Fellow Travelers From Serbia: LGBT-Identified Persons and the Church in the Process of Europeanization

Jovanović, Marina; Krstić, Nemanja

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“…Homosexuality is considered an acceptable alternative lifestyle and Brunne has been registered in the partnership since 2001: there is no reason for homosexual marriages to be blessed by the church if society has become so open to it. In other words, the Swedish Church has decided to support the country's law on same-sex unions and is relaxed in using the term marriage when referring to what was formerly called a registered partnership in Sweden (Jovanović & Krstić, 2020). However, the debate over term union is still debated within the sacred walls of the Church, and priests have the individual right to refuse to perform marriage ceremonies for gay couples.…”

Section: Promoting Human Rights Standards For Lesbian Gay Bisexual An...mentioning

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Promoting Human Rights standards for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from the perspective of International law

Edison,

Liu,

Hank

2023

Int. J. Multidiscipline. Approach. Research. Science.

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This article examines the issue of how various religious and legal systems cope with current developments that weaken the binary opposition of men and women including their definitions of sexual identity and culture. More concretely, this book tries to explain how society and concrete laws deal with claims of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) who claim wider recognition. This explains the difference between the Western provisions and the policies of relevant legal bodies such as the General Assembly of the United Nations, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Supreme Court regarding this matter. This also shows the nature and real impact of international civil society forces such as the Yogyakarta principle which formulates the expansion of rights regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexuals. Based on a comparison of various legal and religious discourses, he describes the current practice of direct and indirect discrimination and in some non-European national systems even extrajudicial killings, torture and ill-treatment, sexual assault, rape, and other human rights violations. While emphasizing the substantial differences between current European countries and non-European countries regarding policies towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT), it points to the current trend of progress in the field by the general policy of the European Council, the most recent assessment issued by the European Court of Human Rights as well as civil society efforts such as the Yogyakarta principle. Swedish standards have been introduced to emphasize existing progressive attitudes towards LGBT people regarding gay marriage and adoption procedures.

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Section: Promoting Human Rights Standards For Lesbian Gay Bisexual An...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting Human Rights standards for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from the perspective of International law

Edison,

Liu,

Hank

2023

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Homosexuality and the Serbian orthodox church: Transformations of relations in the last 20 years

Jovanović

2022

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The paper deals with the change of attitudes of the Serbian Orthodox Church towards homosexuality in the period from 2001 to 2021. Since, according to research, the Church ranks high (sometimes the highest) on the scale of trust that Serbian citizens have in institutions, it is reasonable to assume that it has a significant impact on shaping public opinion. The dominant attitude of the church officials about same-sex attraction has varied over time. Before the first attempt at the Pride Parade in Belgrade in 2001, there was absolute silence in the Church on the topic of same-sex affection, that is, a conspicuous disregard of it. After that, the ?politics of silence? gradually gave way to a strong moralistic condemnation, which reached its peak in 2010, when the first successful Pride was held in the Serbian capital. It should be mentioned that, in addition to the condemnation, there were ambivalent attitudes of the church officials and prominent believers towards homosexuality / homosexuals. Ambivalence was expressed through the maxim: ?we hate the sin, we love the sinners.? The views of the Church were particularly visible during the public debate on the adoption of the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination in 2009. The discourse of religious condemnation of homosexuality is usually imbued with pronounced anti-Westernism and disparagement of liberal values and practices, traditionally marked, i.e. branded, as ?European? and ?those that are not in accordance with the tradition of the Serbian people.? The position of the Serbian Orthodox Church, in the most general terms, follows the general dynamics of political changes in Serbia. In the last few years, the political elite in Serbia has been instrumentalizing the rights and freedoms of sexual and gender minorities in order to gain international support (above all, from EU countries) for remaining in power through ?tactical Europeanization.? The state administration proclaims its alleged adherence to the principles of the European Union, without any genuine interest in improving the social position of non-heterosexuals and gender non-conformists. In the context of a ?captured society? (where social actors are caught in a network of corrupt exchanges in order to reproduce the rule of political oligarchies and fabricate the legitimacy of their rule), the Church has agreed to demonstrate a more moderate stance towards homosexuality, as a symbolically and materially more profitable one.

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Fellow Travelers From Serbia: LGBT-Identified Persons and the Church in the Process of Europeanization

Cited by 2 publications

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Promoting Human Rights standards for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from the perspective of International law

Promoting Human Rights standards for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from the perspective of International law

Homosexuality and the Serbian orthodox church: Transformations of relations in the last 20 years

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