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Global LGBT Recap: “Lavender Fascism,” Rage in India, Pope Francis Ousts Culture Warrior

By Peter Montgomery

…s. BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder reports that money raised will go to The Russia Freedom Fund, a partnership between the Arcus Foundation, the Council for Global Equality, and the Open Society Institute. This week the Obama administration announced that no members of the Obama or Biden families would attend the Olympics in Sochi. The U.S. delegation will include two out LGBT athletes, two out LGBT athletes — Billie Jean King and Caitlin Cahow. United…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…. As Politico notes, the upcoming referendum is not the region’s first: In Croatia, a group called “In the Name of the Family” collected 750,000 signatures in 2013 to launch a referendum that successfully amended the country’s constitution to stipulate that marriage can only take place between a man and a woman. In 2015, the “Alliance for Family” mobilized Slovakians to trigger a referendum to restrict the family rights of gay people, but the vote…

Arizona Supreme Court Rules Against Disenfranchisement — But Privacy Issues Remain

By Steven Gardiner

…fication mix-up does not end with the decision to allow them to vote in the 2024 election. On November 4, the same court affirmed a lower court decision requiring Secretary of State Adrian Fontes’ office to turn over the entire list of affected voters to various legislative officials, with no positive assurance that the names would be kept confidential. The decision followed a public records request and subsequent appeals from America First Legal,…

Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating

By Anthea Butler

…you who study religion may have a good deal to say about the centrality of free will (i.e. law over code) in different religious traditions. One thing that strikes me week by week is how much the show takes as given our understanding of the digital realm: our ability to think in terms of interfaces, memory, avatars, virtual world economies, and the like. I might contrast that with how fundamentally indecipherable a film like Tron was when it was r…

What Would Jesus Chew?, Bishops Bet on B-Ball, The Incredibly Shrinking Brain

By Michael J. Altman

…avid Blight tells the story of the first Memorial Day, celebrated by newly freed blacks in Charleston, South Carolina memorializing dead Union troops. In Joplin, Missouri, residents mourned those lost in the tornado. The Department of Homeland Security has ended a post-9/11 registration program that required Arab and Muslim men to register with the government, but not before tangling many Muslim immigrants up in legal proceedings. The Muslim Broth…

Against Democracy? You Bet!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ed Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment declaring that only marriages between a man and a woman are valid in the state. But he points out that militant homosexuals have not respected that decision and have vandalized property, threatened people, and mailed white powder to Mormon churches. Fitzpatrick calls that “fascism.” “Fascism rejects democratic values. We see outright rejection of democracy in California.” He’s half right. Those who oppo…

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right (Yale UP, 2024) examines how the long-forgotten ties between conservative stalwarts like William F. Buckley and open Nazis like George Lincoln Rockwell are indicative of a “popular front” approach on political coalition building on the Right. The “Reich” scandal, Walsh tells RD, fits neatly into this framework: Clearly Donald Trump [himself] didn’t create that ad, but somebody in Tr…

With Election Takeaways Like ‘Too Transgender’ or ‘the US is Shifting Right,’ Dems are Determined to Learn the Wrong Lesson

By Chrissy Stroop

…ortionately burdening the people least able to afford them. Unsurprisingly, 2024 voting patterns reflect the resulting discontent: According to the exit poll data, Kamala Harris won among families who made less than $30,000 in 2023 and those who made more than $100,000. By comparison, Trump won among families who earned between $30,000 and $99,999—too much to qualify for government assistance, but—in many cases—not enough to get by. One could stil…

Even if Voters ‘Get What They Asked For’ it’s More Likely to Cause a Fascist Death Spiral Than a Lesson Learned

By Scott Coley

…28 percent, and redefine the terms of economic debate for decades to come. Between 1980 and 2016, the share of national income flowing to the richest 1 percent of American households roughly doubled—from 11 percent in 1980 to 20 percent in 2016. During that same span, the share of national income flowing to the bottom half of households was cut in half—from about 20 percent in 1980 to 10 percent in 2016. So in 1980, the wealthiest 1 percent of Ame…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of this source code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most impo…