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Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n said that religious freedom is not absolute and must yield to homosexual rights. “There are some absolute rights,” he said in apparent reference to LGBT rights, “but there are some that are not absolute.” He went on to explain that “freedom of expression and expression of religion” are not absolute rights and that they can be curtailed when necessary. While praising a desire to engage with the “heart of religion,” Muntarbhorn said this should be…

Rodriguez on Nativism in the GOP and Socially Conservative Latinos

By Sarah Posner

…mergence of an independent movement that will be right of center, not hard-right, but right of center, independent movement that will run a counter narrative, or an alternative narrative to the Republican Party and even to the progressive, liberal, the Democratic Party. There’s a brand new movement emerging in America. It’s center-rght, it’s not hard right, it’s that cricle of protection but with social conservative values that do not alienate or…

Will Texas Really Be Able to Undermine Marriage Equality?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…n Bowers v. Hardwick (reversed in Lawrence v. Texas) demeaned gay couples’ right to sexual privacy by calling it only a right to ‘homosexual sodomy.’ When certain people see a married gay couple their thoughts drift to sodomy. “But the problems with Pidgeon‘s view of Obergefell are even deeper than that. Without elaboration, the Texas Supreme Court announced its view that Obergefell held only that states must ‘license and recognize’ same-sex marri…

Score One For The Homosexual Agenda

By Sarah Posner

…ted student activity fees. But the framing is typical of how the religious right pits LGBT rights against religious freedom — insisting the two can’t co-exist, in this case because the CLS can’t require LGBT students to denounce their own “sexually immoral lifestyle.” This has long been the strategy of the religious right, in higher education and other forums. And while the Martinez case is limited to an interpretation of the Hastings policy, it w…

Might, Right, and White Privilege: It’s Morning in America, the Sequel

By Diane Winston

…ons made plain his vision for a nation that bestrode the globe with might, right and white privilege. Reagan truly believed that his notion of freedom—democracy, free markets and religious liberty—was God’s plan for America. He also believed that America was God’s tool for spreading freedom worldwide. In the years following his presidency, his vision was enacted through domestic and foreign policy. Welfare reform, trade agreements, and the War on…

‘Anti-Zionism = Antisemitism’ isn’t Just Wrong, It’s the Problem

By Shaul Magid

…of equal citizenship anywhere in the world (what Hannah Arendt called “the right to have rights”)? No. It’s a claim about the right to a state (if that) not the rights of a “people.” But do any people have a “right” to a state? Nation-states certainly exist, but do they have a right to exist? Irish people have a state, but do they have a right to a state? There’s a robust debate about this in the study of nations and nationalism that’s nowhere to…

Andrew Sullivan is Right and Wrong on Racism, Romney, and the Book of Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

…ndard at play in the fact that President Obama’s relationship to Jeremiah Wright has been made the subject of a long-lasting national controversy while Governor Romney’s relationship to racist statements by past LDS leaders has been quietly accepted. (In fact, it may be the case that during 2012 general presidential campaign, Obama has been the object of more religion-related public antagonism and mischaracterization than Romney—including the pers…

Historian Matthew Stewart Upends the Widespread Belief that 19th Century U.S. Christianity Was On ‘The Right Side of History’

By Peter Laarman

…n, not to mention labor rights, women’s suffrage, and so on down the line, right? For years I’ve taken comforting reinforcement for this sentimental notion from the writings of people like Marilynne Robinson (even if we haven’t always seen eye to eye) and Harvard Kennedy School’s Richard Parker. Alas, I must now surrender at least some of this idolatry, thanks to the work of one Matthew Stewart, a resourceful independent scholar who celebrates som…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…sisting “western LGBTIQ fascists” and suggested that Islamic jihadists are right about the “moral and spiritual bankruptcy” of the “decadent West.” Political Network for Values: Conservatives on Offense in Global Culture War In December, 60 parliamentarians from 20 countries gathered in New York with leaders of religious right organizations from around the globe for a “transatlantic summit” organized by the Political Network for Values. The summit…

God is My Co-Belligerent: Avatar Priests, Hijacked Theologians, and Other Figures of Right-Wing Revolt

By Frederick Clarkson

…tream media and even from the late Tim Russert on Meet the Press. A goodly number of faithful Catholic writers also found it dark and threatening, however, although I had intended it to be positive and optimistic.” “My avatar priest,” he continued, “looked back from the vantage point of 2030 to reflect on recent ‘history’: the story of American Catholics who became confessors and martyrs to the faith as the federal government of the ‘Culture of De…