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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…rms his foes,” USA Today, October 26, 2023, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/10/26/donald-trump-presidential-power/71255801007/. [9] Lisa Mascaro, “Conservatives aim to restructure U.S. government and replace it with Trump’s vision,” Associated Press, August 29, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981. [10] Todd Graham, “Debate coach: Trump’s constant h…

The British (Bible) Invasion: KJV 400-Year Anniversary Rolls On

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…tory he wishes to tell is unapologetically Protestant and unapologetically English, but the crux of the liberating and radical impact of the Protestant Reformation and its vernacular translation of the scriptures is a new spirit unleashed by both. The spirit of these two movements—Reformation and translation—was radically egalitarian and individualistic. The contention was that all people were capable of close reading, and the commitment was to in…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…al. Marijuana was not tolerated. In two quick years, all that has changed. Today, Uruguay finds itself leading a slow but steady movement that is changing the makeup of a region long considered a bastion of conservative social mores…. Uruguay’s president, José Mujica, says it’s a bit easier to take such leaps in his country, one of the first in the region to officially separate its government from the Roman Catholic Church in the early 1900s. The…

Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…honored was openly gay Crown Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, who founded and runs the Lakshya Trust, which tackles HIV and other issues. He says the Supreme Court ruling that re-criminalized homosexuality has led to Trust workers being arrested for distributing condoms, threatened with blackmail, and even sexually assaulted by police. From Michael Lambert at Out: When comparing their countries to the U.S., both activists said that recent breakthroug…

With Release of Pentagon Report, UFO Narrative Belief System is Suddenly Supported by Military Witness Testimonies

By Diana Pasulka

…he notion that government always knows best, and that the people can’t be trusted with the truth. We have statements from the most credible sources – those in a position to know – about a fascinating phenomenon, the nature of which is yet to be determined.” Podesta’s statement simultaneously disparages members of the government who know about UAPs, yet states that government officials “in the know” will inform Americans of the truth. His statement…

Challenging 2-D Depictions of Islam on CNN

By Hussein Rashid

Bruce Lawrence’s recent piece on Islamophobia/Islamophilia here at RD highlights two different approaches to understanding Muslims. The first is a popular, essentializing vision that treats Muslims as a monolith. This approach seeks to place Muslim history in a story where Muslims would not recognize themselves. It can only reach this point by oversimplifying comparative traditions, as Spencer Dew so deftly points out in his critique. The other a…

RD on CNN: Why This Has Been a Great Week for American Muslims

By Haroon Moghul

…RD senior correspondent Haroon Moghul on CNN talks Trump, Ben Carson, Ahmed Mohamed, and why American Muslims just can’t be who they are. Read Haroon’s latest, Protocols of the Elders of Mecca: Hints of Anti-Semitic Playbook in Glenn Beck’s Islamophobia….

RD’s Haroon Moghul Debates “Muslims for Trump” Founder on CNN

By The Editors

…RD Senior Correspondent Haroon Moghul on CNN yesterday discussing GOP candidate Donald Trump’s disparaging comments about the parents of slain U.S. Army captain Humayun S. M. Khan, who accused Trump of sacrificing “nothing” in their speech at last week’s DNC….

Osama and Orientalism: Where Islamophobes Meet Al-Qaeda

By Hussein Rashid

…s for this claim is that what I’m suggesting is not what is being shown on CNN. What this does is construct a Muslim identity that creates a threatening “other,” based on their own readings of the Qur’an, or on information gleaned from the media. One of the most important aspects of what I’m describing is what Carl W. Ernst calls scripturalism. In Following Muhammad, he says: But the focus of many modern Protestant denominations on the Bible has l…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and a woman. Brazil: Political push to rollback marriage equality decision Worldcrunch reported that a special committee in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies passed a statue defining family as a concept beginning from athe union of a man and a woman: Rio de Janeiro daily O Globo reports that the text was promoted by conservative lawmakers with close ties to the Catholic Church, over fierce opposition from the governing Workers’ Party of President…