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South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ps, which they will be able to convert to marriages beginning in December. Costa Rica: Survey Shows Split on Religion and Sexuality According to The Costa Rica News, the Ecumenical School of Religious Studies at the National University released the findings of a telephone survey and set of focus groups on the religious beliefs of Costa Ricans. TCRN reports that 69% professed to being active Catholics, but only 4 out of 10 go to church. On homosexu…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…n Asia, Australia, Canada, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, South Africa, South America, Ukraine, and the US. CIGN envisions the church as “God’s instrument to establish and extend God’s Kingdom until the literal coming of Christ to reign over all the earth.” Towards this end, CIGN believes that “God has entrusted the church the solemn Biblical responsibility of being the conscience of society, culture and government” and therefore it rejec…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…ormer Trump administration officials, including the Center for Renewing America and Stephen Miller’s America First Legal, which alone took in $44 million in 2022.[17] Project 2025 builds on a tradition started when Heritage presented then President-elect Ronald Reagan with its “Mandate for Leadership” policy wish list.[18] Heritage does not describe Project 2025 as a Trump-specific project, saying it is preparing for “the next conservative adminis…

Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ve equality between men and women, although there is still some way to go. Costa Rica: Family court judge gives same-sex couple common-law marriage This week a family court judge in the city of Goicoechea granted a common-law marriage to a gay couple, Gerald Castro and Cristian Zamora. According to the Tico Times, Along with being the first legal recognition of a same-sex relationship in Central America, the decision could set an example for judge…

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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…5. [15] Mikhail Zygar, “Russia’s War on Woke,” Foreign Affairs, January 2, 2024. [16] Katherine Kelaidis, “A Twisted Love Story: How American Evangelicals Helped Make Putin’s Russia and How Russia Became the Darling of the American Right,” Religion Dispatches, March 2, 2022. [17] Zygar, “Russia’s War on Woke;” Helge Blakkisrud, “Blurring the Boundary between Civic and Ethnic: The Kremlin’s New Approach to National Identity under Putin’s Third Ter…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…g billionaires), they decided this year to cover up the crisis with a rhetorical fig leaf. In November, the Court revealed the “ethics code” they’d drafted themselves which, not only isn’t being enforced by anyone except SCOTUS itself, but also has the fingerprints of the Federalist Society and its allies all over it. And, while this attempt to confront a crisis of confidence in one of the nation’s most critical institutions amounts to little more…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

…her it was successful at increasing health care coverage to millions of Americans, the board would no doubt want students to be taught how reform represented the Communist takeover of Amerika. And that it was only the pushback from noble Tea Party brigades and their true patriotic efforts that kept this nation from descending into a Soviet gulag. Of course, the ugliness and racism displayed at the Capitol by Tea Partiers this weekend will be airbr…

You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

By Daniel Schultz

…It might as well be as old as Moses, given what a commonplace it is for right-wing Christians. The rest of it is a chestnut of its own. We ought to just be grateful that Lindell isn’t enforcing coronavirus rectitude with a hatchet. (Carrie Nation was also an unabashed self-promoter, by the way.) It’s a strand that goes back to Wesleyan perfectionism and Calvinist propriety, some of the deepest roots of American religion. It may look like faith se…

Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

By Rob Shryock

…book, A Call to Resurgence, follows that script arguing that only 8% of Americans are “true evangelicals,” while simultaneously, and apparently without a hint of irony, calling on Christians to “stop fighting and unite.” Driscoll’s nose for controversy has earned him a consistent presence in the news cycle, perhaps comparable only to Pat Robertson’s. But unlike Robertson, who’s generally regarded as a kook, Driscoll is stellar at leveraging his b…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d or indicted for sex offenses” should be exempted from legal protections. Costa Rica: Vice President discusses family connection to human rights issues The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers interviewed Vice President Ana Helena Chacón, who spoke at the Civil Marriage Equality Congress held in San José on November 10. Chacón said her human rights advocacy was prompted by the birth of her youngest daughter, who has Down Syndrome. “I began a fight a…