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International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nt. Twenty-two candidates who signed a pledge to support rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex Turks also won their respective races. Al-Jazeera adds: According to the AFP news agency, police took action against the crowd when demonstrators began shouting slogans accusing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of “fascism”. No official comment has so far been issued by the government, but there were reports that the parade was stoppe…

The Silly Calls for Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…do happen in all areas of medicine because medicine is done by people. And, yes, a small but non-zero number of instances of employees knowingly doing things they shouldn’t—which lots of people already knew about because those incidents have been thoroughly shouted about on the internet. The conspicuously unasked question is: Is there any positive reason to think there’s a bigger problem here that would be helped by more investigation? Hypothe…

Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the Trump administration will not relent. “We look at each other and we say, ‘Gosh, we don’t know whether we should laugh or cry at any given moment,’” Mr. Harrison said from Istanbul, where, unlike in Tehran, the couple is free to act like one. “Should we be happy? Should we be scared?” Anti-LGBT group C-Fam touted its new “analysis” that shows, in their words, that “only a tiny number” of United Nations member states “are hung up on homosexualit…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…to Denver. In pain, and distressed to find herself dependent on her parents, Birge, whose mother grew up in a number of Latin American countries, joined a charismatic Hispanic church group for young adults held at Catholic churches around Denver. The group, Christo Y Yo, drew as many as 500 participants across the Archdiocese and around 100 in Birge’s St. Cajetan Parish alone. It was run by a Mexican lay minister named Juan Carlos Hernandez: a dyn…

Anonymous Utah Group Distributes Vigilante “Illegal Immigrant” Watchlist

By Joanna Brooks

…rthdates, workplaces, addresses, social security numbers, names of children, and, for pregnant women on the list, due dates. The list was originally sent to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in April, but when no response was observed Concern Citizens sent the list to a number of Utah sheriffs, police chiefs, legislators, and media outlets. Governor Gary Herbert has called for an investigation to determine if state records were improperly acc…

Why Do Evangelicals And Dems Want Immigration Reform?

By Daniel Schultz

…tend to a range of domestic policy issues including education, clean energy, and, especially, health care. Among evangelicals, the Millennials are the most tolerant cohort, “less likely to identify as conservative [and] more supportive of government solutions to social problems,” most in favor of that “broader social agenda.” Immigration is a two-fer for evangelical leaders: it helps them keep their base and with any luck expand upon it. With a si…

I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple

By Anita Little

…bringing together artists from all over the Bay Area and finding paintings, sculptures, films and installations that elevated black womanhood. I had the opportunity to walk through Black Woman is God: Reprogramming that God Code with Oakland native Seneferu and to ask her about the artwork and the movement it means to inspire. _________ Anita Little: Can you tell me more about what led you to curate this unbelievable collection? Karen Seneferu: I…

Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…re. The year began with the long shadow of January 6th of the previous year, 2021, hanging over the nation—and the continuous efforts by the Republican Party to try and discredit the committee tasked with investigating it. Their stance would not change over the course of the year, nor did they waver as testimony after testimony from Republican officials (whose careers in the party are now effectively over) piled up, forming a mountain of damning e…

Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book

By Kaya Oakes

…ed group with fidelity to whatever organization that you are a part of. And, again, the key is discernment. When is the right time to speak, what are the right issues to take up, how does one frame them, which words do you use, whom do you challenge and in what way. What I try to do in the book is to help us find common ground and also push the envelope as much as I can. Most likely, some LGBT Catholics will think I have not gone far enough, and s…

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a threat to Malaysian society. “Groups like the Islamic State and lesbians, gay, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBT) both target the younger generation,” he said, “and seem successful in influencing certain groups in society.” Seriously, Mr Prime Minister? Your statement is a far cry from the “moderation” you say you espouse. Ghoshal notes that in 2012, Najib said, “LGBTs, pluralism, liberalism ― all these ‘isms’ are against Islam and it is compul…