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Will the US Naval Academy Grant The Satanic Temple Equal Rites?

By Becky Garrison

…How the Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk About Religion (Oxford, January 2020), Laycock interviewed several TST members who were active military. “Nearly all of them had a story about being harassed by a commanding officer who was essentially using his position to proselytize to subordinates. In his estimation, “These TST members in the armed forces are willing to risk damage to their careers because of their religious convictions. These…

When Fundamentalism Follows You Out the Door: Transphobic Statement Exposes Exvangelical Trauma

By Chrissy Stroop

…l community and movement in a year-end retrospective here on RD. Then this January, exvies exploded onto the scene with the #ExposeChristianSchools campaign I launched in response to the defensiveness of Vice President Mike Pence and movement conservatives over criticism of second lady Karen Pence for returning to her job as an art teacher at an anti-LGBTQ evangelical school. While the success of #ExposeChristianSchools seemed to justify my optimi…

What the Hail: Satanists Got Busy in 2018

By Joseph Laycock

…can’t RD? So, without further delay, your year in Satanism. – The editors January: A lawsuit The Satanic Temple (TST) had filed in 2015 finally reached the Missouri Supreme Court. A Satanist named “Mary Doe” needed an abortion and claimed Missouri’s restrictions for receiving one–which included reading a pamphlet stating that life begins at conception, viewing an ultrasound of the fetus, and a 72-hour-waiting period–violated her sincerely held re…

Opposing Anti-Choice Legislation Isn’t a Violation of Religious Freedom, It’s an Expression of It

By Rebecca Todd Peters

Since the beginning of January, nearly 400 abortion restrictions have been introduced in state houses across the country. While this is about the same number as last year, what’s new is that 40% of these bills are attempts to ban abortion. The goal is for one of these bills to make its way up to a Supreme Court, which is now theoretically conservative enough to overturn Roe v. Wade. The extent to which this campaign is about criminalizing abortio…

LDS Church Rescinds Hurtful Marriage Policy Without Apology

By Holly Welker

…ld. Compare this change to the changes in the temple ceremony announced on January 2, 2019, eliminating or at least softening some of the sexism of the sealing and endowment ceremonies. Those alterations had to have been in the works for months (if not a year or more), since new scripts had to be written and approved, and new versions of the movie depicting the temple ceremony had to be produced. Discussing those changes, I wrote that I was unable…

House Hearing on White Nationalism Missed the Boat on Christian Nationalism

By Murali Balaji

…y Kansara, HAF’s director of government relations. HAF was responding to a January hate crime in Kentucky, in which a 17-year-old broke into a Hindu temple, defaced the shrine, and spray painted “Jesus is the only Lord.” Ironically, neither the larger issue of Christian nationalism nor the Kentucky incident was raised by the committee’s lone Hindu member, Pramila Jayapal, during the hearing. The House Judiciary Committee has an opportunity to reve…

Trump’s CPAC Meltdown Wasn’t Just Comedy Gold, It Was Groundbreaking Extremism

By Becky Garrison

…odawful church casserole that no Christian should want to consume. True, a January 2019 Marist poll noted that only 66% of white evangelicals approve of Trump’s job performance. But according to an analysis by Religion News Service, this drop can be attributed to the partial government shutdown. Hence, it appears the majority of Trumpvangelicals will continue to break bread with Trump even if it impacts their pocketbooks as long as he continues to…

American Missionary Could Face Genocide Charges, But Brazil’s Indigenous Communities Have a Bigger Problem

By Amy Fallas

…-wing administration in Brazil. President Jair Bolsonaro assumed office in January after running a campaign largely hostile to indigenous rights. Bolsonaro supports assimilation of indigenous communities and opening their resource-rich reservations in the Amazon to commercial interests, including large-scale farming, logging, and mining. Although the Brazilian constitution protects these populations and their lands, the new president has considere…

Historian John Ragosta Discusses the Context and Inspiration for ‘Religious Freedom’ in the U.S.

By Frederick Clarkson

…s the principal author of the First Amendment. In 1992 Congress designated January 16th as Religious Freedom Day to celebrate enactment of the Virginia Statute, stipulating only that it be commemorated by a presidential proclamation. Religious Freedom Day hasn’t exactly caught on, and there’s no official web site (although an evangelical education outfit managed to purchase the web address for Religious Freedom Day and make it look rather official…

Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…orks throughout the region, told the Blade earlier this month during a telephone interview from Buenos Aires there have been “setbacks in regards to human rights” in Argentina and other countries in “which the LGBT community has gained very strong visibility and (trans-friendly) laws.” Romero added the Roman Catholic Church, gangs, conservative lawmakers and governments and other groups continue to influence people’s transphobic attitudes that she…