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Pope Denounces Gender Colonization; Indonesian Court Considers Islamist Request To Criminalize Homosexuality; Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says No One Has Right to Harm Homosexuals; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…urders, 32 attacks and three suicides in Turkey last year. It believes the number of such murders over the past six years is more than 50. Syrian gay refugees in Turkey suffer even more, as their legal status is precarious – they are usually undocumented and most are reluctant to report assaults to police, our reporter says. The Turkish authorities cited “safeguarding security and public order” as the reason for banning Gay Pride in Istanbul this…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…eform commission set up by Francis for leaking confidential documents. The Washington Post profiles Krzysztof Charamsa, the priest fired from his high-level Vatican job after he came out on the eve of the family synod. Reporter Anthony Faiola notes that while Charamsa deliberately chose a particularly splashy and provocative way to come out, some LGBT Catholics fear his tactics could be harmful. Many gay activists are cheering Charamsa’s action, h…

No ‘Christian Compassion’ in Tony Perkins’ Response to Anti-Gay Bullying, Suicides

By Andrew Marin

…other’ acting in those same ways is not acceptable. It’s also a shame the Washington Post gave voice to someone trying to win a battle and tear down bridges, instead of building those bridges for the Kingdom. Reconciliation is a funny thing that takes shape in a number of forms within opposing communities. But one thing I know is true: it does not start or end with victory in mind. Reconciliation is best lived when Kingdom, on Earth as it is in H…

From Right-Wing to Pro-Choice: The Shifting Goalposts of “Abortion Neutrality”

By Frederick Clarkson

…nsensus. For example, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Hyde, the Washington, DC-based Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, (a group of 40 religious organizations, including major protestant denominations and most of the major organizations of Judaism) issued a “call to conscience to end this discriminatory and punitive measure”: By singling out abortion for exclusion, government has created a two-tiered system of health care in…

Jerusalem Countdown: Christian Zionists and the New Israeli Government

By Bill Berkowitz

…s movements in America. It hosts a yearly July Washington-Israel Summit in Washington DC, and a biannual solidarity summit in Israel. During an interview last year, Glenn Beck asked Hagee: “You had several meetings with fairly prominent individuals. You’ve met with Benjamin Netanyahu. Have you had enough conversations with these people to tell them that you believe that we’re living in the end times, and what is their reaction?” Hagee replied that…

An Interview with Rep. Jamie Raskin on the Feminist and Abolitionist Founder Who Has Slipped into a Memory Hole

By Andrew L. Seidel

…One of the brilliant themes in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton—whose closing number is “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?”—concerns the stories we as a nation tell about our Founders, something Raskin invokes. “The absence of a Paine memorial in Washington is a real problem in our political culture. So much of the pop culture debate today is a fight between the fans of Hamilton and Jefferson.” Hamilton’s “scrappy biography” has been so crea…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ountries. Honduras: LGBT advocates meet in country plagued by violence The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers reported this week on the more than 100 people who attended an LGBT equality strategy session in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Advocates from throughout Latin America attended the conference at the Hotel Plaza del Libertador in Tegucigalpa that Honduran LGBT rights advocates organized. They discussed ways to curb anti-LGBT violence and discriminat…

Polling Tea Partiers: More Religion Questions, Please

By Sarah Posner

…f Ethnicity, Race & Sexuality shows that committed tea party supporters in Washington state are, by significant majorities, hostile to civil rights for African-Americans, immigrants, Muslims, and LGBT people. Those committed tea party supporters represent 19% of the Washington state voters, according to the poll, and only 18% of them believe that gay and lesbian couples should have the right to marry (as compared to 41% of all voters). Seventy fou…

Country Trumpkins

By Daniel Schultz

…ghest area in the Wisconsin primary. But West Bend, which sits in northern Washington County, is just on the cusp of the rural, northern areas of the state where he did best, neither really in or outside the metro area (many residents commute to the Milwaukee suburbs, if not downtown). It’s extremely conservative terrain: a few years ago, a coalition of local citizens sued the county library for the right to burn its books on witchcraft. The loath…

Hagee Hangs On

By Bill Berkowitz

…hird annual “Washington-Israel Summit” toward the end of next month at the Washington DC Convention Center. It is likely however that the controversy surrounding the scheduled confab will keep Hagee in the news cycle for at least another month or so. While McCain has rejected Hagee and will not be seen anywhere near the event, among the scheduled speakers are CUFI Board Member Gary Bauer, Daniel Pipes, former senator Rick Santorum, Charles Jacobs…