The sceptical reader may think that it is rather pretentious for a couple of dozen of young people to think that they can shape the future direction of Kenyan Christianity.
We have bigger problems to be worried about than what other people do in the privacy of their bedrooms or manner in which they choose to express their gender.
The Malaysian government should adopt North Korea’s strict control of the internet to handle the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, an Islamic religious teacher has said.
A representative from Islamist think tank Malaysian Islamic Strategic Research Institute (Iksim) has reminded Muslim scholars, or ulama, against revisiting or reviewing any previously issued fatwas on transgenders.
Two prominent legal charities have urged a Religious Freedom Review panel to support the LGBTI community, by narrowing “the blanket religious exemptions which allow religious organisations to discriminate”.
Exemptions in discrimination law that allow religious institutions such as schools, hospitals and aged care facilities to discriminate against staff and clients based on beliefs should be abolished, the Equality Campaign has said.
Glitter+Ash Wednesday was launched by Parity, a New York-based group that supports LGBT pastors and encourages LGBT young people to integrate their spiritual, gender and sexual identities.
It may seem preposterous, but some Indonesian politicians are attempting to portray the criminalization of adult consensual same-sex conduct as somehow protecting against vigilantism.
