ESCAPING THE CHAINS THAT BIND US: ¨A nightmare* scenario is unfolding in England, home of the Anglican Communion¨

¨unmistakable signs of rebellion¨...escaping from the ¨Anglican Covenant¨ chains

¨If the (well-intentioned) Archbishop of Canterbury were to have his way, the Anglican Covenant would, over the next few years, encircle the globe in chains.

However, there are unmistakable signs of rebellion, and it is beginning to look as if the select – extremely select – group of signatories to the Covenant would fit on the head of a pin, leaving the great majority of Anglican Communion Provinces outside the inner circle of ‘true believers’.

Dr. Rowan Williams insisting on pledges from truest of believers?

In these circumstances, you might think the obvious course is to tear up the Covenant, while admitting that any document of 5,123 words and eleven A4 pages is unworkable as a worldwide definition of Anglicanism, quite apart from several unpalatable clauses in the small print. But what may be obvious to you and me appears not to be obvious to the powers that be...¨ please read it all, HERE

·  Thanks to Lay Anglicana, sidebar
·  Thanks to The No Anglican Covenant Coalition, sidebar

ANGLICAN DAVID KATO MURDERER FOUND GUILTY IN UGANDA: Sidney Nsubuga Enoch convicted of self-styled ¨gay defense¨ brutal ¨head bashing¨

Defenseless ¨Gay¨ Defense:  Sidney Nsubuga Enoch aledgedly killed David Kato by bludgeoning him to death with a hammer to ward off sexual advances! 

NOT SO FAST -- U.S. EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS PROMOTED HOMOPHOBIA AND STOKED ANTI-GAY FEARS IN UGANDA! ¨Quit Exporting Hatred to Uganda¨, HERE

Ugandan LGBT Activist, Frank Mugisha to receive the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in Washington today
  HERE

Frank Mugisha blames U.S. evangelical activists in particular for stoking fears and promoting homophobia with a 2009 visit and conference on "rehabilitation" for gays in Uganda. Since then, violence against gays has increased, read it all, HERE

Anglican, Integrity Uganda member, David Kato, bludgeoned to death by Sidney Nsubuga Enoch

Murderer of Ugandan Gay Rights Activist David Kato Gets 30 Years

¨Sidney Nsubuga Enoch, 22, committed the crime after Kato repeatedly made sexual advances him, according to the prosecution evidence. The body of the deceased was discovered in a house by one Kizza Akram, who had earlier left the duo together.

The hunt for Nsubuga culminated in his arrest when he was spotted by residents in Mukono district, who alerted the police. He was arrested after which he admitted to the murder charges brought against him...¨ HERE

Accomplice to generating anti-LGBT exclusion and fear/hate in Uganda, Anglican ¨Gafconning¨ Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi ¨The Two Faces of Grace¨, HERE  

·  Thanks to The African Review
·  Thanks to Towleroad, sidebar
·  Thanks to Frank Mugishia, Uganda
·  Thanks to Robert F. Kennedy Award, UPDATE HERE,

KRISTALLNACHT ANNIVERSARY: Jews, Gypsies, Gay Men, Dissenters and ¨Undesirables¨ persecuted! UPDATE -- ¨Gays¨ called ¨Nazi´s¨ in Church of England Newspaper*

Interior of Berlin's Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, opened in 1912, after it was set on fire during Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938. It was destroyed entirely during an Allied air raid on Berlin in 1943, and a Jewish Community Center was opened in its place in 1959

ATTENTION BIGOTS (religious or not), COWARDS, EXPLOITERS, GREEDSTERS:  NEVER AGAIN!

The Holocaust began on the night of 9-10 November 1938 when under the coordination of the Nazi government "kristallnacht" (the night of broken glass) took place in which Jewish homes, businesses, schools, synagogues, and cemeteries were burned or otherwise destroyed. Thousands of Jewish people across Germany were killed or maimed - and no one in the world complained! Over the course of the next 7 years 6,000,000 Jews were killed . . . and another 6,000,000 people, including Communists and other political dissenters, gypsies, gay men, certain Roman Catholic priests and nuns, and "undesirables" (such as the mentally deficient, epileptics, and the elderly poor) were also put to death during that time."

