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BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

By Joanna Brooks

…the protection of University officials. So accustomed were we to the idea that BYU athletes partied that many of us scratched our heads when the Brandon Davies story broke. Why would the honor code be enforced this time? Smith’s damning story argues that enforcement on Davies must be understood as part of a racially-hierarchized enforcement of the honor code, where white athletes enjoy more protection than their Polynesian and African-American pee…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…eels all is not lost. ‘We don’t care if a politician is religious or not, what matters here is that this politician can differentiate his particular beliefs from his obligations, to govern for all people,’ says Troya. St. Thomas & The Virgin Islands: Column explores losses in former LGBT ‘mecca’ At St. Thomas Source, Edward Benfield sees losses for LGBT communities in the Virgin Islands but also some reason for hope: For many Virgin Islanders, it…

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…people, “we’ll fly the t****y flag.” Wilson closed with a recommendation that, if he wins the 2024 election, Donald Trump should, on inauguration day: [G]ive explicit glory to the God of heaven, and do it in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Only a “Protestant majority” can usher in “restoration” NatCon organizer Yoram Hazony, a Modern Orthodox Jew, called for “Protestant unity in the face of these hard times,” and repeatedly emphasized that eve…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…s to get married and have children, lots of children. If you’re not doing that, what you’re doing is dishonorable. If a National Conservative does have children, Hazony says, do not make the mistake of sending them to public schools “where they’re being turned into neo-marxists”—something that according to him, also applies to the people in the conference room itself. “We’re also talking about people in this room!” If you send your children to uni…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…g the shofar. He claims that the prayer calls on Zoom aren’t partisan but that what they’re in fact doing is “looking for Biblical candidates versus those that are anti-Biblical.” Hayek works for both the AFPI, which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax exempt organization, and the related America Policy Works, a (501)(c)(4) organization whose tax status allows it to do some political advocacy work. While there isn’t a lot of publicly available informat…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Muslims. Aceh’s LGBT population is also vulnerable to Aceh’s 2014 Criminal Code that bars liwath (sodomy) and musahabah (lesbian sexual action). Aceh province imposed the Sharia punishment of multiple lashes of a cane against 339 people in 2016. The New Zealand Herald reported that the couple was filmed being beaten by a group of “vigilantes” who had become suspicious of the men and “set out to catch them” having sex. More from the Herald: Under a…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…: Independent justice reform group criticizes Aceh’s harsh anti-LGBT legal code The Jakarta Post reported on April 1 that the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform “has lambasted the Aceh administration’s Islamic criminal code bylaw, or Qanun Jinayat, saying it could potentially provoke discrimination and over-criminalization of LGBT communities and other vulnerable groups.” The Aceh province is governed by the conservative Islamist legal code. No…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…upport the LGBT cause, as well as to events which are organised to oppose that cause.” Panama: First Lady attends Pride celebration and makes video Journalist Rex Wockner reports that First Lady Lorena Castillo de Varela, “marched in Pride, then made a fabulous video, and tweeted it, and you should watch it.” The Panama City twitter account joined in, declaring, “The City of Panama belongs to all those who live in it. From the Mayor’s Office we pr…

Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden

By Chrissy Stroop

…associating political leaders’ Catholic affiliation with policy positions that promote equality and human rights, even if they are occasionally critical of the Catholic hierarchy. The issue here is thus related to the problem of dismissing authoritarian Christians as “fake Christians,” a topic I’ve written about many times before. While liberationist forms of the faith certainly do exist, most of Christian history is characterized by imperialism,…

‘Spooky Action’ of Quantum Physics Offers an Alternative Frame for War in the Middle East and the 2024 Election

By Peter Schwartz

…Hamas attack on Israel are instantly reverberating in the United States. What I’ll say up front is that the moral lens to which politicians and pundits alike have instantly retreated—as if to a bunker—is less than worthless. To reduce commentary and analysis to the “self-evident” notion that the Hamas attack is all about “evil” (by definition) attacking “good” (because what else does “evil” do?) tells us nothing while concealing everything. Let’s…