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Following Republican Playbook, German Conservatism Breaks the Post-WWII Taboo

By Annika Brockschmidt

…as in recent years descended into reactionary fear-mongering—claiming that Germany was under a new “dictatorship,” and that leftist indoctrination from the Green party was sweeping the country against the will of its people, who, according to the author, are under “siege.” Adrian Daub, a professor of literature at Stanford University, has lived in the U.S. for 27 years now. Visiting Germany this summer, he was struck by the shift he saw in German…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ice minister had suggested that homosexual conduct should be criminalized. Germany: Why does Germany lag its European neighbors on equality? Alexander Görlach, a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, published an op ed in the New York Times entitled “Germany’s Retrograde Record on Gay Rights.” Görlach identifies Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Christian Democratic Union party as the reason Germany does not rec…

Robot Kills a Worker in Germany… Who’s to Blame?

By Hilary Ledwell

…. But robots aren’t just taking jobs. Last Monday, at a Volkwagen plant in Germany, one robot killed an employee. The machine in question—a sophisticated automotive assembly line robot—normally operates within a circumscribed area, grabbing parts and manipulating them according to a predetermined process. As a team of workers was setting it up, however, the robot grabbed one of them—a 22-year-old man—and crushed him against a metal plate. Volkswag…

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…

Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…as a turning point for the gay rights movement. It has been celebrated in Germany since 1979. Richard Grenell, an openly gay foreign affairs commentator, is reportedly going to be nominated by U.S. President Donald Trump to be ambassador to Germany. During Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, the candidate named Grenell to serve as his spokesperson on foreign policy and national securities, but resigned from the campaign after an aggressive…

Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

By Robert P. Jones

…t 44% of White evangelical Protestant Republicans preferred Trump to be the 2024 nominee for president, compared to 23% who preferred DeSantis and 5% who preferred Haley. Against this backdrop of White evangelical support for Trump, a broad, unsupported hypothesis has re-emerged that Trump’s stalwart continued support among White evangelicals can be explained by his strength among what I’ll abbreviate as WEINO’s, or “White evangelicals in name onl…

A Roundup of Conspiracies and Bad Ideas That Caught on or Gained Momentum in 2023

By Carmen Celestini and Amarnath Amarasingam

…the exact nature of new or evolving conspiracy theories that may emerge in 2024, it’s likely that the pervasive conspiracy theories of 2023 will continue to influence the political landscape, particularly in the context of the 2024 election. In any event, belief in conspiracy theories, often rooted in fear, perceptions of injustice, distrust in societal institutions, and feelings of disenfranchisement, is unlikely to fade away. Issues like immigr…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…tes that none of the signatories of the “correction” letter are cardinals. Germany: Right-wing party with lesbian leader gains; do results reflect Muslim-Gay clash in Europe? The far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party (AfD) pick up seats in Parliament on Sunday, coming in third overall, as voters gave Angela Merkel a fourth term as prime minister. The party is led by lesbian Alice Weidel, who Ha’arest says has been running on h…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ther setback in the struggle for gay rights on the continent. Chad’s penal code is more than half a century old and does not explicitly mention homosexuality. But section 361 of a draft new code states the punishment for anyone who has sexual intercourse with someone of the same sex is 15 to 20 years in jail and a fine of 50,000-500,000 Central African francs (£60-£600), according to a document seen by Agence France-Presse. The cabinet claims that…

The Biblical Money Code!

By Gordon Haber

…we find an investment advisor named Sean Hyman pushing “The Biblical Money Code,” which claims that advice “woven” into Scripture has helped him go from earning $15,000 to giving away up to $50,000 a year. Unlike Hovind, Hyman is giving away his system for free. All you have to do is sit through an hour-long video, during which Hyman explains how “to unlock vast amounts of wealth safely and ethically.” Fancy explanations are provided, but it’s act…