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Controversial “Bishop of the Poor” Dies at 86

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…at 75, no special extensions were given to him. Not only has the Church of Mexico lost one of its prophetic voices, but so has the global Church as a whole. Bishop Ruiz, who attended every session of the Vatican II Council and was present in the 1968 gathering of Latin American bishops in Medellín, Columbia, represents a generation of priests that truly heeded the call of the Council to immerse the Church within the modern world. He represents a g…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…not qualified to speak to Nigerians in the capacity they are doing today. Mexico: Marriage equality continues to spread Marriage equality continues to spread in Mexico via federal court orders, or amparos, issued on behalf of couples or groups of couples seeking to marry. The amparos instruct local authorities to issue licenses but do not generally eliminate the underlying local laws until there have been five rulings against a state. This week 6…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Trans and Intersex Persons, took part in the launching of this protocol in Mexico City on August 18, 2014. “I want to applaud the Supreme Court for taking this very important step in protecting human rights”, Tracy Robinson said. “This Protocol is pioneering, and one that is worth emulating throughout the Americas. It is a very important start and has the possibility of contributing to the transformation of justice not just in Mexico but in all th…

Religious Freedom Gets Hollywood Treatment

By Daniel Ramirez

…d the timing of the ﬁlm’s release in both countries to a higher agency. In Mexico it coincided with the Congress’ hurried alteration to the Constitution to expland freedom of belief to include freedom of conscience, Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to the cristero stronghold of Guanajuato state, and a papal ﬂyover (in the presidential helicopter) around the Cristo Rey monument near León. (Mexicans go to the polls on July 1.) The U.S. also stands in need o…

Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d on the long march toward marriage equality that has been taking place in Mexico’s complicated court system. Individual couples and groups of couples have been able to win federal injunctions, known as amparos, requiring local officials to grant them marriage licenses. But those amparos do not require states to change their laws, and thereby allow all couples to marry, until five amparos have been granted. Last week, the Supreme Court of Justice…

Netflix Removing Antigay Film Isn’t “Free Speech,” it’s Free Market

By Sunnivie Brydum

As Remezcla reports, sometime in the past month, Netflix Mexico yanked Paco del Toro’s 2016 film, Pink, from its lineup. The controversial film told the story of a gay couple (comprised, of course, of a flamboyant, effeminate partner paired with his straight-laced, macho boyfriend-turned-husband) who adopt a child. “Over the course of 100 minutes, [the film] attempts to pin the family’s unhappiness on the couple’s queerness,” writes Remezcla‘s Ad…

Pope Calls Trump “Not Christian”…But What’s So Different About Trump?

By Patricia Miller

…which Francis only obliquely inserted himself into the politics of the US-Mexico border currently convulsing the presidential race, he slammed Donald Trump for his stance on the border in one of his inflight press conferences. “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,” he said in answer to a reporter’s question about Trump’s wall-building promises. The comments came a day aft…

LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…c bishops and priests. Marriage opponents are also planning to converge on Mexico City later this month. On Sunday, pro-equality activists marched in response in Puebla and Mexico City, where they marched on the cathedral, demanding support for a secular state. Other activists have filed complaints against church officials for violating the law that regulates religious organizations. A recent poll that showed Mexicans split on marriage equality al…

Trump’s Pathological Devotion to Border Walls Isn’t Political, It’s Theological

By Alana Massey

…nant discourses about borders. I had grown up walking easily in and out of Mexico along the pedestrian corridors of the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Watching my country erect fences against so generous and faultless a neighbor as Mexico in the wake of 9/11 committed me to their abolition ideologically before I could even vote. I did not even see that this personal commitment had been so wounded by a terrorist attack while watching it unfold from my o…

A Religion Scholar Gets It Wrong on Indiana’s RFRA

By Danny Fisher

…al photography studio that refused to photograph the couple’s wedding. New Mexico law bars discrimination in “public accommodations” on the basis of sexual orientation. The studio said that New Mexico’s RFRA nonetheless barred the suit; but the state’s Supreme Court held that the RFRA did not apply “because the government is not a party.” Remarkably enough, soon after, language found its way into the Indiana statute to make sure that no Indiana co…