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Goodbye ‘Roe,’ Hello Violence and an Out-of-Control Judiciary

By Andrew L. Seidel

…he shadow docket to overturn Roe v. Wade, reinstitute the cruel “Remain in Mexico” policy, kill the eviction moratorium, and gut public health orders under the guise of “religious freedom.” It did all of that without full briefing, oral argument, or transparency. This is not just about Roe. They’re coming for contraception, too, as we pointed out here months ago. But it’s even more than that, as the tumultuous shadow docket shows. The planet is on…

Anti-Vaxx Cardinal Burke, Just Off the Ventilator, is Becoming a Living Anti-Abortion Martyr

By Karen E. Park

…e as pregnancy and the “human sacrifice” of the native people who lived in Mexico before the arrival of Catholic Spaniards is cast as equivalent to the “human sacrifice” of abortion. Burke chose Our Lady of Guadalupe as the patron of his shrine for this reason—his opposition to abortion is a key to his identity, and to his response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Early on, in a May 2020 address to the Rome Life Forum, Burke said “It is never morally jus…

Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

…of Call to Prayer for America Day—Based on a “memorial” adopted by the New Mexico House of Representatives, for “the purpose of calling the nation back to prayer, and… the need for America to turn back to God and prayer, not for a single day or month, but to pray “without ceasing.”” Student Prayer Certification Act—Would require school districts to “certify” that they are in compliance with federal law regarding student prayer. Public K-12 School…

Red Pop and Freedom: How (And How Not) to Celebrate Juneteenth, a New Federal Holiday

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…in the 1830s: keeping and enshrining slavery in territory that belonged to Mexico.” Just as their forebears a half-century earlier, white Texans sought independence from a colonial power that placed restrictions on the expansion of slavery within its boundaries. Juneteenth is, in essence, the celebration of the end of slaveocracy in Texas. Although Juneteenth may be a novel to some, it should not be considered a blank slate to those new to the hol…

The Revelation of Kurt Andersen: With ‘Evil Geniuses’ a Media Mandarin Discovers Plutocracy

By Peter Laarman

…illions of borrowers; they shipped two-thirds of our manufacturing jobs to Mexico and China and then stripped away the pension benefits of the workers who remained; they even managed to turn public schools and public prisons into profit centers for the investor class. And these days: big-time private equity operators wringing billions from pain and suffering in disease-ridden nursing homes? Kids dying outright while the old and desperate lose thei…

It’s the Catholic Bishops, Not Those Who Toppled Junipero Serra Statues, Who Have Failed the Test of History

By Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

…ndigenous peoples from colonial abuse. St. Junípero Serra came to colonial Mexico in 1749 and, upon arriving in California, helped to found mission San Diego in 1769. During that time, he believed himself to be fulfilling the will of God by bringing the gospel to peoples in California who had not yet heard it. Compared to some of his contemporaries, certainly, Serra fought to protect indigenous peoples. For instance, as Archbishop Gómez underscore…

American Missionary Could Face Genocide Charges, But Brazil’s Indigenous Communities Have a Bigger Problem

By Amy Fallas

…ogies, alliances, and affiliates. Eventually, Panama, Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico terminated their contracts with SIL. Steve Campbell’s trespassing on native lands might not have been done with malicious intent, but it still contributes to the precarious outlook for Brazil’s native communities. Given the recent history of foreign and local infiltration into indigenous lands and violence against their people, American missionaries can at the very l…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…al Park. On the Day of the Dead, or All Soul’s Day, Catholic Christians in Mexico and many other cultures visit their dead, picnic in cemeteries, tell stories, cook favorite foods which they bring to their dead family members. This acknowledgment of the continuity of relationships after death is at the center of the new instruction. The Catholic Church says burial in sacred ground is better than keeping the remains at home or scattering them in va…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…looking to globalize his influence by helping anti-equality activists from Mexico to Taiwan. Burma: Annual religious festival turns rural town into country’s ‘unofficial gay village’ At the Independent, Gemma Taylor reports on the Taung Pyone Spirit Festival. “Homosexuality is illegal in Burma but every August LGBT groups rally for a religious event,” says the Independent, saying that every year “a small rural village outside of Mandalay transform…

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

…by Islamic groups for defamation. 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 mom…