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Religious Right Attacks Federal Bullying Intervention

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…des of teenagers around anti-gay bullying, the reaction from the religious right spans the spectrum from predictable to just plain demagoguery. The guidance, issued earlier this week in the form of a “Dear Colleague” letter to more than 15,000 schools and schools districts and more 5,000 colleges and universities across the country, “for the first time, provides a clarification that bullying of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered students ba…

Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…nce against women is contingent on women being able to enjoy all the other rights – from the right to housing, to employment, equal protection under the law, freedom of expression, the right to consensual partnerships regardless of sexual orientation and gender, the right to bodily autonomy, and the right not to be criminalized. I would like to see women’s movements and LBTI groups work together for a tipping point of culture when it no longer pay…

Is This the End of Roe v. Wade And the End of Abortion Rights in the US?

By Chrissy Stroop

…in front of the Supreme Court. According to Women’s eNews: “RiseUp4AbortionRights is unique in its assertion that not only are Republican leaders bent on eliminating women’s reproductive rights, but that ‘too many pro-choice leaders and Democratic Party politicians preach a “realism” of accepting the Court’s gutting of abortion rights.’” I fully agree with this assessment. Complacency, at best, characterizes the attitude of much of the national De…

Despite Vastly Different Values, Evangelical ‘Hamilton’ Connects Secular Left and Christian Right

By Jake Johnson

…bury the lede: musical theater connects the secular Left and the Christian Right. How? In my book Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America, I investigate how religious communities like Door McAllen Church use musicals to practice a form of world-building where they and their beliefs can belong. I learned that this level of adaptation is not at all uncommon among religious groups in America, and for good reason. Music…

LDS Church, US Government Swap Positions on Polygamy

By Holly Welker

…ty show Sister Wives. Judge Waddoups ruled that although the state has the right to deny people more than one valid marriage license at a time, Utah’s anti-cohabitation laws violate the Browns’ First Amendment right to freedom of religion and elements of constitutional due process. * The situation involves a stunning role reversal. Early Latter-day Saints, including my ancestors, claimed that practicing polygamy was their religious right under the…

Russian Operative Maria Butina, Who Leveraged Christian Right Connections, Sentenced For Conspiracy

By Becky Garrison

…ially, these countries have implemented the agenda that the U.S. Religious Right has been working toward for years. The fact that they are totalitarian states that don’t respect individual freedom or human rights is of little concern to the extremists on our shores who yearn to use their religion to control the lives of others. In his repporting, Sharlet documented how this breakfast offers foreign lobbyists direct access to the highest levels of…

Hurricane Sandy Spawns Right-Wing Theodicy

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

As Hurricane Sandy heads ashore on the east coast of the U.S., far right-wing religious zealots are already calling it a sign from God for everything from U.S. policy on Israel to, of course, the gays. The conspiratorial World Net Daily says Sandy is a sign that God is angry with the U.S. for defying his will on Israel: In fact, in his book Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel, [William] Koenig points out that nine of the 10 cos…

Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s including France, Britain and Spain. “Same sex marriage is a step in the right direction but there is still a lot to do,” said Samuel Monars-Bellmont, one of the revelers. Christopher Street Day commemorates the riots that broke out in New York in 1969 after police raided a gay bar — an event seen as a turning point for the gay rights movement. It has been celebrated in Germany since 1979. Richard Grenell, an openly gay foreign affairs commentat…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…nder the Muslim Brotherhood. Graham was sounding a lot like Beck and other right-wing talking heads because they have already put forth that very conspiracy theory, and repeated it at virtually every opportunity. As I reported last year, when Fox News and the American Center for Law and Justice were claiming that the Congressional Muslim Staff Association was infiltrated by terrorists, American Conservative Union board member Suhail Khan (who has…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ally and be protected from discrimination regardless of how unpopular such rights are and how small the number of people who hold those rights may be.” While the proposed partnerships would offer couples “most of the rights afforded to traditional marriages,” there are significant differences. Chile: Debate on marriage equality bill begins as presidential election approaches An estimated one hundred thousand LGBT equality backers marched on Saturd…