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Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…han 60 lawmakers to the 513-member lower house of Congress, doubling their numbers since 2010 and making them one of the most disciplined blocs in an unruly and divided legislature. Jean Wyllys, Brazil’s only openly gay member of Congress, said evangelical lawmakers, the core of a coalition known as the “B.B.B. caucus” — short for Bullets, Beef and Bible — have stymied legislation that would punish anti-gay discrimination and increase penalties fo…

Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…schools, if implemented here, would lead to drug and alcohol abuse, and a number of other ills, including higher rates of sexuality transmitted diseases, because children were being introduced to sexual perversions in order to turn them into little sexual deviants. The paper quotes Donnya Piggott, head of Barbados Gays and Lesbians Against Discrimination, saying: “I thought that the Church was completely out of touch with the people. And if you w…

Irony Watch: Trump’s Travel Ban Violates Religious Freedom Act According to ACLU Lawsuit

By Sunnivie Brydum

…could not stand idly by when the U.S. turned away Jewish refugees fleeing Germany during the 1930s and 40s,” said Hetfield. “Our history and our values, as Jews and as Americans, require us to fight this illegal and immoral new policy with every tool at our disposal — including litigation.” Given that the Trump-Pence administration has gone out of its way to portray itself as a stalwart defender of “religious liberty,” the blunt allegations in th…

A Long History of Blaming the Jews

By Gordon Haber

…sm and antisemitism. There is, of course, no direct line from Paul to Nazi Germany. Nirenberg is not making a “deterministic” argument, “that the long history of thinking with and about ‘Jewish questions’ inevitably led to or caused the ‘Final Solution.’” But what then is the relationship between anti-Judaism and genocide? According to Nirenberg, “the Holocaust was inconceivable and is unexplainable without that deep history of thought.” But is t…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…els between the reported concentration camps in Chechnya and those in Nazi Germany. Human rights activists began collecting and publicizing accounts of survivors and called on Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s “top diplomat,” to raise human rights during an upcoming meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. OutRight Action International urged activists to pressure multinational oil companies to use their leverage. Some European g…

London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…chs banker, had been named co-leader of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany Party. Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board adopts new guidelines on LGBT refugees Canada’s Immigration and Refugee board announced new guidelines for dealing with cases involving sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. A story published the same day, May 1, in The Globe and Mail, addresses the need for the guidelines: When they reach Canadian soil,…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…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 correspondent for the…

ISIS, ISIL or Daesh? Either Way, Obama Gets it Right

By Haroon Moghul

…ost of the people on the ground fighting ISIS are Muslim. This is not Nazi Germany, where a state was co-opted by an extremist fascist movement, and willingly followed along. ISIS only has a state because Iraq’s and Syria’s governments lost control of their territory. In no place have Muslims voted for ISIS. In no places would they. While some have joined them—and this is a serious problem, of course—let us not forget that these criminals are grea…

Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…nizations under the cause of a Confederate monument and the banner of Nazi Germany, “Unite the Right” starkly revealed the white supremacy and white nationalism at the root of Confederate civil religion. The rally also set up a situation where President Trump’s refusal to directly condemn white supremacism could be read as tacit support for swastika-flag-bearing celebrants of Hitler and his ill-fated Reich calling for the end of the United States….

Insecto-Theology: A Wake for Our Planetary Commons

By Jacob J. Erickson

…r pollination of plant species is astounding. But a very recent study from Germany signals a more terrifying reality: three quarters of insect life there has disappeared in the last twenty five years. Because insects serve as indicators of healthy ecologies and biospheres, they’re using terms like “ecological catastrophe,” “environmental apocalypse,” and “Armageddon.” When you consider how little and mystified our knowledge of the insect world act…