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‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f Catholic organizations, including natural family planning organizations. South Africa: “Open Mosque” Generates Threats; Leaders Shrink from LGBTI Human Rights Advocacy Today a mosque in South Africa will invite men and women, people of different strains of Islam, and openly LGBTI people to worship together. Its founder calls it South Africa’s first gender-equal, non-sectarian and interracial mosque. Not everyone is welcoming it opening. Despite…

Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

By J. Terry Todd

…as translated loosely as “the haves and the have-nots.” The reconciliation between the rich and poor didn’t play prominently, either in the event’s promos or at the stadium rally itself. PK did offer a “pay what you can afford” program to woo low-income rally-goers, and it also urged attendees to bring food donations for the Denver Rescue Mission. At the rally itself, there was no sustained talk about the spiritual or political effects of the glob…

What Would Jesus Chew?, Bishops Bet on B-Ball, The Incredibly Shrinking Brain

By Michael J. Altman

…of the first Memorial Day, celebrated by newly freed blacks in Charleston, South Carolina memorializing dead Union troops. In Joplin, Missouri, residents mourned those lost in the tornado. The Department of Homeland Security has ended a post-9/11 registration program that required Arab and Muslim men to register with the government, but not before tangling many Muslim immigrants up in legal proceedings. The Muslim Brotherhood says they do not want…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…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…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…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,…

Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating

By Anthea Butler

…ke away that free will, except for those who have the capacity to hack the code and reprogram the car. We normally think of robots as almost pure code, yet the scene last week when Graystone orders the Zoebot to rip off her arm raises some interesting stakes in this. It seems to me that people may be treating the Cylons differently depending on what mix of code and law they believe governs their behavior. And of course, those of you who study reli…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…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…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…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…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ile noting there is much more work to be done to safeguard LGBTI people in South Africa and the rest of the continent. …South Africa must be applauded for its leadership on this issue at the global level. Now it 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 advanc…

Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

By Shalom Goldman

…he development and demise of an extensive and lucrative military alliance” between Israel and South Africa. As he describes it, “This alliance flourished for the twenty years between the aftermath of the 1973 War and the end of the apartheid regime in 1993.” Rather then give us the whole story of the alliance at the outset the author lets us follow the development of this military, economic and political relationship. When we reach the end of the…