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Global LGBT Recap: Ugandan Law Unleashes Vigilantes, Anti-Gay Americans Want to Boost Homophobia Exports

By Peter Montgomery

…ght against the creators of an online support group for gay teenagers. The Washington Blade reported this week that activists fear that, with the Olympic spotlight no longer on Russia, human rights activists are worried that lawmakers will consider a bill that would take children away from gay parents. Slovakia: Activists in Uphill Battle Anti-Gay Revision to Constitution According to ILGA-Europe, the Slovak Parliament is scheduled to discuss a co…

LGBT Affirming Christians Issue Prebuttal to Values Voter Summit

By Peter Montgomery

…l Press Club to pre-empt the anti-gay messages that will be streaming from Washington D.C. during the Values Voter Summit this Friday and Saturday. Among the speakers were the Very Rev. Gary Hall, Dean of Washington National Cathedral, who said it is important for LGBT-affirming Christians to say “as loudly and clearly as we can” that not only is homosexuality not a sin, “homosexuality is actually good, because it is a gift from God.” Too many chi…

Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…for same-sex marriage, which will be addressed at its synod in July. (The Washington Post’s Sarah Pulliam Bailey notes that there are more Anglicans in Nigeria than in the U.S. and Canada combined.) There was no mass walk-out by African bishops, but Ugandan Archbishop Stanley Ntagali left the meeting on January 12, explaining later that he did so because his resolution asking the Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada “to voluntar…

Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…claim and a six-month prohibition on working after a request is filed. The Washington Blade also reported this week that Stonewall U.K., the country’s largest gay advocacy group, is devoting more resources to global LGBT rights issues and hopes to hire additional staff to work on the problems facing LGBT people in Russia, Uganda, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere. India: US Offers Asylum While Exporting Homophobia Speaking of aslyum, IndiaWest reporte…

With New York Joining DC in Defiance Methodist Church Faces Showdown on LGBT Ordination

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…iciated a same-gender living marriage not long after the law was passed in Washington, D.C. Nonetheless, our protests have not gone without penalties. Several complaints have been lodged by conservative right wing members of the church aimed at defrocking clergy and prohibiting out and practicing candidates who hope to be ordained. While much work has gone into ending church trials, ordination seemed to be that critical area where little traction…

Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…political worlds. Nelson recently spoke with The Cubit about actor Isaiah Washington’s ancestry test, the authority of DNA, and how YouTube and TV have changed the culture of genetic testing. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Lots of written and oral histories describe the Middle Passage and the history of slavery in the United States. So what does DNA evidence add to this? Is it just telling us things that we already know? I…

The Revolutionary Spirituality of ‘Hamilton’

By Leah Pannell

…rough In the Heights, Miranda’s musical about a Latinx community living in Washington Heights. I cannot underscore the excitement I felt hearing the experiences of a community that lived unapologetically outside of white America—complete with Latin rhythms, raps and the best of Broadway musical stylings. Fast forward to 2009, when I watched a YouTube clip of Miranda performing pieces of a concept album then called “The Hamilton Mixtape.” I thought…

Catholic Bishops Vote to Double Down on Culture War

By Patricia Miller

…pus Dei priest Father C. John McCloskey, who is credited with converting a number of influential Republicans to Catholicism, including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Newt Gingrich, Gov. Sam Brownback, Robert Bork and Larry Kudlow, has advocated just such a solution: McCloskey told columnist Terry Mattingly in July 2013 that “the United States is no longer a Christian country.” Because this is so, he explained, traditionalists will need to…

Netherlands’ “War on Xmas” is “War on ‘Black Pete’”

By Joseph Laycock

…ist tradition, it seems remarkably similar to our own controversy over the Washington Redskins. The tradition of Black Pete demonstrates that there is more to racism than asserting negative stereotypes or mistreating minorities. Race is also a mythological category. The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss theorized that myth serves to take elements that oppose and contradict each other and to somehow “reconcile” them. When human beings create narra…

Kudlow Brags on Twitter About Helping Card. Dolan Write “Free Market” Oped

By Patricia Miller

…iest to Washington’s conservative establishment.” McCloskey is currently a fellow with the Faith and Reason Institute in Washington, DC….