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Will Texas Really Be Able to Undermine Marriage Equality?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…sed in Lawrence v. Texas) demeaned gay couples’ right to sexual privacy by calling it only a right to ‘homosexual sodomy.’ When certain people see a married gay couple their thoughts drift to sodomy. “But the problems with Pidgeon‘s view of Obergefell are even deeper than that. Without elaboration, the Texas Supreme Court announced its view that Obergefell held only that states must ‘license and recognize’ same-sex marriages. But, the court added,…

Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Caribbean regional conference, Focus on the Family’s Glenn Stanton said local activists were “deeply concerned about the push of what they call ‘ideological colonization’ from the US and Western Europe upon their communities. a tsunami upon their islands.” WCF’s Don Feder criticized politicians who promote kinds of marriage “from which society derives no benefit.” Feder, according to the Antigua Observer, “posited that homosexuals cannot fulfil t…

Brownback Nomination Further Evidence That “Religious Freedom” Is Code For “Conservative Christian Supremacy”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…rticular sensitivity for members of faith traditions that have been historically marginalized. Instead, it’s much more likely to mean he will continue the Christian supremacist agenda he’s been pushing since he entered public office. New York‘s Ed Kilgore explains: [Brownback] was a member of the shadowy conservative Christian power-elite group the Fellowship; a disciple of meta-culture-warrior Chuck Colson; and a former evangelical turned Catholi…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…on the global movement in a two-part series. Earlier this month, the intensely anti-gay leader of the U.S.-based Mass Resistance, Brian Camenker, traveled to the U.K. to launch a new affiliate to counter what the group calls “anti-family oppression.” Camenker, like other U.S. based Religious Right groups, has been looking to globalize his influence by helping anti-equality activists from Mexico to Taiwan. Burma: Annual religious festival turns ru…

A President “Anointed By God”: POTUS Shield and Religious Right’s Affair with Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…r fellow) Peter Montgomery, offering a compelling portrait of a group that calls itself POTUS Shield (which also stands for “Prophetic Order of the United States”). The report itself is required reading for anyone interested in better understanding the contours of the unflinching support President Trump continues to enjoy from right-wing conservative Christians, especially white evangelicals. I called Peter for some background. What follows is our…

Will Justice Gorsuch Prioritize “Religious Freedom” Over Civil Rights?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…new threat to democracy. But with President Trump’s Muslim ban followed closely by his pledge to “destroy” the Johnson Amendment, a clear theme has emerged in the Trump-Pence administration: “religious freedom” (for conservative Christians, at least) is top of the agenda. Trump’s nomination on Wednesday of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court may seem like a reliably conservative choice—or even a relatively moderate selection, given the far-rig…

Dispatch from Charlottesville: “It Was a War Zone. It Felt Like There Were a Million Nazis.”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…spoke with Dr. Robyn hours before President Trump issued a statement that called racism “evil” and did include one explicit mention of “the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups” who inflict “racist violence.” But that statement, like other equivocating comments from the White House this weekend, also took pains to condemn all “violent criminals” … “regardless of skin color,” and offered no tangible solutions, aside from vague…

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: America’s Enduring Fascination with the Ten Commandments

By Jenna Weissman Joselit

…. Set in Stone: America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments Jenna Weissman Joselit Oxford UP May 2017 At the time, the Justices were considering the constitutionality of Ten Commandments displays and the complex interplay between what was happening within and without their chambers caught my eye. Surely, there’s a whopper of a story here, I thought; one that went back quite a number of years and that encompassed matters of faith and ritual practice,…

You’ve Been Warned: Reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America in the Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…published, urging readers not to view it in such terms. But the warning itself might have been just another ruse. Roth was famous for crafting literary personae who at once spoke for and didn’t speak for the author. In Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock, for example, the narrator—called “Philip Roth”—becomes aware of a self-authorized con-man called “Philip Roth” who preaches the simple message that in order to stop anti-Semitism, the Jews of Israel…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…S.-based conservative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom has called on the Spanish parliament to reject a proposed nondiscrimination bill, claiming that the law would likely have “a significant and detrimental impact on citizens’ fundamental freedoms.” ADF International called the Spanish bill “the most harmful and damaging we have seen so far” in Europe. The Spanish Evangelical Alliance also opposes the legislation and has gathered…