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Trump Considers Pulling USA Out Of Human Rights Council; Indonesian President Blames Democracy For Rise of Militant Islamism; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hese ills is disingenuous. It’s also a failure to recognize how government policies have empowered militant groups. The escalation in religious intolerance and related violence can be traced back to 2005, when then-President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono effectively legitimized religious intolerance by vowing strict measures against “deviant beliefs.” During his decade in office, Yudhoyono turned a blind eye to worsening acts of discrimination, harassm…

Jeremiah Wright for President?

By Ira Chernus

…hat the government, not the American people, have done; a government whose policies grind under people.” How about a candidate who interprets the biblical dictum, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” to mean that “you cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you,” clearly implying the obvious, which polite people aren’t supposed to mention it in public: The US government had indeed committed terrorism…

The Way We Never Were: Calling Out Evangelicals For Hypocrisy Misses the Point

By Hollis Phelps

…n, designed to implement conservative, often racist and/or discriminatory, policies under the guise of religious convictions. Although abortion and, now, LGBTQ rights serve as its contemporary calling card, the religious right in the United States, as some have argued, has its origins in racial segregation, particularly the establishment of private Christian schools as a work-around to the desegregation policies that emerged out of Brown v Board o…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…andate, Project 2025 unabashedly seeks to take the reins of government via policies that would drastically change the landscape of American governance and, as the document says, “bend or break the bureaucracy to the President’s will.” Calling for the abolishment of the Department of Education, Project 2025 would roll back (if not eliminate) civil rights protections for LGBTQ students in publicly funded schools. While the language may be different,…

Are You Doing Your Part in the Baby War?

By Katherine Stewart

…ulate the city with Christians.” The religious right consistently promotes policies that defund any kind of government efforts to improve the conditions of working families. They support politicians and policies that strip poor, working and middle class families of social support. Everything from food stamps to public education to health care are on the chopping block, while they encourage expanded government funding for a large panel of “faith-ba…

GOP War on Caterpillars

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nt number of these mythical creatures raised protests about how Republican policies were infringing on their rights? I mean, really: try hard to imagine, as outlandish as it might seem, that the protests were not simply coming from “the Democrats” or “every mainstream media outlet” but the caterpillars themselves! If it’s too difficult to imagine, try watching this video, but mentally changing the gender of the caterpillar. Also, every time the n…

The Dark Side of Our Obsession With Trapped Thai Children

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…en to and from their cages, others have defended President Trump’s callous policies toward immigrant families. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, for example, directed blame and moral condemnation toward the parents: “They are the ones who broke the law, they are the ones who endangered their own children on their trek.” No one seems to be blaming the Thai soccer coach for taking his players into the cave. Thailand leads the search and rescue mission…

Refusing Religion, Claiming the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on “The Nones Are Alright”

By Peter Laarman

…same way they did 30 or 40 years ago. “In the absence of truly democratic policies that provide equitable access to jobs, housing and education, the social and cultural institutions provided by some black churches, both alternative and traditional, represent an antidote to these inequities.” The causes are likely many, including political corruption (Nixon most publicly), technology (everyone is an expert now, and if I don’t know something I can…

New Report: White Evangelicals are America’s Most Anti-Trans Demographic, But Encouraging Data Overall

By Chrissy Stroop

…c Religion Research Institute, “Most Americans Generally Support Pro-LGBTQ Policies, But Are More Divided Over Specifics Like Transgender Sports and Bathroom Policies,” that contains some encouraging data about overall acceptance of queer people in addition to some discouraging news about attitudes that affect trans people in particular. The good news is that a full 82% of Americans say they “favor laws that protect LGBTQ people from discriminatio…

Bob McDonnell’s Christian Reconstructionist Thesis

By Julie Ingersoll

…f Virginia in 2009, the thesis was widely criticized for advocating family policies that would curtail the rights of women and those not fitting the religious right’s definition of family. (You can read the whole thing here.) McDonnell managed to sidestep the attack by claiming that his views had changed since then, and pointing to the fact that he had hired women and that women in his family, indeed, work outside the home. Moreover, he said the p…