Sunnivie Brydum
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That Time Ellen Page Confronted Brazil's Antigay Pol Jair Bolsonaro
On Gaycation, lesbian actress Ellen Page discussed LGBTQ rights with Jair Bolsonaro before his presidential run in Brazil. → Read More
Dispatch from Charlottesville: “It Was a War Zone. It Felt Like There Were a Million Nazis.”
Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, an RD contributor and trans queer Latinx public theologian, is currently in Charlottesville, Virginia, as part of the faith-based response to the white supremacist and neo-Nazi convergence on the usually bucolic college town. Dr. Robyn, who uses they/them pronouns, w → Read More
A President “Anointed By God”: POTUS Shield and Religious Right’s Affair with Trump
People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch this month published an important report by RD contributor (and PFAW senior fellow) Peter Montgomery, offering a compelling portrait of a group that calls itself POTUS Shield (which also stands for “Prophetic Order of the United States”). The report it → Read More
Brownback Nomination Further Evidence That “Religious Freedom” Is Code For “Conservative Christian Supremacy”
Wednesday was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day for LGBT Americans and those who believe we deserve basic respect and civil rights. After the president's hastily tweeted ban on transgender Americans serving openly in the military, the Justice Department's unusual interjection in a federal → Read More
7 Problems with Trump’s Hastily-Tweeted Trans Military Ban
In the span of three tweets the president declared this morning that as many as 15,000 active-duty and reservist members of the U.S. military are categorically unfit to serve. Despite tweeting that he did so "fter consultation with my Generals and military experts" it appears that he did just the → Read More
It’s Not About Cake: Anti-Gay Vendors Want a Constitutional Right to Discriminate
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) plans to argue that bakers and florists are "artists," and can't be forced to engage in artistic expression that contravenes their religious beliefs. → Read More
On Historic “Decision Day,” SCOTUS Sends LGBT Americans Mixed Messages
For LGBT legal nerds like me, June 26 is an important day. Every major pro-equality decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the past 15 years has been issued on June 26. From the decimation of anti-sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas in 2003, to the affirmation of our constitutional right to → Read More
Black Pastor Who Introduced SBC Resolution Against Alt-Right Assumed It Would Be a “Slam Dunk”
The Texas pastor who drafted the original resolution calling on the Southern Baptist Convention to condemn white supremacy and the “alt-right” said he was “shocked” by the massive controversy his resolution sparked at the conservative denomination’s annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona this week. “I → Read More
Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Gay Attendees, Waffles on White Supremacists
While the Southern Baptist Convention considers whether or not to denounce white supremacy and the "alt-right," it apparently has no such equivocation over the place for LGBT Christians at its annual gathering: gays and those preaching tolerance for them are not welcome inside the Convention's annua → Read More
Can I Get Some Birth Control Pills With That Slushie?: Unpacking the Contraceptive Mandate Rollback
A roundtable discussion with RD's Sunnivie Brydum, Patricia Miller, and Anita Little. → Read More
Scott Lively’s Crimes Against Humanity Aren’t Conservative Christian Outliers
In what might be the most scathing federal ruling ever handed down in favor of a defendant, U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor on Monday granted Scott Lively's request for summary judgment in the years-long case alleging Lively committed crimes against humanity for aiding and abetting deadly anti-LG → Read More
Texas’ Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill Is Unconstitutional and Unnecessary, Say Texas Law Professors
Nine sitting law professors at major universities in Texas have drafted an open letter to lawmakers in their state who just approved a controversial "religious freedom" bill that would allow state-funded adoption agencies to discriminate against prospective parents who are LGBT, single or not Christ → Read More
Judy Shepard Takes on ADF: Stop “Exploiting Children In the Name of Hate”
Judy Shepard is no stranger to the heartbreak that anti-LGBT hatred can wrest upon on a family and a community. And while she has turned her son Matthew's brutal murder into a decades-long rallying cry for hate crime protections and broad acceptance for LGBT people, the generally soft-spoken mother → Read More
Texas Pastor: Christians Claiming “Religious Persecution” Are Actually Just “Selfish”
It's not every day that a Baptist pastor based in Texas urges his congregants to be kinder and gentler when thinking or arguing about religious liberty. But that's exactly what Mark Wingfield, an associate pastor at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, did in his Monday column for the Dallas Morning N → Read More
VIDEO: “First-Generation, Indian-American Muslim Kid” Makes Fun of the President. Onstage.
In hosting the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner for the first time Saturday, The Daily Show's "first-generation, Indian-American Muslim kid," Hasan Minhaj, was in rare form, subjecting the D.C. press corps and the absent Trump administration to the biting, funny-because-its-true humor laced → Read More
Netflix Removing Antigay Film Isn’t “Free Speech,” it’s Free Market
As Remezcla reports, sometime in the past month, Netflix Mexico yanked Paco del Toro's 2016 film, Pink, from its lineup. The controversial film told the story of a gay couple (comprised, of course, of a flamboyant, effeminate partner paired with his straight-laced, macho boyfriend-turned-husband) wh → Read More
Humiliating “Kim Davis Bill” To “Protect” Anti-LGBT County Clerks Passes Texas Senate
While everyone (including me) was busy blasting North Carolina for its latest (unconstitutional) effort to undo marriage equality, the Texas Senate quietly passed a bill that would allow county clerks to refuse marriage licenses to same-sex couples if marriage equality violates the clerk's "sincerel → Read More
North Carolina Just Tried to Ban Marriage Equality Because “Almighty God” Said So
Lest anyone believed that North Carolina's fake "repeal" of the odious, transphobic HB2 signaled a turn toward tolerance inside the State Capitol in Raleigh, three Republican lawmakers intend to set the record straight (as it were). As local CBS affiliate WNCN reported Tuesday, three Republican men → Read More
Gorsuch Confirmed… But Don’t Get Too Bent Out of Shape
Well, it's done. Moments ago the senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch as the newest associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His ascension to the high court was, of course, incredibly contentious, though not for the reasons it should have been. Democrats failed to mount an effective objection to the ju → Read More
Is Religion the Only Tool Left for Legal Discrimination?
While many mistakenly believe that the law protects LGBTQ Americans from employment discrimination (excepting efforts to carve out religious exemptions), the fact remains that this is not universally the case. Such was not the case, for example, for Kimberly Hivey, an Indiana community college profe → Read More