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Anti-Gay, Anti Catholic Evangelical Sworn In As Mayor of Rio; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…In 1970, just 5% of Brazilians considered themselves evangelical. Now that number is closer to one-fourth. Fundamentalists have grabbed power in Brazil’s Congress, forming a voting bloc that’s throttled anti-discrimination and hate-crime laws: Lower House President Eduardo Cunha, who claimes Brazil is “under attack” by gays, is trying to overturn the 2013 ruling that brought marriage equality. Jair Bolsonaro, a prominent congressman, recommended c…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nding in the way of LGBT voters actually voting for Marine Le Pen in large numbers. But her anti-immigrant, anti-EU position — coupled with a more center-left economic policy that supports France’s robust social safety net — is pulling voters from left-wing constituencies to her side. Courting LGBT voters remains a high-wire act, because beneath Le Pen’s march to victory is a simmering internal battle that could build into a true revolt from withi…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ially gender neutral on March 1; same-sex couples previously registered as domestic partners by apply to a local magistrate to transform their partnership into a legal marriage. Lebanon: Activists prepare for LGBT health week LGBT Health Week starts on Saturday, March 11. This year’s theme is “Marginalization is bad for health.” United Kingdom: UK tells gay asylum seekers to go back to Afghanistan and pretend to be straight The government recently…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…gnified by the November 2016 election. LGBT Muslims have focused mainly on domestic challenges, aiming to capitalize on a new mode of grassroots intersectional politics galvanized by visionaries like Bernie Sanders and the leadership of coalitions like Black Lives Matter, Fight for $15, and Rise and Resist. Yet they see that events on the global stage, in educational institutions, and in private spaces consecrated to spiritual healing are vying fo…

Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ns that someone can be denied health insurance for, adding sexual assault, domestic violence, a cesarean section, or postpartum depression. It also allows insurers to refuse to cover mammograms and “gynecological services,” according to New York magazine. If that version becomes law, the healthcare provisions in today’s executive order are effectively moot, since reproductive care will no longer be classified as routine healthcare to which all tho…

The Potentially Explosive Russian Church Intrigue Revealed by Mueller Investigation

By Katherine Kelaidis

…man rights worldview which has already had a significant effect on Russian domestic policy and has helped garner Russia’s recent prestige among radical conservatives around the world—particularly in the West. The “axis between Russian Orthodox and American Evangelicals,” as the Economist calls it, has been well documented, and, as Slate’s Ruth Graham points out, it’s not a coincidence that Russian spy Maria Butina sought to infiltrate American pol…

New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem

By Caroline Matas

…one to seek a divorce and that’s always wrong counsel,” even in matters of domestic abuse. Patterson told his audience that he advises women experiencing spousal abuse to “be submissive in every way that you can” while praying for their husband’s change of heart. Following the leaked audio, Southern Baptist leaders spoke out in favor of women’s right to “separate” from abusive husbands, but the SBC’s most recent resolution continues to identify di…

If Not for AIPAC: What Ilhan Omar Should Have Said

By Haroon Moghul

…strong the temptation. We owe it to ourselves, to our country, and to posterity, to get it right. As the American Muslim community rises, culturally, socially and politically, we will have to consider our domestic and foreign policy priorities, on what terms and in which language we discuss these, or, instead, a simpler question, which says less and contains more: What will we lobby for?…

Colorado Springs Massacre Captures the Christian Nationalist ‘Monster In The Mirror’

By Lucas Kwong

…isease-bearing foreigner channels White British paranoia about the growing numbers of Eastern European Jews flocking to Britain’s shores from the 1870s onward. In the episode, I point out that Dracula—and vampires by extension—became the quintessential anti-Christian villain, not least because of how they echo conspiracy theories, circulating almost a decade before the publication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, that powerful Jewish elites…

Sexual Abuse is Inevitable in Christian Patriarchy; Just Take a Look at Doug Wilson’s Christ Church, and its New ‘Documentary’ ‘Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity’

By Cait West

…charged with attempted strangulation of his wife and later found guilty of domestic battery.” This is just one story of many coming out of this community. Christian patriarchy is often presented by its proponents as a viewpoint that protects women. In his book Her Hand in Marriage, Wilson writes, “Women inescapably need godly masculine protection against ungodly masculine harassment; women who refuse protection from their fathers and husbands must…