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Meet Wyoming’s Anti-Shari’ah Crusader

By Sarah Posner

…ially undermine them. Gay, a retired engineer, worked for oil companies in Saudi Arabia for 12 years and says he’s “experienced [shari’ah] first-hand.” Is the U.S. on the verge of becoming Saudi Arabia, I asked? “Saudi Arabia is a very extreme example of shari’ah and Iran would be another extreme example,” said Gay, “but that’s where we’re going if we defer to the radicals who are at war with us.” Why doesn’t a red-blooded, tea party Republican li…

When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…ticularly in its absolute theism, but their model is communitarian, and focused on obedience. The opening of the Code makes it clear that it is meant to be recited. In fact, according to the Mexican press, initiation is marked by an elaborate ritual involving flagellation. There the initiate is made to swear by the code, including its provision of death if the pledge is broken—a caveat that is repeated several times throughout the recitation. Amon…

How the Catholic Church Changed the Movies

By Patricia Miller

…llywood Censored. The code they designed became the Motion Picture Conduct Code, popularly know as the Hays Code after it was adopted by William Hays, a Presbyterian elder who was hired by the major studios to help clean up the industry’s image after it was rocked by a series of scandals. The code, says Black, “was a fascinating combination of Catholic theology, conservative politics and pop psychology—an amalgam that would control the content of…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…as Monday. “We have studied the implementation of sharia in countries like Saudi Arabia, Brunei Darussalam and Jordan to draft this law and we are happy with it,” he said. But the director general of regional autotomy at the ministry of home affairs, Djohermansyah Djohan, said earlier that his department could shoot the law down if it violated human rights. United Kingdom: South Asian Gays Wed to Avoid Violence from Families The Independent’s Pava…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…og that he felt that Custer or Columbus would have been a more appropriate code name for bin Laden, and that the use of Geronimo was just another example of how “We’ve been reduced to caricatures as mascots and entertainment in sports and media.” In fact, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee held hearings recently on American Indians and racist stereotypes, and one of the first items of business was a discussion of why this particular code name wa…

Catholic Church Campaigns Against Gay US Ambassador; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rimes to use as leverage as the countries seek to join the European Union. Saudi Arabia: Death Penalty Reportedly Being Considered for Coming Out on Social Media A Saudi newspaper reported last weekend that prosecutors in Jiddah have proposed raising the penalty for people who come out online to capital punishment. The U.S. State Department told the Washington Blade it was aware of, but could not confirm, those reports. India: International Commis…

Pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Declare Shared View of Marriage & Family; Government & Muslim Officials Ramp Up Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in Indonesia; Australian Religious Leaders Ask Parliament to Act on Marriage Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hese “task groups” would “help to heal the pain and rebuild mutual trust.” Saudi Arabia: Wedding video sparks social media campaign about killing ‘faggots’ A hashtag spreading across Arabic-language social media translates to “suggest a way to kill the faggots,” report Ezeddin Fadel and Lester Feder at BuzzFeed. The trend was apparently sparked by a video purporting to show a same-sex wedding. This month it was spurred on by a video posted by Saud…

Islam, Meet Maureen Dowd

By Haroon Moghul

…ed by her trip to Saudi Arabia—but it’s not clear why she expects that because Saudi Arabia is “the cradle of Islam,” that it would provide the best introduction to Islam. The bias towards origins is a bias that has gone on for far too long. One can experience Islam in many places, and those different practices of Islam—most of them not even Arab—are as fully Islam as any other. (She could have emailed me and I would’ve given her a profound, acces…

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e first same-sex union conducted by Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis on Monday Saudi Arabia: Two Same-Sex Couples Arrested Four men – two couples – have reportedly been arrested in Saudi Arabia by the nation’s religious police for holding a marriage ceremony, cross-dressing and possessing alcohol and hashish. The police raid may have been the result of images circulated on social media. Gulf News reported that the men admitted they were living as marr…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…any members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, such as Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. America, South Africa, South Korea and 11 European countries (including Britain, France and Germany) voted against, on grounds that it put too much emphasis on traditional family structures. South Africa unsuccessfully tried to insert language that took account of same-sex marriages and other non-traditional arrangements. Efforts by Western delega…