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Opponent of LGBT Equality Lauded for His Great Courage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Daniel 6). World apparently sees Chambers as a Daniel facing the lions of pro-gay and lesbian equality. Critics have called him a bigot, a homophobe, and a spiritual terrorist. An online petition to ban an Exodus application from Apple’s iTunes store earlier this year drew more than 150,000 signatures. Apple dropped the Exodus app, saying it offended large groups of people. Oh, my—those vicious lions! Trying keep homophobia off their iPhones! He…

Religious Right Dream of Privatized Public Education Gets Boost

By Julie Ingersoll

…ing neutral. You have to choose sides.” Louisiana 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 du…

Baptist Resolutions Signal More Culture War

By Paul Harvey

…olitical views on the nation; and be it further RESOLVED, That we strongly protest any effort by the President or his administration to eradicate the symbols of our nation’s historic Judeo-Christian faith from public or private venues; and be it further RESOLVED, That we express our strong opposition to the President’s declaration concerning his decision to declare June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month… During the first term…

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

By Julie Ingersoll

…ordained authority, holds that any involvement by government, beyond its appropriate sphere, is tyranny. For them, public education is a usurpation of parental authority. Moreover they support strategies (including diversion of funding) to foster an alternative public education with the long term goal of replacing it. Although Republicans used to debate the abolition of the Department of Education, when asked about education in the debate last nig…

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

By Peter Laarman

…2014 Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States won wide acclaim, appropriately brings her vast knowledge of white Europeans’ genocidal treatment of Native Americans to bear in this new volume. But she adds new layers of insight by treating the Europeans’ “savage wars” against the indigenes in tandem with the whites’ overwhelming need to control Black bodies in building a hugely powerful economy based almost entirely, before 1850, on the th…

Religious Freedom Org Sticking By Trump Clinging to SCOTUS Nominations

By Sunnivie Brydum

…efending Freedom runs a strikingly similar operation. Although ADF is less prone to primetime TV showboating than Liberty Counsel, both groups exist in a murky world of 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…

Hayworth: Just Say “Neigh” to Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…es not include the right to marry the person of one’s choice, subject to appropriate government restrictions in the interests of public health, safety, and welfare.” Note, the ruling denotes the parties in marriage as “persons” which would exclude horses or dogs – but given the recent ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court declaring corporations to be “persons” – I suppose marriage could be between one man and one corporation. All kidding aside, thoug…

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

By Bill Berkowitz

…Private groups may be permitted to display religious symbols on government property if the property in question is a public forum but that means all groups must be given the same access: The Supreme Court has ruled that private citizens and groups can display religious symbols in areas deemed ‘public forums.’ But this right must be granted to other groups as well, religious and non-religious. The government cannot discriminate against groups just…

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

By Ian Reifowitz

…After going off on the fact that U.S. personnel made sure to perform the appropriate Muslim burial rituals on the body, the host offered that “whenever it comes down to deciding between American or Muslim sensitivities, Obama always seems to side with the Muslim sensitivities.” Limbaugh had to make sure his listeners remembered that, even though Obama had ordered the killing of Bin Laden, he still really was somehow on the side of Muslim extremist…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ries where significant progress has been made toward equality, and a more “preemptive strike” approach in other countries designed to prevent LGBT equality movements from gaining a foothold. One popular explanation, he writes, “is the enduring strength of homophobia, which flows from the cultural heterosexism embedded in most religions.” Public polls show that societal acceptance of homosexuality is intimately linked to levels of social and econom…