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Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…aceGloria reportedly attracted more than 100,000 users in its first month. South Korea: Gay couple sues government for marriage recognition In South Korea, where we reported last week that anti-gay Christians had failed to block Seoul’s Pride parade, movie director Kim Jho Gwang-Soo went to court to force the government to recognize a wedding ceremony he and his partner held in 2013. European Parliament: LGBT issues made focus of ‘European Neighbo…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ith it, or if action worldwide may stall this thrust against Christianity. South Africa: Activists ask government to deny entry to extremist anti-gay American pastor Activists in South Africa have launched a petition asking the government to block American anti-gay pastor Steven Anderson from entering the country. Here’s how Anderson had responded to the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida: “These homosexuals are a bunch of perverts an…

Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…der a section of the criminal code forbidding “offences against morality.” South Korea: Activists denounce LGBT-free education guidelines LGBT equality activists called on the Education Ministry to do away with new sex education guidelines that exclude LGBT topics. According to the Korea Herald, “The government remains reluctant to bring the LGBT topics to the fore in the education field, citing anti-LGBT sentiments in the country. It said that it…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…h 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, Nakhane Toure, has reportedly been receiving “hom…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…hich provokes a rejection towards LGBTIs.’ It is understood that like many South Americans, most Ecuadorians in the country profess to the Catholic faith. While that does not in itself constitute as a problem, however according to Troya, this is a big issue for the LGBTI population. ‘In 2013, evangelical pastor Nelson Zavala was presented as presidential candidate of that year’s election, and his prejudice towards the LGBTI population was so high…

Tony Perkins Has A Point

By Lauri Lebo

…r thought I would write this, but I actually agree with Perkins. In April, South Park’s depictions of Muhammad for its 200th episode caused a couple of guys with a website probably living in their parents’ basement to hint that someone could get hurt because the show hurt Muslim feelings. In response, South Park’s bosses at Comedy Central behaved like total weenies and censored the shows. And yes, it follows that if company executives were so worr…

Tornado Hits the Heartland: Is God Punishing Us?

By Jay Michaelson

…tter, you’d think this was some kind of Divine punishment visited upon the South—and now the Midwest, the American heartland. Which is funny, because when earthquakes struck Haiti, wildfires burned Israel, and a tsunami drenched much of Indonesia, plenty of religious leaders didn’t know better. Remember? How Pat Robertson blamed the Haitian earthquake on an 18th century pact with the devil? Or when Sephardic Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Ovadia Yosef blame…

Fusion Politics: A Way Forward for Bernie Sanders?

By Daniel Schultz

…nnial voters. It’s fascinating to wonder what might have happened in North Carolina had the Sanders campaign built a careful coalition with the Moral Mondays movement. Given Hillary Clinton’s deep reservoir of support with African-American voters, it might not have made much difference, but it’s an interesting counter-factual to contemplate. Barber himself seems to have thought along similar lines, suggesting at one point an alliance with the libe…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…as Merton. She persuaded Luce to transform their seven-thousand acre South Carolina estate into a Trappist monastery (where they both were later buried), and likewise convinced him to break new ground with the first national magazine of photojournalism. From its start in 1936, Life offered a very different take on the place of religion in America. While Time’s religious coverage moved within an orbit held by the gravity of authority, Life offered…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…ch yoga class, though he insisted that while yoga was a part of an ancient South Asian yoga transmission it was not specific to any religious tradition and was universally accessible. In 1975, Iyengar established the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute, named after his wife who had died in 1973. The Institute, which functioned as the center for teacher training, greatly augmented the number of yoga teachers who received official training i…