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Meet the New Christian Right, Same as the Old Christian Right

By Patricia Miller

…s: infrastructure spending, trade, manufacturing, immigration, and foreign policy. He is happy to outsource much of the agenda around social policy, which includes all the culture war issues like abortion, LGBT rights and “religious liberty,” to Pence and his allies. Pence has deep roots as a culture warrior. When President George Bush’s massive plan to tackle HIV/AIDS in the developing world was passed, Pence, who was a congressman at the time, s…

White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II

By Ben Lorber

…ican Immigration Reform (FAIR), played a major role in setting immigration policy during the Trump administration, and remain influential on the Right. The CIS panelists focus on curbing immigration programs, criticizing H1B and other visa programs as well as refugee and asylum programs and so-called ‘chain migration.’ For a xenophobic Right long fixated on “illegal immigration,” these programs represent a more ambitious, and increasingly prominen…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the South Korean government to halt the roll-out of its new sex education policy in order to revised it to include information on sexual minorities. The Ministry of Education began training district education officers on new sex education guidelines that “exclude any mention of homosexuality or sexual minorities.” The new policy contradicts South Korea’s support for Human Rights Council resolutions calling for an end to discrimination based on se…

“Hem and Haw”: A Failed Syria Strategy

By Haroon Moghul

…gional clout—and perhaps leaves the door open to future involvement. This policy of not having a policy, of trying to enter the room while keeping it propped open with your back foot, is a disaster. Either we take out Bashar Assad, and use the threat of decisive force to get Russia and Iran to join a discussion, on a future Syria without the Assads or we don’t. (Meanwhile, rebel forces who refuse to come to the table will be told in no uncertain…

‘Religious Freedom’ Rally Sets Stage for 1st Amendment Collision

By Sarah Posner

…regulations,” and vaguely referred to environmental regulations, economic policy, and foreign policy that were “moving in the direction of a nanny state,” a “Western European social model.” The contraception coverage requirement, Sweeney said in his speech, was “abnormal” and “not how things should be.” He warned of a “brand new form of bondage” due to people who “want to dip their hands into the government treasury.” While Sweeney’s speech sound…

The Panic Over Churches’ Tax-Exempt Status in a Gay-Married World

By Sarah Posner

…evoke a non-profit’s tax-exempt status if it violates a fundamental public policy (in that case, public policy against race discrimination). The Bob Jones case is an essential part of the conservative movement’s institutional memory of what they consider to be government overreach, particularly by the IRS, and undue government interference with religious affairs and religious freedom. As historian Randall Balmer has documented, Bob Jones Universit…

‘Almost Like Praying’: The Religious Work of ‘Hamilton’ Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

By Spencer Dew

…to Rico predated the storm, and is, indeed, the result of American policy; policy rooted in imperialism and its corollary racism; policy inconsistent with the basic legal ideals of democracy; and policy the result of which is radical injustice. Yet critique—like prayer—is not enough. What is required in the future is political action, both on the mainland and on the island, in Washington and in San Juan, to imagine a just, equal, and sustainable c…

Alums Speak Out Against Anti-Gay Christian College

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…because, for once, they get to hear they are ok—not sick and sinful.” Any policy that lists homosexuality—practice or otherwise—alongside other “sins” like “drunkenness, theft, and profanity,” will do nothing but reinforce the lie that these kids are “sick and sinful.” Asking forgiveness is a first good step. But, you don’t fix something this harmful by simply apologizing—you fix it by repealing the policy altogether, and affirming these students…

Pence Amendment not Just About Abortion, but About Thwarting Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…ct of 1970, the latest issue of The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy explores “the U.S. War on Fertility” with hard-hitting essays that quantify the downside of President Richard Nixon’s attempt to outdo his predecessor’s efforts to usher in the Great Society. Those essays include Robert W. Patterson’s feature linking the ruinous social effects of federal family planning to the failures of the War on Poverty; Jennifer Roback Morse’s e…

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

…suicide in the U.S. since early November, when the Church instituted a new policy declaring Mormons in same-sex marriages apostate and refusing to baptize children living in those families. Earlier this month, the LDS Church declared that its new policy was officially a revelation from God to the prophet, LDS President Thomas Monson, a move that gay Mormon activist Mitch Mayne said leaves LGBT Mormon youth with “a bleak Sophie’s Choice: either res…