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Despite Reports, GOP Has Not ‘Turned on Trump’ For Call to Terminate the Constitution — Fascism isn’t a Dealbreaker for Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…t on the life of the third-highest-ranking Democrat within two years, this news story, which should dominate the news cycle for several weeks at the very least, has seemingly already disappeared from the nation’s headlines. And while some media outlets in the US and internationally ran pieces claiming “Republican condemnation” of Trump’s dictatorial rantings on Truth Social, it’s worth pausing and taking a closer look as to who exactly it was, amo…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…es State of Emergency in Advance of Pro-gun Rally near State Capitol,” CBS News, January 15, 2020. [68] Ned Oliver and Graham Moomaw, “As Virginia Democrats advance new gun restrictions, militias organize, promising to resist,” Virginia Mercury, January 13, 2020; Hannah Hall, “Augusta County supervisors will not approve plan for militia,” WHSV3 News, February 25, 2020; Autumn Childress, “Rockingham County Supervisors Reject Unorganized Militia Pro…

When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…nt, and a pledge at the end. A final admonition declares that breaking the Code will result in immediate execution. The Code is illustrated with images pulled from a website promoting the 2007 Swedish film Arn: The Knights Templar. This past spring, copies of the Code were mysteriously distributed across Michoacan. Like La Familia, members of the Knights Templar must refrain from drugs and must commit to routine drug testing, but unlike La Famila…

How the Catholic Church Changed the Movies

By Patricia Miller

…llywood Censored. The code they designed became the Motion Picture Conduct Code, popularly know as the Hays Code after it was adopted by William Hays, a Presbyterian elder who was hired by the major studios to help clean up the industry’s image after it was rocked by a series of scandals. The code, says Black, “was a fascinating combination of Catholic theology, conservative politics and pop psychology—an amalgam that would control the content of…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ts agree homosexuality ‘normal and natural variation’ Naith Payton at Pink News reported this week that the Ugandan National Academy of Sciences has endorsed the conclusions of a new study on sexual diversity by the Academy of Science of South Africa. Uganda’s infamous anti-gay laws were justified with a study which Ugandan MPs claimed stated: “Homosexuality is not a disease but merely an abnormal behaviour which may be learned through experiences…

“Biblical” Disaster: Understanding Religion in Haiti

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…t provides some answers. She correlates the explosion of Pentecostalism in Guatemala, who like Haiti, is an epicenter of Pentecostalism in the Americas, in part as a response to the earthquake. An overwhelmingly high percentage of Guatemalans saw the earthquake as a form of divine punishment and a call for repentance. Arriving in the guise of aid and relief, Protestantism provided an alternative way of being Christian. Yet Pentecostalism primarily…

‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

By Matt Recla

…te ignorance. Using “demons” to explain natural disasters is not anything new. What is new is how the language of the demonic has been used to describe a natural disaster that happens to anyone other than a Christian, and often, a Christian of European extraction. It is on par with the notion of “Slave-holding Christianity” about which Frederick Douglass spoke so eloquently in “What to a slave is the Fourth of July.” What’s more, this narrative o…

Science, Syphilis, and the Evolution of Ethics

By Arri Eisen

…esley website at 9 a.m. EST, October 2, 2010, while President Obama called Guatemalan President Àlvaro Colom Caballeros to apologize. Sixty-four years ago, as the Nuremburg trials investigating Nazi abuse of people in the name of science were going on in post-WWII Germany, the United States Public Health Service was intentionally exposing Guatemalans to the bacterium that causes syphilis, so that different therapies for the disease could then be t…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…human rights and political stability in the region. Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic are members of the Guatemala City-based body. Honduras’ general elections are scheduled to take place on Nov. 26. Jordany told the Blade that she will “hopefully” be among the Central American Parliament candidates who remain on the ballot. Chile: LGBT activist announces congressional run LGBT activist Luis Larraín ann…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…und the world failing to hear the same message over and over again. Steven Newcomb, a Shawnee Indian, said it best in a column in Indian Country Today: What the hell were they thinking… the code name was based on an extension of the metaphor “Indians Are Enemies” to “Geronimo was a Terrorist,” thus perpetuating the US tradition of treating Indian nations and peoples as enemies. Maybe if the lessons of the Indian wars had been pondered before the m…