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

By Peter Montgomery

…s. They may also restrict nonprofit organizations and human rights groups that promote views inconsistent with conservative religious values. Religious friends and family members are likely to reinforce anti-homosexual views. International Anti-Trans Bus Tour & PR Campaign The anti-trans bus tour in Spain that we reported on earlier this month is part of an international strategy. The Spanish bus was sponsored by HazteOir, a Spain-based group that…

Adventists Cancel ‘Holy Sexuality’ Confab; Egyptian Court OKs Deportation of Gays; Mongolian Trans Activist Gives TV Interview; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gender — are free to live and pray and love as they choose,” said Obama. “That’s what we believe.” Vatican: Church ends takeover of nuns’ organization The Vatican has “abruptly ended its takeover of the main leadership group of American nuns two years earlier than expected,” reports the New York Times’ Laurie Goodstein, who reminds us that “Under the previous pope, Benedict XVI, the Vatican’s doctrinal office had appointed three bishops in 2012 to…

His Own Received Him Not: Jimmy Carter, First Evangelical President

By Randall Balmer

…es—but if I can participate in, and contribute to, a larger conversation, that satisfies me. What alternative title would you give the book? I wanted to call it Redeemer President, but the publisher wanted to shorten it to Redeemer. I also considered His Own Received Him Not, a reference to the dramatic reversal of evangelical sentiment toward Carter between 1976 to 1980. How do you feel about the cover? I love the cover. Basic Books did a wonderf…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g ahead generally as planned, though without the official WCF imprimatur. That’s exactly what happened this week, with WCF officials Don Feder and Larry Jacobs in attendance, along with Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage. Miranda Blue reports at Right Wing Watch that the event, whose them was celebrating the role of large families in the preservation of Christian civilization, ended with summit delegates calling for Russian-styl…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…the Telegraph, he claims that Britain is being “sanitised” of faith, and that it was “quite extraordinary” that people could be punished for expressing religious beliefs. He says: “I worry that there are attempts to push faith out of the public space. Clearly it happens at a level of local power. “You can watch institutions or organisations do it or watch it happen at a local government level. In my view it’s very undesirable. “Some of the cases…

Gingrich, Historian, Religionist, Fails Own MLK Weekend Test

By Sarah Posner

…e situations and questions being presented to him. The headline for the Politico story on the campaign stop was “Newt Gingrich battles with crowd at black church.” That, of course, misses the point. Here was Gingrich, who in any other church setting would blather on about God and Jesus and what makes America great. That he could stand in a black church the day before Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, and be questioned about race and economic inj…

Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

By Mark Dery

…ing, careening beat. I catch myself thinking how sexy he is. And I wonder what that means. And I realize I don’t care. • Riding the volume knob, I split the difference between waking my parents and coaxing all the ecstasy I can from the TV’s tin-can speaker. I don’t know how to take this I don’t see why he moves me He’s a man He’s just a man Should I bring him down Should I scream and shout Should I speak of love Let my feelings out? I never thoug…

Cherry-Picking in the God Gap: A Post-Election Conversation on the Religious Vote and the Battle to Spin it

By Daniel Schultz and Chrissy Stroop

…ow to affect big changes in elite media discourse, but I know that I will continue to plug away at achieving some ex-evangelical representation, and hope that that helps to mix things up some over time. It’s always great to chat with you!…

The Demographic that Should Keep Rove Awake at Night

By Katherine Stewart

…’s first openly lesbian senator. Some on the right could scarcely believe that this is what America really wants. “Millions of Americans looked evil in the eye and adopted it,” wrote Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver in his post-election commentary. He has a point—except that, for the majority of Americans, the “evil” they looked in the eye was the one they rejected on November 6. Others on the right, like the Rev. Dr. Albert Mohler Jr., president of t…

“Freedom” vs. “Liberty”: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Favor One Over the Other

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…on. Even today, liberty still has 18th century connotations. “It’s a word that wears a three-corner hat,” said Nunberg. Following its starring role in the Declaration of Independence, liberty has slowly slipped out of common usage. By the middle of the 20th century, the United States was solidly the land of freedom, its politics marked by turf battles over the proper use of the word—from the Freedom Riders to Operation Iraqi Freedom (although, as…