#Inde : la Cour suprême prend la décision historique de dépénaliser l’#homosexualité
▻https://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/lgbt/inde-la-cour-supreme-prend-la-decision-historique-de-depenaliser-l-homo
Inde : la Cour suprême prend la décision historique de dépénaliser l’homosexualité
La plus haute instance judiciaire du pays a jugé illégal un vieil article du Code pénal condamnant les relations sexuelles entre personnes de même sexe.
il faut rappeler que cette pénalisation avait été imposée par le colonisateur britannique
La Cour suprême indienne prend la décision historique de dépénaliser l’homosexualité
La plus haute instance judiciaire d’Inde, 1,25 milliard d’habitants, a jugé illégal un article de loi datant du XIXe siècle condamnant les relations sexuelles entre personnes de même sexe. Une disposition « devenue une arme de harcèlement contre la communauté LGBT », a déclaré le président de la Cour, Dipak Misra.
War of words : my battle to correct Wikipedia | The Spectator
▻https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/war-of-words-my-battle-to-correct-wikipedia
I signed up some years ago as a Wikipedia ‘editor’, thinking that, as I knew a little about some subjects, I could help to straighten out the online encyclopaedia a bit. Heaven knows, it needs some help. Its worst failing, much like BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, is to portray subjects that are racked with unresolved controversy as if they were settled.
But I soon found out why nobody else had managed to put this right. Almost every significant article is guarded by powerful forces that appear from nowhere if you dare to make changes. Unless you have unlimited time, and a squadron of determined helpers, they will simply remove any alterations you make, and put things back the way they were.
La controverse porte sur des accusations de pédophilie sur un évêque anglican. La version actuelle semble factuelle et équilibrée. Et compatible avec celle que déclare avoir défendue l’auteur.
George Bell (bishop) - Wikipedia
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bell_(bishop)
In September 2015 the diocese paid compensation to the woman and Martin Warner, the Bishop of Chichester, issued a formal apology to her the following month.
This led to a major controversy, as people who respected Bell’s legacy found the claims to be incredible, and found the Church’s apparent acceptance of them to be unjust.
Due to the controversy, in February 2016 the woman spoke publicly for the first time under the pseudonym “Carol”, in an interview with the Brighton Argus about being sexually abused from the age of five until her family moved away when she was nine.
In June 2016 the Church of England announced that it would hold an independent review of the procedure used to investigate the church’s handling of the allegations (not the truth of the allegations themselves) and in November it announced that Alex Carlile, a QC and a member of the House of Lords, would be the reviewer. Carlile submitted his report to the Church of England in mid-October and on 15 December 2017 the church published it.
Carlile found that “there was a rush to judgment: The church, feeling it should be both supportive of the complainant and transparent in its dealings, failed to engage in a process which would also give proper consideration to the rights of the bishop.” The report also found that the available evidence did not suggest there would have been “a realistic prospect of conviction” in court, the standard that prosecutors in England and Wales use in deciding whether to pursue a case.
The Church of England released a statement with the report, in which it apologized to Bell’s relatives for the way it investigated child abuse claims made against him, acknowledged the mistakes highlighted by the report, and promised to implement all except one of its recommendations. Archbishop Welby rejected calls to state that the investigation had cleared Bell’s name and said that the allegations were handled as a civil matter, not a criminal one.
In March 2018, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse began examining the handling of allegations of sexual abuse in the diocese of Chichester, including this matter, which it said would unfold over two years.
Wikipédia propose un (long) article sur l’auteur, Peter Hitchens ▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hitchens où la controverse n’est pas mentionnée. Article plus court, en français.
Death in early Johannesburg : Braamfontein Cemetery
▻https://theworldelsewhere.com/2014/12/15/death-in-early-johannesburg-braamfontein-cemetery
Reflecting the demographic pattern of the surrounding city, the cemetery was strictly demarcated by religion and ethnicity, zones that are immediately apparent from even just a casual of inspection of the tombstones – or the lack of tombstones. “Civic fathers”, Mark Gevisser points out, “set boundaries in death as in life”:
On first glance it had, quite reasonably, to do with religion. The southern portion of the Old Cemetery [….] had been consecrated for Christian denominations – ‘Dutch Reformed’, ‘Nonconformist’, ‘Roman Catholic’, and ‘Church of England’ – while the northern portion seemed to be reserved for other faiths: ‘Chinese’, ‘Coolies’, ‘Cape People’, ‘Mahomedans’, ‘Kaffirs’, and – my favourite – ‘Christian Kaffirs’, this last exposing the fiction that it was about religion at all. It was, of course, about race. (en train de lire ce merveilleux #livre de #cartographie qui parle d’#enfance, de nostalgie, d’#apartheid et d’#afrique_du_sud, de #Lithuanie et de #migrations, de mines et de #cimetières…)
Pula! Botswana at 50: love, race and duty in the struggle for freedom
▻http://www.groundup.org.za/article/pula-botswana-50-love-race-and-duty-struggle-freedom
Here was the future King of the Bamangwato, a border people, whose labour was interwoven with South African capitalism, whose capital was at Mafikeng, within South Africa, presuming to transgress the most basic prejudices of the racial order.
