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Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t he had married his partner in London on New Year’s Eve. Ukraine: Foreign Policy profiles ‘dashed hopes’ of LGBT community Writing for Foreign Policy, Dimiter Kenarov explores the hostility facing Ukraine’s LGBT community. The article starts with the torching of a theater that had been showing a queer-themed movie as part of a film festival, and the arrest of suspects who confessed that their goal had been to express their “contempt” for LGBT peo…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…t my henhouse from foxes?” We’ve brought in Muslims to tell us how to make policy toward Muslim countries. And many of these people we’ve brought in, I’m afraid, are under the Muslim Brotherhood. Graham was sounding a lot like Beck and other right-wing talking heads because they have already put forth that very conspiracy theory, and repeated it at virtually every opportunity. As I reported last year, when Fox News and the American Center for Law…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…n order to capitalize on this pandemic weariness, the Council for National Policy invested in a campaign against the supposed teaching of critical race theory in America’s schools. By the time Chris Rufo began tweeting about CRT in March of 2021, the CNP had already inspired the “grassroots” organization, Parents Defending Education (or DefendingEd), in Virginia. Soon thereafter anti-CRT pieces appeared at The Federalist and on Fox News. By June,…

The Vampire Who Beat Wells Fargo

By Joseph Laycock

…that because of its historic value, he take on a million dollar insurance policy that carried hefty premiums. When Rodgers refused, Wells Fargo force placed an insurance policy that covered the bank but not the homeowner. When Rodgers complained, the bank simply ignored him—so Rodgers turned to the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA). Financial institutions must respond to RESPA letters within 20 days or pay a fine. As predicted, all of…

Newt Gingrich’s Apocalypse

By Sarah Posner

…ins of science fiction,” Sharon Weinberger wrote in a 2010 article Foreign Policy, “The Boogeyman Bomb,” noting, “the unlikely scenarios [its advocates] peddle lend themselves to caricature.” Rob Farley, assistant professor at the University of Kentucky’s Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, wrote about the EMPACT conference, noting its strong Christian Zionist element, including that Hagee served on the organization’s board….

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

By Peter Montgomery

…y marriage in 2015. LGBT-affirming Methodists have failed to change church policy, with the denomination’s numerical strength now in the south – both the southern U.S. and the global south: For decades, liberal Methodists have tried — and failed — to change church rules on homosexuality, and it may prove impossible again at this month’s General Conference. While American Methodists are diverse — both George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton are members…

Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

By Peter Laarman

…a very different face in the Global South. This raises an interesting tax policy question, inasmuch as tax-favored nonprofits engage in activities that directly contravene the stated U.S. foreign policy goal of supporting LGBT rights. It also exposes the fallacy of the widespread assumption that militant homophobia in Africa, Asia, and Latin America merely expresses the “traditional values” of those cultures. In fact, much of the new anti-gay ugl…

The Sad Incoherence of Jeb’s Abortion Position

By Patricia Miller

…” issues that don’t fall in the pontiff’s wheelhouse: I don’t get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinal or my pope. I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting in the political realm. He also said that he doesn’t “go to Mass for economic policy or things in politics.” At the same time, Bush has cited his faith as the reason for his strong pro-life position, an issue that is most…

Barr and Pompeo Speeches Show Why Evangelical Warriors Won’t Abandon the President

By Bradley Onishi

…rt among his most devoted base. In his speech, the president explained his policy change in Turkey and Syria as a choice to bring home American troops. “I don’t think our soldiers should be there for the next 50 years guarding a border between Turkey and Syria when we can’t guard our own borders at home,” Trump said. “I don’t think so.” He also announced that he was directing $50 million in funding to aid minority groups in Syria, a clear message…

Does Romans 13 Controversy Call the Adequacy of the Bible Itself Into Question?

By Christopher Douglas

…actions were quick. As Vox and many others noted, separating children is a policy choice, not the law. But the larger issue was the Biblical passage’s historical use to justify injustices like slavery and segregation. As Tara Isabella Burton argued in an excellent analysis, drawing on a twitter thread by Diana Butler Bass and a blog post by John Fea, this historical use of Romans 13 frequently decontextualized Paul’s letter to the Jesus followers…