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An Immoderate Proposal: Sam Rodriguez, “Centrist” Evangelical, to Give Benediction at RNC

By Sarah Posner

…ificant presence in the swing states of Nevada, Florida, Colorado, and New Mexico, where they may play a decisive role this year.” But Molly Rohal, a communications associate with the Pew Hispanic Center, said, “We do not have large enough samples in our national surveys to analyze Latino evangelicals at the state level. The sample sizes in the state-level exit polls from 2008 are also a bit too small to analyze Latino evangelicals separately.” In…

Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America

By Hussein Rashid and Murali Balaji

…the 1800s. Moreover, lest we forget, the entire Southwest was once part of Mexico. By idealizing a heteronormative white Christian state, Trump is embracing a view of America that never existed, and is assuring a large swath of the country that it can avoid diversity and demographic change. In doing so, he is also denying the legal and symbolic citizenship of millions. While legal scholars—and many in Trump’s own party—affirm the steadfastness of…

Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…ople in New Guinea set their watches by the same standard as people in New Mexico. Ideological enemies find common ground; the United States and North Korea might not agree on much, but we both set our clocks by Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Systems this total have a strange knack for becoming invisible. Here’s the anthropologist David Graeber, talking about the capitalist market, but in language that could apply to time: The central claim of those w…

Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…announced that it has been providing materials to anti-equality groups in Mexico. Bosnia-Herzegovina: LGBT people challenged by ‘patriarchal and homophobic culture’ Maya Shwayder reports for DW that, while Bosnia-Herzegovina moves toward joining the EU, many LGBT people are “living in a patriarchal and homophobic culture.” The story recounts a series of attacks on LGBT groups and spaces in recent years, and reports that the country has accepted i…

Muslims for Trump

By Haroon Moghul

…sing numbers of Sikhs have made the arduous trip to America, crossing from Mexico, turning themselves in and asking for asylum. But instead of receiving help, they are stonewalled—or worse; as David Noriega and John Templeton report in “America’s Quiet Crackdown on Indian Immigrants,” our government seems to be working with India’s to turn victims of police overreach and repression, many of whom have reasonable and legitimate expectations of asylu…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the 19th century when modern-day Italy came into being. The community now numbers between 25,000 and 40,000 believers, mostly in the north of Italy. Malta: Marriage Equality Law Takes Effect A marriage equality law went into effect in this officially Catholic country on Friday, September 1. Chile: Marriage Equality Law Introduced President Michelle Bachelet introduced marriage equality legislation last Monday, which ABC notes was a week after the…

Do Psychedelics Offer a Path To The “God Within”?

By Hollis Phelps

…ces, even—or perhaps especially—when they’re piqued by psychedelics or any number of other strange materials. Nevertheless, his understanding of religion has significant limitations, not only in what it assumes about “religion” but also in what it ignores, or can’t account for. Throughout Sacred Knowledge, for instance, Richards tends to downplay negative experiences with psychedelics. To put it in terms of his own framework, he tends to cover ove…

Will Evangelicals Vote for a Non-Christian Trump? If They Don’t, the Vatican May Fall to ISIS

By Hollis Phelps

…Referring to Trump’s “plan” to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, the Pope suggested that Trump is “not Christian.” In Francis’ words, “a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the gospel.” Trump was quick to strike back, calling the Pope’s remarks “disgraceful,” and adding: If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…looking to globalize his influence by helping anti-equality activists from Mexico to Taiwan. Burma: Annual religious festival turns rural town into country’s ‘unofficial gay village’ At the Independent, Gemma Taylor reports on the Taung Pyone Spirit Festival. “Homosexuality is illegal in Burma but every August LGBT groups rally for a religious event,” says the Independent, saying that every year “a small rural village outside of Mandalay transform…

Georgia Gov Vetoes Right-To-Discriminate Bill

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…with local anti-discrimination laws. Over a dozen states from Iowa to New Mexico have introduced RFRAs. While HB 757 is gone for now, it’s far from forgotten. There’s still a chance that legislators could override the Governor’s veto, and dozens of similar bills are still waiting to be picked up in states nationwide. It’s therefore important to understand that the veto of HB 757 was not just a win for LGBT equality or an acknowledgment that discr…