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Accused of Anti-Semitism, Trump Aide Makes Ancestry Appeal

By Michael Schulson

…the Department of Defense. Meyer’s complaint, which apparently draws on testimony from at least one other senior Pentagon official, describes Schmitz boasting that he had fired “the Jews” and lecturing a colleague “on the details of concentration camps and how the ovens were too small to kill 6 million Jews.” Speaking with McClatchyDC, Schmitz maintained his innocence. What’s particularly striking, though, is the way that Schmitz made an appeal t…

Hillary Clinton Feeds the Trolls

By Michael Schulson

…your opponents seem to exist for attention, how do you take a public moral stand against them? For a long time, fringe groups have followed the principle that there is no such thing as bad publicity. What has been striking about the alt-right, though, is the degree to which it frames provocation as its raison d’être, rather than as a means to an end. As Allum Bohkari and Milo Yiannopolous put it in a much-cited essay titled “An Establishment Conse…

Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…We reported last week that Catholic bishops had called for September protests against the president’s proposal to make constitutional changes recognizing marriage equality, which is currently spreading across Mexico through a series of court rulings. Proceso reports this week that the National Front for the Family has announced anti-marriage-equality marches in 60 cities. A spokesman for the group said Mexico needs to protect the “natural family”…

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

…age equality, rejection of plebiscite A new poll released this week that most Australians support marriage equality but not the government’s plan to hold a national plebiscite on whether the law should be changed to recognize same-sex couples’ right to marry. Marriage equality advocates have called the proposed plebiscite a waste of time and money, and said it would unnecessarily invite a divisive campaign. Hungary: LGBT alliance opposes ‘hatemong…

“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…ing now endured almost two decades of continuous armed conflict with Islamist states and groups, there’s been so little violence against Muslims in this country. But when you weaponize words in this way, and you legitimate that in the national sphere, and you legitimate a discourse against the state, and you legitimate a defense of violence and of guns, at the same time that there are actual actors outside the U.S. trying to destabilize our discou…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…oston I felt a momentary panic. Where could I ever go to find her again? Last week, just in time for the Feast of All Soul’s Day, celebrated each year on November 2, the Catholic Church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a new Instruction regarding the burial of the dead and the treatment of ashes in the case of cremation. The instruction is relatively short and straightforward. In brief, the Church continues to allow cremation,…

Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…ention without due process.) For these reasons, some Muslims have remained steadfast in their refusal to accept Clinton as a “lesser of two evils.” They advise their despairing coreligionists to stand tall now, organize, and never show fear. Many American Muslims, however, are mourning Clinton’s loss and responding in the same way as others who exist as the subjects of Trump’s demagoguery and the objects of his supporters’ disdain: Latinos, LGBT c…

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

By Sunnivie Brydum

…—that’s piling up already—suggesting they’ve been duped by a con-man who just last week admitted that he didn’t think anyone would take his pledge to “keep jobs in America” seriously. Call 1-844-USA-0234 and enter your zip code to be connected with your representatives in Washington. Tell them why you oppose each nominee, and keep calling. Ask your friends and neighbors to do the same. Use the liberal bubble so many of us reside in as a safe space…

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…health care simply because they were transgender. Insurance companies in most states were barred from treating transgender patients any differently than cisgender (non-trans) patients, and HHS formalized a rule that allowed transgender people to file discrimination lawsuits if they were turned away or mistreated by a healthcare provider. But what about the millions of Americans who aren’t transgender? Well, any of those citizens who have a uterus…

Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

By Peter Montgomery

…speak its name.” It’s a strategy that makes sense given polls that show most Christians support marriage equality, he writes. But that doesn’t mean church leaders haven’t been active in opposition: But in August, Shelton brought a dozen faiths and factions of faiths together in the Coalition for Marriage to fight reform. They were an odd bunch from very different traditions with not much in common but this: a deep commitment to the old hatred of…