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Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…‘pandora’x box of gender-identity issues’ The Belize Prayer Network, whose website features a testimonial from US-based pastor Rick Joyner, featured a report on an evangelism campaign by the National Evangelical Association of Belize targeting the country’s youth. We joined in order to target the Pandora’s box of gender-identity issues raised by the legalization of sodomy and the government’s revised gender policy. Already the churches’ changes to…

A Pope, a Poet, and a Drug War

By Stephen Andes

…rs have been deployed to fight the cartels, especially along the border in cities such as Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana. Rampant human rights violations have been reported, carried out by the very soldiers sent to protect Mexico’s citizens. The U.S.-backed Mérida Plan has invested millions of dollars into equipping the Mexican military with guns and weaponry. Despite the efforts of both governments, illegal guns and laundered money continue to flow so…

We Went Through Amoris Laetitia Section by Section So You Wouldn’t Have To

By Anthony Adams

…eteronormative uncontracepted sex in monogamous marriage.” Sections 243 and 299 would also disappoint any divorced and remarried Catholics who want to receive Communion openly. Pope Francis says they should be treated with care and kindness and respect, but he stops short of giving them access to receiving Communion. He offers the same condescension to LGBT Catholics in Section 250 when he says should be treated with care, kindness and respect, bu…

The Dangerous Fact About QAnon Believers That Reporters Fail to Grasp

By John Stoehr

…hey’ve done so in a historic wave. When FDR’s regime gave way to Reagan’s, cities really were terrible places. But “by the turn of the third millennium, cities had turned around, not just in the United States but also all over the world,” Alex Marshall wrote today in Governing magazine. “They had gotten safer, cleaner, richer and more populous. Characters in countless TV shows and movies led fulfilling lives in urban environments, with ‘urban’ now…

Did the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?

By Sarah Posner

…They regularly fly one or the other of their two expensive jets and other airplanes around the world, including regular trips to their multi-million chalet-style mansion in Steamboat Springs, Colo. • Tony Palmer, a former employee of Copeland, is ordained with the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches (CEEC), a small offshoot unrelated to the main Episcopal denomination. The CEEC also ordained Gene Ewing, creator of St. Matthew’s Churches,…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…times as many students, has an endowment of $193 million.) And the riders’ visit to the school happened on a day when Kimbrow was playing host to the organization that owns it. Although the cultural forces that Higgins wants to thwart are much bigger than she is, the tiny institution she and the other riders confronted earlier in the day is very fragile. Under the circumstances, they wielded more power than they knew. Her eyes brim with tears as s…

Visit From Conservative Sex Educator Divides a Town

By Eric C. Miller

…. Pressed for an explanation, the administration cited “an increase in the number of students who share concerns related to the pressures of dating and sex,” though it did not explain how that increase has been measured. An editorial from Lancaster Newspapers–hardly an exemplar of liberal media–criticized the district for “wasting” taxpayer money, adding, “Educators should educate, not terrify, not least because studies have shown that scaring tee…

“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture

By Sarah Posner

…Gothard requires “total submission to God, doesn’t matter what you think, want, or feel, it only matters what God wants,” she said. With regard to following Gothard’s teachings on marriage, the former activist said, “basically I gave up my rights to be who I was and I just determined to be whoever he [my husband] wanted me to be.” Like Garrison, the former activist said that her husband felt responsible for the whole family’s salvation, and that…

Behind a Recent Stunt in Idaho Lies a Dangerous Theocratic Movement

By Chrissy Stroop

…de, Flee [sic.] the city NOW before the coming collapse!” Like the company website, however, the ad features no explicitly religious language. Indeed, Black Rifle Real Estate’s website informs potential buyers: “We are conservative Constitutional Libertarians who believe you can do anything you want on your land as long as you’re not hurting anyone. Don’t preach to me and I won’t preach to you. Let’s disagree but respect one another.” *** What giv…

Distant Churches and the Isolated Poor: Lessons from Katrina, Ten Years Later

By R. Drew Smith

…ny American cities—and especially within the poorer neighborhoods of those cities in the past one hundred years. Former industrial cities with once sizable populations of blue-collar African-American laborers were among the cities hit hardest by massive downturns in resources, as businesses and corporations relocated to better markets in the suburbs or overseas and as middle-class populations fled urban core neighborhoods for outer-ring or suburba…