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Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…. Assuming that Sessions remains consistent in his opposition to our basic participation in society, our best hope in the coming legal landscape is to try desperately to hang on to the protections we’ve earned thus far. Any talk of expanding those protections is essentially off the table. Sessions is also one of two Trump cabinet appointees who are co-sponsors of the odious First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), which, if passed, would carve out a yu…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…at a healthy model for a Muslim society would be one in which religion was part of government. His example was not Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or Afghanistan, but the rogue state we call the United Kingdom. Surely the stuff nightmares are made of. Yugoslavia started to fall apart in the early ’90s. First Slovenia broke off and then Croatia, leaving Bosnia, only 44% Muslim and nearly 30% Serbian, attached to a federation demographically dominate…

A Sacred Encounter with Erykah Badu’s Controversial Nude Video

By Tamura Lomax

…on, should not go unnoticed. As Badu’s album title signifies (New Amerykah Part Two), she longs for a new day in a more inclusive America that makes room for her particular complex, multi-positioned inter-subjectivity. In many ways, this reflects the message of Christ. While many will say that Badu is not Christ (myself included), her journey towards her individual “truth,” which she predicted would get her “killed,” should be re-read in light of…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…s to Senate A non-discrimination bill passed unanimously in the House of Representatives now goes before the Senate “for a period of interpretation and amendments before it can be voted on,” reports Helen Parshall at the Washington Blade. Nepal: First Marriage Involving Transgender Person Approved Nepal approved the first known wedding involving a transgender person, reports Pink News….

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…f our politics with big corporate money. But for Micah Bales, an Occupy DC participant known for his Quaker activism, the group is not so much occupying McPherson Square as “holding space for the 99% to come and gather.” There was, notably, no drum circle, which has become a symbol of both liberal and conservative scorn of the New York movement (conservatives scoff while some liberals cringe). Why Aren’t There 50 Clergy? But there was a tiny glimm…

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…euters reports, the suspected shooter’s Facebook profile shows him wearing patches of the flags of apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia and sitting on a car with a license plate bearing the words “Confederate States of America.” He reportedly said, after sitting for an hour next to Pinckney and other worshippers at Emanuel, and after shooting them, and after a worshipper attempted to talk him out of reloading his gun, “I have to do it. You rape…

Romney Had No Clue as to Obama Ground Game

By Joanna Brooks

…Unless by “data-driven analyst” he means is a guy who knows how to arrange numbers on a page to make a case just plausible enough secure buy-in from a cultivated crew of underwriters and investors who are already inclined to believe him. Which, actually, just may be what “data-driven analyst” means these days. I don’t believe that spreadsheets are a scale model of reality. I do believe that professional political directors should have a grip on r…

Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…g days at work. On Wednesday and Thursday he saw more than twice the usual number of patients at his abortion clinic, Aid For Women, in Kansas City, Kansas. But then, this has been an unusual few weeks. Since mid-June, Dr. Yeomans (and the other abortion providers in Kansas) have found themselves scrambling to see as many patients as possible before today; as of July 1, these facilities will not be able to offer abortion services until they show…

How (and Why) A Determined Sit-In Worked

By Daniel Schultz

…delivered to lawmakers’ offices pretty much go directly in the trash. They pay more attention to phone calls and letters, but street protests don’t bother them at all, unless they’re on cable news, which they almost never are. Hashtags? Changing your Twitter avatar? Forget about it. Popular protest does play a supporting role in getting us to a point where something like the Congressional sit-in works. So do the organizations—including the religio…

Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher

By Frederick Clarkson

…one recent example, Patriot Mobile—a NAR 7 Mountains Dominionism-inspired phone company in Texas—bankrolled the campaigns of 11 candidates for school board in the suburbs of Ft. Worth in May 2022. They all won, and they subsequently took control of four school boards. In one school district (but probably not the last) 40 books were soon pulled from the shelves for “review.” It remains to be seen whether book burnings will become more a part of th…