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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…ed to “obliterate the deep state,”[5] throw off “the sick political class that hates our country,” and “come down hard” on media outlets critical of him.[6] In the words of Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an NYU professor and author of a book about strongmen in modern history,[7] “He wants to convert American democracy into some kind of autocracy.”[8] Project 2025, an unprecedented collaboration[9] among former Trump officials and the Right’s legal and political…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…ed the “tyranny of the majority.” These erosions can occur even in places that continue to have free and fair elections. This combination—of elections and declining rights—is referred to as illiberal democracy.[15] Most organizations that track democratic erosion measure it at the national level,[16] but democratic erosion can happen to states or counties and can exist even when the federal government remains democratic. Political scientists call…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ich are seen as “old wineskins.” In reporting on the NAR, one should note that networks that may appear to be new, may simply be rebranded versions of older apostolic networks. For example, in 1998, Wagner founded the Apostolic Council for Educational Accountability (ACEA). Its mission: …was to provide schools/training programs identified with the New Apostolic Reformation a creative alternative way to establish credibility through accountable rel…

Creationism: Don’t Use the “C-Word”

By Lauri Lebo

…members required science teachers to watch. But when board members wanted to pursue intelligent design, DI backed up, instead urging the watered-down “teach the controversy.” But just as in the case of Livingston, Dover board members correctly interpreted that code language like “intelligent design” and “teach the controversy” were merely other ways of saying “creationism.” And after the board members’ remarks about creationism became too widely…

Women of Opus Dei Explain “True Feminism”

By Kate Childs Graham

…manifesto for women’s rights. In fact, these women are trying to suggest that what seems like sexism isn’t really that at all. We might be able to chock this all up to internalized oppression, as these women really do seem to believe in the “complementarity” of the sexes: that is, the idea that women and men do maintain equal dignity but have complementary roles. Take, for instance, the testimony of Claire Huang, a marketing executive who has att…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…or of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, writes that what is being said about gay priests is not true. What is needed is for gay priests to have a Stonewall moment. They need to speak up for themselves. Their colleagues, ordained and otherwise, need to stand with them. They need to come out of the closet, or nothing will change… I’m sympathetic to people who feel uncomfortable talking publically about their own sexuality….

Texas Woman Opposes Divorce Citing ‘Blood Covenant’; Will Anti-Sharia Law Get in the Way?

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…exas’s H.B. 45 (codified at § 22.0041 and § 22.022 of the Texas Government Code), states that “litigants in actions under the Family Code involving a marriage relationship… are protected against violations of constitutional rights and public policy in the application of foreign law.” The bill doesn’t explicitly reference sharia or Islamic law (likely because a similar bill in Oklahoma that did specifically mention sharia was struck down as discrim…

“Symbolic” Personhood Bill Could Kill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ike in vitro fertilization—should not have the children they have. And if that’s not what they think, then how can they explain why they’re supporting this legislation? 4. I would like them to say these words, in public, to their constituents: “A fourteen-year-old girl who has been violently raped repeatedly by a relative should not have access to emergency contraception and should be required, by law, to carry that pregnancy to term.” And then I…

Is Islamic Homophobia a Western Import?

By Omar Sarwar

…ccording to his well-known Urdu-language interpretation of the Qur’an. On what basis can one claim that, despite all this, Riza Khan had still internalized a specifically Victorian homophobic outlook? Exactly how did it manage to poison the moral worldview of nearly all South Asian Muslims? This is what makes EHT rather precarious. In trying to identify the root causes of pervasive Muslim homophobic attitudes, it relies too heavily on speculative…

Contrary to Claims of Anti-Trans Muslims, LGBTQ+ Acceptance is Widespread in the History of Islam

By Ali Olomi

…l codes. Tunisia’s anti-sodomy laws are derived from the 1913 French Penal Code, while section 347 of the penal code in Christian Cameroon is a French colonial law. Similarly, the Ottoman adoption of French codes would ban the köçek. Across the Muslim world, many of the laws criminalizing LGBTQ+ people are direct relics of colonial law. It would take generations to gradually align the region with European colonial sexual values through a shift in…