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World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…uba: U.S. Activists Join Mariela Castro For Pride Events Evan Wolfson, the American activists who master-minded the campaign for marriage equality in the U.S., joined other activists in Cuba for LGBT pride celebrations. Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro, led a march in Havana on Saturday. Cambodia: Report Says Discrimination Leaves LGBT People in Poverty Micro Rainbow International and CamASEAN Youth’s Future released a repor…

Who Will Catholic Bishops Turn to in Trump Era?

By Patricia Miller

…nd eye to Bush’s support for the death penalty) was a turning point in the American bishops’ relationship with the electoral process. Just as importantly, it was largely the bishops who created the “religious liberty” meme that helped further polarize a significant portion of the right-learning electorate, not just Catholics, against the Obama administration. The Republican candidates who were most amenable to the bishops’ priorities were Jeb Bush…

The Problem with Christian Gentlemen: A Short Goodbye to Ted Cruz, the “Mr. Pecksniff” of Presidential Politics

By Peter Laarman

…The naked opportunist who, at the same time, imagines himself to be in the service of the Lord. Almost always a white man. How many of this cast and type has the rest of humanity had to endure for the past few hundred years? Senator Ted Cruz, like Mr. Seth Pecksniff, maintains the utmost horror toward sins of the flesh and the utmost contempt for fleshly sinners like Trump. Any hint of outward disloyalty or dishonesty likewise gives them the great…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…ic.” They warned that international institutions like the Organization for American States and United Nations are pushing an agenda that would “destroy the foundations and values underpinning the Judeo-Christian culture.” They also claimed that there is an agenda to silence churches and eradicate Christians. The group urges pastors to “guide” their parishioners about “the profile of the candidate for whom they should vote” in May 15 elections. Isr…

Don’t Misread Russell Moore’s Disavowal of “Christian Nation” and Anti-Trump Stance

By Daniel Schultz

…l identity towards a more religious identity. Given the long-term trend in American religious affiliation, it’s the right move. Any church that can’t differentiate itself from secular society is going to be in trouble, whether liberal or conservative. It just so happens that announcing it now also helps distance them from Trump, for which Moore is surely grateful. But to my mind, the most political part of the story is right here: Moore’s comments…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society, a group that has worked with American evangelicals to resist moves toward decriminalization of homosexuality. Caribbean: Report examines support for anti-gay laws in Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago Mahalia Jackman at the University of Manchester has published “They Called it the ‘Abominable Crime’: An Analysis of Heterosexual Support for Anti-Gay Laws in Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.”…

Why the Media and Democrats Should Reject the Christian Right’s Pearl-Clutching and Address Problematic Religious Views

By Chrissy Stroop

…rkeley cognitive scientist George Lakoff, who documented the ways in which Americans understand politics through family-related metaphors, if the United States is a dysfunctional family, then much of the media has taken on the role of the peacemaker. In a dysfunctional family, the peacemaker “may become anger-phobic and attempt to smooth out differences before a healthy interchange can take place,” according to couples’ counselors Linda and Charli…

Bernie’s Roman Holiday

By Daniel Schultz

…Jesus, did they really put his logo on a picture of the Pope?! All this in service of a message that won’t impress or inspire anybody who wasn’t going to vote for Sanders to begin with. I suppose that was the goal all along, though: to maintain Sanders’ inspirational image. Either that, or they’re making some kind of bizarre, desperate play for the New York Catholic vote. Or again, maybe they were hoping a bird would land on his podium again, whic…

How Fitbit Helps a Conservative Evangelical College Monitor Students’ Bodies For Christ

By Jonathan Root

…nd II—came from electronically recorded “aerobic points.” At the “Aerobics Center,” students filled out a computer card with their ID number, activity number, and the time, intensity, and distance of their workout. The data derived from the cards helped to determine grades. One student who had been forced to enroll in the Pounds Off Program said, “I’m really sad for the school. It has so much potential, so many positive things about it, but you ca…

Militias, Trump, Guns, and ISIS: Too much Masculinity?

By Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats

…it could be that certain men—disaffected immigrants or working-class white Americans, who’ve seen their possibilities for concrete provision and protection shrink because of impersonal economic forces—might be particularly drawn to a cause that seems in some fundamental way purposive, regardless of what it is. One way to describe what’s happening is that today there is a surplus of masculine purpose. Purposive energy exceeds the capacity to imagin…