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

By Peter Montgomery

…eally polite and tut rather than saying something, no matter our religion. Costa Rica: Activists Promote Marriage Equality Bill Opposed by Evangelical Lawmakers Equality activists are promoting new marriage equality legislation, which is backed by deputies from different parties, though one of the lawyers supporting the bill acknowledged that it might be blocked by evangelical lawmakers who have to date prevented other attempts. Tunisia: Court Jai…

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

By Diane Winston

…y entered the Central American market, drawing together existing chains in Costa Rica and Guatemala that had employed Walton graduates.” What amazes me is that even as we dreamed of a progressive, cosmopolitan, egalitarian, and cooperative counterculture, the Waltons of the world created one that now spans the globe. Equally striking is that their world looks to them the same way we would see ours: grassroots, anti-establishment, humane, and compa…

Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d by the Constitutional Court, and will listen to opinions from all sides. Costa Rica: New Political Party Advocates for LGBT Equality A new political party, Vamos (“let’s go”), is focused on making LGBT equality an issue in coming legislative elections. The party’s leaders say that making progress on human rights and marriage equality and combating gender violence have been held up by Christian deputies. Indonesia: Anti-LGBT Campaign Expanded to…

Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…nti-LGBT language has been proposed by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. Action on the amendment has also been delayed. The International Service for Human Rights is among the groups urging countries to reject the African Group effort. Romania: Orthodox Church helps spearhead push for anti-marriage-equality amendment The Romanian Orthodox Church “dramatically” demonstrated its influence, according to…

Pope: Heterosexual Marriage “Makes Europe Europe”

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…last week, for instance, we learned that Fernando Felipe Sánchez Campos of Costa Rica is 36, married, with two children. And we learn that Gábor Győriványi of Hungary is 51, married, with four children. Yet there may be a more subtle rationale to this standard formula of diplomatic description than the simple recitation of facts. The arrival of new diplomats in Vatican City has also birthed a sort of new genre, the formal papal welcome; one that t…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…include: Australia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, and Vietnam. Vitaly Milonov, a member of the St. Petersburg city council and author is its anti-gay “propaganda” law, responded by saying , “They can marry monkeys and register perverts for all I care.” Mexico: Supreme Cour…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…eports that attendees included activists from Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Spain and the U.S. Lavers recaps the regional context of change and continuing problems for LGBTs: Same-sex couples are able to legally marry in 19 states and D.C., Canada, Argenti…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y call them gangs or hooligans. They don’t call them as organized groups.” Costa Rica: Activists celebrate progress, look for marriage equality Noting that LGBT activists have won passage of anti-discrimination policies and the extension of health-care benefits, but that a marriage equality bill has stalled in the Legislative Assembly, The Tico Times asked participants in the country’s recent price celebration, La Marcha de la Diversidad, how they…

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…oing to look you in the eyes and I’m gonna tell you the future. It’s an American story, and that’s why Americans are gonna love it. People are going to build you up, and, God, are they going to, because when you’re great and new, we love you. Man, we’ll build you up into something that doesn’t even exist. You’re going to change the world. But you know what? Once they’ve built you as high as they possibly can, they’re gonna tear you back down—it’s…

A Roundup of Conspiracies and Bad Ideas That Caught on or Gained Momentum in 2023

By Carmen Celestini and Amarnath Amarasingam

…the exact nature of new or evolving conspiracy theories that may emerge in 2024, it’s likely that the pervasive conspiracy theories of 2023 will continue to influence the political landscape, particularly in the context of the 2024 election. In any event, belief in conspiracy theories, often rooted in fear, perceptions of injustice, distrust in societal institutions, and feelings of disenfranchisement, is unlikely to fade away. Issues like immigr…