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Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…rt Continues Approving Gay Couples’ Marriages Marriage is legal for same-sex couples in Mexico City. Couples in other states have won court declarations in “amparos” cases that their states must treat their marriages as legal. There are reportedly about 30 such cases pending before the Supreme Court. This week the Mexican Supreme Court ruled in favor of a couple from the state of Colima; after more cases from the state go through the same process,…

RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…angelicals have appeared to make some impact on democratization: Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, and Peru in Latin America; Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa in Africa; and, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and the Philippines in Asia. Each study in the project addresses the extent to which evangelicalism, a religious movement based on biblical orthodoxy, has helped or hindered the inauguration and co…

Pastor Convicted in Lisa Miller Child Kidnapping Case

By Peter Montgomery

…neth Miller of helping Lisa Miller (no relation) flee with her daughter to Nicaragua to avoid complying with court orders granting custody of her daughter to her former partner Janet Jenkins. Meanwhile, Jenkins has filed a civil RICO suit against Kenneth Miller, Liberty University Law School, Thomas Road Baptist Church, and others who the suit alleges helped Lisa Miller kidnap her daughter. Liberty Counsel, the legal organization headed by law sch…

As Irish Flee the Church, a Push For Reform

By Diane Winston

…ng the terrible suffering the Church and its followers had endured as the extent of its sex abuse came to light. Yet despite the quest for justice, individuals needed to forgive if they were to move on with their lives, he said. Citing the example of St. Patrick—an Englishman enslaved and abused by the Irish who, after escaping, forgave his persecutors and returned to convert them—O’Giollain seemed to echo his boss’ belief that individuals needed…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

…others to launch an anti-gay group in Latvia that believes “there is a war between Christians and homosexuals.” At the Religion News Service, Gay Clark Jennings, an Episcopal priest, examines “Homophobia in Christian Africa.” Jennings notes that many political and diplomatic leaders have criticized passage of anti-gay bills in Uganda and Nigeria, but says, “Many Christian leaders around the world, regrettably, have been largely unwilling to critic…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rent or guardian of the person with whom they are accused of having same-sex sexual contact or is in a position of “authority over” them. The news agency further reported the measure is nearly identical to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act the country’s Constitutional Court overturned last month on a technicality. “This bill is part of the rising tide of homophobia in many African nations, whose government leaders are working to deny the rights of t…

RDBook: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World: An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

By Mandy Van Deven

…much a part of the conversation. The stories you recount tend to be very extreme yet moving examples of what the horrific consequences can be for individual women when reproductive rights policies don’t take the reality of their lives and needs into account. The stories lend a sense of humanity to the issues themselves that tends to be lost in the debate. Was there a story that you wanted to include, but didn’t? I’d have loved to tell the story o…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ie “has also raised hackles elsewhere”: In neighbouring Singapore, where sex between men is technically illegal, the Anglican Church has issued a warning to parents over the film. In Russia, it has been given a 16+ rating and, most recently, it has also been pulled from Kuwaiti cinemas. Honduras: Trans activist runs for seat in Central American Parliament A transgender activist is running for a seat in the Central American Parliament; she won enou…

Persecution of Ugandan Bishop Continues In United States

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tration’s policies in Nicaragua, El Salvador and elsewhere, alleging links between liberal church leaders and Marxist guerillas. After the Cold War, Naughton continues: The IRD turned its attention from the mainline churches’ activities in Central America to the churches’ internal affairs. In its Reforming America ‘s Churches Project, 2001-2004, the IRD invited donors to help it in “restructuring” the democratic governance of churches to which tho…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…n to a related for-profit entity (an arrangement that raised eyebrows of tax experts), but that other “experts” in spreading Islamophobia draw big salaries from their nonprofits. Other frequent witnesses in Islamophobic documentaries, including Woolsey, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, have had financial stakes in companies that profit from consulting on homeland security and counter-terro…