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South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o Nazis and Communists. Last week British official released figures on the number of same-sex couples who got married between March 29 – the first day marriage was legally available in England and Wales, and June 30. Of the 1,409 marriages, 56 percent were to female couples. According to Gay Star News, about 120,000 people are in civil partnerships, which they will be able to convert to marriages beginning in December. Costa Rica: Survey Shows Spl…

When Religious Freedom Means Freedom for Religious Violence

By Frederick Clarkson

…nother for the Idaho panhandle—border regions intended to draw the maximum number of attendees. Election, medical, and vaccine conspiracists, along with insurrection veterans like Flynn, Eric Trump, Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, and Roger Stone grab most of the media attention. But a disturbing religious dimension has received far less attention; that is, until November, when Flynn blurted out their broad intention at a San Antonio rally, “If we ar…

GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident

By Annika Brockschmidt

…rise, with the deadly shooting spree at a LGBTQ friendly club in Colorado Springs in November the most devastating example—for now. Pena had enough red flags to indicate that he shouldn’t have been supported as a candidate for the GOP nomination in the primary, The New York Times argues. Not only had Solomon Pena been demoted twice by the U.S. Navy and served nearly seven years in prison for burglary, he also “promoted conspiracy theories about s…

Trans Talmud: Could a 1,500-Year-Old Book Have Any Relevance to The Struggle for Trans Equality and Liberation?

By Shane Burley

To many, last month’s brutal attack on a queer nightclub in Colorado Springs, in which five people were killed and 25 were injured, was the logical conclusion of the Right’s increasingly dehumanizing rhetoric against the LGBTQI+ community. This tragic event came at the tail end of a string of attacks from groups like the Patriot Front and the Proud Boys, who showed up at Pride events in an effort to portray queer communities as a threat, bringing…

When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System

By Heron Greenesmith

…revered weapon as Transgender Day of Remembrance 2022 dawned over Colorado Springs. Thirty people in a queer club were shot with a long gun just minutes before Transgender Day of Remembrance and five of them died. We. Said. It. Would. Happen. The Club Q shooting feels inevitable: the natural consequence of nearly-unrestricted access to large-capacity semi-automatic weaponry, fueled by months of disinformation and violence and years of anti-LGBT rh…

‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup

By PRA Staff

…school board victories—a favorite tactic of the Right—in Denver, Colorado Springs, and Dallas, and calls on believers to “find anyone in church that’s not registered to vote, register them to vote and get them to vote their biblical values,” claiming that church mobilizations, and efforts by groups like Moms for Liberty, were key to these local victories. Pastor Jentezen Franklin, Senior Pastor at Free Chapel, based in Georgia, exclaims during hi…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…e environment, God’s creation, in the interest of corporate profits. The failure of the gathering in Denver to transcend the tired playbook coming out of Colorado Springs illustrates both the myopia of the movement and the Religious Right’s paucity of leadership….

Evangelical Healthcare Sharing Plan Catastrophically Fails — But Why Did So Many Join in the First Place?

By Chrissy Stroop

…s during my seventh-grade year, the first of two years I spent at Colorado Springs Christian School, that I first recall observing significant outrage over the possibility of implementing universal healthcare in the United States. Conservative communities began to be inundated with messaging that “universal healthcare doesn’t work” (a brazen lie). However, as good Christians, we evangelicals also needed a biblical justification for our opposition…

Crowdsourced Catholicism: New iPhone App Lets Users Forgive Sins

By Vincent Gonzalez

…ed that she had a disabled son. Here and there, Penance hurts. Between the cheap jokes and bourgeois self-loathing are murmurs worth hearing, if only as microfiction. Likewise, the app’s agnosticism facilitates a lucid tableau of spontaneous popular theology. Of the 24 confessions, only one references God as an active third party, two command the Sinner to forgive themselves, and three confessors speak in the first person as God. “God forgive me,”…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…V: And it’s easy, and also in terms of churches of course, social media is cheap. Traditional outreach might have been much more time-consuming and expensive, whereas now using data you can easily find people who might be open to an invitation. Part II, in which Kriel and Viken will discuss issues related to the coming election, including the Council for National Policy, a secretive conservative Christian organization leveraging these powerful too…