BEWARE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISTS AND SINISTER ¨GLOBAL SOUTH¨ RELIGIOUS LEADERS AS THEY DEMONIZE FELLOW ANGLICANS AND OTHERS IN UGANDA, NIGERIA, JAMAICA, ENGLAND and THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA! 
HERE

Anglican African Bishops and Gafcon ¨schismatics¨ are joined in worship by the Archbishop of Canterbury as they choose the side of ¨injustice¨ and  deadly ¨oppression¨  meeting at the ¨Liars Club¨ in Entebbe, Uganda HERE

UPDATE: UK religious, political leader calls gay rights Advocates ‘gaystapo’

Alan Craig, UK religious, political leader

“Given the horrific circumstances of the Holocaust, it is deeply disturbing and highly offensive that the Church of England Newspaper* has chosen to compare supporters of equality with Nazis,” said Ben Summerskill, Chief Executive of the equality rights charity Stonewall UK. HERE

Attention Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

¨If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor¨  Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Laureate

· Thanks to Rocky Jones, Oklahoma
· Thanks to Wikipedia, photo
· Thanks to LGBTQ Nation, sidebar
· Thanks to The Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Laureate
· Thanks to Bob Summerskill, Stonewall, U.K.
· Thanks to Mad Priest, OCICBW Blog:

*NOT MY CHURCH OF ENGLAND

The "Church of England Newspaper" has absolutely nothing to do with the official Church of England and is about as Anglican as ACNA (in other words, not at all). It has a very low weekly circulation compared to "The Church Times," equal to just a third of the "unique" vistors who visit OCICBW.... This is good because it is a nasty little rag...¨ HERE

AYUDA! ESCAPING ENDLESS ABUSE: ¨...that policeman as he beat and raped me, saying “be a man, you f***ing faggot, be a man!”

¨My name is Juan and I was born in 1976 in San Salvador, El Salvador. My life growing up was horrible. I was sexually, physically and verbally abused my entire life due to my sexual orientation.

My mother worked as a maid. She was raped by her employer. When she got pregnant, she had to leave her job and go live with her parents. For that reason, I do not believe that my mother ever loved me...¨

Endless abuse

¨...My mother was an alcoholic and beat me constantly. She was embarrassed because the neighbor children called me a faggot.

She would beat me with her hands or with her belt. Sometimes she would hit me on the head or on the back. Sometimes she would grab pieces of wood to hit me on the legs with them...¨

Abandoned by mother

¨...My mother was so embarrassed and angry that finally, when I was 13, she just left. She left me and my two younger sisters to be raised by my grandparents. One day she was there and the next day she wasn’t. We didn’t hear from her for many years.

For money, I carried water because no one had running water in their homes. It was my grandmother’s business, but I did the work. The water source was about 10 minutes from my home.

A man named Jose from our neighborhood told me he would pay for my service, but the day that I went to deliver the first bucket he made me take it inside his house. He then pushed me against a wall holding a knife and raped me...¨

Bullied

When I started high school, I had to live through another nightmare. I was terrible at sports and the machista teacher had it in for me in physical education class. I flunked a test and shouted in front of the kids, “You f***ing faggot, you are useless.” The other students were brutal to me, too.

From high school I went to the university but I was terribly abused there. Students told me to leave because they didn’t want faggots there.

So I left the university and looked for work. I found a job at a bank. Things seemed better, I was earning money and I was determined to make something of myself...¨

¨I´m going to make you mine¨

¨...One day, the security guard pushed me into a bathroom staff with a gun in his hand. Once again, I was raped. I remember the horror as he ran the gun up and down my face. I know that I couldn’t speak to my boss because I knew she was homophobic. Eventually I transferred and the torment stopped.

Not alone

¨...At the new bank branch, I met another gay man and it was through him that I met other gay people. We were all afraid of being mistreated and raped because we were gay. As sad as it was to hear their stories, I knew I wasn’t alone...¨

The worst thing happened

¨...Just when I thought I could finally survive, the worst event in my life happened. In September 2009, a friend and I headed to a gay club in a remote area around 11:30 pm. The police stopped us. There were three officers in the car.

That night, for no particular reason, I was tortured yet again. I can still remember that policeman as he beat and raped me, saying “be a man, you f***ing faggot, be a man!”

