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Dan Savage to Debate with National Org for Marriage President?

By Peter Montgomery

…arriage’s Brian Brown after a highly publicized event at which Savage told students at a high school assembly that they could ignore some of the “bullshit” in the Bible. Savage later apologized for snarky comments he directed toward some students who walked out. Brown publicly pledged to debate Savage, declaring “I’m here, you name the time and the place and let’s see what a big man you are in a debate with someone who can talk back.” Savage annou…

The Collapse of the American Jewish Center

By Sarah Posner

…That includes evidence that the Israeli government knew the three Israeli students kidnapped in the West Bank in June had been murdered, but still ginned up emotions, in Israel and the diaspora, for a search the government knew was futile to find them alive. The Jewish Daily Forward’s J.J. Goldberg has meticulously documented the series of events leading up to an “unnecessary war” that “nobody wanted.” The government claim to be searching for the…

Contraception: 1; Notre Dame: 0

By Patricia Miller

…cute elderly nuns in habits to do so. That’s good news for employees and students who get their insurance through the university, less good news for the Catholic bishops, as the Notre Dame suit was one of the most high-profile against the contraception mandate in ObamaCare. Most importantly, in his opinion Judge Richard Posner delved into the question at the heart of lawsuits against the mandate by Catholic nonprofits: Is requiring them to sign…

It’s Complicated: When “None” Doesn’t Even Begin to Cover It

By Tucker FitzGerald

…inary had. They had composed the school’s “Geography Club”. Ostensibly for students with enthusiasm regarding geography to gather and share in their common love. In practice, it was the school’s unsanctioned group for closeted queer students. Where they were two years after graduation was remarkable. Evangelical repression was no match for sexual orientation, authentic gender identity, or the temptations of kink, it seemed. The circle batted aroun…

Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Acceptance of Marriage Equality: Here’s What to Expect

By Sunnivie Brydum

…Obama administration’s groundbreaking guidance that suggested transgender students be allowed to use the school facilities that correspond with their gender. Desanctis suggests that Trump should “dissolve” the Department of Education policy that was celebrated by LGBT advocates nationwide when it was announced by the Education Department and Department of Justice in a one-two punch that also saw the DOJ file a federal civil rights lawsuit against…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Scotland’s largest, opposed a draft guidance that would allow teachers and students to opt out on the grounds of “conscience,” saying it could undermine the whole purpose of providing sex education. On Sunday, the director of the Scottish Catholic Education Service, Michael McGrath, published an op ed in the Scotsman making the case that teachers should be allowed to teach students that “marriage is uniquely a relationship between a man and a woma…

Religious Right Attacks Federal Bullying Intervention

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…a clarification that bullying of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered students based on gender stereotypes is considered harassment.” While the letter does not create any new laws for schools to follow, it is, according to Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali the first time “that the Department has made it clear that students that are members of the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered [sic] community are protected by Title…

The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I

By Ben Lorber

…nce,” the array of voices clustered under the NatCon banner align around a number of goals and priorities. These include a near-total moratorium on immigration (whether documented or not); a robust Christian nationalism to dominate the public square; a rollback of LGBTQ rights; economic nationalism and opposition to “globalist” supranational institutions; hostility to China as a civilizational enemy; a seething vendetta against so-called “woke eli…

Conservative Evangelicalism’s Gender Role Rift: Whither Women?

By Jacob Lupfer

…es perennially debate whether women professors are qualified to teach male students in theological disciplines. In one prong of a thoroughgoing administrative crackdown, Cedarville University in Ohio, for example, forced out a tenured female Bible professor. The new female religion instructor is only permitted to teach women. One notable exception to the institutionalization of Christian patriarchy is evangelicalism’s flagship magazine, Christiani…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ced that every Catholic secondary school will have a “safe space” for LGBT students where they could find someone who had been trained to meet their needs. France: Growing gay support for far-right Marine Le Pen? At BuzzFeed, Lester Feder and Pierre Buet report on the growing support for the right-wing National Front among LGBT voters. The party, led by Marine Le Pen, has tried to distance itself from the extremism and anti-Semitism of its founder…