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How America’s Charismatic Christianity Helped Fuel the Fantasyland Presidency of Donald Trump

By Eric C. Miller

…have to ask you about Donald Trump. He is now America’s Conspiracy-Theorist-in-Chief, a position that he attained with support from 81 percent of white evangelicals. Does this research help account for that? It’s bizarre. It’s interesting, because he is not, in any meaningful sense, a Christian. So why is it that our most fervently Christian fellow citizens support him so strongly? Well, as you say, our most fervently Christian white citizens. I t…

When Corporations are “Persons” Under the Law: The Real Problem With Health Care

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e: Section Two redefined how we distribute numbers of representatives state-by-state, by “counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed”; and Section Three excluded from future service any member of the government who had previously sworn an oath of office to the State and then joined the Confederacy in open rebellion. Predictable stuff, really. After winning the War, Washington intended to re-draw the electoral m…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…rd) completely misrepresented Khalidi’s politics, contending that this half-Lebanese, half-Palestinian, US-born historian was in fact a Palestinian radical and former spokesperson for the PLO. For anyone familiar with Khalidi’s work, there was no doubt that he was a critic of America’s policies in the Middle East, especially its support of Israel. But to extrapolate that Khalidi was somehow a subversive, on par with radical Islamists, was even mor…

A Legal Document with Soul: Will the US Ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?

By Sara Friedman

…’t read at grade level, and the U.S. ranks 24th in mathematical literacy of 15-year-olds. By age 18, one in four girls and one in six boys will have been victimized by sexual assault, and the U.S. rate of death from child abuse is again 24th. By anyone’s count, along with Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, and Bernie Sanders, there are probably at least 40 or so committed Senators, but to pull together 67 votes in 2010 or 2011 will still be a daunting cha…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…tion within the community of our rights and responsibilities. At the age of 18, J-FLAG and the Jamaican society at large have both matured. J-FLAG’s advocacy has become more inclusive and diverse and the Jamaican society’s attitudes have slowly matured to one of greater tolerance. Brazil: Profile of LGBTs seeking refuge from anti-LGBT rhetoric and actions Reuters’ Nacho Doce reports on LGBT squatters who have taken over an abandoned government bui…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ation is Catholic. In a column for Outrage, Patrick King Pascual takes soon-to-depart President Noynoy Aquino to task for having neglected to take action on behalf of LGBT people. Uganda: Pride, but no parade; the difficult plight of asylum-seekers Uganda’s week-long LGBT pride celebration kicked off on Wednesday amid safety concerns. The Guardian’s Maeve Shearlaw reported on Wednesday: Uganda’s annual Pride festival begins in Kampala today, with…

Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Arab Emirates: Lebanese Gay Man Faces Death Penalty Earlier this month a 21-year-old gay man from Lebanon was arrested after posting a photograph in drag online and is facing the death penalty for charges that include offering sexual services to other men. France: New Gender ID Law, New Anti-Marriage-Equality Protests The Associated Press reports that tens of thousands of people protested in Paris on Sunday against a law allowing same-sex couples…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rn child as the son of two women who are married. After a few weeks of back-and-forth with government officials, the couple’s lawyer said he will ask the federal courts for an amparo, or injunction, requiring the registration to be issued. In the state of Chiapas, federal courts granted an amparo sought by a same-sex couple that had been denied marriage equality. Journalist Rex Wockner explains and tracks the ongoing, complicated march of marriage…

Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?

By Michael Bronski

…ing on a range of issues related to sexual life—such as birth control, “out-of-wedlock” births, abortion, homosexuality, and even sexual assault—the US media overwhelmingly quote the most conservative religious perspectives as the moral position on an issue. This means that conservative Christians, usually evangelical or Catholic, get the most airtime. Is it any wonder, then, that many LGBT people and feminists identify religion as “the enemy”? Bl…

Corporations, Religious Conscience, Citizens United, and Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…es when one’s money circuitously flows to support the conduct of other free-exercise-wielding individuals who hold religious beliefs that differ from one’s own. * * * Under plaintiffs’ interpretation of RFRA, a law substantially burdens one’s religion whenever it requires an outlay of funds that might eventually be used by a third party in a manner inconsistent with one’s religious values. This is at most a de minimus burden on religious practice…