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Adventists Cancel ‘Holy Sexuality’ Confab; Egyptian Court OKs Deportation of Gays; Mongolian Trans Activist Gives TV Interview; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gender — are free to live and pray and love as they choose,” said Obama. “That’s what we believe.” Vatican: Church ends takeover of nuns’ organization The Vatican has “abruptly ended its takeover of the main leadership group of American nuns two years earlier than expected,” reports the New York Times’ Laurie Goodstein, who reminds us that “Under the previous pope, Benedict XVI, the Vatican’s doctrinal office had appointed three bishops in 2012 to…

Entitled And Enraged

By Daniel Schultz

…he other guys, forever and ever, world without end. The stark realization that the end of that pipe dream is very close makes people very very nervous, especially those with the most to lose. Another underappreciated part of the equation is identity. Not just any identity: that identity conferred upon us by the nation-state. The specific promise made by the American Dream is that if you believe the right things and do the right things, you will re…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s. They may also restrict nonprofit organizations and human rights groups that promote views inconsistent with conservative religious values. Religious friends and family members are likely to reinforce anti-homosexual views. International Anti-Trans Bus Tour & PR Campaign The anti-trans bus tour in Spain that we reported on earlier this month is part of an international strategy. The Spanish bus was sponsored by HazteOir, a Spain-based group that…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…hen he was in the White House: “Most of them were about my giving away the Panama Canal or forming what they believed to be an unnecessary Department of Education or normalizing diplomatic relations with the communist government of China.” Carter then smiled and said, “Those critical letters…ended with the 1980 election which brought my involuntary retirement from the White House. After that I didn’t get very many letters from Liberty.” In the end…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…hen he was in the White House: “Most of them were about my giving away the Panama Canal or forming what they believed to be an unnecessary Department of Education or normalizing diplomatic relations with the communist government of China.” Carter then smiled and said, “Those critical letters…ended with the 1980 election which brought my involuntary retirement from the White House. After that I didn’t get very many letters from Liberty.” In the end…

The Demographic that Should Keep Rove Awake at Night

By Katherine Stewart

…’s first openly lesbian senator. Some on the right could scarcely believe that this is what America really wants. “Millions of Americans looked evil in the eye and adopted it,” wrote Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver in his post-election commentary. He has a point—except that, for the majority of Americans, the “evil” they looked in the eye was the one they rejected on November 6. Others on the right, like the Rev. Dr. Albert Mohler Jr., president of t…

We Would Be Wise to Pay Attention to Trump’s Apocalyptic QAnon Posting Spree

By Thomas Lecaque

…bines Christian nationalist imagery with the Big Lie (see the 45-47 on the hat, implying that Trump was not only the 45th President but also the 46th instead of Biden and will be the 47th as well) and the QAnon slogans WWG1WGA and Q+ on the side. “Hold the Line, Justice is Coming,” with the call for “ReTruth if you want Justice to Be Served.” Against whom? Well, the re-Truth before that was a call to try the J6 Select Committee for sedition and lo…

Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

By Mark Dery

…ing, careening beat. I catch myself thinking how sexy he is. And I wonder what that means. And I realize I don’t care. • Riding the volume knob, I split the difference between waking my parents and coaxing all the ecstasy I can from the TV’s tin-can speaker. I don’t know how to take this I don’t see why he moves me He’s a man He’s just a man Should I bring him down Should I scream and shout Should I speak of love Let my feelings out? I never thoug…

Cherry-Picking in the God Gap: A Post-Election Conversation on the Religious Vote and the Battle to Spin it

By Daniel Schultz and Chrissy Stroop

…ow to affect big changes in elite media discourse, but I know that I will continue to plug away at achieving some ex-evangelical representation, and hope that that helps to mix things up some over time. It’s always great to chat with you!…

“Freedom” vs. “Liberty”: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Favor One Over the Other

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…on. Even today, liberty still has 18th century connotations. “It’s a word that wears a three-corner hat,” said Nunberg. Following its starring role in the Declaration of Independence, liberty has slowly slipped out of common usage. By the middle of the 20th century, the United States was solidly the land of freedom, its politics marked by turf battles over the proper use of the word—from the Freedom Riders to Operation Iraqi Freedom (although, as…