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      Texas Faith Leaders Say Governor’s Use of Pandemic to Ban Abortion is an Attack on Religious Freedom (Updated)
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      Whether it’s Celebrated by CT or Denied in NYC, Evangelical Proselytizing Isn’t in Quarantine
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      How Do Evangelical Missionaries in Brazil Justify Risking Indigenous Lives During a Pandemic?
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    • If Something About Trump’s Bible Photo-Op Felt Familiar There’s a Good Reason
      If Something About Trump’s Bible Photo-Op Felt Familiar There’s a Good Reason
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      Hope & Change in a Racist Nation: A Necessary Disillusion
    • Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right
      Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right
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      A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
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      Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)
    • Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom
      Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom
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    • Whatever COVID-19 Brings, This Chaplain Wants You to Remember That the Death Rate is Ultimately 100%
      Whatever COVID-19 Brings, This Chaplain Wants You to Remember That the Death Rate is Ultimately 100%
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      How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote
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      Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon
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    • White Evangelical Leaders Still Too Preoccupied With ‘Order’ to Listen to Black Truth
      White Evangelical Leaders Still Too Preoccupied With ‘Order’ to Listen to Black Truth
    • If Something About Trump’s Bible Photo-Op Felt Familiar There’s a Good Reason
      If Something About Trump’s Bible Photo-Op Felt Familiar There’s a Good Reason
    • Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right
      Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right

Sunnivie Brydum

Sunnivie Brydum is an award-winning journalist and former managing editor of The Advocate, whose work has also appeared in Vox and Bustle. She writes about the politics of equality, and strives to elevate the voices of marginalized LGBT people. Reach her on Twitter @sunnivie, or via email: sunnivie@religiondispatches.org

OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sex/Gender/Justice, Sexuality/GenderMarch 14, 2019

LGBTQI ‘Equality Act’ Enjoys Broad Support; There’s Just One Problem

By Sunnivie Brydum

Though an estimated 70% of the overall population supports nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people, and a new survey shows that a majority of every religious group agrees, there remains at least one significant hurdle.

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OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeOctober 16, 2018

Pence’s Religious Freedom Policy Made ‘LGBQ’ Hoosiers Sick—Literally

By Sunnivie Brydum

Data pointing to the detrimental health impacts of discrimination serve as a sobering reminder that the suggestion that LGBTQ people “just go to another baker” doesn’t begin to solve the problem.

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderNovember 30, 2017

How a Ruling for Masterpiece Cakeshop Could Embolden White Nationalists

By Sunnivie Brydum

While deploying “religious freedom” arguments to push back on progressive social change is hardly new,…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderOctober 26, 2017

Trump is a Nightmare, Sure, But Can He Actually Do Anything?

By Sunnivie Brydum

Since January, opening email yields at least one urgent call to action from any number…

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OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderOctober 10, 2017

Dear Mr. President: We Get It. You Really Love White Conservative Christians

By Sunnivie Brydum

The Trump administration’s latest gift to its far-right, white conservative Christian base is the DOJ’s…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyOctober 2, 2017

Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling

By Sunnivie Brydum

Much has already been written about the dangers Roy Moore—Alabama’s infamous “10 Commandments judge”—could pose…

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OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderSeptember 19, 2017

East Lansing Demonstrates How Not to Respond to Anti-LGBT “Christian” Businesses

By Sunnivie Brydum

From wedding cakes to apple cider, the nation’s best-funded Christian legal nonprofit is using “religious”…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderSeptember 12, 2017

Trump’s DOJ Wants Constitutional Protection for Wedding Cakes, Not LGBT People

By Sunnivie Brydum

Nine months into Donald Trump’s presidency, it should surprise no one to learn that his…

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(A)theologies, ArchiveAugust 14, 2017

Dispatch from Charlottesville: “It Was a War Zone. It Felt Like There Were a Million Nazis.”

By Sunnivie Brydum

Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, an RD contributor and trans queer Latinx public theologian, is currently in Charlottesville,…

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Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyAugust 4, 2017

A President “Anointed By God”: POTUS Shield and Religious Right’s Affair with Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch this month published an important report by…

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