{"id":741,"date":"2014-04-23T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/04\/the-global-reach-of-religious-liberty-rhetoric.html"},"modified":"2014-04-23T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T08:46:00","slug":"the-global-reach-of-religious-liberty-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/04\/the-global-reach-of-religious-liberty-rhetoric.html","title":{"rendered":"The Global Reach of Religious Liberty Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

For the past 16 years, the U.S.-affiliated and Kampala, Uganda-based Makerere University Walter Reed Project has conducted research on HIV vaccines and public health issues in the East African country. Earlier this month, Ugandan officials raided the project<\/a>, detaining and interrogating a staff member, reportedly because of the project\u2019s assistance to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, people. According to the project\u2019s website<\/a>, \u201cthe operations of the program are temporarily suspended to ensure the safety of staff and the integrity of the program.\u201d Speculation that Uganda\u2019s new Anti-Homosexuality Act<\/a>, which prohibits \u201cpromoting homosexuality,\u201d inspired the raid raises the question of what inspired the act in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Considering the act\u2019s origins is relevant to the formulation of an official American response to it. However, this also has immediate domestic implications, since many of the arguments and actors behind anti-LGBT legislation and intolerance in Uganda, Nigeria, Russia, Lithuania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Gambia, and elsewhere are the same arguments and actors behind anti-LGBT \u201clicense to discriminate\u201d bills here in the United States. One way to be responsive to intolerance abroad is to be responsible for our own voices at home.
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Exporting the license to discriminate<\/b>\n

Domestic religious liberty, or license to discriminate, bills are part of a<\/a> global<\/a> movement<\/a> that misuses religion to justify discrimination and intolerance against LGBT people. Earlier this month, Mississippi lawmakers passed<\/a>\u2014and Gov. Phil Bryant (R) signed<\/a> into law\u2014the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which civil rights groups fear will be invoked by religious business owners to justify their unwillingness to serve LGBT patrons and to circumvent existing or future anti-discrimination statutes. <\/p>\n

Despite substantive substantive similarities<\/a> between Arizona\u2019s unsuccessful<\/a> license to discriminate bill, S.B. 1062\u2014which was vetoed by Gov. Jan Brewer (R)\u2014and Mississippi\u2019s successful bill, the latter received minimal media coverage<\/a>, while the former drew outrage from state and national businesses<\/a>, the faith community<\/a>, and even one of the bill\u2019s co-sponsors<\/a>. Although a majority of the public might not know about Mississippi\u2019s new license to discriminate bill, Tony Perkins sure does. Perkins\u2014president of the Family Research Council, or FRC, a right-wing organization that has been linked to the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups\u2014attended<\/a> its private signing ceremony. Not only have Perkins and his group supported license to discriminate bills across the country, but the FRC also spent a significant amount of money in 2010 lobbying Congress<\/a> to vote down a resolution denouncing Uganda\u2019s anti-homosexuality bill.<\/p>\n

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