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Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…rm was revived in the early 2000s as post-communist democracies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia began to falter.[8] The concept is useful in capturing the ephemeral nature of democracy since World War II. Between 1945 and 2002, 96 new states[9] were formed, and most faced numerous destabilizing forces, including the 1970s OPEC oil embargo, superpower intervention during the Cold War, and IMF-imposed austerity projects in the early 1990s. Not su…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ld boost euroscepticism and have negative “political consequences” for the European project. Campaigners, backed by Christian lobby groups, have demanded a change to European law to state that marriage exists only between men and women – a “family” should be defined strictly as a heterosexual married couple and their descendants, they argue. They hope to use a scheme backed by Mr Juncker and established in 2012 that obliges the EU to consider prop…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rliament. The explanatory note accompanying the legislation notes that the European Court of Human Rights had criticized Greece for bring one of the last countries in Europe without official recognition for same-sex couples. More on reaction by Ambrosios from Philip Chrysopoulos at Greek Reporter: The Holy Synod decided to adhere to its previous position, namely that the Church of Greece denounces alternative family forms because they are a devalu…

Refugee Crisis in the Age of Trump: Getting Holocaust Analogies Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…ning away the S.S. St. Louis and “sending over 900 Jewish refugees back to Europe, where many died in concentration camps.” That incident, the letter continues, “was a stain on the history of our country — a tragic decision made in a political climate of deep fear, suspicion, and antisemitism.” The Orthodox Union, in its own statement, notes, “The Jewish community has an important perspective on this debate. Just a few decades ago, refugees from t…

Is the Pope’s Concern for Immigration Just a “Numbers Game”?

By Megan Sweas

…he United States in his speech to the U.S. Congress, Pope Francis spoke of Europe’s immigration crisis. “Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War,” he said. He will likely spend more time on this topic at the United Nations. People from Syria—but also Mali, Gambia, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere—are streaming into Europe by sea or by foot. Most of them are not Catholic, but Muslim. As I wrot…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…LGBTs, Turkey is a stopping point on the way to hoped-for resettlement in Europe, Canada, or the United States. Said one transgender woman, “No reason in this life will make me think to go back to Syria, whether there is war or not. My problem is not just the war.” Another Syrian, Sami, supports himself and his friends through sex work. Like many other Syrian LGBTs, Sami is waiting for his resettlement case to be processed. In the meantime, Satur…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…: Human Rights court rules calls for recognition for same-sex couples “The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Italy has failed to protect the private and family life of cohabitating same-sex couples by not allowing for any legal recognition of same-sex relationships,” writes Georgetown University’s Erik Voeten for the Washington Post. Voeten notes that the ruling does not require that Italy recognize same-sex marriages, but the c…

Greece Must Suffer for Redemption: A Nietzschean Reading

By Stephanie Frank

…Euro—and the chaos that would ensue—Tsipras was forced to propose terms to European leaders very close to those that the referendum had rejected. The Europeans refused them, counter-offering terms still harsher for Greece. Economists the world over expressed grave concerns about this final European proposal. Not only would it cause a humanitarian crisis, the argument went, but it was self-defeating: so crippling would these terms be to the Greek e…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…l unions across the country. Italy is one of the only countries in Western Europe that does not have any form of national legal recognition for same-sex couples. Rome’s San Giovanni Square was filled with protesters, most of whom believed that same-sex partnerships would cause harmful effects to children. AFP reports that protesters carried signs saying things such as “Let’s defend our children,” and “The mother without the father is like Nutella…

“1913: Seeds of Conflict”: New Doc Explores Little-Known History of Palestine

By Shaul Magid

…ostly Sephardic Jews who lived in Palestine before the second large Jewish European immigration (known as the Second Aliyah) in 1904-1914 were suspicious of these European Jews with their “Zionist” ideas who did not want to integrate into the empire. Zionists, and also Palestinian Arabs, began to see the 1908 revolution as an opportunity to distance themselves from the empire altogether. As an illustration of this we meet an important figure, Albe…