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Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…donesia’s conservative Aceh province has enacted a strict Islamic criminal code, local government officials said late on Friday, criminalizing adultery, homosexuality, and public displays of affection outside of a legally recognized relationship. Aceh is the only province in the Muslim-dominated country to adhere to sharia, Islamic law, which puts it at odds with other provinces where the vast majority of the population practices a moderate form o…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f Family Watch International, and Scott Lively, who has traveled the globe promoting anti-gay policies. RD Contributor Jay Michaelson has published a Daily Beast commentary on Rick Warren’s work in Africa, which he says “may well reflect the sense among Christian conservatives that America has already been lost, but Africa may yet be saved. Here, the culture war has been won by Satan; there, it may still be won by God.” Churches, schools, and fait…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…d Northern Ireland: Columnist urges DUP to stop blocking marriage equality Irish Times columnist Una Mullally, a strong supporter of marriage equality in Ireland, called on DUP politicians to stop blocking marriage equality in Northern Ireland, where polls suggest there is overwhelming public support for marriage equality. Says Mullally, “Prejudice, discrimination, meanness, and a lack of charity and fairness are not Christian values.” More from t…

‘Enchanted New York’ Offers a Journey Through the City’s Magical History — With Some Mystifying Oversights

By Gordon Haber

…Broadway wasn’t far from Five Points, the nineteenth century home to poor Irish, Italians, and Blacks. It runs through Little Italy and Chinatown. It runs only a few blocks from the former Jewish enclaves of the Lower East Side or the Irish one of Hell’s Kitchen. Broadway runs through Black Harlem and Spanish Harlem. All these communities, religions, and ethnicities have their own folk-religions and magic. But their sites are invisible in this Gr…

Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…challenging for us in our ministry as priests and bishops.” Meanwhile, the Irish National Teachers Organization is calling for the abolishment of a law that allows a school to protect its “religious ethos” when making employment decisions, a law that is causing anxiety among gay and lesbian teachers as Ireland’s referendum on marriage equality approaches. ISIS: Man accused of being gay stoned to death in Syria Islamic State militants reportedly st…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n Australia refused to print an ad for an event in Sydney featuring former Irish President Mary McAleese. Peter Rosengren, the paper’s editor said he rejected the ad based on her positions favoring ordination of women and “in favor of homosexuality – whatever that actually means.” “The problem is that the Church believes God made man and woman equally in the image and likeness of God’s very self – therefore gender actually has meaning. “Homosexual…

The Year of the Abusive Priest

By Anthea Butler

…lay out in stark, horrendous detail the abuse of children at the hands of Irish Priests and nuns. Nor is it gossip when a United States Federal Appeals court allows sexual abuse lawsuits against the Vatican in Oregon and Kentucky to proceed. So whatever sentiment Pope Benedict was attempting to convey in his Palm Sunday homily, he succeeded in showing a profound insensitivity at a time of public moral outrage. By saying that the revelation of fac…

Eulogy, Corrected: Father Matthew Came Out as Gay 30 Years Earlier

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…or a God poem. Because it’s all three. It just is. Matthew’s love was like that, apparent in every liturgical gesture, every devilish smile, every poem he ever relished and lingered over, every winsome line he ever wrote. He grew up an Irish Catholic in Boston. The Irish know a thing or two about poetry, song and the drama of the divine. That Matthew’s spirit resides in that august light is a source of great joy, I sense, to those who knew him, an…

Insecto-Theology: A Wake for Our Planetary Commons

By Jacob J. Erickson

…These days I spend my afternoons wandering between a vibrant park and the Irish Natural History Museum here in Dublin. The Museum is a complicated place, sometimes called the “Dead Zoo.” And that nomenclature should tell you something about the place’s charm and strange energy. The halls and walls inside beckon eyes to jam-packed lines of animal specimens collected since the mid-19th century. This collection of specimens ranges from charismatic m…

Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…be prohibited from celebrating their unions in other ways. Meanwhile, the Irish government announced that it will recognize the marriages of Irish same-sex couples who get married in other countries rather than wait for the outcome of the 2015 marriage equality referendum. If the referendum passes, as expected, the government will treat those marriages as legal; until then they will be treated as civil unions. Dominican Republic: Religious objec…