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Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ironic that an African dictator wearing a three-piece suit, caressing an iPhone, speaking in English and liberally quoting the Bible can dare indict anything for being un-African.” In a report from South Sudan, the Guardian’s Antony Loewenstein reports on the anti-gay agenda often connected to evangelical churches’ missionary work. He cites American evangelist Franklin Graham as an example: Samaritan’s Purse, run by Franklin Graham, son of the Ch…

America’s Savior: Lincolnolatry’s Hidden Cost

By Peter Laarman

…ap about George Washington’s flawless character, but our sense of who this Washington was remained distant and blurry. We already knew that GW’s story had been carefully burnished beyond credibility. E.g., we knew that the attributed line, “I cannot tell a lie,” was itself a lie. But Mr. Lincoln was different. He was much closer to us in time, obviously: my immigrant great-grandparents were around to witness his rise, his struggle, and his martyrd…

Conservative Bishops Headed For Synod Victory?; Indonesian Sharia Official Says Gay Caning Law Meant To ‘Safeguard Human Dignity’; Slovenian Court OK’s Referendum on Marriage Equality Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gnoring his vow of celibacy despite a previous warning.” Charamsa told the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers that coming out was “liberation.” “I suffered for what the church taught about persons like me,” Charamsa told the Blade. “It offended my dignity and kept no fundamentals in the reality, which I can know from my experiences, from my sentiments, my desire to love, my capacity for relationships with others.” Charamsa told the Blade he took pa…

Sterilization Denial for Woman with Brain Tumor Highlights Religious Liberty Conflict

By Patricia Miller

…e because her doctor only has admitting privileges at Genesys, reports the Washington Post. While Catholic hospitals routinely refuse to perform contraception sterilization, some make an exception for women with severe health conditions or who are having a planned C-section because it allows them to avoid the risks of a second surgery at a later date. “When the woman’s physician can make a strong case to a hospital ethics board, sometimes the proc…

California Tribes Denounce Catholic Church’s “Fraud” and “Blatant Fabrication” on Serra Sainthood

By Peter Montgomery

…al representatives of California tribes held a press conference Tuesday at Washington D.C.’s Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ to proclaim the opposition of more than 50 tribes to the canonization of Junipero Serra, which is set to take place just down the road on Wednesday afternoon. One speaker called the canonization mass that Pope Francis will conduct “a disastrous celebration of slavery and cultural termination.” [Read: Why Serr…

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…

Israel Votes to Limit Sheldon Adelson

By Sarah Posner

…Hayom will be forced to charge its readers at least half the price of its cheapest competitor. Israel Hayom, as Pfeffer reports, is widely known in Israel as a mouthpiece for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the bill is sponsored by Netanyahu’s political adversaries both on the left and right. Adelson launched the paper “as his own personal loophole to do in Israel what he has been doing in the United States. The paper’s financial statement…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ičs announced via twitter that he is gay, a move that, in the words of the Washington Post’s Michael Birnbaum, “immediately gave gay rights advocates a prominent voice in post-Soviet Eastern Europe” where acceptance of, and legal protections for, LGBT people have lagged behind Western Europe. “Latvia enacted a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in 2005, and very few gay men and lesbians in the country are open about their sexuality,” accordin…

Russian Politician Wants to Ban Apple CEO Who Says Being Gay is God’s Gift; Violence After Preachers Blame Liberian Gays for Ebola; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) World Conference. The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers reminds us, “Same-sex couples have been able to legally marry and adopt children in Mexico City since 2010. The Mexican capital’s comprehensive anti-discrimination law includes both sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.” An activist from Belize told the Blade that he hoped to shine a light on American religious conservative…

Catholic News We Missed Last Week While Stalking the Pope

By Mary E. Hunt

…, 2015, at the age of ninety, during the visit of the first Jesuit pope to Washington, D.C. In a perfect (ok, even a decent) world, Pope Francis would have announced John’s death the next morning. He would have hailed his brother Jesuit as the pioneer honest gay man that he was, lauded his massive pastoral contribution, and recommended his marvelous books for widespread study. He would have lifted John’s name in praise, paid his condolences to Joh…