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Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…e, it will lead to the killing of Christians in Africa. Speaking on an LBC phone in, Justin Welby said he had stood by a mass grave in Nigeria of 330 Christians who had been massacred by neighbours who had justified the atrocity by saying: “If we leave a Christian community here we will all be made to become homosexual and so we will kill all the Christians.” “I have stood by gravesides in Africa of a group of Christians who had been attacked beca…

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

By Frederick Clarkson

…America First Works are both partnering with Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, which claims 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 ‘unfriendin…

Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Francis is hard to find in his latest text,” he said. Crux quotes Dignity USA, an LGBT Catholic advocacy group, noting with disappointment that the document contains “no strong call for an end to anti-LGBT violence, for Church officials to avoid inflammatory statements against the LGBT community, or for a clear statement that LGBT people and supporters are welcome to participate in the Church’s sacramental life and ministries.” At the Washington…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…iage equality, nondiscrimination protections, equal access for trans people, and, most frequently, supporting “religious liberty” laws that grant a wide-ranging “license to discriminate.” Even his transition team is stocked with right-wing activists already deeply familiar to those of us who have been covering the fight for LGBT equality over the past decade. That fact, combined with the increasingly apparent influence of Vice President-elect Mike…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…C’s ideas have been a reflection of the work of his son, Joseph Nicolosi Jr, who, in 2018, founded the “Reintegrative Therapy Association” in California (a term he trademarked). Nicolosi Jr claims to have developed his father’s “treatment” such that it’s now able to heal childhood trauma by discussing “key” sexual fantasies, and that the resulting “shift” to heterosexuality is simply a “spontaneous byproduct.” But medical organizations and human r…

Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…o a local electronics store to get the ubiquitous, and indispensable, cell phone, when I was approached by a Libyan customer. After learning that I was an American he said “Thank you for helping liberate my country from the dreaded dictator, Gaddafi. May he burn in hell! And as for those who killed your ambassador, may they burn in hell with him!” “They are a disgrace,” he said of the makers of the inflammatory video, “but they are not the cause…

Lying About Our Religion, And Other Problems With Polling

By Michael Schulson

…heir religious practices. None of this necessarily gets picked up over the phone, by a surveyor working through a scripted questionnaire. Gauging something as amorphous and context-rich as religiosity, within the framework of something as amorphous and vast as The Public, is difficult work. It’s even harder because The Public doesn’t like to answer its phones. Some people are more difficult to reach than others, such that these representative samp…

Is There Hope for a Truly Progressive Evangelicalism? An Interview with Deborah Jian Lee

By Eric C. Miller

…ub, pledging to read the book together. Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, & Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism Deborah Jian Lee Beacon Press (November 2015) American evangelicalism has long been associated with the culture of white, middle-class conservatives—a tradition known primarily for its uniformity and exclusion, for its commitment to final lines and hard boundaries. Its leaders have been men—always men—like Jerry Falw…

The Lady Vanishes: Trump’s Communications Team Tries to Topple a Monument

By Spencer Dew

…e Trump administration would offer the awful optics of assaulting that lady, too, or because—as one of the central shared symbols of our national identity, a true icon of the “American tradition” of which he spoke—the Mother of Exiles represents American ideals when it comes to immigration. Ideals matter. Indeed, when the fuzzy category of “religion” gets used as a lens to help understand the dynamics at play in national identity, in patriotism, i…

Yes, It Can Be Hard to Be an Atheist in America; Now We Have the Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…ous identity. When RD recently spoke with American Atheists’ Gill over the phone, she also noted that her organization and others like it “hear from constituents every day who have complaints about their children facing discrimination and bullying in school, how they’re at risk at work for talking about their beliefs, how they’re not able to access government services.” Stigmatized minority or bullies without a pulpit? The representation of nonrel…