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Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lace from which they could never return.” NBC News offers some context: In January 2016, Human Rights Watch issued a report describing patterns of state-sponsored violence and abuses under Ramzan Kadyrov, the current head of the Chechen Republic. Ukrainian journalist Maxim Eristavi, who is openly gay and frequently comments on LGBTQ and human rights issues across Eastern Europe, told NBC News that Kadyrov’s forces have “one of the worst human righ…

Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…uestioned if this meant all Muslims in Malaysia should also give up their iPhones and iPads. … Asked about the possibility that some Muslims will find fault with fellow Muslims who don’t support the boycott, Tawfik said Muslims are only answerable to God and not Perkasa. “All Muslims know that the first word Prophet Muhammad heard, in the name of God, was ‘Read’. “So, the only way you can be ‘less Muslim’ is if you don’t use God’s gift of the brai…

Trump’s Twitter Rant Helpfully Models Universal Human Depravity, Spokesperson Suggests

By Karen E. Park

…ad been “bleeding badly from a face lift” when he saw her at Mar-a-Lago in January. For many this evoked Trump’s well known disgust with blood and other effluvia, particularly that of women. Trump also referred to Brzezinski’s co-host and fiance Joe Scarborough as “Psycho Joe.” GOP politicians from Lindsey Graham to Paul Ryan offered condemnation that varied in its vehemence from tepid to slightly less tepid, but the White House staunchly defended…

Atheism’s Dark Side Aiding the Trump Agenda

By Stephen LeDrew

…pical depictions of Muslims as deranged religious fanatics unpalatable. In January 2016, Dawkins was dropped (though eventually re-invited) as keynote speaker for the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism after backlash to his tweet promoting a proudly misogynistic and embarrassingly stupid YouTube video called “Feminists Love Islamists.” The incident highlighted the polarizing effect he has within the atheist community, which is struggli…

Obama, MLK, Not “Nice” Enough to Moderates?

By Paul Harvey

…gliding and riffing played well outside the South and among the very small number of Southern liberals already aware of the sins of segregation, but it seems almost calculated to make the vast majority of white Southern Christians dismiss King as some highfalutin’ liberal with grandiose ideas, rather than a minister of their own Christian faith calling attention to laws that contradicted the spirit of the Gospel. This, about a man who led doubtles…

#NamaSlay, Or How Black Women Are Using Trap Yoga as a Mode of Spiritual Resistance

By Anita Little

…tholic tradition, Polk responds, “It’s all the same really.” Studio 262 In January, the Los Angeles native opened her studio on Figueroa Street, just two minutes from where she grew up on 29th and Vermont. Polk, who has been practicing yoga for five years and benefited greatly, wanted to find a way to make yoga relatable and accessible for people within her community. That’s where trap yoga came in. She hosted a trap yoga workshop as a one-off and…

Can Eurovision’s Rainbow Arch Undermine Ukraine’s Orthodox Value System? This and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s. Anti-LGBT incidents across Indonesia have significantly increased since January 2016—in synch with broader rising intolerance of religious minorities. Last year’s LGBT crisis started with vitriolic anti-LGBT rhetoric from officials and politicians and included police raids on suspected gatherings of gay men, and attacks on LGBT activists. Russia: Gay teen reportedly pushed off Chechen building; Russian Gov’t dismisses ‘propaganda’ According to…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…established LGBT Muslim organization in the country. The group emerged in January 2013 from the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change Conference, which has sought to advance the cause of “full freedom, justice, and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in the United States” for nearly three decades. This national annual conference has helped foster a network of support for a movement that has been marginalized b…

Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…act of Congress—like the passage of H.R. 172, introduced into the House in January by North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter B. Jones. (The bill hasn’t even gotten a preliminary reading yet.) We thought we’d have to sue Trump today. But it turned out the order signing was an elaborate photo-op with no discernible policy outcome. — ACLU National (@ACLU) May 4, 2017 Hobby Lobby Still Doesn’t Have to Pay for Your Birth Control (Or Pap Smears or Ma…

Warpaint: What Does George W. Bush See in His “Portraits of Courage”?

By Sarah Sentilles

…s, green shirt, green in his hair and eyebrows. Bush’s essay tells how, in January of 2007, during Adams’ fifth deployment, his vehicle hit two landmines laced with white phosphorous, a chemical compound that causes terrible burns. Adams was knocked unconscious and then came to trapped in his vehicle, engulfed in flames. Bush explains that Adams still suffers from traumatic stress, how he can’t ride in a car in the far-right lane because he’s afra…