Editing Homosexuality and religion (section)

==== Haitian Vodou ====
{{Main|Haitian Vodou and sexual orientation}}
Homosexuality is religiously acceptable in [[Haitian Vodou]].<ref name="Haiti's fight for gay rights">{{cite web |title=Haiti's fight for gay rights |url=http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/haiti-lgbt/ |access-date=2021-03-27 |website=Al Jazeera America}}</ref><ref name="Homosexuality And Voodoo">{{cite web |date=July 20, 2013 |title=Homosexuality And Voodoo |url=http://www.haitiobserver.com/blog/homosexuality-and-voodoo.html |access-date=March 30, 2021 |website=Haiti Observer}}</ref><ref name="advocate.com">{{cite web |title=Queer Haitians Find a Refuge in Vodou |url=http://www.advocate.com/current-issue/2016/10/31/why-queer-haitians-are-turning-vodou |last=Ahmed |first=Beenish |date=October 31, 2016 |website=Advocate |access-date=January 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161101121517/http://www.advocate.com/current-issue/2016/10/31/why-queer-haitians-are-turning-vodou |archive-date=November 1, 2016}}</ref> The lwa or loa (spirits) Erzulie Dantor and Erzulie Freda are often associated with and viewed as protectors of queer people.<ref name="Review">{{cite web |last=Review |first=The Global Catholic |date=2018-06-06 |title=Black Madonna Vodou Religion Spirit Lwa Erzulie Dantor by Kate Kingsbury |url=https://www.patheos.com/blogs/theglobalcatholicreview/2018/06/polish-black-madonna-haitian-vodou-spirit-erzulie-dantor-kate-kingsbury-africa-love-religion/ |access-date=2021-03-27 |website=The Global Catholic Review |language=en}}</ref><ref name="lisantiadmin">{{cite web |last=lisantiadmin |title=Haiti's LGBTQ-Accepting Vodou Societies |url=https://www.irenemonroe.com/haitis-lgbtq-accepting-vodou-societies/ |access-date=2021-03-27 |website=Rev Irene Monroe |language=en-US}}</ref> The lao [[Ghede Nibo]] is sometimes depicted as an effeminate drag queen and inspires those he inhabits to lascivious sexuality of all kinds.<ref name="Cassell">Randy Conner, David Hatfield Sparks & Mariya Sparks (eds), Cassell's ''Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol & Spirit'', p. 963, London and New York: Cassell, 1997.</ref><ref>Conner, p. 157, "Ghede Nibo"</ref>