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Police Response in Uvalde Prompts Question: To Serve and Protect Whom?

By John Stoehr

…came, the cop said: ‘Yell if you need help!’ And one of the people in my class said ‘help.’ The guy overheard and he came in and shot her.” That’s it. That’s the detail that got me. A child desperately needing to trust a caring adult. A child shot to pieces for needing and trusting. Because of a cop’s incompetence. The teachers were the heroes The boy’s eyewitness account is more damning in context. The Washington Post reported Thursday that, wit…

“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

…d providers somehow “complicit” in the mandate a massive overreach. In the Washington Post, Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia argues that finding for the Little Sisters and their co-plaintiffs would “endanger religious liberty” because it would give religious objectors carte blanche to determine “what is a substantial burden on their exercise of religion; the courts must take their word for it.” Veit then goes on to make the rather biz…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tegories were exempt from military draft under a section of the law which classified homosexuality and transsexuality as a mental disorder. However, after the ratification of the new regulations, although homosexuality and transsexuality are still categorized as mental disorders, a specific section of the law provided two new provision with regard to these groups which are specified on their ID cards and would in essence identify them as homosexua…

Praying for a Victory: Packed Supreme Court Takes Up Yet Another Christian Nationalist Cause

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ality. It’s fought to keep evolution out of public schools; and put Bible classes, Jesus portraits, and school-imposed prayer in public schools. That last effort is what Kennedy v. Bremerton School District is all about. I first wrote about this case back in 2015, focusing on how the Institute doesn’t mind taking losing cases because they’ll keep them alive for years and fundraise off their false narratives. And if the courts follow precedent and…

The Right’s ‘Grooming’ Rhetoric Didn’t Begin with QAnon — You Have to Go Back a Bit Further to Get to the Source

By Sophie Bjork-James

…tims,” according to former evangelical pastor Joshua Pease, writing in the Washington Post. As an anthropologist who’s spent a significant amount of time studying white evangelical culture, I know very well that many evangelicals see heterosexuality and cis-gendered identities as requirements for living a godly life. In my book, The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family, I show how this fixation on heterosexuality links…

Disingenuous Pleas for “Common Ground” on Religious Liberty Aren’t Likely to Find Any

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…and elevate the conversation,” says Gehring, Catholic program director for Washington-based nonprofit Faith in Public Life. But then, in a slippery Beltway appeal to the center, Gehring quickly adds: “If conservatives need to do some soul searching about how they often set back the important cause of religious liberty, progressives also need a better approach that fosters dialogue and common ground instead of division.” Yet Gehring offers just one…

“Religious Liberty” Catholics Reap What They Sow in Trump

By Patricia Miller

…both Catholic and evangelical—refused to attend the gathering and told the Washington Post that anyone who publicly embraced Trump would be disgraced: For those of us who believe in limited government, the rule of law, flourishing institutions of civil society and traditional Judeo-Christian moral principles, and who believe that our leaders must be persons of integrity and good character, this election is presenting a horrible choice. May God hel…

The Complicity of #NeverTrump Evangelicals in a Demagogue’s Rise

By Neil J. Young

…in the wake of his victory. In a bruising editorial in the Washington Post last week, George W. Bush’s former speechwriter Michael Gerson argued evangelicals “must not bear the mark of Trump.” Gerson outlined Trump’s spotty personal life and unsavory character, but also his fueling of ethnic tensions, his proposed discrimination of a religious group, and his perverse and even “highly sexualized view of power as dominance” as reasons why evangelica…

Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…ons help shift cultural attitudes. Take Latvia, for example. Last year the Washington Post quoted a Latvian gay rights activist marveling over the difference between the overwhelmingly hostile reception that an attempted 2005 pride march received and the large festive celebration that took place last year. Said the activist, “If nobody believed we are becoming an open, democratic society, this is proof of it. We are becoming a normal European coun…

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Orlando Massacre; Legal Gray Area in Jordan Amid Rising Fundamentalism; Push and Pull on LGBT Human Rights at UN; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e government “will not change the law” to allow same-sex couples to marry. Last year, cabinet minister Stephen Lashley warned against “going soft” on morality issues and said he didn’t support changing the law “to accommodate immoral behavior.” Ireland: Law prof examines marriage equality actions in US, Ireland Conor O’Mahony, a law professor at University College Cork, has published “Marriage Equality in the US and Ireland: How History Shaped the…