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You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

…It might as well be as old as Moses, given what a commonplace it is for right-wing Christians. The rest of it is a chestnut of its own. We ought to just be grateful that Lindell isn’t enforcing coronavirus rectitude with a hatchet. (Carrie Nation was also an unabashed self-promoter, by the way.) It’s a strand that goes back to Wesleyan perfectionism and Calvinist propriety, some of the deepest roots of American religion. It may look like faith se…

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Uncertainty About US Role In LGBT Human Rights Under Trump; Global LGBT Recap

…ld legitimize homosexuality, which is illegal on the island,” reports AFP. Sri Lanka’s 1883 penal code, a legacy of its British colonial rulers, makes sex between men punishable by 12 years in jail, although the law is rarely enforced. Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said the cabinet had refused to endorse a provision in a proposed human rights plan that would have undermined the code. “There was a provision referring to the sexual orientation o…

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Gambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers

…HRC Report on Anti-LBT Violence in Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka This week the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission released an in-depth report on violence against lesbian and bisexual women and trans people in Asia. Research teams working in five countries conducted 370 interviews, 230 with LBT people who had experience violence and the others with stakeholders such as lawyers, mental health professionals, edu…

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Catholic Church Campaigns Against Gay US Ambassador; Global LGBT Recap

…journey of personal and sexual discovery as an Australian living in India. Sri Lanka: LGBTI Activist Profiled Alturi profiles Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, a Sri Lankan native who left the country as a teen and returned years later. She cofounded EQUAL GROUND, which has advocated for LGBTI Sri Lankans for a dozen years. China: Lack of Marriage Equality Sends Lesbian Couples to Overseas Sperm Banks Global Times reports that Chinese lesbian couples are us…

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What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

…the independent expert position intact. The Sri Lanka Guardian noted that Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Mongolia, Thailand, Vietnam, Turkey and the Korean Republic were among the countries voting to sustain the independent expert position. And, as the AFK Insider reports, South Africa’s government, which had criticized the independent expert position, ultimately voted against the African Group’s effort to kill it. But as Reuters notes, some countries have…

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Apocalyptic Rhetoric at Moms for Liberty Summit Illustrates Political Challenge of 2024

…president, including George W. Bush. I expect they will stand by him in the 2024 election cycle, whether or not he receives a prison sentence as a result of the criminal indictments he currently faces. But whoever Joe Biden faces when the dust settles from the Republican primaries, Democrats will have to be ready to counter the Christian nationalist narrative of decline caused by the “godlessness” of “woke leftists” who have the audacity to believ…

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BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

…de, we sounded a note of caution here at RD about the “dark side” of honor code enforcement. After all, the honor code had been created during the 1960s in an effort by ultra-conservative BYU President Ernest Wilkinson to root out liberals, and honor code enforcement (including anonymous referrals) had been used to bait and harrass feminist, liberal, and gay students, shut down campus free speech, and compromise the privacy of pastoral counseling…

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World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

…Muslims and Christians. The Sinhalese are the predominant ethnic group in Sri Lanka, and most are Theravada Buddhists.   Bangladesh: Suspect with radical Islamist ties arrested in murder of gay journalist Policy announced on Sunday that they have arrested a suspect in the killing of Xulhaz Mannan, a USAID employee, editor and gay rights activist stabbed to death with a friend last month. Details from Associated Press: Police identified the suspec…

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

…nservative movement’ DeMuth summarized the aims of national conservatism in 2024 as the promotion of “patriotic schooling,” an “end to civil violence and antisemitism,” and a “revival of faith, family and fertility,” while deriding “[anti-populist] elites in Brussels and Washington” along with “our atomised, feminized, self-obsessed culture where autonomy is the holy grail.” The throughline of the opening remarks of both DeMuth and his fellow NatC…

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

…elicals reportedly voted for Trump in 2016, the percentage dropped to 76 percent in 2020, though experts contend that White evangelical support for Trump is “remarkably stable and consistently strong.” AFPI believes that if they can get back to 81, or even part way, that could make the difference in 2024. But wherever Wallnau, AFPI, and their partners go this election season, and whatever the outcomes of elections at all levels in 2024, the strugg…

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