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Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ans* Equality: Now is the time to deeply engage with our own communities while also connecting with others around us. Ours is not the only community under attack. Empowered right-wing movements and governments are assaulting many of us on different but ultimately the same grounds. Let’s work together to create and sustain the political conditions needed for change. All around the world there are many compelling initiatives you can support to help…

Equality Opponents Try to Reverse UN Progress; Anti-Gay Pentecostal Pastor Elected Mayor of Rio; Indonesian University Official Tells LGBT Students To ‘Normalize’ Or Be Punished; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…years. Also it marks a political rise of evangelical churches as Pentecostal. Although Crivella had run in previous elections for mayor and governor and all lost, this time the surveys identified him as clear favorite of cariocas, as told to the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro. “I pray to God that my public life as complicated as it has been, can teach all Cariocas that always comes our time if we do not give up,” said Crivella Sunday before a crow…

“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…of Chicago. Over the phone, he spoke with RD about Twitter, Trump, and the parallels between anti-Judaism and misogyny. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. When you see American Jews acting surprised about the recent surge in anti-Jewish rhetoric, do you think “Oh, how hopelessly short-sighted of them”? Quite the contrary. I am myself surprised. I’ve had discussions with people who are much more plugged into the world of politic…

Religious Freedom Org Sticking By Trump Clinging to SCOTUS Nominations

By Sunnivie Brydum

…t critical issue of this election,” she continued. “One justice can drastically alter years of American legal jurisprudence.” She’s not wrong, of course. Partisans on both sides of the aisle have been beating the “Supreme Court is at stake”-drum loudly and consistently throughout this election. And given the Senate leadership’s unprecedented refusal to even consider a vote on President Obama’s nomination of judge Merrick Garland to fill the seat l…

Conservative French Catholics a ‘Rightwing Patriarchal Bunch’?; Indonesian Prez Decries Anti-LGBT Discrimination; Romanian Prez Warns Against ‘Religious Fanaticism’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…orted that police say the suspect, Rashidum Nabi, “is an operative of Ansaral al Islam or Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), which is said to be ideologically inclined to al-Qaeda.” Europe: LGBT progress met with backlash A survey by Dalia Research reported that about 6 percent of Europeans identify as LGBT. In some countries, the figure was twice as high for people under 30. AFP examines what it describes as rising intolerance, a backlash against prog…

Indie Catholicism is Real: Married Clergy, LGBT Ordination, and Sacramental Justice for All

By Julie Byrne

…chives, so I felt I could tell a rich story about its particular journey while also effectively sketching the big picture of U.S. independent Catholicism. However, that means I left out richness and depth about all the other fascinating independent Catholics I met. I wish I could have told many more stories! But I know other scholars are already taking up this task. Elizabeth Pritchard at Bowdoin is working on a book about The Old Catholic Church…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Nyasa Times signed by chairperson of the EPJC national coordinator Zaac Kawalala and the group’s interim national coordinating secretary Makhumbo Munthali. Recently President Peter Mutharika said the problems facing the country are signs of “moral degradation in our society” and that Malawians are “far away from God’s Commandments.” Romania: Court again delays ruling on marriage recognition request The Constitutional Court was scheduled to rule la…

Will Church Attendance Reduce Bigotry? A Response to Peter Beinart

By Daniel Schultz

…ou are one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:27-28; see also 1 Cor. 12:13). Paul finally failed to live up to the radicalism of this passage, of course. The religious institution he helped shape in its infancy hasn’t done any better. The whole point of the passage is that the Galatians aren’t treating one another as equal, and Paul rips them a new gospel, as it were. Some days, it seems like not much has changed. But as I pointed out to my students, it is…

Douthat’s Wager: Go to Church, Even If You Don’t Believe

By Jonathan Malesic

…ist the Trump agenda will need more than yoga, composting, and the occasional online donation to be effective. Self-improvement is a worthy aim, but as Jain says, the political reality of the day demands that liberals undertake “concrete acts of collective resistance.” In that case, mainline churches seem to have just what secular liberals need. As Douthat points out, mainline denominations are already committed to gender and racial equity, LGBTQ…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he opposite sex willing to be part of a marriage of convenience to meet familial and community expectations: Whilst homosexuality is considered a sin in Islam, some imams have said the bigger sin is the deception of being involved in a marriage of convenience. Imam Ajmal Masroor, based in London, said: “I would recommend to those people doing this, do not do two wrongs because two wrongs will not make it right. “If you are struggling with your fai…