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If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ccording to the conspiracy myth, by a secret cabal that wants to create a “New World Order”—again, code for Jews. Jews want to eradicate the white race by instigating a “race war” and replacing the white population with immigrants. This narrative was popularized by the eugenicist Madison Grant in his 1916 book The Passing of the Great Race. It gained even more traction in white supremacist and Nazi circles with the publication of the Turner Diarie…

Anglican Communion Gets Anti-Gay Secretary General; Black Gay Christians Challenge Conservative Evangelicals in Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ylor says. “The fight for gay rights is not over.” These are some of their stories. BBC Scotland Radio documentary talks with trans people in Scotland about their lives. Malta: Catholic nation adopts ‘world’s most progressive’ gender identity law The officially Catholic nation of Malta has passed what BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder calls the world’s most progressive gender identity law. The law is the latest in a series of LGBT rights laws ushered in by…

Capricology Week 5: Fathers, Funerals, and the Ethics of Gaming

By Henry Jenkins

…omfortable in her “skin”), Tamara challenged Zoe for pride of place in the new world order. Fathers and daughters! I can only imagine the conflicts that lie ahead. Jane Espenson, whose work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer proves she knows teenage girls, has taken a roiling stew of insecurity, anger, and bravado dosed with daddy-love, coltishness, and great clothes to come up with two heroines propelled by a sense of personal mission. I can’t wait for…

Turn On The News: This Isn’t a Split, It’s a Tiny Sliver of Conservatives Walking Out the Door — Introducing A New Media Criticism Column

By Daniel Schultz

…by all members of the society. What this means in concrete terms is that true citizens participate in the mutual work of understanding, speaking in ways that give good and fair arguments to the best of one’s ability and listening in ways that likewise seek to understand as much as possible. Journalists can rightly assume that their audience will participate in the listening part of that work. Nobody needs a willfully obtuse reader. But in trying…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e pre-eminent guardian of western liberal values, voted against the bill.” BBC News reports on a Berlin mosque where “men and women pray together, women are allowed to lead Friday prayers, and gay, lesbian and transgender people are welcome.” “Our mosque is open for everybody,” says mosque founder Seyran Ates, a German Turkish-born lawyer and women’s rights activist. “And we mean that really seriously: everybody, every lifestyle. We are not God. W…

Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

By Joanna Brooks

…ce polygamy? A few weeks ago, I sat in front of a radio microphone for the BBC program “The World”; with me on the program was a high-ranking public relations official for the LDS Church. Together, we did the same program twice: two back-to-back hours of the same hour about Mormonism, one time for the American audiences, and a second time for the whole world. During the first hour, taping for American audiences, when the inevitable polygamy questi…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…races a conspiratorial world view. In the 1990s, the movement warned of a “new world order;”[24] today it echoes Trump’s “deep state” narrative. Both conspiracies cast members of the U.S. government as internal traitors working with global elites to undermine the country.[25] Key to the movement’s growth is a tendency to support existing social hierarchies that favor its largely White, male base. Some militias accept openly racist members[26] and…

Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…enomination on inclusion of LGBT people in the church and in ministry. The New York Times’ Laurie Goodstein said the move was widely seen as “a last-ditch effort to save the church from schism.” The move keeps in place for now the policy adopted in 1972 that says the “practice of homosexuality” is “incompatible with Christian teaching.” Zoll notes that 30 percent of the delegates at General Conference are from Africa, which, like those from the Am…

CPAC 2017: Hypocrites on Parade

By Sunnivie Brydum

…had been underreported, neglecting to mention any of the coverage from The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, or NBC News and Reuters. But the former RNC chairman stepped well outside the realm of reality when he claimed that “80 percent of Americans agree” with putting a wall along the nation’s southern border. Aside from the fact that there is already a wall along the vast majority of the U.S.-Mexico border, a Januar…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d to attend Islamic religious classes and promise to stop being trans. The New York Times’ Thomas Fuller has more: Although lawyers described Friday’s decision as a landmark judgment, it was also circumscribed, according to Fahri Azzat, a lawyer representing the three hairdressers who brought the case. The judgment is subject to appeal and is only applicable in Negeri Sembilan. Transgender bans in other Malaysian states remain intact, Mr. Fahri sa…