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Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

…that criminalize non-hijab-wearing women, drinking alcohol, gambling, and extramarital sexual relations, all of which can be enforced against non-Muslims. Aceh’s LGBT population is also vulnerable to Aceh’s 2014 Criminal Code that bars liwath (sodomy) and musahabah (lesbian sexual action). Aceh province imposed the Sharia punishment of multiple lashes of a cane against 339 people in 2016. The New Zealand Herald reported that the couple was filmed…

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Texas’ Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill Is Unconstitutional and Unnecessary, Say Texas Law Professors

…nal origin, no such exception is made for discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. The Establishment Clause has been construed to prevent the government from favoring or disfavoring any particular religion or religion in general. To the extent that H.B. 3859 can be understood specifically to protect and promote certain conservative beliefs about sex and sexuality, it raises serious Establishment Claus…

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Satan, Contributor to Teen Vogue‘s New “Sodomy” Section?

…ure never to buy a copy. @McAllisterDen https://t.co/lV9006p3ei — Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) July 17, 2017 (Metaxas earlier identified himself as a “mere Christian,” in C. S. Lewis’s sense, while dismissing whole denominations for defecting from “the historic faith.”) Elizabeth Johnson, The Activist Mommy, decided to burn the offending article for “teaching children…how to be safely sodomized.” She added, “We should not be teaching children, peri…

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Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling

…public office. As is often the case, Cruz’s ambition has tempered his partisanship (to an extent). “He’s not tempered by the political realities of ambition,” Clarkson said of Moore. “He doesn’t deviate, and he doesn’t shy away from his beliefs and the controversies that go with them. It’s not that he’s entirely impolitic—he’s very wily, but in a strangely principled way. If you put that consistency together with his nothing-to-lose-edness, that’s…

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Democratic Hopeful Pete Buttigieg Makes Faith 101 Misstep

…w it is used. When Buttigieg forgets (or ignores) that the religious left exists, and explains away the religious right’s use of power on a personal level, he diminishes how they’ve actually used that power, against people like him, among many others. That’s actually selling out his own team. I sincerely wish that I could get Buttigieg (and all the other candidates) to read Niebuhr’s Moral Man and Immoral Society, and internalize its lessons. Soci…

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It’s Preposterous That We Can’t Question Nominees on Religion

…d laws objectively.” Feinstein was widely portrayed as, in the words of Alexandra Desanctis in the National Review, having “attacked the nominee for her Roman Catholic faith” and unfairly imposing a “religious test” for judges. Noting that Barrett has affirmed in her writing that judges shouldn’t try to “align our legal system with the Church’s moral teaching whenever the two diverge,” Desanctis accused her of anti-Catholic bias: Feinstein’s comme…

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Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

…A gay man is legally challenging seven sections of law that criminalize sex between men: Yeung Chu-wing, a volunteer from local sexual minorities rights group Rainbow Action, argued that such laws were discriminatory since they targeted only gay men without providing equivalent criminal sanctions against heterosexuals or lesbians for the same or comparable conduct. Chile: Presidential Candidate Rejects Abortion, LGBT Equality AND Radio reported,…

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‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

…“suspended the business” of CHESA. From Pink News: In Tanzania, male homosexual sex carries a sentence anywhere between 30 years and life in prison. Their Colonial-era penal code criminalises anyone who “has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature.” Earlier this year, Tanzania stopped health clinics from providing HIV services, saying they “cater to homosexuals.” It is believed 33,000 people in Tanzania died from AIDS-related il…

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Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…case against a colonial-era law, known as Section 377, that criminalizes sex between men in India, the ruling was welcome news. And it has renewed some hope for the repeal of other repressive laws, including one requiring the “registration and control of eunuchs” and marital rape exceptions in the Indian Penal Code. … Depictions of gender-fluid identity are common in ancient texts found in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. In Hinduism, gods transfor…

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2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

…ch as Koran and Sunnah.” The Global Interfaith Network for People of All Sexes, Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Expressions (GIN-SSOGIE) announced in December that Toni Kruger-Ayebazibwe has become the group’s new executive director. Kruger-Ayebazibwe is a lay minister in the Anglican Church, and is pursuing ordination in the Metropolitan Community Church denomination. She is completing her Master’s degree in Theology at St Augustine Co…

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