Showing posts with label anti-lgbtq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anti-lgbtq. Show all posts

Monday, August 3, 2026

Anti-LGBTQ+ laws are on the rise across west Africa, campaigners warn

According to US-based international reproductive rights organisation Ipas, the annual gatherings are supported by Family Watch International (FWI), an Arizona-based Christian campaign group that opposes abortion and comprehensive sex education (CSE). Also in attendance has been Dutch-founded lobby group Christian Council International, which promotes similar views…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/02/anti-lgbtq-laws-are-on-the-rise-across-west-africa-campaigners-warn


Sunday, December 14, 2025

Christian Mom Kidnaps Daughter (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #613)

— A Christian mom who tried to ban LGBTQ books just got arrested for kidnapping her own daughter. (0:20)

— Will the Maine Supreme Court allow a mother to keep harming her daughter with religion? (20:10)

— Ohio appellate court lets makeshift church challenge local fire codes on religious grounds. (46:31)

— Four Christian pastors want their faith to override public safety concerns in a Colorado park. (1:05:05)

— Taxpayer dollars, Christian lies: What Alabama’s voucher program really buys. (1:15:41)

— Utah high school blasted for sermon-like video blaming “sin of laziness” for mental health struggles. (1:29:35)
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Sunday, February 9, 2025

“Queers Need Not Apply” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast, Ep #132) (It's In the Code)

Why is there no acknowledgement of queer identity or expression within the sex/gender ideology of conservative high-control Christianity? What does this tell us about how queerness is understood within this subculture? And why is queer identity simultaneously denied and perceived as an existential threat? Check out this week’s episode to hear what Dan has to say.
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Friday, April 12, 2024

More Americans are ditching religion, citing anti-LGBTQ bigotry and clergy sex abuse

Religiously unaffiliated Americans are the fastest growing “religious” group in America, now comprising 26% of the population. 

Their reasons for leaving organized religion include anti-LGBTQ bigotry, clergy sex abuse scandals, and the toll it takes on their mental health.

Thursday, March 28, 2024

People say they're leaving religion because of anti-LGBTQ teachings and abuse : NPR

People in the U.S. are leaving and switching faith traditions in large numbers. The idea of "religious churning" is very common in America, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)…


Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Sunday, December 10, 2023

The Mormon Church Paid a Woman to Destroy Evidence (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #Ep. 508)

(Contains Jessica's usual profanity...)

— Speaker Mike Johnson says God told him, in late-night hallucinations, that he was Moses. (0:59)

— The Mormon Church refused to help a sex abuse survivor, then paid her to destroy evidence. (13:18)

— The theme of this public school marching band's halftime show? A Christian Tent Revival. (32:26)

— Kirk Cameron wants schools to ditch Scholastic book fairs for a right-wing alternative. (42:20)

— Oklahoma Senate candidate: Parents who use IVF are “waging an assault against God.” (1:01:10)

— An all-female Catholic college will admit trans women. Haters can't handle it. (1:12:48)
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Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Trump-appointed judges keep falling for anti-LGBTQ plantiffs’ fake claims

The court's acceptance of Smith's claim, granting of prospective relief despite no real evidence of harm, stunned legal experts, including the court's liberals. "The breadth of petitioners' pre-enforcement challenge is astounding," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent...

Saturday, September 23, 2023

Democrats call for removal of anti-LGBTQ provisions in annual defense bill | The Hill

More than 150 House Democrats are calling for the removal of provisions in the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that target LGBTQ rights, arguing in a letter sent Thursday to House and Senate Armed Services Committee leadership that such measures "threaten the recruitment, retention, and readiness of our Armed Forces."…

Monday, September 4, 2023

Neo-Nazi groups spew hate outside Disney World and near Orlando, officials say

Groups of neo-Nazis and white supremacists spread antisemitic, white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ messages outside of Disney World and in the nearby Orlando area on Saturday, in the latest examples of rising antisemitism in the U.S., officials said...

Monday, July 10, 2023

Weekly Roundup: Klanned Karenhood (Moms for Liberty) (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad begins with a long discussion of the Moms for Liberty conference in Philadephia. He centers his comments on the long history of “housewife populism” that goes back to the 1950s. Drawing on work from Gill Frank and Melissa Deckman, Brad argues that Moms for Liberty stands in a long lineage of grassroots movements led by women using the mantle of motherhood to advance an anti-LGBTQ and often White supremacist agenda.

Piece by Gillian Frank: https://wearethemeteor.com/moms-for-liberty-history-white-supremacy/

He also does a close reading of Dennis Prager’s comments from the conference – showing how the drive for “order” is the sacred value in Christian nationalist and right-wing spaces.

In the final segment he considers the category of Whiteness in relationship to the “color-blind” approach to race and racism that we are hearing about in the wake of the SCOTUS decision on college admission.
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US religious right at center of anti-LGBTQ+ message pushed around the world

The spread across the world illustrates how America's evangelical and Catholic right has globalized over the past 15 years by helping establish a vast web of anti-LGBTQ+ zealots who share ideas, messaging and funding...







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