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Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…d at how much traction the No campaign has managed to achieve over a small number of incidents yet attacks on same-sex marriage campaigners, some violent, have gone relatively unnoticed. … Melbourne University’s Associate Professor Sally Young, an expert in political campaigning, said the tone of the campaign may have now pushed some people into the No column. “It’s tapping into what the No side is talking about, which is a fear of change.” The Ca…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…y from Victorian sentimentalism. Such angels are on sale at reduced price; cheap wares for cheap faith. It would be an error, however, to fully dismiss pop culture angels. Despite the fact that representations of angels in film and television, comics and music, paperback novels and posters, are filtered through market concerns, such pop culture can still speak to human meaning—and because of that they merit our attention. Besides, the bulk of art…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ortion. Both initiatives are strongly opposed by the Catholic Church and a number of news sites drew attention to the camera’s focus on the sour face of Santiago’s Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati when Bachelet mentioned them. Russia: French president pushes Putin on abuse of Chechen gays French President Emmanuel Macron urged Russia’s Vladimir Putin to ensure the safety of LGBT people in Chechnya, where gay men have been subjected to a campaign of deten…

For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town

By Peter Montgomery

…ly gay U.S. ambassadors spoke at an event sponsored by the Victory Fund in Washington, DC and urged the incoming Trump administration to continue to support LGBT human rights around the world. Unfortunately, Trump’s cabinet choices include a number of stridently anti-gay figures, and his rumored pick of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State is sounding alarm for Tillerson’s close ties to Russia’s Vladimir Putin as well as the company…

Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…the last bits of mine were drained before I “lost” the group at the Mumbai airport. After the nearly day-long flight, we still had a four-hour bus ride ahead of us. When we finally found each other, boarded the bus and found boxed breakfasts of chicken salad sandwiches, I relaxed a bit. That was premature. The bus driver went in circles, clocking eight hours to travel 95 miles. Arriving at Osho, my only goal was sleep. But the registrar at the Wel…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…zekiel College of Theology after accusations of homosexuality, reports the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers: Ododo Sylvester sent the Washington Blade a copy of an Oct. 28, 2014, letter from the Ezekiel College of Theology that claims he confessed to Rt. Rev. Williams O. Aladekugbe, who was the dean of the school, inside his apartment with his wife present that he “had practiced homosexuality before while you were in the secondary school” and tha…

Call it ‘Christian Globalism’: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part III

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…God” and “to adhere to the directives of his spiritual advisors.” ● Aglow International, headquartered in Washington State, is advised by such leading apostles as Ché Ahn, Chuck Pierce, Cindy Jacobs, and James Goll. Founded in 1967, early in the charismatic renewal, it has been led by Jane Hansen-Hoyt since 1980. Aglow claims to reach: “women, and men of every creed, color, with 22,000 Aglow leaders worldwide ministering in their communities and…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…xtent of C-Fam’s homophobia and transphobia,” according to OutRight Action International. On April 3, the group joined with The International Fellowship of Reconciliation, Ipas, and the Southern Poverty Law Center to send US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley a compilation of “the many hateful, transphobic, and homophobic things” C-Fam and its president, Austin Ruse, have said. Russia: Arrests and ‘honor killings’ in Chechnya; Gov’t bans portrayals…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…amily of one of my graduate school friends. They would pick me up from the airport and host me during my stay and the days of ritual. Nice plan. So I went to the embassy to get the visa and was denied because (as an American) I needed proof that I was Muslim. How do I prove I have been a practicing Muslim for a decade? I went to the famous al-Azhar university and secured a shahadah document in French, Arabic and English. I returned to the embassy…

Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…xtensively on the violently anti-gay President Yahya Jammeh. This week the Washington Post’s Craig Whitlock and Adam Goldman reported on actions by US law enforcement agencies that had tipped off West African authorities to the travel of at least one plotter involved in a failed coup attempt. “In doing so, U.S. officials may have at least indirectly helped to protect the president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, who has drawn international condemnation f…