[OutVoice] Preachers from Heaven & Hell + global LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,358 - distributed 04/07/14
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Good news and bad news from men of the cloth;
Opponents of India's sex law throwback file a final appeal, homophobic
Uganda cops raid an AIDS clinic while thousands "give thanks" for the
country's draconian new "Anti-Homosexuality Law", a Nigerian court
frees 2 nabbed under that country's new anti-gay law, a Russian court
makes history by upholding LGBT rights, and more LGBT news

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 In "NewsWrap": A last ditch effort launches at India's High Court to 
overturn Penal Code Section 377, which outlaws private consensual adult 
gay sex; Uganda police raid a U.S.-funded HIV clinic in Kampala for 
allegedly "training youths in homosexuality", and many thousands march 
with President Yoweri Museveni to celebrate passage of the nation's 
draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Law”… an Islamic court in northern Nigeria
 frees 2 men charged with belonging to a gay rights group, and the 
highest court in Russia's Kostroma region rules that bans on peaceful 
protests of the national law criminalizing "gay propaganda" were 
illegal, while President Vladimir ("traditional values") Putin divorces 
his wife of 30 years… the Obama administration opens Medicare to legally
 married same-gender couples, no matter what state they live in; a U.S. 
federal judge announces that he'll strike down Ohio's law banning the 
recognition of same-gender couples legally married in other states, but 
Mississippi's Republican Governor Phil Bryant signs the "Religious 
Freedom Restoration Act" that critics say legalizes bias in the state 
against LGBT people, and more LGBT news from around the world (produced 
by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by ABBY 
DEES and GARY SHAW).

- "Jesus Would Stone Homos," according to 
the marquee at ATLAH Missionary Baptist Church, so a group of LGBT 
activists decided to take them up on the invitation. Smack in the middle
 of New York City's traditionally African American neighborhood of 
HARLEM, the church, whose name stands for "All The Land Anointed Holy", 
occupies the building that once housed the controversial Depression Era 
cult leader Father Divine. Nowadays PASTOR JAMES DAVID MANNING gets his 
ministry into the news by bill-boarding insanely homophobic messages  --
 like the one proclaiming that President Obama had "released homo demons
 on the black man." But when it came to Manning's "Jesus Would Stone 
Homos" declaration, trans-activist Jennifer Louise Lopez had enough. She
 went to the church and told the staff she had come for her stoning.  
After a startled church official refused, Lopez set about organizing 
more demonstrators to join her. Pastor Manning played down the protests 
with a large serving of name-calling and ridicule (with intro/outro 
music from "Let's Go Get Stoned" performed by RAY CHARLES).

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From a time when institutionalized Christian homophobia was the norm, 
today the UNITED METHODIST CHURCH stands pretty much alone among U.S. 
mainline denominations with its doctrinal statement against "the 
practice of homosexuality." Fifteen years after Rev. Jimmy Creech was 
drummed out of the clergy for officiating at same-gender union 
ceremonies, "This Way Out's" STEVE PRIDE heard a new testament from 
another "marryin' Methodist minister," PENNSYLVANIA's REV. FRANKLIN 
SCHAEFER [http://franklynschaefer.com].
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