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Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…an Islamic state in a country of nearly 170 million, split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims.” In Uganda, where a draconian anti-gay bill has also passed parliament, Amnesty International and other human rights advocates are actively trying to convince the president not to sign the legislation. Cameroon: Gay Activist Jailed for Loving Text Message Dies Roger Jean-Claude Mbede, a 34-year old activist who was jailed in 2011 for sending…

Tainted Love: The Cost of Sojourners’ Refusal to Take Sides on LGBT Issues

By Jamie L. Manson

…ential for goodness and holiness as heterosexuality. One need only look at Uganda to realize the violent, if not deadly, effects that anti-gay evangelical efforts can have on the safety and peace of LGBT persons. Following the Funding But I believe there is an ever more disquieting question that arises out of this situation. What is the real reason that progressive evangelicals try to sidestep taking a stance on welcoming gays and lesbians into c…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…is vision for the economic and spiritual development of Africa … has been ‘beta-tested’ in Rwanda … and Uganda (where Warren recently expressed his strong support for laws against homosexuality). Now Warren has apparently brought much of the US evangelical mainstream on board at a ‘PEACE Coalition Summit.’ Various pastors spoke enthusiastically about their wish to ’take’ countries like Mozambique and Nigeria.” In August, Warren will lead the quest…

What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?

By Bill Berkowitz

…piritual mapping” project. It is currently operational in Central America, Uganda and the Middle East. Otis’ history in Middle East dates back more than two decades to when his father George Otis Sr., a close friend of Ronald Reagan and former Lear Jet executive, set up the High Adventure radio ministry in Lebanon in 1980. Otis put the station in the hands of Christian Falangists during the Israeli occupation. The US State Department tried to shut…

Patience with Frank Schaeffer?

By Becky Garrison

…s reports linking the Family to the anti-gay legislation being proposed in Uganda. Regardless of how one interprets select Pauline verses and a few lines from Leviticus, how can anyone claim to follow the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and yet turn a blind eye with others are murdered simply on the basis of their sexual identity? Along those lines, given these recent revelations coupled with the C Street scandals, how can any religious leader cont…

Kung Fu Nuns, The Beatles, & Amish Healthcare: The Week In Religion… Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…uality. In Nepal, more young women are flocking to nunneries as they offer better education, and in some instances, training in the same type of kung fu practiced by Bruce Lee. Muslims across Europe are balancing their faith with the values of Western society by adopting new practices: men and women praying together, young people meeting in casual settings for prayer groups, and mosque doors opening to non-Muslims. Meanwhile, in an attempt to curb…

Art for Peace: An Interview with Artist Mary Button

By John Shorb

…participants were not only from a number of different countries—Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kenya—they also came from a wide variety of faith backgrounds. One of the things that I became very quickly aware of was how unsure and self-conscious I was about talking about my own faith. I was totally blown away by the openness and ease with which so many of these young people talked about what their faith meant to t…

Mike Huckabee’s Army of Anti-Gay Zealots

By Sarah Posner

…AFA of Michigan, similar to another AFA effort in Iowa, where its Iowa for Freedom (headed by Huckabee’s 2008 Iowa state campaign chair, Bob Vander Plaats) is waging a campaign to oust state Supreme Court judges over their votes declaring the state’s gay marriage ban unconstitutional. Vander Plaats’ campaign, as well as the AFA’s “hate-filled comments,” prompted a denunciation by the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa. Earlier this year, back in Michigan…

What’s Ahead in the World of Mormonism for 2011

By Joanna Brooks

…prospect of another round of anti-Romney, Huckabee-led Mormon baiting, I’m betting that Mormonism wouldn’t be nearly as much of a political liability for Huntsman (who Obama feared enough to dispatch to China) as it has been for the mild-mannered, sometimes wooden, and often mishandled Romney. His Mormonism may, in fact, be the most interesting thing about Mitt Romney. However the Republican primaries turn out, the prospect of a Huntsman run may r…

LDS Church Responds to South Park Mormon Musical

By Joanna Brooks

…Lopez, telling the tale of two naive but well-meaning LDS missionaries to Uganda who, faced with the realities of mass human suffering, collide with the limits of their insular Book-of-Mormon-Belt worldview. Reviewers are reporting that despite the shock value of the show’s obscenity-laden musical centerpiece, The Book of Mormon musical is actually sweet on Mormons, depicting us—for all of our unique beliefs and, well, cultural corniness—not as c…