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Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…ies was at center stage at this year’s global WCF summit, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, in May. It is no accident that the WCF met in Georgia, where this Russia vs. the West dynamic has been keenly felt in recent years. The event’s chair, Levan Vasadze, had led opposition to Georgia’s adoption of an EU-supported nondiscrimination law in 2014; a WCF regional conference in Georgia that year released a declaration calling the law “an unnatural and an art…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ay, in addition to struggling with an addiction to pornography. This short promo video offers an overview of their stories. By promoting these voices as representative of the entire experience within the LGBT community, even though they do not currently identify as such, the Adventist church elevates stories that portray all LGBT people as damaged, sex addicts, drug and alcohol abusers, unfaithful in relationships, and utterly lost if they do not…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…paign] lost the state of Arizona by 10,000 votes in 2020. Think about it.” Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin complete AFPI’s “Tier 1” states, all of which are, again, among Axios’s six highlighted swing states. Florida, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina comprise “Tier 2.” The Tier 1 Counties Georgia: Cobb, Fulton, and Gwinnett Counties (Atlanta Metro Area) Wisconsin: Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties (Milwaukee Metro Area) Nevada: Clark Coun…

Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tried to prevent LGBT rights from becoming an obstacle to closer tied with Georgia: In Georgia, attitudes towards sexual orientation are linked to political orientation. While the country is largely pro-west, LGBT rights continue to feature as a sticking point towards moving closer to the European Union. In 2014, on the eve of Tbilisi’s signature of an association agreement with the EU, pro-Russia groups and tabloids raised the prospect that this…

Is Religious Liberty Whatever Anyone Says It Is?

By Patricia Miller

…entertainment companies like Disney, Marvel, and AMC that have helped make Georgia the “Hollywood of the South.” If that’s the case, then for now it appears that “The Walking Dead” and other TV shows shot in Georgia have beaten back one of the most blatant religious liberty overreaches. But the proponents of the bill promise to resurrect it next year or in a special session, which means like the zombies of “The Walking Dead,” this bill—and the rel…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ntre for Family and Human Rights (CARIFAM), a group that says it works to “promote fundamental human rights” but criticizes “legislation promoting a permissive and indulgent value system that is destroying our societies.” Other speakers include WCF’s Don Feder, Focus on the Family’s Glenn Stanton, Family Watch International’s Sharon Slater, and Pastor Scot Stirm, an anti-gay activist in Belize. A WCF African regional conference will take place in…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of this source code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most impo…

Waiting for Lightning to Strike: A Wobbly Agnostic among the Atheists

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…a story around the campfire.) Nancy and I make our way through the crowded registration lobby. “I met you at Skepticon,” a young woman says to someone behind me. We accept our nametags and our programs from the person at the registration table. I don’t want to pay an extra three dollars for the lanyard, so I am left with the option of pinning the American Atheist tag (“Carolyn Briggs” below the atom logo—an atom apparently being the antithesis of…

Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…positive depictions of LGBT lives. The MDA Free to Air Television Program Code states that “music associated with drugs, alternative lifestyles (e.g. homosexuality) or the worship of the occult or the devil should not be broadcast.” The Free to Air Radio Program Code says “information, themes or subplots on lifestyles such as homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexualism, transsexualism, transvestism, paedophilia and incest should be treated with utmost…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in Taiwan, where the Constitutional Court ruled last month that the civil code restricting marriage to ‘a male and a female’ is unconstitutional. The Court gave legislators two years to amend the Civil Code. The article says, however, that “the Court’s arguments for same-sex marriage were not entirely straightforward and left room for further interpretation”: It could be that this was due to the Court’s desire to cool down the same-sex marriage d…