In jungle world an article about homophobic Netzwerkeleien between U.S. and African churches and mission agencies has been released: Christian Homophobia Ltd, Import / Export. "
Increased readiness in leftist media to politically deal with homophobic tendencies in Christianity, one might think. If not only because the board would be in front of Kopp that involves large sections of the left seem intimately well as once on the Palestinian scarf ...
His Leser_innen happy the author of the article, William Hiscott, at the very beginning with the following instruction:
"If denounce Western critics of homophobia in Africa and other formerly colonized regions, will meet them held by postcolonial trained Fans of indigenous tribal societies like that Homophie have to do with the supposedly original culture and there is nothing mere import goods of Western colonialists. "
Aha, so has our one X So Africa present. Indigenous tribal societies in which danced to the drum sound is the fire, while simmering in the pot one or two gay men. And the post-colonial schooled gather again not that what has to do with the culture there. Because that is just the way how one William Hiscott it imagines itself in the brains. If one bears in mind such racist bullshit, you can probably count ourselves lucky that this hero of critical thinking a X with his views on LGBT people spared the persecution and discrimination, so the real issue is his article.
is in this respect However, quite information poor and meets more the relief function, the problem of homophobia into an obsession of backward tribal warriors and crazy Americans to stamp that concerns us enlightened old European pneumatics very indirect: The article culminates in the thesis that the Christian homophobes would have Africa chosen as a field of activity, because in the west the waning acceptance for their views. Well, yes, it should not be our problem ...
with us here (as one of yes, Jon Sobrino , always will be candid), but in reality it looks different. The activities the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD), for example, the article briefly mentioned and "Mission Alliance of Protestant Churches", have apparently underestimated by Hiscott more. The IRD is a very conservative theological and political think tank, the strategic impact on homophobic and conservative currents within the mainline churches in the U.S. are increasing attempts to provoke splits right. The most impressive result of this strategy is the American Anglican Council , a conservative organization within the American Anglicanism, which agitates against the ordination of openly accepting homosexual bishops.
The Founders of the IRD are anti-liberation theologian Michael Novak * and Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009), longtime editor of First Things . Neuhaus was pastor of the confessional Lutheran Missouri Synod before he founded to Catholicism and his journal First Things which was to become the influential theory of organ at the interface between theology and neo-conservatism. Regular writer for First Things is Wolfhart Pannenberg , probably the most openly homophobic top dog in the Protestant theology in Germany.
If there is such thing as a neo-conservative theology in Germany are, then it is run by Pannenberg and his circle. In the unanimous rejection of same-sex partnerships itself is Pannenberg about his long-time faculty colleagues at the University of Munich, the social ethicist defiance Rendtorff . He designed as Chairman of the Board of Public Responsibility EKD lead drawing on conservative-functionalist theorems political theology, which the company ** theoretical opinions of the Protestant Church had a crucial impact.
An old fellow Pannenberg, together with the theological manifesto he hegelisierende written revelation as history , is the former Bishop Northelbian Ulrich Wilckens . His personal crusade out Wilckens for a change much against LGBT people, but more - based on a fundamentalist Bible hermeneutics - against the feminist theology, which he accuses of heresy, because she was not anti-Semitic enough.
far, so bad. There appear to be cases where it hinhaut with deportation to Africa, exceptionally not quite that simple. Hinkelammert
* Over Anti-liberation theology see, Franz Josef, "Liberation Theology in the Economic and Social Context of Latin America: Economy and Theology, or the Irrationality of the Rationalized," in: (. Uw eds) Batstone, David, Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity, and the Americas , New York 1997, 25-52.
** See Rendtorff eg, defiance, "the two kingdoms doctrine, or the art of distinguishing observations of theological interpretation of the political.", in: Duchrow, Ulrich (ed.), Two kingdoms and regiments - Protestant ideology or orientation? International case studies and background to the theology and practice of Lutheran churches in the 20th Century, Gütersloh 1977th