I was terribly beaten with his club and can still remember the pain. My body hurt all over. My face, my stomach and my anus hurt terribly. I can still hear the other policemen who were watching, laughing and jeering. The pain was like none other I had ever experienced...¨

I went to the police for help

¨...I left shaken, but felt proud that I had tried to help change things in El Salvador. However, the very next day, the policeman who raped me came to my door. “Open up!” he said. “We already know who you are and we are going to kill you!”

I was told then by the only organization in El Salvador run by William Hernandez that helps gay people, that my only solution was to leave the country. So I did. I left behind my job, my home, my belongings, my studies. Two friends helped me get out...¨

Fleeing to America

¨...I came to California and stayed with some relatives, but soon, after realizing that I was gay, they began to abuse me, too. They finally kicked me out, and I was homeless.

Finally, on the Internet, I found the website of the LGBT Asylum Support Task Force. I sent a desperate email for help. In the subject line it only said, AYUDA...¨

Finding help in Riverside, Cal.

¨...So, Pastor Judy found a United Church of Christ church in Riverside, Calif., and sent Pastor Jane Quad a cell phone to give me. She sent an email to me with the address of the church and the times that Rev. Jane could talk to me. I was finally able to talk to someone who spoke Spanish in the Lutheran Social Service office in Worchester. They helped me find NCLR in San Francisco where they help LGBT asylum seekers...¨ please read it all, HERE  (shortened version/posted and edited down by Leonardo Ricardo)

How to help

LGBT Asylum Support Task Force HERE, based in Worcester, Mass., provides financial and social support to LGBT persons seeking political asylum in the United States, while educating people about the treatment of LGBT persons worldwide in an effort to make it safe for all people. The task force welcomes charitable contributions for their life-saving work, which is resourced and/or supported in part by Lutheran Social Services, the E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and other sources. Financial gifts can be mailed to: Hadwen Park Church, LGBT Fund, 6 Clover St., Worcester, MA 01603. To contact the Rev. Judith K. Hanlon, send email to gracelift@aol.com.

·  Thanks to LGBT Asylum News, sidebar
·  Thanks to LGBT Asylum Support Task Force, HERE
·  Thanks to Ken Williams
·  Thanks to William Hernandez

Divine Providence/Divina Providencia and/or Practical Promises needed in Guatemala--UPDATE--GENERAL PEREZ MOLINA WINS!

General Otto Perez Molina, ¨Mano Dura¨

TODAY IS ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY IN GUATEMALA (which is a very beautiful country) AND IT´S ALSO THE DAY IN GUATEMALA FOR A RUN-OFF ELECTION BETWEEN THE TWO REMAINING CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT, Dr. Manuel Antonio Baldizón Méndez and retired General Otto Pérez Molina.

Guatemala is a country that is desperate for strong ¨executive¨ leadership as the current government and it´s agencies/accomplices has had a near complete melt down and lawlessness and corruption are running rampant as well as a ¨worker slowdown¨ within Government that is a disgrace (and these government workers are getting paid well in a economy where many outsiders have no jobs at all)!

Retired General Otto Pérez Molina promises ¨Mano Dura¨ (a hard hand) if elected today--potential support amongst many folk in the campo (and amongst the wealthy old families in Guatemala City) make his election look possible...we will see...often in Guatemala ¨things¨ aren´t what they seem to be but a ¨hard hand¨ is urgently needed to heal ¨hard times.¨

Otto Pérez Molina

El general retirado Otto Pérez Molina, candidato del derechista Partido Patriota (PP), de ganar las elecciones de este domingo se convertiría en el primer Presidente militar de Guatemala desde que se instauró la era democrática, en 1986.

Pérez Molina, quien ofrece gobernar con mano dura este país, que apenas hace 11 años concluyó una sangrienta guerra civil.
 
Manuel Antonio Baldizón Méndez

Dr. Manuel Antonio Baldizón Méndez, ¨Bono 15¨ 

Manuel Antonio Baldizón Méndez (born 6 May 1970) is a Guatemalan politician, lawyer, and hotel entrepreneur. He is the leader of the Renewed Democratic Liberty (LIDER) party, and a candidate in the 2011 presidential election.
 
Diputado del Congreso. Fue elegido miembro del Congreso de Guatemala por el Partido Avanzada Nacional (PAN) en 2003, pero se unió a la Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE) de Álvaro Colom en el año 2006. Baldizón fue reelegido como miembro del Congreso en 2007. En el 2008 se desintegró del partido UNE y fundó el partido LIDER.

