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Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…this year for cross-dressing in public. Speaking to The Independent on Sunday on the fringes of CHOGM, where on 27 November she was named the next Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Baroness Scotland said she would “absolutely” be talking to member states about LGBT rights. However, she refused to guarantee that the issue would be on the agenda at the next CHOGM, noting that the Commonwealth operated by consensus and so needed to be persuaded…

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

…romotion Policy,” which could “have a significant effect on the quality of Kenyans’ lives,” has not been made public. Maina concludes: These recent developments threaten to tarnish Kenya’s reputation as a free and fair democracy guided by the rule of law, and expose a worrying move to develop laws and policies based on religion and not law, with the potential of institutionalising discrimination and the violation of human rights. Mexico: Activists…

Conservative Bishops Unhappy At Synod, But Ignore Walkout Call; Australian Religious Leaders Step Up Marriage Equality Opposition; Italy Debates Civil Unions; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…project. However, looking to speed up the process, the government on Wednesday briefly presented its bill to the upper house Senate, a move which could open the way for its approval in early 2016…. A number of opposition parties, including former premier Silvio Berlusconi Forma Italia group, have said they support the plan, meaning it should pass relatively easily when it finally comes to a vote, despite Roman Catholic opposition. The parliamentar…

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…rt—but hearts don’t have flagpoles, only the public square does…if we dont fly the appeal to heaven flag,” he said, using a slur for transgender people, “we’ll fly the t****y flag.” Wilson closed with a recommendation that, if he wins the 2024 election, Donald Trump should, on inauguration day: [G]ive explicit glory to the God of heaven, and do it in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Only a “Protestant majority” can usher in “restoration” NatCon…

Founding Father John Adams’ Advice to Rick Perry: Don’t Meddle in Religion

By Warren Throckmorton

…would feel extremely out of place and unwelcome at any so-called national day of prayer and fasting organized and sponsored by the American Family Association.” David Barton argues that today’s opponents of state-sponsored Christian favoritism are ignorant of the nation’s historic Christian roots. What we learn from Adams’ critics, however, is that from the earliest days Americans have been deeply suspicious of government endorsement of one relig…

Pornographic War Gazing: Why We Don’t Look Away

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…and chapel: “Therefore, let every one that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come. The wrath of Almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging over a great part of this congregation. Let every one fly out of Sodom: ‘Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.’” One need not be a literalist, as Edwards was, to appropriate the sentiment in this closing line for life today. It is no…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ilence’ Event Russian police disrupted a protest in St. Petersburg last Friday at which about 50 activists gathered to commemorate the Day of Silence. More from Daily Xtra: The event, organized through Russia’s leading social media platform, Vkontakte, called for LGBT people and their allies to gather at the square. Participants were asked to tape their mouths shut with red tape to symbolize how homophobia in Russia is hushed up, despite the fact…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…unding the National Conservative movement is not without precedent. Between 1800 and 1950, Europe endured what amounted to a second Catholic Counter-Reformation. In the latter portion of the 19th century, predominantly Catholic countries in Europe—which of course European nations have largely been since the 1648 Peace of Westphalia—experienced an upsurge of royalist and irredentist passions to which the Catholic Church often attached itself (for e…

The Traitor Chaplain Who Gave Government Prayer to America — A 4th of July Corrective

By Andrew L. Seidel

…le, without courage . . .” The Rev. Jacob Duché was a traitor. On the same day that Duché penned this quisling letter, General Benedict Arnold was trouncing British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga. Arnold’s later treachery lives on in infamy, but Duché’s is forgotten. Or perhaps Duché’s treachery is ignored so that his prayer can be venerated? So that Christian nationalists can point to a long history of government prayer to justify today’s viol…

Politics in a Fallen World: Lying, Fact-Checkers, and the Future of Civilization

By Michael Schulson

…e, rulers lie. That’s what they do. This makes me think of fact-checkers today. They’re holding up this ideal for truthful discourse. But even politicians who, I think, would be considered fairly honest are still going to fall short of a perfect PolitiFact score. Everyone is fudging. There’s a divide between our sense of how leaders should behave, and what we all know they actually do. We just assume now that all politicians are essentially lying…