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Religion Dispatches
Last Friday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn remaining state laws banning same-sex couples from getting married generated apocalyptic responses from America’s Religious Right and their…
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In Russia, church and state are increasingly aligned in promoting “traditional Russian values” over those of the West.
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Vatican: Pope will meet married gay activist; warns against “secularism and relativism” A Paraguayan LGBT organization announced that it has received and accepted an invitation to meet with Pope…
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PlanetRomeo released a global “ Gay Happiness index,” placing Iceland at the top and Uganda at the bottom of 127 rated countries. Last Friday, HBO’s Vice broadcast “A Prayer for Uganda,” a documentary…
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Polls are good, but a crystal ball might be better.
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution on Wednesday, April 22, calling on Member States to respect and protect transgender people against discrimination and to…
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Please discuss some of the problematic aspects of the Koran, and of Islam.
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Gays can get married—just not to each other, says Irish bishop. But in Mexico, a “quiet marriage equality revolution” spreads.
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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…
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There’s no reason to think the increasingly global culture war between advocates and opponents of LGBT equality will let up this year. In fact, the opposite is true: opponents of LGBT equality are…
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