The rush of correspondence to stop this abominable wedding was intense. The British government hired lawyers, mobilised diplomats and succeeded in getting a Church of England Bishop to refuse the marriage. Seretse’s uncle forbade him to proceed and Ruth was cast out of her family for a while.
(…) Jan Smuts intervened and changed Churchill’s mind, convincing him that support for Seretse would only harden the Nationalists who had defeated Smuts in South Africa. “Natives traditionally believe in authority,” Smuts explained, “and our whole Native system will collapse if weakness is shown in this regard.”
#Botswana #Afrique_du_Sud #colonialisme #histoire #mariage #racisme #beau
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMswBd8AND4
Chris Woods
▻http://www.chriswoodsartist.com/id32.html
Royal Treats is a body of work that was partially conceived in the fall of 1994. It was put on hold, however, while I undertook the commission to paint The Fourteen Stations of the Cross for St. David’s Anglican Church in Vancouver, BC.
Before I took on the Stations of the Cross, my initial ideas for Royal Treats were to encompass images of superstition and ritual set in fast-food restaurants. The paintings Royal Treats and Sandwich Artist reflect these themes. Royal Treats, which takes place in a Dairy Queen, is loosely based on the Catholic ritual of communion while Sandwich Artist takes a more pagan approach by depicting a palm reading at a Subway sandwich shop. Two other works, Fast Food Ritual I & II, also deal with similar notions.
UK: New Archbishop signals openness on LGBT issues
By Scott Robertsfor PinkNews.co.UK
9 November 2012, 3:02pm
Dr Welby is replacing Dr Rowan Williams (KJB Photography)
Dr Welby is replacing Dr Rowan Williams (KJB Photography)
The Bishop of Durham Justin Welby, who has been appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, says the Church of England must have “no truck with any form of homophobia”.
Although Dr Welby has previously stated his opposition to equal marriage and the ordination of gay bishops, in a speech made on Friday at Lambeth Palace, Dr Welby signalled that he was willing to engage on LGBT issues by saying:
“It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationships, including civil partnerships.
“We must have no truck with any form of homophobia in any part of the church”.
He said that he supported the House of Bishops’ statement in the summer in response to the government’s consultation on same-sex marriage – which opposed the measure.
“But I also know I need to listen very attentively to the LGBT communities and examine my own thinking carefully and prayerfully,” he added.
Dr Welby was named on Thursday as the replacement for Dr Rowan Williams, who steps down in December after ten years in the post as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Gay orchestra set to perform in Anglican church | Gay Star News
►http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/gay-orchestra-set-perform-anglican-church071112
Gay orchestra set to perform in Anglican church
Christmas concert will feature Tchaikovsky and ’camp classics’
07 November 2012
Christmas concert will feature Tchaikovsky and ’camp classics’
The London Gay Symphony Orchestra is to perform a Christmas concert at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, the largest parish church in the City.
The LGSO is the largest in the UK and it’s members have performed at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank, as well as other international venues.
Christopher Braime, the conductor of the Christmas Concert, said: ’Christmas is a sensory time of year – the sights, the smells and, most importantly for me, the sounds: as soon as I hear the opening bars of The Nutcracker, Christmas leaps to life from the score.
’After all those hot ballet boys, Finlandia is an icy shower; The Snow Maiden lures with ice and fire and Dvorak invites us to don our party frocks and dance like a Slavonic.’
The LGSO perform only four times a year and are active in raising funds for charities such as Amnesty International and the Albert Kennedy Trust.
You can purchase tickets for the concert on 9 December here. The performance begins at 7pm.
Stephen Fry slams Church of England for spreading lies about gay marriage | Gay Star News
►http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/stephen-fry-slams-church-england-spreading-lies-about-gay-marriage05101
Stephen Fry slams Church of England for spreading lies about gay marriage
Gay British broadcaster accuses religious leaders of trying to appease the ’extreme end’ of their membership
05 October 2012 | By Joe Morgan
Gay TV presenter Stephen Fry has slammed the Church of England for spreading lies about marriage equality.
Gay broadcaster, actor, author, presenter and wit Stephen Fry has slammed the Church of England of caving to extremists who have spread lies about marriage equality.
The atheist QI presenter said religious leaders who oppose same-sex weddings are trying to appease the ‘extreme end’ of their membership.