ALL IS QUIET AT THE MOMENT -- RESULTS EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT!

The Muslim LGBT Inclusion Project: LGBT Muslims are dealing with many of the same kinds of questions that LGBT Christians have been dealing with for decades

Image by lewishamdreamer via Flickr

¨Just as the Arab spring has upended conventional understanding of Arab and Muslim societies, so a new report on the issues faced by LGBT Muslims challenges the stereotype of Muslim communities in the U.S. and abroad as monolithically closed to conversations about sexuality.

The report, the “Muslim LGBT Inclusion Project,” was just published by Intersections International — New York-based nonprofit whose mandate, says founding director Rev. Robert Chase, is to bring together people who differ, honor those differences, and find ways to work together for reconciliation, justice, and peace...¨ read it all, HERE

·  Thanks to LGBT Asylum News, sidebar
·  Thanks to Peter Montgomery
·  Thanks to  Religion Dispatches

ATTN BISHOP DIBO THOMAS-BABYNTON ELANGOY -- HELP NEEDED IN CAMEROON: Roger Jean Claude Mbede convicted of ¨homosexuality¨ with no evidence of criminal conduct, please help him

,

Roger Jean Claude Mbede needs our prayers and help!

¨In April 28, Roger Jean Claude Mbede, a 29 year old student from Cameroon, was sentenced to three years in jail for homosexuality and attempted homosexuality. His appeal of that judgment will be heard this Monday, Nov 7.

According to a news release by three Cameroonian groups, Mdebe had met the man through a teacher. He had feelings for him and sent him a text message to tell him so. However, the man alerted the police and, when Mdebe came to meet him on March 2, he was arrested.

At the trial, Mbede was represented by Alice Nkom, 66, a noted lawyer and LGBT rights activist who has been defending LGBT clients for over 10 years despite threats of arrest and violence. In recognition of her activism, she was named the Grand Marshall of Montreal's gay pride parade in August.

Mdebe was convicted even though there was no evidence of criminal conduct, according to a Human Rights Watch release on Aug. 17.

Alternatives-Cameroun, who visited Mbede in the infamous Kondengui Central Prison in Yaoundé this summer, said that he was suffering from lack of food and was in deplorable mental health. with an untreated condition affecting his left eye. He had to sleep on the floor of his cell, and had been abandoned by most of his family members, who regard him as a wizard...¨ please read the facts, HERE

·  Thanks to Alternatives-Cameroun
·  Thanks to Alice Nkom
·  Thanks to LGBT Asylum News

KNOW THE ABUSERS: When you’re harassed, “get a sense of humor” is the almost inevitable response of the harasser!

¨Reporting harassment can make the workplace worse than experiencing the harassment¨

¨As a woman who has spent much of her life in male dominated industries, “Get a sense of humor” and “Lighten up” were phrases I avoided like the plague. How did I avoid them? By laughing. I laughed when my boss invited me to a sex party. I laughed when I had a bad day and a couple of the guys told me I needed to get laid, and offered their assistance. I laughed when they commented on the tightness of my top or the thinness of my bra. I laughed at their racist or homophobic jokes, which made me uncomfortable even though I was not the target. I brushed off their actual sexual advances as though they never happened.

Why did I laugh it all off? We live in a litigious society, right? To hear the right frame it, I should have been heading to a lawyer at the first nipple joke. Well, as any victim of harassment, sexual or otherwise, will tell you, it just ain’t that easy. I had a fairly decent job. I made a nice middle class income. I was moving up the ranks, albeit more slowly than my male counterparts. I wasn’t about to risk it, plus, maybe it was just me...¨ read it all, by Wendy Gittleson, HERE

Why does this seem familiar to me? 

Bullying, exploiting, harrassing/harming, killing innocents is initiated by ¨protected¨ bigots, blowhards and bullies at work, church, school or amongst families and friends and must end...offenders being ¨accepted¨ by society/church/industry who are presumed to have ¨righteous/heterosexual values¨ must be held accountable for the smears and loathsome acts/sins of omission and abuse toward others, ready or not, sexual or not, that are generated.  We, individually, are called to be personally responsible in all of our affairs.

