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UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ligious sensitivities” and opposing “coercive measures” to change national policies. The effort to create the independent expert was supported by hundreds of NGOs. Orthodox Church: Holy and Great Council affirms traditional teaching on family Nuntiare et Recreare, a Russian-language website created to serve LGBT Christians which now as has interfaith focus, reported last week on an open letter sent by Orthodox LGBT activist Mikhail Chernyak to the…

LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…because of his “collaboration with private media.” Canada: Provinces adopt policies on trans ID, anti-LGBT bullying The province of Ontario will no longer identify a person’s gender on the front of health care identification cards, and will begin offering the option of an “X” rather than male or female on divers licenses. In British Columbia, all schools, including independent schools, must adopt anti-bullying policies that explicitly include sexu…

Maybe It’s Time to Admit That The “Grotesque Caricature” of White Evangelicals is the Reality

By Hollis Phelps

…as a whole have lent their support to Trump—and right-wing candidates and policies more generally—it’s far past time to own up to the fact that the image is, in many respects, the reality. Well-intentioned evangelical leaders may not like to hear that, but it remains the case that an overwhelming majority of evangelicals continue to support Trump and his policies. Sure, they may have issues with his moral center, or lack thereof, but they’re will…

Sessions Casts Cruel Immigration Policy as Part of God’s Plan

By Bradley Onishi

…the dangerous situation wherein a government official equates the laws and policies he and his colleagues develop and implement with divine order. This is essentially like saying: if it’s a law, then God must have ordained it, and thus you are wrong to disobey, regardless of the law. Critics of the Trump administration often use the phrase “creeping authoritarianism” to describe some of the administration’s policies and norms (or shirking thereof)…

RD10Q: Faith and the Presidency: A Cautionary Tale

By Randall Balmer

…iest sparrow. Will that sentiment have any resonance in your environmental policies?” The purpose of this line of questioning is not some sort of theological game of “gotcha” but rather to determine whether or not a candidate’s blithe affirmations of faith have, in fact, any substance whatsoever. Anything you had to leave out? I became utterly fascinated once again with Lyndon Johnson, this larger-than-life, Shakespearean character — so I guess I…

Obama’s Muslim Strategy 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…mber-states are by no means united by their modes of government or foreign policies. They are simply mostly majority-Muslim. Obama’s strategy will, if it works—and the recent trajectory of Ihsanoglu’s OIC has been towards greater clout—speed up a shift long desired. The South Asian philosopher Allama Iqbal dreamed, in the 1930s, of a “league of Muslim nations” to sit on the Caliph’s empty throne. The Obama doctrine turns to transnational network…

Jesus Was Single

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ur checkered and very bloody racial history, these discriminating laws and policies will be subject to the very strictest scrutiny. (That is what has bedeviled affirmative action policies of late; even using such categories for the noblest of purposes is Constitutionally suspect, at least at the outset.) If the state wishes to use gender categories in making certain discriminating judgments, such as Title IX’s creation of separate but equal athlet…

Why Hillary Clinton is Truly Unelectable

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…he winner against Al Gore; he has served repeatedly to put a sober face on policies and strategic decision that seem wildly Bacchanalian, on the face of it. Colin Powell, member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon spokesperson during the First Gulf War, became Secretary of State. Donald Rumsfeld, a former Reagan/Bush advisor and founder of the “Project for a New American Century” (already counseling the forceful ouster of Saddam Hussein), be…

Why Trump’s Evangelicals Won’t Care About Those Budget Cuts

By Julie Ingersoll

…cula. This is also the underpinning for any number of other administration policies. It’s why so many of Trump’s appointees literally oppose the efforts of the agencies they lead. Case in point, the Department of Education is led by one who believes that education is the responsibility of the family and that the civil government doesn’t have authority in this sphere. It’s unlikely that Donald Trump has any such theoretical underpinnings, but you c…

US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lly, countries such as Uganda will have to respect their partners’ foreign policies if they are to have great relations. I look forward to working with Mr. Berry.” Also this week, Alfonso Lenhardt, acting director of the US Agency for International Development, “highlighted a new initiative to enhance LGBT rights movements in Eastern Europe and countries within the former Soviet Union during an event at USAID’s headquarters in downtown Washington….