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Republican Senate candidate’s religion appears to trump the law. Is he a Christian Reconstructionist?

Richard Cohen, leader of a program that advocates the “changing” of homosexuals to straight, disavows anti-gay legislation in Uganda, but doesn’t see the connection between it and his own missionary efforts in that country.

All that and more from this week’s global LGBT recap.

We have become used to the protections intended for real people being extended instead to corporations. How this happened, and what it means for the possibility of health care reform.

This week’s global LGBT recap again highlights vast differences in legal status for LGBT people, and in the role played by religious leaders in advancing equality or advocating discrimination – or…

How can largely Catholic countries manage to pass legislation despite the cries of the institutional Church while Catholic-minority nations like the US often hew close to the Church line?

“The Constitution is not what the Court says it is. Rather it is what the people…eventually allow the Court to say it is.” A careful read of the history of great advances in American freedom reveals that high court decisions like Brown v. Board of Ed. actually relied both on the clarity of the argument and the perception that the nation was ready.

Frank Musgisha, the spokesperson for Uganda’s leading LGBT rights organization, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), will tour the United States this month to speak about the human rights crisis currently facing queer Ugandans, and the role conservative religious forces from the United States have played in that crisis.

Australia’s largest state passed a new law that would allow police to demand the removal of any head covering.

“Jesus set up two kingdoms, church and state, but one law and one ruler over both.”