We must stop the liars, moral deadbeats/blamers/shamers and thieves of other peoples personal integrity in our everyday lives by speaking out against them...the creepy boy/girl-clubbers must be held personally responsible and accountable to start dealing with truth, their own truth and the reality of others.

The responsibility for living in truth must include the every action of Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury as well as the rest of the pompus anti-heterosexual women and LGBT Christian exclusion clubbers at all levels of Churchlife at the Anglican Communion. 

The whole bunch of feckless rotted apples, evangelical religious or not, anglo-Catholic or not, who polute decency and good will with faux integrity must be called on their self-purified lies and malicious manipulative actions as they abuse other human beings.  It is the shifty and protected religious righteous ¨pretenders¨ who demoralize society.  Slandering others with ugly/dressed-up pretenses that deny truth/real and twist reality/encourage fear and hate in the world around them as they attempt to make themselves look good/holy, right, just and ¨fair.¨  Honorable as they torment, harrass and abuse innocents in the name of a false God of ignorance, prejudice, exploitation and flat out deceit!

Hypocrites repent, Bishop Rowan, resign! Leonardo Ricardo

·  Thanks to Addicting Info, sidebar
·  Thanks to Wendy Gittleson, HERE

Archbishop Rowan Williams and his ¨punitive¨ Anglican Covenant:  Innocents beware of deceit and pretend!

SALUTING OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY: ¨The No Anglican Covenant¨ Coalition

¨A year ago today, the No Anglican Covenant announced that it had come on the scene to defeat adoption of the Anglican Covenant. The date of November 3 was chosen because it is the day that Anglicans remember Richard Hooker, that quintessential Anglican theologian who, we believed, would be appalled at the direction the Anglican Communion seemed to be headed.

As the Coalition celebrates its first birthday, there is cause for both optimism and concern. The program to impose a repressive covenant on worldwide Anglicanism has lost momentum. Few churches have adopted it, and some of those that have have framed their actions in ways that undermine the intent of the proposed agreement. The GAFCON churches have largely rejected the Covenant as inadequate, and many Western churches are expected to reject it as too intrusive. The Covenant is not dead, but it is severely wounded...¨ please read it all, by Lionel Deimel, HERE

¨A year ago today the No Anglican Covenant Coalition was born. We have tried to articulate clearly the arguments for an against the Anglican Covenant and to explain our deep concerns about signing a document that seeks to relegate faithful brothers and sisters to second class Anglicans.¨ please read it all, by Lesley+ HERE

¨We say that we are saved by grace, not by law, and yet it is so easy to act as if the opposite is true. What did Jesus say about such things?¨ please read it all, by Mark Bennett, HERE

THE FEAST OF RICHARD HOOKER

¨A year ago, a small dedicated group of Anglicans from around the world, began a campaign against a conspiracy. We set out, 23 bloggers of the NO Anglican Covenant Coalition, to defeat an entire hierarchy.

We have a secret weapon - the Covenant. The document is indefensible, and its proponents know it. In fact, one reason it is failing is that when anyone right or left questions the document, its defenders talk or write about something else. In a sense they have to do that, the proposed Covenant is that bad.

None-the-less, errors are not defeated without effort. The Coalition has organized and focused that effort, and I am proud of our work. We are far from done, but in a year, I think we have made a good beginning!  from Jim B, HERE

INSIDE THE GAY CURE MINISTRIES: ¨Converting Gays creates damaged people¨

Escaping from the ¨damage¨

¨Exorcisms, hugging, behavioural management and marriage are among the methods used by a Christian ministry to "heal" homosexuals in Queensland, according to a former leader who now wants to see the practice stamped out.¨

¨A psychologist and one-time Exodus* counsellor has told the Brisbane Times HERE, Australia, has denounced the ex-gay movement, saying he walked away 25 years ago because it forced gay men into “living an even greater lie” that hurt themselves and their families.

Paul Martin, now an equal rights activist and head of the Centre for Human Potential in Brisbane, spoke out after Australia’s Community Services Minister, Fiona Simpson, was criticized for her ex-gay views. The politician had lent public support to Exodus in 2002, praising the organization for giving homosexuals “the freedom to grow into homosexuality over time.” HERE

·  Thanks to The Brisbane Times
·  Thanks to Katherine Feeney
·  Thanks to Dr.Paul Martin, former *Exodus counsellor HERE
·  Thanks to Ex-Gay Watch, sidebar