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‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…group will ask for the impeachment of the justices who voted to uphold the Mexico City law, adding “the justices are not God. They make a lot of mistakes.” … The Roman Catholic Church heatedly opposed the law, and the court voted unanimously Monday to condemn comments by Cardinal Juan Sandoval, the archbishop of Guadalajara, who suggested over the weekend that justices may have been paid off by the Mexico City government to favor the law. From Int…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…translation by Google] Juan Alberto Vazquez writes in Milenio.com that the number of cities in Mexico holding pride celebrations is booming, but that visibility and progress go hand-in-hand with continuing resistance, bullying, homophobia, and violence. Bosnia and Herzogovina: Anti-discrimination law protects LGBT and intersex people The House of People of the Parliamentary Assembly adopted amendments to the country’s anti-discrimination, includin…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lectorate than it is with straight voters. LePen’s Party, which includes a number of openly gay officials, still pledges to roll back the marriage equality law in favor of civil unions. As AP notes, LePen is not the only nationalist leader who uses fear of radical Islamist violence to attract LGBT support: In the Netherlands, Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders said that his party, which is hostile to Muslims and wants to halt immigration, shou…

Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hed a list of those they judged to be the 10 most homophobic characters in Mexico. Topping the list were Archbishop Norberto Rivera, Mexican Council for the Family President Juan Dabdoub, and Archdiocese of Mexico spokesman Hugo Baldemar. Activist Ricardo Baruch reports on conservative religious backlash to presidential marriage equality initiatives. Bishop of Cuernavaca Ramon Castro Castro led demonstrators protesting the adoption of marriage equ…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…es. … The Rev. Hugo Valdemar Romero, a spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Mexico City, said the church does not abandon or excommunicate transgender people. But he does believe they suffer from pathology. “Of course it is not acceptable for someone to violate their own biology,” he said. “Nature is very clear. There are men and there are women.” As for Santa Muerte, Romero considers it a heretical cult. … Despite the church’s condemnation, many S…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ome something of a trailblazer for gay rights, with Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico City leading the charge along with Brazil. South Africa: New movie with gay love story draws controversy for including Xhosa ritual CNN reports on the “critically lauded but publicly divisive” film “The Wound.” The film by director John Trengove is a love story between two Xhosa men set against “ulwaluko,” the Xhosa coming-of-age circumcision ritual. The film’s star,…

Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ate congresses of at least 16 of Mexico’s 31 states. The Federal District (Mexico City) doesn’t get to vote on ratification. It is not out of the question that this all could happen. At the same time, the bombshell announcement makes some Mexican marriage-equality activists nervous that the undertaking could backfire and lead to a constitutional definition of marriage as man-woman-only, undoing everything you’ve read here. Never a dull moment in M…

Christian Terrorist in TX Was Paid ‘Investigator’ for Prominent GOP Activists and Donors

By Chrissy Stroop

…ch he remained until 2014. In 2015, Woodfill spearheaded the “Campaign for Houston,” a successful drive to overturn a Houston anti-discrimination ordinance by stirring up transphobic panic over bathrooms. As a lawyer, Woodfill also represents Steven F. Hotze, a right-wing radio host and wealthy and locally powerful Republican activist and donor whose efforts to oppose LGBTQ rights date back to the 1980s, and who in July of this year called on Texa…

Lou Engle Attacks Planned Parenthood Facility As “Abortion Super-Center”

By Sarah Posner

…because of its location in a predominantly black and Latino neighborhood. “Houston, we have a problem,” Engle intones in a new “crisis” video on his web site. In the video, which is filled with his characteristic predictions of the earth-shattering impact of his prayer movement, he claims that an unspecified “they” are calling the clinic “an abortion super center.” But who is the they? Engle himself. In unveiling its planned move to the new facili…

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…frustration when interviewing black converts in Colón, more than an hour away from Panama City, where the Muslim community is starkly divided along race and class lines. Lebanese Muslims work predominately as businesspeople in the lucrative Free Trade Zone, one of the largest free trade ports in the world. In the city center, many residents are descendants of West Indian laborers on the Panama Canal throughout the twentieth century. The city has…