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Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ans bus tour in Spain that we reported on earlier this month is part of an international strategy. The Spanish bus was sponsored by HazteOir, a Spain-based group that mobilizes Catholic conservatives and their allies in Spain and Europe. A billboard with the same visuals and messaging showed up in Guatemala, branded as a project of CitizenGo, with which HazteOir is affiliated. Then, this past week, the National Organization for Marriage brought th…

Trump’s Pathological Devotion to Border Walls Isn’t Political, It’s Theological

By Alana Massey

…s honoring phantom differences. More subtly we see them in the banality of airport procedures that, if looked at closely, are not dissimilar from those upon entering prisons. Hands above your head. Empty your pockets. Please open your bag. What business do you have here? What address can we find you here? It is not by accident that we call these “customs.” We need to think of new customs and resist the insistence that imaginary lines that separate…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…mber of flashbacks from when I was a young boy). In addition, there were a number of things I didn’t get the chance to explore for a very practical reason: I had a deadline. Working in publishing I’m very conscious about how important deadlines are. Writers need to make those deadlines and because I worked in the industry I wanted to be respectful about that. There were a number of frightening episodes that my wife experienced that I didn’t have t…

Coups of a Feather: The Striking Similarities Between Brazil’s Insurrection and Jan 6 May Be Due to ‘Authoritarian Learning’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…in the aftermath of protests against Lula’s victory and questioned at the airport (he’d been in Brazil to attend CPAC.) Bolsonaro’s son was in Washington for January 6th and met Trump at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year. To this day, his father has yet to officially concede his own lost election. The elder Bolsonaro is currently hiding out in Florida, staying at the home of a mixed-martial-arts fighter and eating KFC, in order to evade arrest in Braz…

Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t Muslim countries without too much American interference would look like. International Business Times reported earlier this month that an Arabic-language pro-LGBT hashtag trended worldwide In the Washington Post, Emma-Kate Symons published an op ed with the not-so-subtle title, “How Pope Francis can cleanse the far-right rot from the Catholic Church.” In the column, she urges Pope Francis to “take tougher action against the United States’ most i…

Denzel’s Profane Preaching: A Religious Movie for the Rest of Us

By Sean S. O'Neil

…ld. But Flight, like most of the other religiously-themed scripts to which Washington agrees to lend his star power, is no Kirk Cameron morality play. As in The Book of Eli, in which Washington played a post-apocalyptic loner who creates a trail of gore during a violent spiritual pursuit of the lone remaining copy of the Bible, the celluloid preaching in Flight is rated R. In addition to the early lingering shots of full-frontal and rear nudity, t…

The Washington Post’s New Religious Right Now Blogger

By Sarah Posner

…im. Nonetheless, Sekulow took to the airwaves of Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network to engage in a guilt-by-association attack on Muslim Americans: As the interview went on, it became clear that Sekulow’s goal is to end the Muslim prayers at the Capitol by portraying Muslim organizations as necessarily having ties to terrorists, a common smoke and mirrors routine used by the right. “We see now,” he said, “that when we scratch the surface o…

State Department Finds Religion, But Whose?

By Melani McAlister

…ts diplomats, and publishes an impressive journal, the Review of Faith and International Affairs. Under his leadership, IGE has also led a series of international delegations to places like Laos, China, and Vietnam. It has also sponsored a series of visits to Pakistan’s Peshawar region, where it created a group called “Faith Friends” to promote “tolerance” and interfaith cooperation. In part, IGE can do things like this because, unlike the many ri…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…the Human Rights Council in his capacity as the UN representative for the Washington-based secularist NGO Center for Inquiry (full disclosure: a position I once held). He pointed me to co-moderator, Sharon Slater, a conservative Mormon who is notorious among progressives for her globetrotting activism against LGBTQ equality and public health policies that include condom use. Slater’s Family Watch International (FWI) has been deeply involved in pr…

What Does the ‘Traditional Family’ Have To Do with Pussy Riot?

By Gillian Kane

…ead of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department of External Relations, visited Washington DC. The trip was remarkable not only as the Russian Orthodox Church’s first meeting with conservative evangelicals, but for its explicit goal to forge an alliance of Christians in defense of traditional values. While Hilarion showed a certain amount of open-mindedness in reaching out to non-Orthodox Christians, including Janice Crouse of Concerned Women of Americ…