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

By Chrissy Stroop

…ested should point to the party’s embrace of pluralism as a coalition of African American Christians, nonreligious Americans, and other groups while putting forth a vision of inclusion and equity. Make no mistake, the apocalyptic rhetoric featured at the Moms for Liberty summit is dangerous, and we will see much more of it through the 2024 election cycle. This rhetoric divides Americans, peddling fear and demonizing those who don’t fit into a cish…

BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

By Joanna Brooks

…or students. Yesterday, at the sports blog Deadspin, Darron Smith—who is African-American and Mormon, and editor of the praised Black and Mormon (University of Illinois, 2004)—argued that the Davies incident is but one in a much larger pattern of honor code harrassment of African-American athletes at BYU. According to Smith, athletes of color, who make up about 23% of the athletes at BYU, make up nearly 80% of the athletes suspended, dismissed, or…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ects of marginalization and discrimination on the health of LGBTI people.” Costa Rica: Report on municipalities making progress on being officially welcoming Roberto Acuña Ávalos at La Voz de Guanacaste writes that the area “timidly raises its own gay pride flag.” The story reviews nondiscrimination declarations that have been made by local municipalities there and in other parts of Costa Rica. A companion story profiles Albert and Keith Toney, an…

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

…that his book, The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart, was originally supposed to be called “It’s Okay to Be White,” but that his publisher’s sales staff eventually convinced him to rename the book because, they told him, “we’re not going to be able to sell that into Costco and Barnes and Noble with that title.” He laments: If I had a book that was entitled It’s Okay to Be Hispanic, or to Be Black, or It’s Okay to B…

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

By Frederick Clarkson

…laims to have relationships with 2500 churches across the country that are promoting “an America First agenda.” In any case, it has emerged as a pivotal organization on the Christian and political Right, reportedly employing 450 people. Its Turning Point Faith division seeks to organize conservative Christians around the 2024 election. (Sean Feucht’s ‘unfriending America’ tour of state capitals is also being done in partnership with TPUSA). The st…

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

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…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…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ecessarily align with those of the administration or individual officials. Costa Rica: Gathering on Civil Marriage Equality Addressed by U.S. Diplomat U.S. Embassy official Eric Catalfamo addressed the Civil Marriage Equality Congress at the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, reports the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers: Catalfamo in his speech noted he himself is gay and cited Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s Pride month statement in wh…

As COVID-19 Spreads, Nicaragua’s Leaders Opt For Trumpian Denial and Misinformation

By Jeannine M. Pitas

…in the global search for a vaccine with better government leadership. “In Costa Rica there is some research on antibodies formed by people who have suffered from the virus. More research could be happening here. There is a lot of potential in Nicaragua, particularly in our universities, that is going to waste.” In the absence of strong leadership, physicians are taking it upon themselves to alert and educate the public, even to their own professi…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…they are planning, over the next three years, to open offices in Chile and Costa Rica. ADF’s work with the OAS is bifurcated between the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights and their Washington, D.C., office, where the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is housed. ADF quickly established themselves in the system, even managing to meet with the new OAS secretary general the month before he was elected. It should be…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…rpetuate the too-little acknowledged Christian privilege that permeates American civil society. They do so by equating “Christian” with “good”; in this case via 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 t…