https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Anglican Church en https://religiondispatches.org/2021/09/08/new-york-times-adds-kinder-gentler-anti-gay-authoritarian-christian-its-roster If you’re a progressive American who strives to keep up with the world of news and punditry, I’d wager real money you’ve never thought to yourself, “You know what sort of writer the New York Times desperately needs to add… Wed, 08 Sep 2021 03:38:52 EDT Chrissy Stroop 27447669-751d-40e1-a389-cb79dc41013c https://religiondispatches.org/2017/11/21/australians-vote-overwhelmingly-marriage-equality-and-more-global-lgbt-recap Australia: Voters overwhelmingly support marriage equality; opponents seek religious exemptions Australian voters overwhelmingly expressed support for marriage equality in a non-binding mail referendum whose results were released on November 15. The win came in spite of a “well-organized religious campaign”… Tue, 21 Nov 2017 03:37:54 EST Peter Montgomery 35e156c5-5d85-4591-a61c-e17edba1c54a https://religiondispatches.org/2017/10/10/us-religious-right-groups-support-move-toward-illiberalism-hungary-and-poland-and-more The European Lesbian* Conference, which brought together 500 activists, artists, academics, politicians, journalistas and civil society leaders in Vienna ended on Sunday. At 76 Crimes, Dominique Menoga and Michaël Cousin reflect on the first international francophone conference on sexual and… Tue, 10 Oct 2017 02:55:22 EDT Peter Montgomery 7a562892-1108-441e-953f-d09831b49596 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/08/08/kuwait-morals-committee-announced-deportation-76-gay-men-and-more-global-lgbt-recap Brian Brown, president of the International Organization for the Family, the parent organization to the World Congress of Families, bragged in a fundraising email about the organization working with the government of Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban and praising the campaign… Tue, 08 Aug 2017 12:45:26 EDT Peter Montgomery ccf7a794-5897-4eb4-b06a-cc122a00d886 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/08/01/burmas-spirit-festival-and-more-weeks-global-lgbt-roundup The Washington Blade spoke to bisexual activists in a dozen countries and reported on the global movement in a two-part series. Earlier this month, the intensely anti-gay leader of the U.S.-based Mass Resistance, Brian Camenker, traveled to the U.K. to… Tue, 01 Aug 2017 05:16:04 EDT Peter Montgomery a6983bba-4a05-4663-85da-8844ac577c47 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/07/17/malta-adopts-marriage-equality-over-objections-catholics-and-evangelicals-and-more The parliament of Malta, an officially Catholic country, approved marriage equality legislation with a single dissenting vote. The lone dissenter bucked his Nationalist Party’s leadership, reports AP: Nationalist lawmaker Edwin Vassallo cited his Catholic faith and its incompatibility with what… Mon, 17 Jul 2017 12:14:23 EDT Peter Montgomery 2c0b4709-37fe-4546-8d26-4841a7dd5318 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/07/10/founder-liberal-mosque-germany-under-guard-after-death-threats-and-more-global-lgbt A dozen UN agencies issued a joint statement calling for an end to discrimination in health care settings; the statement includes sex, sexual orientation and gender identity among the marginalized and stigmatized groups that are vulnerable to discrimination. In Antigua… Mon, 10 Jul 2017 01:27:20 EDT Peter Montgomery b57fdf64-d285-43b9-a5fb-a33eb5ea13bd https://religiondispatches.org/2017/06/12/scottish-episcopal-church-angers-conservative-anglicans-embrace-same-sex-marriage-and The Global Interfaith Network on Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression has published an e-book, “ Behold, I make all things new: What do the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam really say in regard to human sexuality?”… Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:32:18 EDT Peter Montgomery 2af81c60-a424-45b3-b09d-693967619a7c https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/08/londons-big-gay-iftar-and-more-global-lgbt-recap International Family Equality Day was celebrated on May 7 with events in 30 countries. The United Nations Special Repporteur in the field of cultural rights, Karima Bennoune, invited contributions to a consultation on the impact of fundamentalism and extremism on… Mon, 08 May 2017 12:25:34 EDT Peter Montgomery ae9e254e-5f65-46b0-a57c-9280ca902643 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/02/21/warships-animals-pubs-eligible-blessings-church-england-not-same-sex-couples-global-lgbt Vitit Muntarbhorn, the UN independent expert charged with investigating discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity told the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers that he sees his job as “an engaging process with all actors.” A… Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:24:57 EST Peter Montgomery ade51f20-dcb3-41af-82ca-257cfbcf18cc https://religiondispatches.org/2017/02/12/hungarian-mayor-wants-import-white-christians-ban-muslims-lgbt-people-global-lgbt-recap February 6 was International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. US-based anti-LGBT activist Brian Brown traveled to Russia to build support for his new International Organization for the Family and its recently launched manifesto. In Politico, Casey Michel… Sun, 12 Feb 2017 10:41:45 EST Peter Montgomery 537353aa-a05a-4703-a1dd-3df4e213f873 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/17/more-bleak-times-indonesian-lgbts-south-africa-bans-extremist-anti-gay-us-pastor-mexican OutRight Action International’s Rashima Kwatra reviews the record of human rights work by Vitit Muntarbhorn, who has been tapped to fill a historic role created by the UN Human Rights Council this summer over the strong objections of anti-gay countries… Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:10:47 EDT Peter Montgomery e2c50241-4183-432d-ae6c-68216f846ee3 