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Can Eurovision’s Rainbow Arch Undermine Ukraine’s Orthodox Value System? This and More in Global LGBT Recap

…to include full marriage equality in its manifesto,” reports Malta Today. Colombia: Proposed referendum to ban gay adoption rejected The Primary Commission voted to reject a proposed referendum seeking to ban adoption by same-sex couples. Guyana: State pledges, then reverses, on support for referendum on decriminalizing homosexuality Pink News reports that the government of Guyana, which bans same-sex sexual activity, will not hold a referendum o…

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Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

…eveal the names of apostates who have come out to me in private,” he said. Colombia: Court Orders Judges and Notaries to Allow Same-Sex Couples to Marry The Constitutional Court ruled 6-3 on Thursday that judges and notaries cannot refuse to perform marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples. It had held a hearing on the issue last July, which built on a series of rulings over the years gradually expanding gay rights. The Court acted in part because…

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Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

…(The law was overturned by the country’s high court on procedural issues.) Colombia: Court Postpones Final Marriage Equality Ruling Again The Constitutional Court has once again postponed a final ruling on marriage equality. Chile: Gay Cop Celebrates Civil Union Reuters reports: “A uniformed policeman celebrated his gay civil union in Chile’s capital, Santiago, on Wednesday, the first time a member of the force has taken advantage of a new law all…

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Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

…right to compromise with sin.” “We cannot and will not remain silent when promoted sin is corrupting the human soul and body,” the bishop wrote, saying it was especially inappropriate for the event to take place during Lent. The bishop also emphasized “that we do not bless our faithful to take part in any protests” and urged against temptation “to aggression or condemnation of others.” (English via Google translate) Event organizers released a st…

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Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

…ist party Actor Ian McKellen, in a visit to India as part of a global tour promoting the British Film Institute’s Shakespeare on Film program, said that “India needs to grow up” and repeal its colonial-era sodomy law: He said: “India is going through what the UK went through 30 years ago. It is appalling and ironical that India would use a colonial law to oppress its homosexuals. India needs to grow up. India needs to realise that it doesn’t need…

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Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap

…what UN Ambassador Nikki Haley had in mind when she pledge to ‘unabashedly promote American values.’” C-Fam has teamed up Russia and anti-equality African and Islamist nations to try to undermine the Council’s newly created independent expert, who is charged with investigating discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. CNN reported this month on the ways that Donald Trump’s travel ban and suspension of refu…

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Belize Overturns Sodomy Law Defended by Religious Right, Ugandan Officials Will Continue to Suppress Gay Groups, And More on the Global LGBT Recap

…the homosexuals,” Lively says. “There is nothing that they will not do to promote their agenda. There is no opposition that they will accept at any level. They must conquer every opponent and the spirit that has produced this book, this false Bible, this gay theology is the heresy of the modern world.” Canada: Prime Minister plans apology and pardons for people convicted under sodomy laws Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reportedly planning to ap…

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Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

…rticularly “disinformation campaigns on measures that different States are promoting in this regard, which contributes to accentuate the stigmatization of LGBT people, to incite violence, to accentuate hate speech and to hamper implementation Of certain measures already adopted by States.” Africa: Photo project challenges idea that being queer is ‘un-African’ BuzzFeed’s Sarah Karlan highlights the Limit(less) photo project by “queer Nigerian-Swedi…

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Catholic Groups Leading Mifepristone Ban Are Part of Century-Long Tradition Who See it as Patriotic Duty to Protect the Family

…s invoked by Catholic officials and physicians. When expanding the medical codes in 1948, Rev. Gerald Kelly, a Jesuit priest, told the Catholic Health Association that many non-Catholics would be “eager” to follow these ethical codes because they “pertain not merely to Catholic teaching but also to moral law.” The 1942 NFCPG resolution also declared that abortion and contraception were an affront, not just to the Catholic, but to the American fami…

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Roe v. Wade: What Would MLK Do?

…King was a Personalist: when distinguishing between moral laws and social codes, he believed (in theory at least) that dignity, respect, choice, equality, and subjectivity were the moral rights of all human beings. However, these rights were stymied by social codes, which led to all sorts of disparities, including but not limited to racial and economic injustice, which King argued were morally evil. Thus, King’s dream was a public censure of Amer…

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