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

By Peter Montgomery

…ation on the basis of sexual orientation in employment. In 2013, the penal code was amended to include sexual orientation and gender identity thus criminalising all discrimination against them. Kenya: Official tells gays to leave ‘God-fearing nation,’ warn Obama not to raise LGBT rights Deputy President William Ruto, speaking in a Nairobi church on Sunday, said gay rights advocates should leave the country. From the Washington Blade’s Michael Lave…

Huckabee on Obama vs. “Average Americans”

By Sarah Posner

…ee realized later that Obama spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, not Kenya, and despite failing to take on Malzberg’s birtherism on the air, admitted that he knows Obama was born in Hawaii. Here’s Huckabee’s statement, in which he goes on to wonder if Obama is a real American: “Governor Huckabee simply misspoke when he alluded to President Obama growing up in ‘Kenya.’ The Governor meant to say the President grew up in Indonesia. When the Gov…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y the British miners’ strike in 1984, and an episode of American sci-fi series Sense8, depicting transgendered and interracial couples. But there were no Kenyan films on offer. The award winning production, Stories of our Lives, which tracked the lives of members of the LGBT community in Kenya, was banned in 2014 by the country’s film board after it claimed the documentary “promotes homosexuality, which is contrary to national norms and values”. T…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…rts on a rise in anti-gay sentiment spreading from Uganda into neighboring Kenya, where homosexuality is technically illegal but where people have not generally faced persecution for their sexuality. Human rights advocates worry that recent debates in Nigeria and Uganda are being picked up by politicians in other countries. Human Rights Watch’s Monica Tabengwa, who is based in Nairobi, said she is optimistic that countries like Kenya and Zimbabwe,…

Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…has been introduced by unsavoury elements. “Whoever wants to bring it sees Kenya as a dumping ground. Ours is an expression of extreme deterrence,” he said. During a Kenyan talk show debate on the proposed law, Nyakeriga repeated his assertion that the stoning provision is there as a strong deterrent. “The best way to express something is to say it loudly and clearly,” he said. But Irungu Kang’ata, the leader of an anti-gay caucus in Parliament, s…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r those who engage in homosexuality, those who support it, and media that “promotes” or mentions it. A social media campaign using the hashtag #WeNeedToTalk to promote the World Youth Forum being held in Egypt November 4-10 was hijacked by activists to draw attention to the country’s crackdown on LGBT people and on civil society in general: The conference’s organizers had hoped the hashtag would encourage interaction among the participants ahead o…

Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…vice president for insinuating that there was no place for homosexuals in Kenyan society. The other victory was a court ruling that overturned a bureaucratic decision to block Kenya’s National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission from operating as an officially recognized nongovernmental organization, on the grounds that Kenyan law “criminalizes gay and lesbian liaisons.” As the Advocate reports, the move drew criticism from others. “The artic…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…on a Bollywood Float at the Vancouver Pride Parade, a move that “thrilled” the South Asian LGBT community, reports Can-India News. Kenya: Equality activists urge president to ban forced anal exams Eric Gitari, executive director of NGLHRC-Kenya, urged President Uhuru Kenyatta, who appears to have won reelection in an election being contested by the opposition, to take a stronger stand on behalf of LGBT human rights and to end the use of forced ana…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…is a flagrant violation of human rights and must be repealed immediately.” Kenya: Report on outreach to anti-gay religious leader Anonymous reports on an effort by Kenyan LGBT activists to befriend an anti-gay religious leader via a series of conversations centered initially on the rights of marginalized people to access health care. Asia: Regional LGBT conference in Taipei The ILGA-Asia regional conference drew 300 activists from more than 30 cou…

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

By Peter Schwartz

…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…