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Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…archers in Kyiv this month; “a few hundred ultranationalists” got into scuffles with police but did not disrupt the celebration. Ambassadors from Britain and Canada also attended. Canada: Government will expunge convictions Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the federal government would “expunge criminal convictions against Canadians once charged with crimes based on their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.” Lithua…

The Quixotic Task of Debunking David Barton

By Paul Harvey

…nd Deconstructionists, would not appear to have reason to worry about that with these reviewers, who write with a calm, measured voice and have created a website to update and fact-check their own material. Lies, Damned Lies, and Damned Misleading Lies As the poster child for tendentiousness, Barton makes easy pickings for dispassionate truth-seekers like Throckmorton and Coulter. One by one, they consider, historicize, and debunk Barton’s claims:…

RD10Q: The Fight Against Feminism

By Kathryn Joyce

…others in the Fatherland by Claudia Koonz. I had the privilege of studying with Ellen Willis before her death several years ago, and Beginning to See the Light still amazes me for Willis’ equally unsentimental and far-reaching idealism with regards to the possibilities of the women’s liberation movement, starting with her intellectually-rigorous investigation of what’s often dismissed as a 60s-era cliché, “that there really is such a thing as libe…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…el Mundo has thrived among the poor, and in particular the transient poor, flowing into Mexico’s cities from the country’s hardscrabble rural districts. In Hermosa Provincia, one can see how, in the face of twin threats of Catholicism and secularism, La Luz del Mundo has responded through the production of mass spectacle. There’s the sheer size of its central temple, and many of its satellites. There’s the Santa Cena hajj, each August, during whic…

Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…us right” within the CSW: The CSW has become a space in which a formidable number of Christian right-wing organizations network and actively work to try and roll back pre-existing international agreements on sexual and reproductive health and rights and recent multilateral SOGI gains. These organizations—the majority of which are US-based – have grown increasingly sophisticated in spreading their activism globally and in engaging youth (particular…

RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy

By Tom Davis

…The Expanding Evangelical Agenda After the publication of his book and the flood of money, Warren had an awakening. With disarming candor he admitted that he had never thought much about poverty—living in a land of gated communities, he didn’t see much of it. In a recent New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell, Warren admitted that widows and orphans were not on his radar. He admitted to being confused as to how he had ignored the power of the Bibl…

Resurrection of ‘Comstock Laws’ Would Threaten Access to Abortifacients — But Even That Fear Misses Bigger Picture

By Gillian Frank

…to and Thomas’s efforts are successful, a reanimated Comstock law would conflict with decades of jurisprudence that has recognized and expanded a right to sexual privacy, curtailed state prohibitions governing sexual information and sexual representations, and expanded sexual rights and freedoms for most Americans. How that would play out on a Supreme Court with a conservative majority is uncertain. But rights and freedoms that are potentially at…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Contraception Reversal

By Patricia Miller

…birth control from the Vatican II proceedings, which were already dealing with a number of controversial doctrinal issues, and had no real intention of changing the policy on birth control. Originally there were no lay members on the commission, but when they were added they were all married Catholic couples drawn from conservative Catholic family organizations who could be expected to mirror the hierarchy’s position on contraception. The commiss…

Trump the Totem: Like Other Fascist Leaders, Trump has Turned from Man to Symbol — And That’s the Danger

By Robert P. Jones

…ghest court is facing in the wake of the recent stories that Justice Alito flew flags representing support for the January 6th insurrection and White Christian nationalism at his primary residence and a beach house. That revelation, in turn, amplified previous confirmations that Justice Thomas’s wife Ginni Thomas was deeply involved in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election to keep Trump in office. But on Saturday, ahead of a Republi…

“Can You Tell Me Who The Villains Are?”: Rock and Religion, Irish-Style

By Lisa Bitel

…ament of Bishop Casey and Annie: Oh, mighty, mighty Lord almighty It’s off with the collar and off with the nightie Jesus, Mary, and holy Saint Joseph The beads are rattling now! In 1996, Moran and Carton tackled the subject of abortion, which is still illegal in Ireland. They called their moving, genuinely feminist plea for legalization “Every Day.” It’s about young women taking the boat to England to seek operations: Far from small town eyes she…