EU decides British government was wrong to allow exemptions under equality law The government is being forced by the European commission to rip up controversial exemptions that allow church bodies to refuse to employ homosexual staff. It has emerged that the commission wrote to the government last week raising concerns that the UK had incorrectly implemented an EU directive prohibiting discrimination...
Over 12 states in Brazil celebrated on Friday the Day of Black Consciousness in honor of the country's 17th-century anti-slavery leader Zumbi dos Palmares. In cities such as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, people held parades against racism, discrimination, prejudice, homophobia, sexism and religious intolerance. Many economic and financial activities around the country were suspended on the day, including...
Over 12 states in Brazil yesterday celebrated the Day of Black Consciousness in honor of the country's 17th-century anti-slavery leader Zumbi dos Palmares. The People's Daily reports, that in cities such as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, people held parades against racism, discrimination, prejudice, homophobia, sexism and religious intolerance. Many economic and financial activities around the
After posting my T-Mobile blog post link on Twitter this morning I then had a look through the stories that had been running overnight and there was one that caught my eye, "Kirk votes against trainee gay clergy". Now, everyone that knows me well, knows I have a view on religion, which isn't good, however I do respect those who partake in religion of whatever faith. However, that aside, I...
Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian have covered their mouths to promote a new gay rights initiative. The three sisters, who appear in the E! reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians, lent their taped-up faces to the NOH8 campaign. The campaign's goal is to get rid of discrimination against homosexuals in the US. Kim, 28, said: "I believe everyone should have the right to choose who they marry...
Exodus International (no, I'm not providing a link) Sends Letter Opposing Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill. While we do not believe that homosexual behavior is what God intended for individuals, we believe that deprivation of life and liberty is not an appropriate or helpful response to this issue. While I disagree with a great deal of what they say in their letter, it is more of a protest than has...
Miya Shay has the news: He (Locke) said he asked Hotze before the November elections for his support, Hotze endorsed someone else, and they haven’t had contact since. Uh. Oh. This admission came on the day Harris County Democratic Party Chair Gerry Birnberg issued the following: CANDIDATES – ALL CANDIDATES – STAY CLEAR OF HOTZE Steven Hotze is a hatemonger. For nearly twenty five...
Sexual minorities in Africa have become collateral damage to our domestic conflicts and culture wars as U.S. conservative evangelicals and those opposing gay pastors and bishops within mainline Protestant denominations woo Africans in their American fight, a groundbreaking investigation by Political Research Associates (PRA) has discovered. Globalizing the Culture Wars: U.S. Conservatives, African...
By OLIVER TEVES, Associated Press MANILA, Philippines -- A Philippine gay rights group is waging a legal battle to be allowed to run in next year's polls after the Elections Commission ruled it cannot register as a political party on...
Kate Aurigemma of the Political Research Associates (PRA) has emailed me about its latest culture wars report Globalizing the Culture Wars: U.S. Conservatives, African Churches, and Homophobia . The report exposes the U.S. political right's promotion of an agenda in Africa that aims to criminalise homosexuality and of course this is very timely. I tell my Unitarian friends that, whatever arguments...
Political Research Associates has released a new report, written by PRA Project Director Reverend Kapya Kaoma, entitled " Globalizing the Culture Wars: U.S. Conservatives, African Churches, and Homophobia " [PDF] which explores how figures like Rick Warren and Scott Lively and organizations like the Institute on Religion and Democracy have been promoting "an agenda in Africa that aims...
Political Research Associates, a Massachusetts-based progressive think tank, yesterday released a 42-page report titled Globalizing the Culture Wars: U.S. Conservatives, African Churches and Homophobia . The report focuses primarily on developments in Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria. Here are a few excerpts from the Executive Summary : U.S. conservatives have successfully recruited a significant number of...
Sexual minorities in Africa have become 'collateral damage' in church conflicts as US conservative evangelicals and those opposing gay priests, ministers and bishops within mainline Protestant denominations woo Africans.
Watch entire debate in the House of Lords before the vote to pass the free speech clause at avoidthebias.com . LifeSiteNews.com reports that the House Lords reinserted the free speech clause in the homosexual hate crimes bill to protect free speech by a vote of 179 to 135 after it was taken out by the House of Commons by a vote of 342 to 145. In the US a similar bill passed without the free speech...
Brüno Comedy, produced in 2009, USA On Late Night With David Letterman , it was riotously funny to watch Sacha Baron Cohen accept accolades for the quarter-billion-dollar success of Borat , then explain how, for his new film, Bruno , he set up a meeting with a West Bank terrorist, and staged a potentially deadly cage match in Arkansas. I eagerly await the "making of" documentary on the DVD. In fact,
Wellbeing Newsline: Europe > Edited by Andy Porter: In a statement issued recently by Mental Health Europe and the International Planned Parenthood Federation European Network, they propose that many Lithuanians today have been abandoned. All the Lithuanians that believe in human rights and in a fair society have been left alone. Mental Health Europe and the International Planned Parenthood Federation...
Brüno : Review With Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen used his comedy to expose the xenophobic and anti-Semitic prejudices still prevalent in American culture. With Brüno, Cohen delivers another hilarious punch to ignorance. But underneath Brüno’s designer outfits, images of dancing penises singing (in a thick German accent) “Brüüüüünooo, ” and the bastardized German-English catch phrases, is a dark social
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