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/03/mexicos-religious-conservatives-seek-anti-lgbt-constitutional-amendment-lgbt-activists The anti-equality World Congress of Families has regional conferences scheduled in Belgrade, Serbia on September 16-18 and Nairobi, Kenya on September 23-25 each featuring an array of speakers from the global religious right. Another regional conference is planned for Cape… Sat, 03 Sep 2016 05:25:41 EDT Peter Montgomery 0294c666-7d0b-418f-ad82-585375985156 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/08/26/indonesia-hears-islamist-arguments-lgbt-criminalization-zambian-churches-oppose-condom Wikileaks came under fire for releasing documents that included personally sensitive information, including the name of a man arrested for homosexuality in Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality is still a capital offense. In the International Journal of Human Rights, Po-Han Lee… Fri, 26 Aug 2016 08:04:26 EDT Peter Montgomery 346f14f6-e2b8-4782-9eda-72760a96ceac https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/24/religious-resistance-bolivian-gender-law-us-religious-right-celebrates-court-ok-romanian July 22 was recognized as the European Day for Victims of Hate Crime; the date was chosen to commemorate the victims of the 2011 massacre in Norway that claimed 77 lives. Jordyn Taylor reported on findings from Erik Lamontagne, a… Sun, 24 Jul 2016 01:40:53 EDT Peter Montgomery 4d5dfd32-75ea-41c1-bf96-de7bcb575d33 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/17/united-methodists-elect-1st-gay-bishop-canadian-anglicans-ok-same-sex-marriage This week’s Global LGBT Recap. Sun, 17 Jul 2016 10:42:21 EDT Peter Montgomery 1313555e-94f7-4e02-9d70-7fdd4aec2a1d https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/08/bishop-says-gay-couples-cannot-be-part-parish-life-does-rising-evangelical-political The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law released “A Development Agenda for Sexual and Gender Minorities.” A group of Arab LGBTQ activists living in the U.S. and Canada are planning a retreat in August to help them “mobilize… Fri, 08 Jul 2016 01:49:36 EDT Peter Montgomery 9d5d66c3-4cc2-49fb-aea7-a99e7f52b293 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/26/indonesia-allows-abusive-sharia-laws-stand-kenyan-priest-joins-challenge-anti-lgbt-laws Pride celebrations continued this weekend, with major events in San Francisco, New York, and London, where two police officers were engaged, generating both support and religious denunciations. In New York, one of the grand marshals for the pride march was… Sun, 26 Jun 2016 03:50:01 EDT Peter Montgomery bfdb33ca-4d52-428b-8280-74ba747dcb24 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/05/mormons-fight-marriage-equality-mexico-catholic-church-italys-anti-gay-nra-nigerian Scott Lively, an American who has promoted anti-gay policies around the world, recently argued that, if elected, President Donald Trump should apologize to the world for “Obama’s attempt to force the fascist LGBT agenda on everyone” and should follow Russian… Sun, 05 Jun 2016 01:28:28 EDT Peter Montgomery 2723cccc-6cce-473a-a869-9b78eb7b1de2 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/27/tutus-daughter-marries-woman-loses-anglican-priest-license-romanian-anti-marriage South Africa: Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman, Loses License as Anglican Priest Mpho Tutu-Van Furth, Bishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter, was forced to give up her license to function as a priest in the South African Anglican Church because she married another… Fri, 27 May 2016 11:23:01 EDT Peter Montgomery 578cfe29-0964-44a7-aaae-20f69907c19a https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/15/world-congress-families-blessed-georgian-orthodox-patriarch-and-george-w-bush-global The Human Dignity Trust has released a report, Breaking the Silence: Criminalisation of Lesbians and Bisexual Women and its Impacts, which it says is “the first ever global in-depth analysis of how laws against homosexuality specifically impact lesbians and bisexual… Sun, 15 May 2016 09:06:00 EDT Peter Montgomery d672fd23-5261-40c2-8042-cc154ca01de0 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/25/norwegian-catholic-church-may-stop-civil-marriages-global-lgbt-recap … and more, in this week’s Global LGBT Recap. Mon, 25 Apr 2016 06:54:42 EDT Peter Montgomery abacd468-d035-434e-b768-76596c6c6cd5 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/08/popes-joy-love-brings-little-joy-lgbt-catholics-gay-atheist-malaysian-granted-refugee Catholic Church: ‘Joy of Love’ Inspires Little Joy in LGBT Catholics Pope Francis released a long-awaited Apostolic Exhortation on love and the family, which comes after fierce infighting at two synods at which bishops debated doctrine and pastoral approaches on… Fri, 08 Apr 2016 11:16:43 EDT Peter Montgomery b4fa32b6-c662-4a2e-8509-3f8ee918a25d https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/19/pope-and-russian-orthodox-patriarch-declare-shared-view-marriage-family-government Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill met in Cuba last Friday, the first meeting between the heads of the two churches since 1054, and they declared, “we are not competitors, but brothers.” The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers reports on… Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:52:23 EST Peter Montgomery 3ea46b83-7c4d-4857-9860-15dacf2fa148 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/06/putins-children-push-traditional-values-latvia-jewish-reparative-therapy-group-finds International Activism and Advocacy The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released “ Born Free and Equal: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Human Rights Law.” The report promotes five core legal obligations states have… Sat, 06 Feb 2016 12:14:30 EST Peter Montgomery 4200daf9-4e44-4c2a-baae-4e9a2983e4a0