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Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ts of the country will not. For example, last year an immigration judge in Georgia refused the asylum claim of a transgender Mexican immigrant—partly on the basis that gay marriage is legal in parts of Mexico—even though Mexico has one of the highest trans murder rates in the world. This debate over transgender identity in asylum claims is part of a long history of inconsistent and derogatory treatment of queer* asylum seekers, of governments deny…

2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…carious in Tunisia’s conservative Muslim society. Article 230 of the penal code includes a punishment of up to three years in prison for homosexuality and young men are regularly detained and prosecuted. While activists have welcomed the launch of the radio station, it has drawn some hostile reactions on social networks and from other media. Belhadi reported receiving more than 4,000 insults and threats online, including death threats. Iran: Activ…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9kw.UOlp.p34arIyCA4G7&smid=tw-share. [67] The Heritage Foundation, “Mandate for Leadership,” 246–247. [68] The Heritage Foundation, “Mandate for Leadership,” 285. [69] The Heritage Foundation, “Mandate for Leadership,” 839. [70] The Heritage Foundation, “Mandate for Leadership,” 664, 674–676. [71] The Heritage Foundation, “Mandate for Leadership,” 350. [72] The Herit…

Democrats Have Seized the Narrative Frame From the GOP, But Can They Find a Better Story to Tell About an Inclusive, Pluralist US?

By Chrissy Stroop

…ed values. After all, “religious” or “friendly to religion” is essentially code for deference to the conservative Christian values of exclusion and exceptionalism. If Democrats wish to embody their espoused values of inclusion and freedom for all Americans, they ought to ignore the Republican framing of the question entirely and instead find a better story to tell. Christianity remains hegemonic in American discourse, and that’s a key reason Democ…

The “Majority Victimhood”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…artner and I had just checked into a lovely bed and breakfast near Athens, Georgia. The elderly couple who owned the B&B had invited us down to the Victorian appointed living room to watch television with them that evening. As Buchanan’s speech (which Molly Ivins once remarked “sounded better in its original German”) got around to gays and lesbians – an uncomfortable silence permeated the room. “Americans are a tolerant people. But a majority beli…

Conservative Christians Finally Get Serious About Divorce

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…imself and his family. At least in those days, the Southern Baptists had a code about divorce, but these days, Southern Baptist churches are routinely led by divorced men—the most famous being Charles Stanley. Despite divorcing his wife in 2000, he remains the pastor at the mega-sized First Baptist Church in Atlanta. Divorce has been a growing problem for the faithful. A Barna poll from 2008 revealed 33 percent of couples overall get divorced. Bor…

Fascinating History of Search for “Lost White Tribe” Sheds Light on Construction of Race

By Michael Schulson

…and the gem of his cranial library was the braincase of a young woman from Georgia, in the Caucasus. “Of all the skulls in his collection,” writes Robinson, Blumenbach cherished the small, round skull “for the extreme elegance of its shape.” He included an engraving of the skull in [his book] “On the Natural Varieties of Mankind,” a drawing that captured the attention of other naturalists as well. “My beautiful typical head of a young Georgian fem…

Cherry-Picking in the God Gap: A Post-Election Conversation on the Religious Vote and the Battle to Spin it

By Daniel Schultz and Chrissy Stroop

…f young Black voters cast ballots for Biden, enough to tip the election in Georgia in his direction. And yet it’s highly unlikely that outside of RD, we’ll ever hear much about those voters’ religious commitments, or how increasing secularization among young Blacks shapes the community’s politics. Jack Jenkins had a chapter on it in his new book, and that’s all I’ve seen. Chrissy: Ha! I watched a lot of cartoons from my parents’ generation when I…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…gious right’s jurisprudential arsenal before the Supreme Court, vetted and promoted George W. Bush’s Supreme Court nominees, and was an early endorser of and advisor to Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign. Sekulow is a media mogul as well; his daily radio program is heard on hundreds of stations, and he is a co-founder and board member of inspirational programming company Cross Bridge Media, whose parent, BN Media, recently purchased the reli…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…herwood Pictures, the movie-making ministry of a Baptist church in Albany, Georgia, has had a number of commercial triumphs. Facing the Giants was made for about $10,000 and grossed $10 million. Fireproof was made for $500,000 and was the highest grossing independent film of 2008, with more than $33 million in ticket sales. The studio’s latest effort, Courageous, released in 2011, is the success people dream about. It was made for $2 million. It b…