Fry reiterated the UK government’s continued declarations which say no one will be forced to carry out gay weddings if it is against their religious beliefs.
In a video for the Out4Marriage campaign, he says: ‘Those who are against gay marriage are somehow spreading this disinformation that we are going to say “You, you Reverend so-and-so, are forced to hold this gay marriage in your church”.
‘It’s not true! People who run churches, synagogues or mosques are not forced to marry previously divorced people, for example.’
Fry then turned on the Church of England, which is currently deeply divided over the issue.
‘It’s wrong, in a country like ours, which has an established Church, just because their more extreme end is screeching with outrage at the idea of this, that we are not allowed to be married,’ he said.
‘It’s unfair on plenty of other religious people and it is misrepresenting what we require, which is only the same as anybody else, and that’s to express our love in the fullest possible way of commitment.’
Fry, who is currently starring as puritan comic villain Malvolio in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, said while gay people used to be known as ‘bohemian and outrageous’, they are really just human beings who want to be loved just like everybody else.
The Out4Marriage video ends with a final argument, where Fry finishes: ‘At least 270 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has exhibited homophobic behavior – and that’s the human being.
’Ask yourself what is really natural.’
The UK government is expected to release the findings of their consultation on marriage equality soon.
Watch Stephen Fry’s Out4Marriage video here:
Rupert Everett calls gay marriages ‘beyond tragic’ | Gay Star News
►http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/rupert-everett-calls-gay-marriages-%E2%80%98beyond-tragic%E2%80%9929091
Rupert Everett calls gay marriages ‘beyond tragic’
Gay actor calls Anglican church ’crusty, old and pathetic’, saying: ’Why do queens want to get married in churches?’
29 September 2012 | By Joe Morgan
Gay actor Rupert Everett has called same-sex marriages ’beyond tragic’.
In another instance of foot-in-mouth disease, gay actor Rupert Everett has called marriages between same-sex couples ‘beyond tragic’.
In an interview with The Guardian, he said: ‘Why do queens want to go and get married in churches?
‘Obviously this crusty old pathetic Anglican church – the most joke-ish church of all jokey churches – of course they don’t want to have queens getting married.
‘It’s kind of understandable that they don’t; they’re crusty old calcified freaks. But why do we want to get married in churches? I don’t understand that, myself, personally.’
Church of England reaches compromise on women bishops | World news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/08/church-of-england-compromise-women-bishops
In spite of four days of tortuous debate, the synod agreed that its bishops could instead tinker with legislation that would allow the ordination of women as bishops, before returning it to the synod for final approval in July. If that legislation is passed, women bishops could be ordained in 2014.
Intéressants ces cours du soir où les grandes personnes apprennent apparemment à distinguer les formes élémentaires.
Augmentation du coût de la mort // Church of England votes to increase marriage and funeral fees | World news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/07/church-of-england-marriage-funeral
The General Synod, which is meeting in London this week, agreed to push funeral service fees up from £102 to £160 and wedding ceremony fees from £296 to £415 in an attempt to standardise costs across the country’s 16,000 churches. The increase includes lighting and administration, but not heating, and comes into effect next year.
The Church of England’s fudge on female bishops is breathtaking | Andrew Brown | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2012/jan/24/church-of-england-female-bishops
The archbishops envisage that the Church of England, once it has female bishops, will continue ordaining men who do not accept these women, finding them jobs they will deign to accept, and promoting some of them to be bishops who will work to ensure the continued supply of male priests who refuse to accept female clergy. In fact, the church will pay three bishops (the formerly “flying” sees of Ebbsfleet, Richborough, and Beverley) to work full time against their female colleagues, and to nourish the resistance.
Church of England ’must accept actively gay clergy’ | World news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/20/church-england-accept-gay-clergy
Diarmaid MacCulloch, professor of the history of the church at the University of Oxford and presenter of BBC4’s A History of Christianity, writes in the Guardian that while there has been a revolution in attitudes towards gay people in the UK, “the church has just stuck its fingers in its ears and chanted la-la-la”. He asks: “When will the Church of England wake up to what has become apparent to the rest of the nation?”
Anglican newspaper defends ’Gaystapo’ article | World news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/08/anglican-newspaper-defends-gaystapo-article
An Anglican newspaper has defended the publication of an article that compares gay rights campaigners to Nazis, saying the author has “pertinent views”.
The column, by former east London councillor Alan Craig, appeared in the 28 October edition of the Church of England Newspaper, one of the oldest newspapers in the world. Although it is independent of the institution bearing the same name, it carries adverts for Church of England jobs and is read by its clergy.
Church of England set to allow celibate gay bishops | World news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/19/church-england-allow-gay-bishops
News
Legal advice says gay candidates should be considered as long as they have not been sexually active while in the priesthood