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Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

…?” Hoyt asked. “One out of every three women experience verbal or sexual abuse from those who profess to love them,” she declared, and then chided the Church for its complicity in women’s oppression. She denounced the fiction that women are inferior, and called this “a time to honor each other.” Hoyt’s stirring ethical appeal included the most blatant expression of the rally’s ideological subtext: Dominion theology. In a promo video distributed in…

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Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

…for social justice. He joined his father’s movement for racial justice in South Africa and spent over a decade in South African prisons. As Arun Gandhi noted in Kasturba: A Life, a biography of his grandmother, “my father was the only one of the four Gandhi sons to adopt voluntary poverty and devote his life to nonviolence…” Arun left South Africa in 1956 and moved to India, where he spent the next thirty years working as a journalist, activist,…

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Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

…uples, calling them part of “the strategy of the Enemy of the human race.” South Korea: Court Says Police Cannot Ban LGBT Pride March We have reported previously on the way that anti-gay Christian groups in South Korea got police to deny a permit for the annual pride parade by seeking permits for opposing events at the same time and place But on June 16, a court ruled that the police denial of a parade permit violated LGBT organizers’ freedom of a…

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Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

…aceGloria reportedly attracted more than 100,000 users in its first month. South Korea: Gay couple sues government for marriage recognition In South Korea, where we reported last week that anti-gay Christians had failed to block Seoul’s Pride parade, movie director Kim Jho Gwang-Soo went to court to force the government to recognize a wedding ceremony he and his partner held in 2013. European Parliament: LGBT issues made focus of ‘European Neighbo…

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Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

…gislation Creates Equality With Exceptions The National Assembly passed domestic partner legislation providing formal legal recognition for LGBT couples; the law does not extend equality to marriage, adoptions, and in-vitro fertilization. South Korea: Government Agrees to Honor U.S. Service Members’ Same-Sex Weddings South Korea’s government has agreed to allow married same-sex couples in the U.S. military to have the same legal protection and leg…

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Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

…must work to bring the rest of the continent along….As the economic powerhouse on the continent, South Africa’s foreign policy challenge over the long term in Africa is to avoid separating LGBTI rights from human rights and economic advancement. It must be noted that LGBTI rights are not separate or special. They are basic human rights guaranteed to every one of us. In Africa, these rights must be linked to other priorities such as effective publi…

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Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

…artheid) Word,” Polakow-Suransky devotes the book’s epilogue to the Israel-South Africa comparison. He acknowledges that the Israel-South Africa “apartheid analogy is an imperfect one… Unlike white South Africa and other colonial regimes, Zionists never banned miscegenation or kept the people they had conquered as servants in their homes.” But he concludes with a dire warning: “the apartheid analogy may be inexact today, but it won’t be forever. T…

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Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

…they fear it might harm their own work within ASEAN and its institutions. South Korea: Christian Surgeon Overcomes Religious Resistance to Sex Reassignment Surgery Hyung-Jim Kim’s Associated Press profile of Dr. Kim Seok-Kwun, a devout Protestant, begins with a description of sex reassignment surgery he performed for a Buddhist monk who has been living as a man for many years.  The story recounts Dr. Kim’s own journey to overcome his own religiou…

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Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

…erforming homosexual acts, which are punishable by up to 14 years in jail. South Korea: Court rules in favor of LGBT advocacy group’s right to register The Supreme Court ruled that the Ministry of Justice was wrong to reject the establishment of the Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.   Japan: Political leaders step out The China Post reports on efforts by Kunhiro Maeda, “one of Japan’s few openly gay politicians,” along with several colleagues, to bri…

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The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

…cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of this source code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most impo…

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