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Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…are working with the group to help people fleeing persecution in Chechnya: Canada, France, Germany, Lithuania, and another country “which wants to remain anonymous.” CNN reports that Ali Feruz, a gay journalist who works at the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper, has sought refugee status to avoid being exported to Uzbekistan. Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International spokesperson, said: Ali Feruz is openly gay, a human rights activist and a corres…

It Is Time For American Orthodox Christians to Protest Russia’s Persecution of LGBT

By Katherine Kelaidis

…igrants from traditionally Orthodox lands to the far corners of the globe: Canada, South Africa, Australia and the United States. Thus Orthodoxy emerged in the United States as an immigrant church, the church of Southern and Eastern European immigrants, as well as Arabs—all of whom occupied the lower rungs of America’s all-important racial pecking order. Consequently, respectability and assimilation quickly became important goals of these communit…

Equality Opponents Try to Reverse UN Progress; Anti-Gay Pentecostal Pastor Elected Mayor of Rio; Indonesian University Official Tells LGBT Students To ‘Normalize’ Or Be Punished; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…single people and those undergoing fertility treatments to adopt children. Canada: Lawsuits seek compensation for fired LGBT military and public employees Lawyers have filed two class action lawsuits against the federal government seeking compensation for hundreds of LGBT people who were forced out of military or civil service jobs before 1992. Venezuela: Activists seek asylum in U.S. The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers reports on two Venezuelan…

Rev. William Barber Calls Jeff Sessions Nomination A “Moral Crisis”

By Peter Montgomery

…ation. “We will stand our ground,” said one speaker. “We are not moving to Canada!” Barber encouraged people to stop saying this is the worst thing ever, citing slavery, the Trail of Tears, and the Holocaust. “We need to stop acting as though it’s strange to have to stand up,” he said. “Tell me a time in American history when you didn’t have to have a moral dissent.” “We’re in the middle of a Third Reconstruction,” Barber said, “It’s our turn to b…

Ainslie Embree’s Gift to Religious Studies

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…. Afterwards, in 1947, he accepted an assignment from the United Church of Canada to go to India where he and his wife taught at Indore Christian College. On returning to New York in 1957 he completed a PhD in history at Columbia University. It remained his academic home for most of the rest of his rich career as a professor, dean, department chair, and member of the US diplomatic service in Delhi. Columbia had created a Western Civilization requi…

HitchBot Meets His Maker: What a Robot’s Murder Tells Us About Ourselves

By Michael Schulson

…n are feeling sad about hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot that traveled across Canada and Europe, aided only by cuteness, programmable charm—and our tendency to project human emotions onto inanimate objects. Two weeks ago, the Canadian-built hitchBOT left Marblehead, Massachusetts. The goal: San Francisco. It was supposed to be an On the Road-meets-Wall-E jaunt, and a testament to the goodwill of human beings. Instead, over the weekend, somebody in Ph…

Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ans, it is disappointing to see a politician jettisoning his principles so cheaply.” Meanwhile, Nick Duffy at Pink News suggests that some government officials would do well to take a look at their own anti-bullying guide, which encourages people to be better allies to their LGBTI friends. Asia: Growing acceptance for LGBT people; challenges within families Gavin Blair at the Christian Science Monitor reports on growing acceptance for LGBT people…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tries—including Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Spain, Iceland, Denmark, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, and Luxemburg—made recommendations to the Iranian government regarding decriminalization of homosexuality and respect for the rights of LGBT people in that country. Hossein Alizadeh, Regional Program Coordinator for Middle East and North Africa spoke to BBC Newshour on Sunday about human rights violations in Iran. From Alizadeh’s comments: Last year…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…urch.” The Church of Uganda has already cut ties with churches in U.S. and Canada over the issue of gay ordinations and same-sex blessings. Reuters reports that other African traditionalists are also resisting the growing acceptance of homosexuality in the Anglican Communion. The Center for Constitutional Rights, which has brought a lawsuit against American evangelical Scott Lively on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), has produced a graph…

Gun Owners of America Celebrates Defeat of Gun Control Amendments

By Sarah Posner

…ould register all the rest. Since registration has never solved a crime in Canada, or in Hawaii, where they have registered handguns since the ‘30s, I wonder what they want that registration list for. I think most of the rest of the world has experienced what they want it for. It’s a grab list when the government decides that the subjects are getting a little uppity. A rifle is the emblem of a free man. So what does that make the guy that had his…