Editing Homosexuality and religion (section)

==== Santa Muerte ====
The cult of [[Santa Muerte]] is a [[new religious movement]]<ref name="Chesnut 2017">{{cite speech |last=Chesnut |first=R. Andrew |title=Santa Muerte: The Fastest Growing New Religious Movement in the Americas |url=https://www.up.edu/garaventa/archives/lectures-and-readings/2017-2018-lectures-and-readings/andrew-chesnut-lecture.html |url-status=live |event=Lecture |date=26 October 2017 |location=[[Portland, Oregon]] |publisher=[[University of Portland]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207214656/https://www.up.edu/garaventa/archives/lectures-and-readings/2017-2018-lectures-and-readings/andrew-chesnut-lecture.html |archive-date=7 February 2021 |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref> centered on the worship of Santa Muerte, a [[cult image]], [[female deity]], and [[folk saint]] which is popularly revered in [[Mexico|Mexican]] [[Modern Paganism|Neopaganism]] and [[folk Catholicism]].<ref>{{cite book |author-last=Chesnut |author-first=R. Andrew |title=Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Movements, Institutions, and Allegiance |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |year=2016 |isbn=978-90-04-26539-4 |editor-last=Hunt |editor-first=Stephen J. |editor-link=Stephen J. Hunt |series=Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion |volume=12 |location=[[Leiden]] |pages=336–353 |chapter=Healed by Death: Santa Muerte, the Curandera |doi=10.1163/9789004310780_017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author-last=Flores Martos |author-first=Juan Antonio |title=Etnografías de la muerte y las culturas en América Latina |publisher=[[University of Castilla–La Mancha|Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla–La Mancha]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-84-8427-578-7 |editor1-last=Flores Martos |editor1-first=Juan Antonio |location=[[Cuenca, Spain|Cuenca]] |pages=296–297 |language=es |chapter=La Santísima Muerte en Veracruz, México: Vidas Descarnadas y Práticas Encarnadas |editor2-last=González |editor2-first=Luisa Abad |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F992RDiGJKEC&pg=PA296}}</ref> A [[personification of death]], she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the [[afterlife]] by her devotees.<ref>{{cite book |last=Chesnut |first=R. Andrew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ul0vDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6 |title=Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-19-063332-5 |edition=Second |location=[[New York City|New York]] |pages=6–7 |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199764662.001.0001 |lccn=2011009177 |orig-date=2012}}</ref> Santa Muerte is also revered and seen as a saint and protector of the [[LGBT in Mexico|lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities in Mexico]],<ref name="CIESAS 2019">{{cite journal |last=Bárcenas Barajas |first=Karina |date=September–December 2019 |title=Apropiaciones LGBT de la religiosidad popular |url=https://desacatos.ciesas.edu.mx/index.php/Desacatos/article/view/2135/1491 |format=PDF |journal=Desacatos: Revista de Ciencias Sociales |language=es |location=[[Mexico City]] |publisher=Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) |volume=61 |pages=98–113 |issn=2448-5144 |access-date=16 June 2021}}</ref><ref name="hemisphericinstitute.org">{{cite magazine |last=Lorentzen |first=Lois Ann |date=2016 |editor1-last=Pellegrini |editor1-first=Anna |editor2-last=Vaggione |editor2-first=Juan Marco |title=Santa Muerte: Saint of the Dispossessed, Enemy of Church and State |url=https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/emisferica-13-1-states-of-devotion/13-1-essays/santa-muerte-saint-of-the-dispossessed-enemy-of-church-and-state.html |url-status=live |magazine=Emisférica |location=[[New York City]] |publisher=[[Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics]] |volume=13 |issue=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730153106/https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/emisferica-13-1-states-of-devotion/13-1-essays/santa-muerte-saint-of-the-dispossessed-enemy-of-church-and-state.html |archive-date=30 July 2019 |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Woodman |first=Stephen |date=31 March 2017 |title=How a skeleton folk saint of death took off with Mexican transgender women |work=[[USA Today]] |url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/31/santa-muerte-death-transgender-women-mexico/99867052/ |url-status=live |access-date=17 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191010080701/https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/31/santa-muerte-death-transgender-women-mexico/99867052/ |archive-date=10 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Villarreal |first=Daniel |date=6 April 2019 |title=Bishops tell Catholics to stop worshipping this unofficial LGBTQ-friendly saint of death: Even though "La Santa Muerte" is not a Church-sanctioned saint, millions of people still revere her |url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/04/bishops-asking-catholics-stop-worshipping-unofficial-lgbtq-friendly-saint-death/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[LGBTQ Nation]] |location=[[San Francisco]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407080835/https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/04/bishops-asking-catholics-stop-worshipping-unofficial-lgbtq-friendly-saint-death/ |archive-date=7 April 2019 |access-date=16 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2012 |title=Archives |url=http://www.outinthebay.com/archives.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424085030/http://www.outinthebay.com/archives.htm |archive-date=2012-04-24 |website=outinthebay.com |publisher=Out In The Bay}}</ref> since LGBTQ+ people are considered and treated as outcasts by the [[Catholic Church and homosexuality|Catholic Church]], [[Christianity and homosexuality#Evangelical churches|evangelical churches]], and Mexican society at large.<ref name="CIESAS 2019" /><ref name="hemisphericinstitute.org" /> Many LGBTQ+ people ask her for protection from violence, hatred, disease, and to help them in their search for love. Her intercession is commonly invoked in [[Same-sex marriage in Mexico City|same-sex marriage ceremonies]] performed in Mexico.<ref>{{cite news |date=2010-03-03 |title=Iglesia de Santa Muerte casa a gays – El Universal – Sociedad |newspaper=El Universal |url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/663167.html |access-date=2013-02-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=La Iglesia de Santa Muerte mexicana celebró su primera boda gay y prevé 9 más|url=http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=296160 |access-date=2013-02-09 |newspaper=[[ABC (newspaper)|ABC]]|location=Madrid}}</ref> The [[Traditionalist Mexican-American Catholic Church|Iglesia Católica Tradicional México-Estados Unidos]], also known as the Church of Santa Muerte, [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico|recognizes]] gay marriage and performs religious wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples.<ref>{{cite web |date=2012-01-24 |title=La Nueva Iglesia De La Santa Muerte Permite Bodas Gay |url=http://los21.com/vision21/?p=3400 |access-date=2013-02-09 |publisher=Los21.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2010-06-02 |title=La Santa Muerte celebra "bodas homosexuales" en México – México y Tradición |url=http://mexicoytradicion.over-blog.org/article-la-santa-muerte-celebra-bodas-homosexuales-en-mexico-51509467.html |access-date=2013-02-09 |publisher=Mexicoytradicion.over-blog.org |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2010-01-11 |title=Culto a la santa muerte casará a gays |url=http://www.tendenciagay.com/noticias/ampliar/789/culto-a-la-santa-muerte-casara-a-gays |access-date=2013-02-09 |publisher=Tendenciagay.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=2010-01-07 |title=Mexico's Holy Death Church Will Conduct Gay Weddings |work=Latin American Herald Tribune}}</ref> According to R. Andrew Chesnut, [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[History of Latin America|Latin American history]] and [[professor]] of [[Religious studies]], the cult of Santa Muerte is the single fastest-growing new religious movement in the Americas.<ref name="Chesnut 2017" />