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      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
    • Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I
      Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I
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    • Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
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      Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
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      Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
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    • Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
    • Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
    • 2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
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    • Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
    • Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
      Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
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      Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
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    • 2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
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      Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine
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      As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon

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

Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyAugust 2, 2017

Seth Meyers Tries to Unpack Trump’s Faith: A Narcissistic Prosperity Gospel

By Sunnivie Brydum

On Monday’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host took a break from…

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OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJuly 28, 2017

Brownback Nomination Further Evidence That “Religious Freedom” Is Code For “Conservative Christian Supremacy”

By Sunnivie Brydum

Wednesday was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day for LGBT Americans and those who…

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Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJuly 26, 2017

7 Problems with Trump’s Hastily-Tweeted Trans Military Ban

By Sunnivie Brydum

In the span of three tweets the president declared this morning that as many as…

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

It’s Not About Cake: Anti-Gay Vendors Want a Constitutional Right to Discriminate

By Sunnivie Brydum

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.

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OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyJuly 13, 2017

The Most Ominous Promises Jeff Sessions Just Made to ADF Attorneys

By Sunnivie Brydum

It took a few days and a series of FOIA requests, but Attorney General Jeff…

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Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyJuly 13, 2017

Trump Admits His Religious Liberty Order Is Just “A Great Thing for Christianity”

By Sunnivie Brydum

President Trump sat down with Pat Robertson in the Oval Office on Wednesday to give…

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OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJuly 5, 2017

Will Texas Really Be Able to Undermine Marriage Equality?

By Sunnivie Brydum

While most of us (including your faithful RD staffers) were prepping the grill for a long…

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

On Historic “Decision Day,” SCOTUS Sends LGBT Americans Mixed Messages

By Sunnivie Brydum

For LGBT legal nerds like me, June 26 is an important day. Every major pro-equality…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 22, 2017

Wait Until You’re Denied Service, Federal Court Tells LGBT Mississippians Challenging “Religious Freedom” Law

By Sunnivie Brydum

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled today that Mississippi’s…

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Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Culture, OMFG, Remapping American ChristianitiesJune 16, 2017

Black Pastor Who Introduced SBC Resolution Against Alt-Right Assumed It Would Be a “Slam Dunk”

By Sunnivie Brydum

The Texas pastor who drafted the original resolution calling on the Southern Baptist Convention to…

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