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Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…square will never—and I mean, never—be enough. Not while they continue to promote leaders, policies, and theories that support white supremacy in the nation and encourage the idea that the body of Christ is segregated by race and class. To people of color who have spent centuries being shunned or diminished by white evangelicals, anything less than acknowledgment, and changed behavior, specifically from Bible-toting white men who’ve manipulated s…

Equality Opponents Try to Reverse UN Progress; Anti-Gay Pentecostal Pastor Elected Mayor of Rio; Indonesian University Official Tells LGBT Students To ‘Normalize’ Or Be Punished; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…He is now being investigated by police. Mexico: Election officials certify signatures on proposed anti-LGBT constitutional amendment The National Electoral Institute has certified signatures gathered by anti-equality Catholic, Evangelical, and Mormon activists on a proposed constitutional amendment that would restrict marriage only to man-woman couples. The proposed amendment would also “protect life from the moment of conception” until natural de…

Humiliating “Kim Davis Bill” To “Protect” Anti-LGBT County Clerks Passes Texas Senate

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ppointed by the state, county, or locality—who can administer the oath and sign the license. Imagine if you’re a same-sex couple living in Texas who has decided it’s time to make it legal. You and your partner, and maybe some close friends or family, trek down to the county clerk’s office with all the necessary documentation and fees in hand. But when you arrive, the clerk who is supposed to serve you says her faith won’t allow her to do so. (And…

Synod or Sin Oddly: Vatican Encourages Catholics to ‘Walk Together’ as Long as the Hierarchy Leads the Way and Decides the Route

By Mary E. Hunt

…ject as there are no new costs involved. I can believe it; a sign of how insignificant it is, or how many people are rattling around chanceries waiting for something to do. In any case, the Vatican-requested ten-page-report-per-diocese doesn’t leave much room for depth or detail, and offers a ready excuse for why certain, shall we say, sticky wicket issues will probably not see the light of day. At a time when the institutional church’s prestige i…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…literature, such as the Book of Revelations where “666” is said to be the “Sign of the Beast.” Apocalyptic texts are often misinterpreted, Schlingensiepen says. Written by and for first-century Christians, a people under siege, the authors used allegory and coded language to convey a message of hope to believers and to protect authors from certain death at the hands of their oppressors. The author of Revelations suggests readers may not understand…

The Only Common Denominator of American Conservatism is Anti-Blackness

By Yannick Marshall

…erals wipe their brow, thankful that the pro-enslavement troop has been consigned to a book titled “Unenlightened History.” They then proceed to teach the misinformed millions—materialized apparently out of thin air, weeping at the feet of felled Confederate monuments—about the “the legacy of racism in this country.” Confederates fought and died for the right to keep Black people captive in a centuries-long sexual assault. They bled for the right…

Ban on Female Genital Cutting in Somaliland is Progress, But Success Relies on Working with Religious Leaders

By Chelsea Garbell

…cle, anthropologist Bettina Shell-Duncan relayed an experience in Northern Kenya where she was discussing FGC with women from the Rendille ethnic group. “These women were my very good friends, and they were covering up their faces to not show how repulsed they were by the idea of somebody being uncircumcised and delivering a baby. They were, you know, revolted.” The power of this practice is invisible, but it voices the animating narrative in the…

‘Hello, Trump Warriors!’ Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon’s First Rally

By Jeff Sharlet

…r It’s a kind of reality show standard, a song that “rocks” just enough to signal unscripted but pre-planned badassery. You might have heard it on Teen Mom OG, or Are You the One?, or Love Island, on which contestants must couple up for survival, making of romance a mercenary transaction. MTG says “hell” a lot. She finishes many of her sentences with a kind of chortle, earnest and sneering at the same time. She flashes her bright white teeth. She…

Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ve any mention of them from the final report generated at CSW 61. Instead, promote initiatives that support clean water, eradicating hunger and poverty, maternal health and abstinence. OutRight Action International has launched a petition to Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the UN, calling C-Fam a hate group and urging that the group be removed from the delegation. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, meanwhile, has threatened that the US will withdr…

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ayne said leaves LGBT Mormon youth with “a bleak Sophie’s Choice: either resign yourself of life of celibacy, or be ejected from your church and family – for all time and eternity.” Most of the reported deaths were in Utah, which ranks in the top five of U.S. states in teen suicide, though the numbers have not been verified. In response to the Mama Dragons report, church officials mourned the deaths and called on churches and family members to mak…