Search for "VIPREG2024 1xbet india promo code Uganda"

US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…en used to target activists and journalists in Russia. The bill’s sponsors promote it as a measure to “protect children from harmful information.” Member of Parliament Aldan Smayil said the legislation’s intent was ““to protect children from information that kills the feeling of warmth and humanity, which is harmful to the health and psyche, promotes violence and is, in short, spiritually devastating to the younger generation.” Finland: Marriage E…

No Pagan Trees For Christmas Warriors

By Bill Berkowitz

…d outs of health care reform, the climate change confab in Copenhagen, and Uganda’s anti-homosexual death panels are all topics for discussion these days, nothing tops the War on Christmas for some conservative Christian evangelical groups. Here’s how Martha Boggs, the founder of Boss Creations, describes the sorry situation Christians have been facing during the first decade of the twenty-first century, and how she decided to combat it: “We have…

Obama’s Divisive Choice of Rick Warren

By Michelle Goldberg

…abstinence-only policies as the Bush administration. One of his protegés, Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, has been a major force in moving that country away from its lifesaving safer-sex programs. He’s been known to burn condoms at Makerere University, the prestigious school in Uganda’s capital, and in his Pentecostal services, marked by much sobbing and speaking in tongues, he offers the promise of faith healing to his desperate congregants, a par…

Evangelicals and Immigration Reform, Again

By Sarah Posner

…t Lively, who is known as one of the instigators of the anti-gay frenzy in Uganda that has led to the kill-the-gay bill there. This is not a new effort by evangelicals to press for immigration reform. Two years ago, a group calling itself Conservatives for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, which included the NHCLC, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, pressed for immigration reform, but without the…

In Just 10 Years ‘The Book of Mormon’ Musical Has Gone From America’s Darling to America’s Latest Problem — The Inverse of the Mormon Story

By Jake Johnson

…sound hilariously inflated to an outsider, while the war-torn and corrupt Uganda where they’re proselytizing remains flat, one-note, and unimaginative. To write out the show’s insensitive portrayals of, well, everyone is in some ways to ask for a different show entirely. So be it, many say. The world has changed its tune about this one-time monster hit. We’ve developed new languages to name indecencies and grown spines to say them out loud. A tit…

Rick Warren and Homophobia in Africa

By Sarah Posner

…arren’s spokesperson told me that he had severed ties with a controversial Ugandan pastor, Martin Ssempa, who has compared homosexuality to witchcraft and engaged in condom burning. Warren’s spokesperson said that the split occurred “over various statements Mr. Ssempa made about homosexuality.” In an email exchange with me, though, Ssempa questioned why Warren would have cut ties with him: In the unclear statement he says it is over our position a…

LGBT in Africa: Persecution and Persistence

By Peter Montgomery

…reachers, like Pastors Rick Warren and Scott Lively, who actively fund and promote homophobia in Africa In neighboring Nigeria, a draconian anti-gay law passed the House at the end of May. While international human rights advocates have mounted a campaign this month calling on the country’s president not to sign the bill, some American religious right groups have praised the law. Mass Resistance called it a “bold” move by Nigeria to fight back aga…

What Did Kyrie Say That Was So Wrong? When Black Antisemitism Meets White Jewish Privilege

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ities (Beta Israel of Ethiopia), emerging Jewish communities (Abayudaya of Uganda), or communities who maintain traditions of “lost” Jewish identities (Conversos and Black Jews in the Americas) is fair game. I believe there’s an aphorism about gooses and ganders that fits this present predicament. The chosen or the damned All of which brings us back to the issue of chosenness and who the “true” Hebrews or Israelites are. The ideas shared by Irving…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…t attacks LGBT groups, civil society, and basic freedoms within Russia. In Uganda, anti-gay lawmakers are certain to try to overcome President Yoweri Museveni’s resistance to passage of a new Anti-Homosexuality Act. In Gambia, viciously anti-gay President Yahya Jammeh has portrayed his vehement anti-gay stance as a heroic effort to defend Islam and African independence from European influence. In 2015, Gambia will celebrate 50 years of independenc…

Almost-Blockbuster Netflix Series ‘The Family’ Exposes a Christian Network Whose God Is Power

By Peter Laarman

…Nigeria), to “kill the gays” instigators Yoweri Museveni and David Bahati (Uganda), and finally to our very own criminal-in-chief, Donald John Trump. Homophobia, misogyny, and contempt for the poor (aka the un-chosen) are so very much taken for granted and accepted as “Christian” within The Family that its principals are able to say, with a perfectly straight face, that they have no political agenda when they support and subsidize authoritarian le…