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Why We Can’t Wait for a Majority to Grant Marriage Equality

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ar after the U.S. Supreme Court imposed interracial marriage on the entire country, do you realize that polls showed that 73 percent of Americans still disapproved of interracial marriage?” “If,” I continued, “we had to wait for the tender mercies of the majority of this country to grant all minority groups their civil rights, I dare say that you, sir, would still be drinking from a different water fountain that me here in South Carolina.” The aud…

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Holocaust Humor and The ‘Real’ Germany — As Top Officials Shatter Post-WWII Taboos, German Conservatives Follow GOP Playbook and Charge Ahead

By Annika Brockschmidt

…A-esque sentiment where the dear Leader is the only thing that rescues the country—or state, in this instance (Bavaria is kind of our Texas and has more or less openly flirted with secession)—from impending doom and destruction. Merz followed up neatly and immediately communicated who belongs to Germany for him and who does not: “Kreuzberg is not Germany. Gillamoos is Germany, ladies and gentlemen.” Kreuzberg is a multicultural, artsy, Left-leanin…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…raham.” From Los Angeles, Graham took his evangelistic crusades around the country and the world, thereby providing him with international renown. Organization In 1948, following a successful revival campaign in Augusta, Georgia, and a cross-country drive to California, Graham and his associates (whom he always called his “team”) had met at a motel in Modesto, California. Worried about Sinclair Lewis’s Elmer Gantry caricature of itinerant preacher…

Some Christian and Muslim Leaders Urging ‘No’ Vote in Australian Mail Ballot on Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sident, Henry Aho, said male homosexuals were particularly targeted in the country’s provisions against sodomy. “There is a new wave of evangelism that’s coming with an agenda to put an end to any plans the transgender communities in the world have.” “Not touching the current laws leaves the door open for these groups to use that against members of our community in Tonga,” he said. In Samoa, sodomy between men could mean a jail sentence of up to s…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…f anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Muslim The Call revival rallies across the country. In 2002, the Kansas City IHOP was having a “forerunner conference,” Dalton said, “so I went halfway across the United States to find out what God was speaking to me. And it clarified a lot of things.” She came back to Pickens County and founded the Forerunner House of Prayer. Mike Bickle, who played a central preaching role at The Response in Houston, has preached…

Brits Get A Dose of Christian Nation Politicking

By Sarah Posner

…r criticizing Cameron for “his characterisation of Britain as a ‘Christian country;’ and the negative consequences for politics and society that this engenders.” They went on: Apart from in the narrow constitutional sense that we continue to have an established Church, Britain is not a “Christian country”. Repeated surveys, polls and studies show that most of us as individuals are not Christian in our beliefs or our religious identities. At a soci…

King Hearings: Right to Attorney = Enabling Extremism?

By Hussein Rashid

…lause of the Fourteenth. No one denies that Muslims should be loyal to the country. Part of truly loving your country is also being willing to criticize when you believe it to be wrong. That is the very definition of civic and political engagement: make your society better. As we’ve seen in the Arab world recently, the “liberty narrative” is not foreign to Muslims, and does not need to be inculcated. Like any skill, it must be developed and nurtur…

Falwell’s Fall Was Unrelated to the Anti-Science, Racism, and Patriarchy Trifecta that Built Liberty

By Rita Nakashima-Brock

…without the resources to travel to states or countries that offer abortion services. The trifecta that Weyrich, Falwell, and their allies bet on appears headed toward major stumbles this fall. Science-aversion can be fatal in the midst of a pandemic that’s now surging in states that are crucial to the aging, white evangelical Republican base. The country has a good chance of electing an administration and legislators who support reproductive justi…

Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…s based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Demand for support services is expected to grow with the adoption of harsh anti-LGBT laws around the globe. Al-Jazeera America, for example, has recently reported on the rising number of Russians seeking asylum in the U.S. At the Capitol Hill event, activists described the many challenges facing asylum-seekers. For those who make claims when they arrive at a US border crossing, that includes…

‘Brazil’s Trump’ Bolsonaro Lost — But Anti-Democratic Movements Seldom Accept Electoral Defeat

By Craig Johnson

…ruption scandal in Brazil’s history and a contender for the biggest in any country in modern history. The incumbent is Jair Messais Bolsonaro, a longtime politician and a popular firebrand. Known throughout his career for his racist, misogynist outbursts and his open support for violence against his opponents, Bolsonaro shocked Brazil with his victory against Lula’s surrogate candidate in 2018. As President, Bolsonaro doubled down on his incendiar…