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Opponent of LGBT Equality Lauded for His Great Courage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s of people. Oh, my—those vicious lions! Trying keep homophobia off their iPhones! Here’s a thought: Perhaps the lions wouldn’t be so testy if they didn’t have to justify their very existence. Perhaps the lions would be more willing to lie down with the lamb (or the “Daniel”) if the lions weren’t being continually tossed into the political ring for a blood sport sideshow over their “right” to exist. Of course, the article is quick to point out tha…

Religious Right Dream of Privatized Public Education Gets Boost

By Julie Ingersoll

…ouisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is proposing education reforms based on the Florida model that includes public-private partnerships for charter schools, in which businesses would help fund on-site charter schools. The funding business would have a significant voice on the governing board and reserve half of the seats in the classrooms for children of employees. These efforts and others will be supported during the upcoming National School Choice…

Baptist Resolutions Signal More Culture War

By Paul Harvey

…the attention focused on the convention’s resolution about the Confederate flag. Founded in 1845 as part of the antebellum dispute over slavery, the Southern Baptist Convention had long been wrapped together with the Confederate flag, both central to historic white southern identity. Southern Baptists historically represented a regional culture-religion that virtually defined the Bible Belt. Following the Civil Rights Movement, the energies of def…

It’s Unanimous: No “Moderates” in GOP Field

By Julie Ingersoll

Last night’s GOP debate in Orlando was occasionally contentious, actually featuring some moments of real debate. But not when it came to education reform. (I’ve written about the GOP candidate field and education here.) We saw a clear illustration of how far to the right the Republican Party has moved; how far it has moved, in fact, toward the religious right’s long-standing goal of dismantling public education: Since the Reagan era conservatives…

A Locked and Loaded Covenant: The Religious Roots of America’s Gun Culture

By Peter Laarman

…n-toting obligations; Likewise, once Africans were being imported in large numbers, Southern white men were required to arm themselves and perform slave patrol duty (police terms like “patrol” and “beat” and “stake out” all derive from the slave patrol regime); The mainstream literary and political culture of the 19th century conspired to create the romantic myth of the noble white hunter/warrior: e.g., James Fenimore Cooper’s best-selling “Leathe…

Religious Freedom Org Sticking By Trump Clinging to SCOTUS Nominations

By Sunnivie Brydum

…legal nonprofits that claim to be faith-based, while actively working to influence legislation on the local, state, and national level. And both have a decidedly anti-LGBT agenda. The Orlando-based organization might not have the massive financial backing of the ADF, but it’s clear the two groups share an ideological mission, and it’s hard not to see that Liberty Counsel hopes to grow up to be as influential as ADF. In fact, Liberty Counsel has pr…

Hayworth: Just Say “Neigh” to Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…in Arizona, has taken up the Santorum mantle, asserting in an interview on Orlando, Florida’s WORL that gay unions could lead to “man-horse” wedding ceremonies: “You see, the Massachusetts Supreme Court, when it started this move toward same-sex marriage, actually defined marriage — now get this — it defined marriage as simply, ‘the establishment of intimacy,’” Hayworth said. “Now how dangerous is that? I mean, I don’t mean to be absurd about it,…

Religious Right to Newsweek: ‘Woe to [You] for Even Printing This’

By Bill Berkowitz

…se groups using a season dedicated to peace and understanding to foster conflict.” The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United, suggested that “The best holiday present we could get this year would be for the religious right to stop using Christmas as a club to bash others. The religious right is making a mockery of the season with a litany of stunts cheaper than dollar-store wrapping paper.” One of this year’s hot battlegrounds…

Rush Limbaugh’s Race-Baiting and Gaslighting of Obama Paved the Way for Trump

By Ian Reifowitz

…m, and had merely sought to “help” journalists better understand why large numbers thought the then-president was. Limbaugh then used the opportunity to repeat the same sentiments, further implanting the doubts about Obama’s Christianity into the minds of any listeners who had missed the previous broadcast. That’s how you spread hate, fear, and lies while deflecting any charges that that’s what you’re actually doing. I’ll also add that the whole s…

London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s the need for the guidelines: When they reach Canadian soil, gay refugees fleeing repressive, homophobic regimes face a maddening challenge. Fearing being beaten, jailed, tortured or killed in their home countries, they hide their sexual orientation all their lives. In Canada, they face a 180: to secure status as a persecuted minority, they are asked to prove their sexuality on the spot. This means furnishing refugee boards with detailed document…