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Republican Presidential Candidate Courts Televangelists. So What Else Is New? (Updated with video)

By Sarah Posner

…founder Jan Crouch, who is also the president of a Christian theme park in Orlando. As it came to an end, televangelist Paula White said Trump wanted them to pray for him. Trump nodded, and the faith leaders laid hands on him and prayed. Many evangelical leaders look askance at the crowd the businessman is courting. “The people that Trump has so far identified as his evangelical outreach are mostly prosperity gospel types, which are considered by…

More Bleak Times For Indonesian LGBTs; South Africa Bans Extremist Anti-Gay US Pastor; Mexican Marriage Struggle Heats Up; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…st positions, including one in which he celebrated the June massacre at an Orlando gay bar. Mamba Online says the decision “follows a determined campaign by LGBT activists, led primarily by GaySA Radio, to stop the preacher, who calls for the execution of gay people, from spreading his shocking views in the country.” More details: “We have a duty to prevent harm and hatred in all forms against LGBTI, as any other person in a democratic state,” sai…

Conservatives Panic as Gay Marriage Looms

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…thew Staver, dean of the Liberty University Law School and chairman of the Orlando-based Liberty Counsel told CNS News: For this judge to say that Christian beliefs or religious beliefs contrary to homosexuality are actually harmful—what that essentially says is, that if that’s the case, then you’ve got to change your religious beliefs, and if you don’t, you’re going to be penalized as result. That is a very dangerous aspect of this court decision…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…march drew tens of thousands – or hundreds of thousands depending on whose numbers you believe – of anti-marriage-equality Catholics and evangelicals to Mexico City, the culmination of weeks of protest organized by the National Front for the Family. Days before, the Supreme Court ruled that adoption by same-sex couples should be considered, like other adoptions, according to the best interest of the child. In preparation for Saturday’s anti-marria…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…people in any conservative religious tradition. But well before events in Orlando put their community in the spotlight, artists and activists like Choudhury-Potter have been creating spaces where LGBT Muslims can explore their faith and identity more openly. Choudhury-Potter’s band, Ajah UK, is based in Manchester—a town that has spawned successive generations of trailblazing acts, including The Hollies, The Smiths, New Order and Oasis. When she…

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

By Bill Berkowitz

…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 in the so-called “War on Christmas” is Washington State, where government officials have allowed the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist organization, to display a sign promoting non-belief near a Nativity scene in the Legislative Building in Olympia. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly has made th…

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

…onic when he wrote (in the wake of the ghastly Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando) that it is “theologically inconceivable” to implement real gun control in the United States: God gave us guns to show us who we are. Giving up the gun would be surrender to evil, taking us abruptly into eschatological time… The Gun is patriotic. The Gun is America. The Gun is God. In her highly readable and timely new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second…

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

By Ian Reifowitz

…olitical power. When talking on June 14, 2016, about the mass murder at an Orlando night club committed by an American-born Muslim, Limbaugh went after Obama in similar terms, saying he was always “really, really bothered out there about offending Islamists,” yet did “not seem concerned about Christianity. He is a Christian. If he is [sic] get upset about attacks on Christianity, he never comes out defends [sic] Christianity.” Again, Obama is real…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…n response to the killing of 49 people in the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando by an Islamic State sympathiser. This year’s expanded meeting is expected to be even more popular. An openly gay Church of England priest resigned from his parish and suggested that he cannot get a new job because he is “on a blacklist” and bishops are not willing to risk placing him in a parish. A British gay man escaped extradition to Turkey, where was charged and…