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Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…GBQT community could get worse now that the education minister has banned classes about sexual diversity in schools and even volunteered to help burn all books related to the subject. The ban was implemented in October after the United Nations Children’s Fund issued a guidebook for teachers on avoiding discrimination between girls and boys and achieving gender equality. “We’re not going to promote gender ideology,” Education Minister Enrique Riera…

Pence Meets With One of Putin’s Top Clerics: Strange Bedfellows at BGEA’s World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

…initially balk. BGEA’s summit was initially slated to take place in Moscow last fall, with the ROC as a cosponsor. However, last spring, the ROC quietly tabled the plan at least for the time being, and in summer Graham spun this series of events as if he had made the decision to move the event to Washington, D.C., in part in response to Russia’s anti-Protestant actions. The Yarovaya Laws—the so-called anti-terrorism measures that contain the relev…

“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…

Who on Religious Left is “Worth the Ink”?

By Daniel Schultz

…they deserve ink. Dan may want to check his definition of “moderates”: the last I checked, a majority of Americans believed that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and super-majorities believed that it should be available in at least some circumstances. By contrast, Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good hew to the Catholic hierarchy’s positions on abortion and contraception, putting them at distinct odds with p…

In Trump Era, Young Muslims Question Respectability Politics of Mosques

By Hebah H. Farrag

…e actions, with a major protest taking place last night in New York City’s Washington Square Park. To combat the continued vilification of Islam in the American public sphere since September 11th, American Muslim houses of worship and organizations have worked against policies that visibly target Muslims such as profiling, denial of First Amendment rights and harassment by law enforcement. In doing so, these institutions work to gain public recogn…

“Paperwork” Defense Takes Step Closer to Supreme Court

By Patricia Miller

…to agree with them. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled last week that the requirement that employers notify the Department of Health and Human Services of their intent to opt out of the Affordable Care Action’s contraceptive mandate did impose a substantial burden on their religious liberty under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, saying: [I]t is not our role to second-guess [the plaintiffs’] honest assessment of a ‘difficu…

I’m Not Here to Fix Evangelicals, But to Show Them Who They Are: An Interview With the Author of ‘White Evangelical Racism’

By Chrissy Stroop

…You also point out that he had no qualms about joining First Baptist – Dallas, the megachurch now headed by staunch Trump loyalist Robert Jeffress, when it was pastored by the segregationist W. A. Criswell. Further, instead of whitewashing Graham’s association with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., you describe the relationship as “testy.” You even state baldly that Graham “exemplified a kind of religion that combined Christianity, patriotism, an…

‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…d butter issue for the Right.” Finally, he claims that Christians “are the last large segment of society to still offer some opposition to the Left’s sexual agenda [since] there is nothing the Left is more passionate about than the vulgar, private sexual pleasures of the last men.” He then jumped from channeling Nietszche to quoting William F. Buckley: “while the old Christian moral order has been almost completely steamrolled, Christians still st…

Christian Militia Arrests and the Price of Violent Rhetoric (Plus: Rachel Maddow Video)

By Lauri Lebo

…iolence. Eugene Robinson has an interesting column on this subject in the Washington Post today: It is dishonest for right-wing commentators to insist on an equivalence that does not exist. The danger of political violence in this country comes overwhelmingly from one direction — the right, not the left. The vitriolic, anti-government hate speech that is spewed on talk radio every day — and, quite regularly, at Tea Party rallies — is calibrated n…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…Rapture and End Times could be just around the corner. (Our thanks to BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin for spotting this): “The New Testament leaves us with the anticipation that Jesus could come at any time.” Those are the words of Dr. Ed Hindson, spoken at a stirring “Global Warning Prophecy Conference” hosted by Thomas Road Baptist Church last week. The conference also included Drs. Tim LaHaye and Gary Frazier. In Luke 21:25, we read that there will be…