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Is Religion the Only Tool Left for Legal Discrimination?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…change today. “Just as courts have in the past refused to grant religious exemptions from laws that prohibit race and sex discrimination, I think courts should—and ultimately will—reject the argument that a person’s religious beliefs entitle them to an exemption from laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.” But with a new administration—and a potential Supreme Court Justice—that is hugely deferenti…

Humiliating “Kim Davis Bill” To “Protect” Anti-LGBT County Clerks Passes Texas Senate

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ermissible if SB 522 becomes law. The bill also highlights the fact that Texas marital code still only identifies “a man and a woman” as the two parties who may apply for a marriage license. Even for Texas Republicans, this bill is a mean-spirited (though not at all unprecedented) attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage equality in pursuit of accommodating a vocal minority who claim their faith trumps their neighbors’ pursuit…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that criminalize non-hijab-wearing women, drinking alcohol, gambling, and extramarital sexual relations, all of which can be enforced against non-Muslims. Aceh’s LGBT population is also vulnerable to Aceh’s 2014 Criminal Code that bars liwath (sodomy) and musahabah (lesbian sexual action). Aceh province imposed the Sharia punishment of multiple lashes of a cane against 339 people in 2016. The New Zealand Herald reported that the couple was filmed…

Texas’ Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill Is Unconstitutional and Unnecessary, Say Texas Law Professors

By Sunnivie Brydum

…nal origin, no such exception is made for discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. The Establishment Clause has been construed to prevent the government from favoring or disfavoring any particular religion or religion in general. To the extent that H.B. 3859 can be understood specifically to protect and promote certain conservative beliefs about sex and sexuality, it raises serious Establishment Claus…

Satan, Contributor to Teen Vogue‘s New “Sodomy” Section?

By Mark D. Jordan

…ure never to buy a copy. @McAllisterDen https://t.co/lV9006p3ei — Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) July 17, 2017 (Metaxas earlier identified himself as a “mere Christian,” in C. S. Lewis’s sense, while dismissing whole denominations for defecting from “the historic faith.”) Elizabeth Johnson, The Activist Mommy, decided to burn the offending article for “teaching children…how to be safely sodomized.” She added, “We should not be teaching children, peri…

Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ent officials” should behave. Finding a member of Congress whose views or experience are analogous to Moore’s is tricky, but Texas Sen. Ted Cruz likely comes closest to providing that example—especially during the Senator’s freshman term, when the Tea Party-backed legislator reveled in publicity-grabbing stunts like his infamous Green Eggs and Ham filibuster over the Affordable Care Act. But Cruz, who became a Senator at age 43, has had to temper…

Is God a Winning Strategy for Democrats?

By Andrew L. Seidel

…g adopt the morally superior position isn’t surprising—most Christians are better than Christianity. They employ their personal moral code, choosing the moral morsels from the Bible that square with their contemporary sensibility. The Bible does not portray Jesus as a liberal powerhouse. Or at least, not solely as the man liberal Christians claim. We need look no further than hell to prove this point. Americans possess an unparalled degree of reli…

It’s Preposterous That We Can’t Question Nominees on Religion

By Patricia Miller

…ious practice to the right of religious imposition on others (via an ever expanding roster of religious exemptions). “Because so many religious people currently say they should be exempt from the laws, it is important for Senators to get all nominees to disclose just what their perspective of religion’s relationship to the law is,” Leslie Griffin, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Nevada School of Law who specializes in law an…

‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…“suspended the business” of CHESA. From Pink News: In Tanzania, male homosexual sex carries a sentence anywhere between 30 years and life in prison. Their Colonial-era penal code criminalises anyone who “has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature.” Earlier this year, Tanzania stopped health clinics from providing HIV services, saying they “cater to homosexuals.” It is believed 33,000 people in Tanzania died from AIDS-related il…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…case against a colonial-era law, known as Section 377, that criminalizes sex between men in India, the ruling was welcome news. And it has renewed some hope for the repeal of other repressive laws, including one requiring the “registration and control of eunuchs” and marital rape exceptions in the Indian Penal Code. … Depictions of gender-fluid identity are common in ancient texts found in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. In Hinduism, gods transfor…