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Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ntersex people,” said the UN Human Rights Office’s Chief of Global Issues, Charles Radcliffe. “It’s both an expression of commitment on the part of UN agencies, and a powerful call to action for Governments around the world to do more to tackle homophobic and transphobic violence and discrimination and abuses against intersex people.” The statement on “Ending Violence and Discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Peop…

“I Was a Wild Man”: How to Decode Evangelical Testimony

By Eric C. Miller

…a fresh start. Famous examples include Nixon hatchet man-turned-evangelist Charles Colson, Ku Klux Klansman-turned-mainstream-politician David Duke, and perhaps most famously, former President George W. Bush. If the Pauline narrative lends itself to those who once were lost but now are found, the Prodigal Son narrative is useful to those who once were found, then lost—and are now found again. In his 1995 autobiography, Rebel With a Cause: Finally…

Fear of U.S. Marriage Equality Exported to Africa

By Kapya Kaoma

…Obama using his visit as an opportunity to “talk about the gay issue.” MP Charles Njagagua even threatened to force the American president out of Kenya should he speak in favor of LGBTQI rights during his speech to the National Assembly. Such sentiments culminated in a public demonstration following the marriage equality ruling, with the crowd chanting a new version of the old “Adam and Steve” slogan, updated as “We do not want Obama and Obama, w…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…bul, with concert-goers’ safety having been assured by U.S. Consul General Charles Hunter’s informing the Turkish government in advance that he would be sitting in the front row. Ryan-Vollmer called the concert “a rare public expression of LGBT culture in the Muslim world,” and “one example of many this past June of US-led efforts to celebrate and honor LGBT people around the world by marking LGBT Pride month.” These are not acts of “cultural impe…

African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hn Onaiyekan of Abuja told the News Agency of Nigeria July 26…. Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle of Accra, a Ghanaian, also weighed in on the U.S. president’s comments, emphasizing that for the Church, homosexual activity is both contrary to the law of God and “anti-human,” Breitbart News reports…. Bishop Emmanuel Badejo of Oyo, who is Nigerian, responded to Obama’s advocacy saying, “Most Africans care about religious values, about the family, abo…

Back to School at The First Public School In the Country To Require a World Religions Course

By Joseph Laycock

…James Enochs. He was horrified by what he heard and immediately contacted Charles Haynes of the First Amendment Center about creating a district-wide program focusing on respect. From that encounter many programs were born, including our “Principles of rights, responsibilities and respect to ensure a safe school environment” program and our nine character trait program (I tie each character trait into a religion and use the quotes on the posters…

Did the Church Create or Co-Opt Human Rights?

By Austin Dacey

…abor Prime Minister Peter Fraser, New Zealand had made common cause with a number of smaller countries and civil society organizations in pressing for recognition of human rights in the Charter. Oddly, Moyn credits the political theorist Charles Beitz with the “remarkable discovery” of Gildersleeve’s contribution, although Gildersleeve described the events in a memoir published in 1954 (the fact even appears in an otherwise meager Wikipedia entry,…

Pope Meets With Sexual Abuse Survivors

By Anthea Butler

…al abuse survivors, Pope Francis led off his remarks to the Bishops at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary with a commitment to change the climate surrounding sexual abuse in the Catholic church. Meeting with three men and two women at the seminary the Pope made it clear that he was committed to the oversight that some survivors and critics have felt has not occurred during his pontificate. His comments come in Philadelphia, the city that was first to c…

White People Dying Younger Because of…Moral Turpitude? Give Us a Break

By Peter Laarman

…that the earning prospects for many jobs are so pitiful that unprecedented numbers of workers have simply stopped looking; it’s not that inflation-adjusted income for households headed by someone with only a high-school education have fallen by almost 20% since 2008; it’s not that low-income people are still often shut out of needed preventive health care services, even under Obamacare; and it’s not that people within America’s lumpenproletariat a…

Did Richard Dawkins Hand Creationists Their Next School Strategy?

By Adam Shapiro

…om the Flying Spaghetti Monster to standard-but-oversimplified claims that Charles Darwin opposed natural theology to argue that evolution is hostile to religious views. Luskin concludes that the standard applied to ID in Kitzmiller, in which the court used public understanding of its historical origins to rule against it, could also force a court to determine that teaching evolution is itself not religiously neutral. Luskin is right that there is…