https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to vietnam war en https://religiondispatches.org/2022/04/04/honoring-and-renewing-dr-kings-other-more-challenging-dream-55-years-later Fifty-four years ago—on April 4, 1968—Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. Exactly one year earlier—on April 4, 1967—Dr. King created a huge furor by coming out strongly against the Vietnam War before a packed crowd at New York’s… Mon, 04 Apr 2022 08:38:44 EDT Peter Laarman 2c3b994f-07d8-492b-969f-fea6e4a80cbb https://religiondispatches.org/2017/09/25/lgbt-muslim-clash-aiding-rise-right-europe OutRight Action International has published quotes from speakers at the meeting of the LGBTI Core Group during the recent United Nations General Assembly. The LGBTI Equal Rights Association for Western Balkans and Turkey held its annual conference in Podgorica, Montenegro… Mon, 25 Sep 2017 03:11:10 EDT Peter Montgomery aed81aaa-ad4b-42f5-8d87-246f5235af49 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/2016/11/27/what-fidel-castros-death-means-lgbt-rights-cuba-and-more-weeks-global-lgbt-recap Cuba’s long-time dictator Fidel Castro’s death was both celebrated and mourned. Sun, 27 Nov 2016 11:15:48 EST Peter Montgomery aa4c768e-da91-4e9d-9604-e16e87961bcf 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/2016/02/19/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/2015/11/22/unesco-religion-culture-and-sogi-asia-orthodox-family-sues-stop-cremation-israeli-trans Asia: UNESCO on religion, culture and anti-LGBT bullying and violence UNESCO released a report on school bullying, violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the Asia-Pacific region. From the report’s section on religious and cultural context… Sun, 22 Nov 2015 10:09:52 EST Peter Montgomery bd5ca6d2-3275-491f-8285-72af8e155dca https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/03/pope-francis-meets-bishop-who-blessed-gay-couple-proposed-ngo-law-uganda-threatens-lgbt We reported last week on the UN Security Council briefing convened by American and Chilean diplomats to discuss the anti-LGBT brutality of ISIS. In an Advocate commentary last week, Jean Freedberg of HRC Global argued that the meeting represented “a… Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:49:59 EDT Peter Montgomery 53e5a53e-b01c-4f23-8626-93a828f9f059 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/20/istanbul-haven-sorts-lgbt-syrians-and-iraqis-cayman-islands-affirm-marriage-ban-holy Richard Blanco, the openly gay Cuban-American poet who read at Barack Obama’s second inauguration, composed and read a poem for the ceremony reopening the U.S. embassy in Havana. Guatemalan photographer Eny Roland Hernandez’s large-scale portraits of LGBT people taken in… Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:52:40 EDT Peter Montgomery 32803bef-5196-4844-af17-a9894827af3b https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/08/lgbt-human-rights-un-sustainable-development-negotiation-swiss-bishop-says-speaking Photographer Robin Hammond has launched a social media campaign with the hashtag #WhereLoveIsIllegal to document through captioned portraits the stories of LGBT people from around the world who are living in fear. One participant, a lesbian woman from South Africa… Sat, 08 Aug 2015 01:50:59 EDT Peter Montgomery 76d94241-ca89-4f7e-9918-8aaa77559dea https://religiondispatches.org/2015/02/20/more-mixed-signals-pope-francis-church-england-wrestles-rifts-faith-groups-lobby-pro-con More than 100 million people have viewed a video produced by the Chinese branch of PFLAG urging parents to welcome their LGBT children home for Lunar New Year celebrations. The website Erasing 76 Crimes published a new map of countries… Fri, 20 Feb 2015 03:02:21 EST Peter Montgomery 025b52b0-08a2-461f-98e9-6b67692519fa https://religiondispatches.org/2015/01/09/anti-gay-forces-offense-europe-african-islam-challenged-extremists-irish-marriage-foes In our precap of global LGBT stories we expect to follow in 2015, we discussed the global culture war and specifically religious conservatives’ use of “religious liberty” claims and demonization of “gender ideology” as strategies for opposing reproductive choice and… Fri, 09 Jan 2015 09:38:37 EST Peter Montgomery ea4ec048-3f52-40ce-9f73-e47f3d89de19 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/11/21/anti-gay-violence-rages-gambia-conservative-complementarity-confab-coming-out-iraq-can Transgender Day of Remembrance was observed around the world on Thursday to memorialize victims of violence against transgender people. Organizers report that at least 226 trans people were murdered in the past year, which almost certainly under-reports the actual figure… Fri, 21 Nov 2014 02:37:01 EST Peter Montgomery 54b8e3d2-b1c7-4d0c-b1e7-57a3694fbef9 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/08/13/bill-stone-gays-death-introduced-kenya This week’s global LGBT justice roundup, with a focus on Africa. Wed, 13 Aug 2014 05:37:05 EDT Peter Montgomery 1e0fb274-f806-4baf-b434-2574064586ce https://religiondispatches.org/2014/05/22/vincent-harding-1931-2014-appreciation My heart skipped a beat when I spotted Vincent Harding’s obituary in the New York Times. I only met Harding a couple of times (although I felt that I’d “met” him long before through his powerful writing— There Is A… Thu, 22 May 2014 03:26:20 EDT Peter Laarman 769f3a5c-1e30-419a-9c68-16926c4a7a6b https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/why-911-changed-everything-nothing The cliché that 9/11 “changed everything” is nowhere less true than in the post-9/11 impulse to declare war immediately. War was a choice as well as an echo: a choice Americans made, and an echo of how Americans have made decisions in times of previous conflict. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:12:41 EDT Paul Harvey 3ead096b-3215-4a5b-be3c-92ef35f96ebb https://religiondispatches.org/2012/03/19/other-forgotten-apocalypse-2011 I think I can safely assume that for most Americans, Camping and his miscalculated (and then re-calculated) doomsday predictions are of more curiosity than true salvific concern. Camping has been buried by subsequent news cycles and is the latest member of a cadre of religious leaders whom the Apocalypse passed by. But while May’s Apocalypse seems to have skipped over most of the world, it did land squarely on a hilltop in north-western Vietnam. It would behoove us to take notice of the complex and unexpected ways in which this spring’s apocalypticism rippled across the world… Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:23:11 EDT Jason Bruner a330a393-7f4d-49d3-9dc7-470f396e54a4 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/04/06/blood-and-hammers-elderly-anti-nuclear-activists-sentenced-jail On November 2, 2009, five Catholic activists — one nun, two priests, and two laypeople, all age sixty or above — cut through a series of chain link and barbed wire fences surrounding Naval Base Kitsap in Bangor, Washington. The five unfurled a banner reading “Trident: Illegal + Immoral,” poured their own blood over the site, and beat on the ground and the fences with household hammers before being apprehended and arrested. The five, who call themselves the Disarm Now Plowshares, were found guilty in December on four felony counts: trespass, damage to federal property, injury to federal property, and conspiracy to damage federal property. A week and a half ago in Tacoma’s federal court they received prison sentences of six to fifteen months. Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:50:18 EDT Kristen Tobey 4f906c59-e78c-40ae-98a9-ac708a852ebe https://religiondispatches.org/2010/01/06/oppose-afghanistan-not-pacifist-tough While Obama used his Nobel Peace Prize speech to legitimize Afghanistan using just war principles, soldiers are currently unable to invoke these principles in refusing to serve. When we punish soldiers who heed their moral compasses, we deny them religious freedom, and our democracy is threatened. It’s time to allow those who oppose the war on ethical grounds the option of ‘Selective Conscientious Objection.’ Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:46:26 EST Gabriella Lettini cb9b326d-2222-4d16-82a7-f12eda5cd9f1 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/09/30/vietnam-analogy The fact is that we are already committed to war in Afghanistan; we are already in. And while many of us may want to get out, the question is how? Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:50:40 EDT Louis A. Ruprecht 3d368408-c974-48e3-bb4f-5e02ba1eee91 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/07/22/way-mcnamara-dead-93-lived-long-and-rueful-life What went through the mind of this haunted man with the “thousand-yard stare” in his later years as he shuffled back and forth to work just “a hand grenade’s throw” from the Vietnam War Memorial? Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:50:14 EDT Randall Balmer 78d5689b-5283-42b7-982b-718213c7ff76 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/07/03/myth-king-david-petraeus-and-iraq The words of our top general in Iraq—words I’ve described as myths—are those that the president says will determine his war policy. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:21:20 EDT Ira Chernus db1df2cb-f9d3-41ae-8b51-de608c5644e3 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/19/reflections-ineffective-negro-leader Despite our annual effort to remember it differently, Dr. King was universally criticized for his refusal to be a good “Negro leader”. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:06:21 EDT Jonathan L. Walton 315f1813-d1e2-4922-9a4c-8c60bf96d4be https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/14/scholar-responds-john-mccain-no-god-country Did Lofton’s critique go far enough? Was it too measured and neutral? Scholar Mark Hulsether writes that “given the issues at stake in the current election and the huge gap in scholarly persuasiveness between some articulations of Christianity and others, this is a place where my own inclination would be to draw more critics out of the shadows and to give them space to twist their knives harder.” Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:46:52 EDT Mark Hulsether a9956671-5b5a-4fd0-8063-837aa049d8aa https://religiondispatches.org/2009/05/08/public-preaching A flock, maybe, but certainly not sheep; nuances of the pulpit-pew relationship. Fri, 08 May 2009 11:50:31 EDT Martin E. Marty 9dd06e00-4455-4891-803a-d3255aca3bf2