de Souza, mayor of the city of Li…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…olk saint, Santa Muerte, who has become popular among transgender women in Mexico: Violence against transgender women is common in Mexico, mostly because employment discrimination forces many to turn to sex work for money. The skeleton saint — with her female form and association with death — is particularly appealing to transgender sex workers, who face the persistent threat of violent clients and transphobic hatred. Unlike official church figure…

How Indiana’s New RFRA Expands the Federal RFRA

By Sarah Posner

…ompare Indiana’s newly minted RFRA to the one assessed by the court in New Mexico. The Indiana RFRA departs from New Mexico’s RFRA and the federal RFRA—on which many other state laws are modeled. How? Indiana’s RFRA expressly provides that a person can assert a “claim or defense in a judicial or administrative proceeding, regardless of whether the state or any other governmental entity is a party to the proceeding.” This new statutory language is…

Welcoming the Stranger: Sister Simone Campbell of Nuns on the Bus Speaks Out on DACA

By Kaya Oakes

…The fact is that the second most important source of external revenue for Mexico are the remittances that folks send back. We have Sisters in Mexico, and they’ve tried to create micro enterprises where people don’t have to leave. They tried to get Mexican government funding for it, and the Mexican officials said “oh no, we couldn’t do that because the remittances are so important for the people in the countryside to survive.” This is a complex is…

Jeb Bush Is Confused About Religious Freedom

By Sarah Posner

…which was enacted in 2000. In 2013, in the Elane Photography case, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that a photographer could not raise the state’s RFRA as a defense in a lawsuit, brought under the state’s anti-discrimination law by a lesbian couple denied service by the photographer precisely because, in the court’s words, New Mexico’s RFRA “is inapplicable in this case because the government is not a party.” (emphasis mine) As I discussed yest…

Death in the Desert: Riding With the Samaritans

By Lauri Lebo

…t Brother David calls “the push-pull factor.” Lack of job opportunities in Mexico and Central America pushes migrants from their homes. They are pulled to the U.S. because of demand for cheap labor. One of the major pushes came in the ’90s with the passage of NAFTA, which opened the door to many agri-businesses to move farms down to Mexico, putting small farmers out of business. And while the number of undocumented border crossers is down, Brother…