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Where Did White Evangelicalism’s Hatred of Critical Race Theory Really Begin?

By Andre E. Johnson

…f American history through a racial and ideological lens. According to the Washington Post, conservative activists and politicians use the term as a “catchall phrase for nearly any examination of systemic racism in the present.” It’s often “portrayed as the basis of race-conscious policies, diversity trainings and education about racism, regardless of how much the academic concept actually affects those efforts.” But how did an academic theory, ta…

Summer Brings Competing Marriage Tours

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tour route, starting July 14 in Augusta, Maine, and ending on August 15 in Washington DC. Crawford said they’re not looking to get into shouting matches with NOM; instead, FTM sees this as a chance to set the record… well… straight. “What we’re really seeing this as is a fantastic opportunity to tell stories about the lives of gay and lesbian couples and put a positive spotlight on why marriage is so important to gay and lesbian couples,” Crawford…

Democrats Look to Conservative Evangelicals on Immigration

By Sarah Posner

…e Rev. John Beddingfield, Rector of All Souls Memorial Episcopal Church in Washington DC, is in the United States on a student visa, which will expire when he completes his doctorate. Although the couple got married in April after DC made gay marriage legal, de Leon, a Philippine national, cannot obtain a green card through Beddingfield as a heterosexual spouse could. De Leon lamented how the anti-UAFA religious voices are more frequently heard in…

Obama’s Religion Ambassador: Inexperienced?

By Anthea Butler

…tivational preacher known for hosting Wall Street Wednesdays and Wonderful Washington Worship meetings, is a member of the American Baptist Convention. Touted as a cross between “Billy Graham and Oprah Winfrey,” the Reverend is author of several books, including Live Like You’re Blessed, A New Dating Attitude, Praying for the Men in Your Life, and her most recent, Moving Up: Dr. Sujay’s Ten Steps to Turning Your Life Around and Getting to the Top….

Mormons Take Even More Activist Message to DC Pride March

By Joanna Brooks

…dren, about his planned participation in the Mormons for Marriage Equality DC Pride contingent. Tell me why you’re marching. I’m marching because I want to make a statement to [the] LGBT community and my friends that I support and accept them and I believe they should have the same rights as I do. And I want to demonstrate as well that Mormons are willing to stand up for fairness. We are not foes. And we’re not a monolith. Mormons have all sorts o…

Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…is month that an Arabic-language pro-LGBT hashtag trended worldwide In the Washington Post, Emma-Kate Symons published an op ed with the not-so-subtle title, “How Pope Francis can cleanse the far-right rot from the Catholic Church.” In the column, she urges Pope Francis to “take tougher action against the United States’ most influential Catholic in Rome, Cardinal Raymond ‘Breitbart’ Burke.” A sampling: The renegade cleric is not only undermining F…

Romney: “A Life Balanced Between Fear and Greed”?

By Joanna Brooks

Last weekend’s news cycle brought important stories in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe about how Mitt Romney does business. The picture they paint is not entirely new, but it is consistent: Romney extracted value while, and sometimes by, outsourcing and destroying jobs, at times financing deals through “leveraged buyouts” that added substantially to the debts of companies trying to stay afloat. One source close to th…

Does Romney’s Religion Condone Torture? [UPDATED]

By Joanna Brooks

…s about the candidate’s position, and the recent appointment of a Spokane, Washington LDS bishop who in his professional life as a psychologist pioneered so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” after 9/11 has raised new questions about whether Mormonism condones torture. Washington newspapers are reporting that Bruce Jessen was called and “sustained” (or approved) to serve as bishop by his Spokane-area congregation in mid-October. [UPDATE: …

Leave It to Trump to Split a Catholic-Evangelical Bloc That’s Generations Old

By Neil J. Young

…st demographic challenge for Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions. As the Washington Post recently reported, a poll from the Public Religion Research Institute found that Catholic voters preferred Hillary Clinton to Trump by a crushing 23 percent margin, 55-32. With less than a third of Catholics intending to vote for him, Trump has fallen well below the support GOP candidates typically enjoy from Catholic voters. George W. Bush won the Catholic…

More Bleak Times For Indonesian LGBTs; South Africa Bans Extremist Anti-Gay US Pastor; Mexican Marriage Struggle Heats Up; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…” Indonesia: More on ‘bleak time’ facing LGBT community The Australian Broadcasting Company reported on the “bleak time” facing Indonesia’s LGBT community, which has been under rhetorical assault from religious and political leaders, and could be on the verge of being criminalized if the Constitutional Court does what Islamist groups are asking. Some conservative areas already criminalize “immoral” behavior. In addition, reports BuzzFeed, “Grindr,…