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

…y campaigner Rodney Croome. Poland: Pro-LGBT Sister Jeannine Gramick tours Poland At New Ways Ministry’s Bondings 2.0 blog, Francis DeBarnardo profiles New Ways Ministry’s co-founder Sister Jeannine Gramick’s week-long speaking tour in Poland last fall: She was invited for a week-long speaking tour about Catholic LGBT issues, sponsored by the country’s leading LGBT equality organization, “Campaign Against Homophobia,” and its main Christian groups…

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Breivik’s Demographic Warfare and the American Right’s Demographic Winter

…hat in 2006 went so far as to propose that Jesus be named honorary king of Poland. To Carlson, this proves Poland is “an island of profamily values” amid the tides of “Christo-phobic” “population-control types” who dominate the rest of the continent. Poland, he says, could provide an important counterbalance to European modernity and become a launching point for “a profamily resistance,” and thereby “save Europe again”: a not-so-coded reference to…

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Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

…ncerely apologized: they couldn’t facilitate bribery. We would have to buy new, full-price tickets to Iran. On the phone with JetBlue’s customer service line that night, my righteous fury dissipated quickly. Could JetBlue really be to blame for bad weather, or a mechanical problem, or whatever system error had made our flight impossible? Don’t I benefit regularly from this massive travel infrastructure that, like Lady Justice, doles its punishment…

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Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

…omen have long been marginalized by men. A man asking a woman to move on a flight may reasonably be interpreted as another chapter in a seemingly never-ending story. I am sympathetic to such a view. But haven’t Orthodox Jews experienced a long history of oppression? As far as who feels marginalized in the specific context of a typical commercial flight, consider that separation of sexes is far more common in traditional religious environments. Doe…

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Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild  

…a man spat from the depths of Hades [who] build a boat from the debris of New Orleans to rescue their lost loved ones trapped beneath the sea.” In many ways, Beasts is a thematic and stylistic extension of Glory at Sea, which takes place in a levee-less enclave called the Bathtub, where a girl named Hushpuppy (played by Wallis) lives with her neglectful but loving father Wink, played by New Orleans baker-turned-actor Dwight Henry. Father and daug…

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

…ist says Catholic-fundamentalist coalition opposing LGBT equality Gay Star News interviews LGBTI activist Pamela Troya about progress—civil unions in 2009 and a new gender identity law last year—and continued resistance to marriage equality. An excerpt: ‘Ecuadorian society is macho, homophobic and violent. Six out of 10 women suffer violence from their male partners, and 40% of children are exposed to corporal punishment in their homes,’ says Troy…

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Blame Series Bonus: Why We Want That Dish For Free, an Uncut Interview with Bertram Malle

…nfairness. We have put in our part—we went to the airport, we paid for our ticket, we spent our time, we stood in line—and then the flight was cancelled. So there’s a discrepancy between the inputs and the outputs, there’s a sense of injustice and unfairness—that’s why compensation is so important. That’s also why dissatisfied customers at restaurants want to get their dish for free, or get a free glass of wine, or a free dessert, because that bal…

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“Let’s Get in Formation”: Beyoncé’s Spiritual Call for Black Resistance

…he voice does not belong to Beyoncé, but to Anthony Berr or “Messy Mya,” a New Orleans bounce music artist who was gunned down in 2010. Beyoncé is sending a clear message that the violence in New Orleans —and across the world—needs to stop. But Beyoncé’s question is more than just an homage to Messy Mya, it is an accusation: What did happen after New Orleans? Coupled with the visual of Beyoncé squatting atop a police cruiser in the middle of a flo…

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Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

…of prominent linguists declared the word “gender” the word of the year in Poland. Kozlowska sees Poland as the “front lines of Francis’s fight to reform the Catholic Church.” The movement in Poland is therefore indicative of the problems Francis faces in mollifying conservative elements among his flock. His predecessor, Benedict XVI, appeared happy to preside over what was often described as a “rump church,” one true to doctrine but with a smalle…

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The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

…Oxford University under the renowned and controversial philosopher of the “new natural law,” John Finnis. Two years later based on his dissertation he published a book about assisted suicide from the premises of natural law theory. When he repeatedly invoked the term “ordered liberty” in the majority opinion he wrote for Dobbs, Samuel Alito used natural law ideas and language that echoed many of the amicus briefs submitted to the Court by a broad…

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