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French Theologian Urges Islam to Self-Critique, Fails to Notice Log in Own Eye

By Daniel J. Schultz

…to engage. These new measures, which aim to support teachers and inculcate Republican virtues, include a “zero tolerance” policy towards behaviors that denigrate the values of the Republic, forms of punishment whose goal is to integrate through community service, specific forms of “moral and civic education,” and, as a centerpiece of this state pedagogy, a secularism day [une journée de la laïcité] on December 9th which will commemorate the 1905 s…

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…onal ascension leading to galactic ascension; chakras; the universe; light codes; overcoming negative emotion; 100th monkey collective; the flower of life and sacred geometry; the divine is within; be your own guru; astrology; and so on. He advertises his now-defunct website starseedacademy.space, and promotes Life-Wave patches, a multi-level marketing scheme that he claims cured his father of cancer and liver disease. A starseed is a person who b…

Will Pope’s African Tour Change Attitudes on Divorce and LGBTQ Among African Catholics?

By Kaya Oakes

…o years at a high school in South Sudan, which borders the Central African Republic, the location of the final leg of the Pope’s trip. Rumors that the Pope would cancel that leg due to threats of violence continue to circulate. South Sudan, Momanyi says, has been “suffering from ethnic strife,” but the country is 80% Catholic. The feast day of Saint Daniel Comboni, an Italian missionary who fought the slave trade in Sudan, is a holiday in South Su…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…nce 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 illnesses last year, and 1.4 million are living with the disease nationwide. Romania: Journalist disc…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…but the pressure can be intense. In the 1980’s the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa allowing gender reassignment surgery – apparently after being moved by a meeting with a woman who said she was trapped in a man’s body. Shabnam- not her real name – who is a psychologist at a state-run clinic in Iran says some gay people now end up being pushed towards surgery. Doctors are told to tell gay men and women that they…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…esn’t always admit its own existence, but it’s growing in influence in the Republican Party, The New Republic, August 23, 2022 Keri Ladner, The quiet rise of Christian dominionism, The Christian Century, November 2022 A groundbreaking, ten-part investigative podcast series on Straight White American Jesus by Matthew D. Taylor and Brad Onishi reveals the role of the NAR in the events leading up to and during the January 6 insurrection. This artic…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ow us to conclude that since December 2016 in the territory of the Chechen Republic, public authorities have been massively prosecuted for men suspected of homosexual intercourse. The Russian authorities are unwilling or unable to conduct a criminal investigation into this crime properly, and this situation can change only if there is political will of the country’s top government and effective international pressure. Serbia: Prime Minister does n…

What American Flag-Worship Looks Like to a New Citizen

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…ery close to the one we know today: I pledge allegiance to my flag and the Republic for which it stands—one Nation indivisible—with liberty and justice for all. Soon afterwards, the possessive pronoun was removed so that all children would know that they were pledging their allegiance to the same flag, that of the United States of America. On its fiftieth anniversary, the Pledge was incorporated into the National Flag Code. Ten years later, in the…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ion as seen in last year’s rally against revising Article 972 of the Civil Code to change the term “man and woman” to “two parties” in the article concerning marriage and the term “father and mother” to “parents” in the Civil Code. Philippines: Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Passes Quezon City Council The city council of Quezon City unanimously approved an anti-discrimination ordinance this week, expanding a law from 2003 that banned anti-gay housi…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o women. There is also a bill in Parliament to revise the current criminal code, which was basically translated from the Dutch criminal code. The latest version apparently does have a sodomy article. So we actually face the criminalization of homosexual acts.” Somoa: Prime Minister Says ‘Christian Country’ Will Never OK Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage Prime Minister Tuilaepa Seilele Malielegaoi said in a radio interview that Samoa is a Christian count…