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Catholic Bishops Meeting For Family Synod; South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church OKs Gay Weddings, Ordination; Court in Malaysia Deals Setback To Transgender Advocates; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and trans refugees, Kara said: Syrian refugees include Christians, Alevis, Sunnis, and Kurds. These groups experience many layers of discrimination. For instance, the Sunnis received religion-based assistance from the Turkish government, which Alevis and Christians couldn’t. But these social groups either came from Syria together or found each other here in Turkey. LGBTs never had that opportunity. Syrian LGBTs who reached and were assisted by Kao…

Anti-Gay Forces On Offense in Europe; ‘African Islam’ Challenged by Extremists; Irish Marriage Foes & ‘Sounds of Sodomy’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Passports In what Reuters calls “a sign of the conservative Hindu-majority country becoming moreliberal since the end of a decade-long civil war,” Nepal’s government announced that new passport regulations “will add a third category of gender for those people who do not want to be identified as male or female.” According to Reuters, The country is preparing its first constitution after the abolition of the 239-year-old Hindu monarchy in 2008. The…

Claiming That ‘We Birthed a Nation From Nothing’ CNN’s Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ause they were not allowed to practice their particular faith in their own country. And so they came here, mostly from Europe, and they set up a country that was based on Judeo-Christian principles — when I say Judeo-Christian, the Mosaic laws, 10 Commandments, and the teachings of Jesus Christ, the morals and teachings of Jesus Christ. That’s what our founding documents are based upon. It’s in our DNA. … We came here and created a blank slate [si…

To Be Christian, Intellectual and Black: A Response to Vincent Lloyd

By Joshua L. Lazard

…re: black first, Christian second, intellectual third. To be black in this country is a compendium of ontology that this essay does not have room to contain. To be black and Christian with a sense of what that means historically is to understand resistance to core American values that founded this country. To be black and Christian and an intellectual is a formula that the United States may need, but not certainly one that it desires. There is no…

Chatting with Myanmar’s Buddhist “Terrorist”

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ken in his insistence that the Rohingya are not legitimately native to the country, but are interlopers. According to Wirathu, rich Muslim countries have bought off the UN, and its human rights accusations were part of a Muslim plot. “It is not the United Nations,” Wirathu told me, “but the United Muslim Nations.” Wirathu claimed that President Obama was also duped by these influences, and this is the reason why he spoke about the rights of Rohing…

President Joe Biden at a podium with a microphone in hand.

Biden’s Embrace of ‘Victory Culture’ is a Victory for Toxic White Christianity

By Peter Laarman

…owe this personal victory in part to the fear and rage being stoked every Sunday in many, many thousands of White Christian churches, where Technicolor visions of the End Times-struggle keep packing them in, week after week. This substratum has been heavily Trumpian, needless to say; Team Biden is looking to peel off the ones who question DJT’s lack of enthusiasm for foreign military engagement (failing to recognize, perhaps, that many of those t…

Don’t Laugh at Rick Scott’s ‘Plan to Rescue America’ or Be Fooled by Reports of a ‘Backlash’ — His Only Mistake Was Revealing the Truth of Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…h is the preservation of cultural and political dominance in the face of a country that’s increasingly starting to resemble the multi-ethnic, pluralist democracy it always promised to be. Scott’s plan picks up some old hits of the Christian Right with the denunciation of “pornography” and “obscenity” and merges them with the hottest topic of the Republican culture war: anti-trans propaganda. It painfully outlines the devastatingly anti-science pos…

The Shari’ah Spring: Media Gets It Backwards

By Haroon Moghul

…secularism; while Libya is a culturally conservative, nearly fully Muslim country, whose recently deposed tyrant frequently promoted Islamic practices and pieties. If we read the Arab Spring as a zero-sum game between Islamists and secularists, we’re going to miss what’s happening; if we imagine Arab democracy will look like secular Western democracy, we will likely be disappointed. And if we assume reference to Islam and democracy reveals only h…

Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…Uruguay. Action on the amendment has also been delayed. The International Service for Human Rights is among the groups urging countries to reject the African Group effort. Romania: Orthodox Church helps spearhead push for anti-marriage-equality amendment The Romanian Orthodox Church “dramatically” demonstrated its influence, according to LifeSiteNews, when its priests and bishops “helped spearhead” a petition drive that gathered three million sig…

At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…ate America from these villains and tyrants who are looking to destroy our country. No matter what they throw at us, no matter what they do to us, we will not bend, we will not break, we will not yield, we will never give in, we will never give up. We will never ever back down, and we will complete the mission. We will cross the finish line. We will demolish tyranny, and we will rescue liberty and justice, and we will restore the American Republic…