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International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ghts law that allows trans people in the South American country to legally change their gender on official documents without surgery and an affidavit from a doctor or another medical provider. A bill that would allow trans Chileans to legally change their name and sex without sex reassignment surgery advanced in the country’s Senate earlier this year. Cuba in 2008 began offering free sex reassignment surgeries to trans Cubans under the country’s n…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…rial from under the earth into the sky in little more than one century has changed and will continue to change the entire global system in some very catastrophic ways. The apocalyptically-minded have the resources to read these trends one way. The sudden popular anxiety over the Mayan predictions of cataclysm in 2012 speaks among other things to the pervasive cultural appetite for such apocalyptic visions these days. But the temptations of a faci…

Some Christian and Muslim Leaders Urging ‘No’ Vote in Australian Mail Ballot on Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ay rights lobby group, Kaleidoscope Human Rights Foundation, hopes the law change will have a domino effect on other Pacific countries. “There are still far too many countries in the world that treat consensual homosexual conduct as a crime and we’re starting to see that change.” “The Pacific is a bit at the forefront with making those law reforms,” said Professor Gerber. “Vanuatu and Fiji were one of the first to decriminalise, but more recently…

Challenge to ‘un-Africanness’ of homosexuality; LGBT Catholics in Africa face church cooperation with persecution; lesbian cartoon project debuts in bangladesh under shadow of violence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hopeful and says he would like a church wedding if official views were to change. But it might be a problem convincing his husband, who he said is “agnosticism personified.” Australia: New TV ad says marriage equality would lead to increase in drug addiction, rape, suicide We have been reporting on Prime Minister Tony Abbots refusal to allow marriage equality legislation to move forward in spite of overwhelming public support. Last Saturday, th…

Christianity Today counsels “patience” on Uganda’s anti-gay law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ia, and Somalia. Everywhere they are persecuted, Christians are working to change the system, through prayer, protest, or other actions. Yet, they would deny this kind of action to gay and lesbian people simply because we should take our time and stop and “listen” to why the people in Uganda want to kill or imprison us? Believe me, we’ve heard their reasons and they smack of misunderstanding, hatred, and downright meanness. When conservative Chris…

Heterosexual Martyrs and Gay Saints: Did AIDS Coverage Clear the Way for LGBT Equality?

By Diane Winston

…to AIDS offers provocative possibilities as well as ways to chart cultural change. In 1981, for example, few Americans would have taken seriously the possibility of gay marriage—including many gays, who would have scoffed at the notion that mirroring what they saw as an inherently (hetero)sexist, monogamous lifestyle could be a milestone on their own path to liberation. What caused the change? AIDS for one, evolving religious opinion for another,…

Have White Evangelicals Become More Accepting of Candidates’ Personal Immorality, as New Data Suggests?

By Michael Schulson

…classified as biblical and/or theological. As noted earlier, the dramatic change among evangelicals documented in the PRRI poll may be more a matter of aspiration than change. Rather than having somehow been “Trumpified” into betraying their ideals, evangelicals may simply not have much of a problem pulling the lever in opposition to their previously stated preference when there are consequences on the table. The simplest interpretation of this y…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…and our media mimicked our religion: much of it was still top-down, though change hung in the air. But it’s Benedict who has seen unprecedented change in communications technology—enough to make anyone wish for retirement. He’s observed the massive development of YouTube and Google, the ubiquity of smart phones and mobile devices, and the rise of Facebook and Twitter, which boast nearly a billion and half a billion respectively. For good and for i…

Father Does Not Know Best: How To Fix the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…that is, a nun instead of a priest, is a fresh thought. On reflection, it changes only gender and not structure. Conservative nuns are currently doing the Vatican’s bidding in the Apostolic Visitation of progressive nuns. This makes me dubious about imputing special virtue to women in general, women religious in particular. Besides, nuns are as lay as the rest of us, so why privilege them? How easy it is for even smart columnists to fall into the…

Jeb Bush’s “New Way” Of Talking About Gay Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…oming” than that of the old GOP. But this month Bush appears to have had a change of heart. After receiving plaudits from influential conservatives for his speech on religious freedom at Liberty University’s commencement last week, he took some heat not using the occasion to mention same-sex marriage. At The American Conservative, Rod Dreher warned that Bush “can’t avoid forever the greatest threat to religious freedom in our present moment: the a…