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Tea Party Bullies on Homosexuality: “No Punishment Too Severe?”

…Glenn Beck’s tea party organization, the 9-12 Project and is a colleague of Florida House Candidate Dan Webster at Bill Gothard’s Institute in Basic Life Principles. DeMint’s money has gone to (among others) Sharron Angle of Nevada, Ken Buck of Colorado, Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Joe Miller of Alaska, and Christine O’Donnell of Delaware. You can bet that…

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Here’s What the Court Didn’t Decide in ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’

…noteworthy. The Court’s reticence to engage in line-drawing about the capacity of cakes (or flowers, or hairstyles, or any number of other products) to be expressive may have the consequence of drawing out more clearly the conflict at the heart of Masterpiece Cakeshop. As Justice Kennedy rightly noted, the case is about “the proper reconciliation” of, on the one hand, “the authority of a State… to protect the rights and dignity of gay persons” an…

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How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

…educated 30,000 teenagers at his one and two-week conferences at Summit in Colorado and its outposts around the world (including at Oxford) about the evils of atheism, communism, socialism, and other anti-God “statist” worldviews that threaten to destroy America—unless Christians step in to save every soul. Noebel’s conferences, lauded by religious right figures like James Dobson as a life-saving antidote to the fallen world that tempts our waywar…

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

…ervice.” Logan Ireland, an Air Force Staff Sergeant currently stationed in Colorado, offered a similar invitation. Ireland is a transgender man who recently returned from an overseas deployment, and who previously made history as the first uniformed, active-duty transgender service member to meet a sitting U.S. president, when he and his wife, Army veteran Laila Ireland (neé Villanueva), were invited to the White House in 2015. The Irelands were a…

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White Supremacy and Orthodox Christianity: A Dangerous Connection Rears Its Head in Charlottesville

…more earnest. This makes sense as we both come from the suburbs of Denver, Colorado. In fact, Tim became Orthodox at the Assumption of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Glendale, Colorado. That’s the church my family has attended since my grandparents arrived in Denver in 1959. And while Tim and I never knew each other, we knew a lot of the same people at“the Cathedral.” Tim told me that he came of age in the “anti-racist skinhead movement…

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When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

…w others get close to God.” Credo sixteen extols the virtue of patriotism. Number nineteen advises humility and nobility, while twenty-two announces that no woman should fear a Knight, but, rather, should feel protected by him. Twenty-nine reiterates that every Knight should be “firmly and truthfully in the just cause of God.” Numbers thirty-four through thirty-eight prohibit drugs, kidnapping, and mandate drug testing. Forty-three requires member…

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A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

…ge of the Strategic Prayer Apostolic Network, Apostle Rebecca Greenwood of Colorado states that she was a “member of Peter’s apostolic roundtable, Eagles Vision Apostolic Team, which is made up of those he considered to be his closest spiritual sons and daughters.” In his recent book Modern-Day Apostles, Ché Ahn mentioned other notable EVAT members at the time such as: Lance Wallnau, Ed Silvoso, and Bill Hamon. EVAT was a close and exclusive netwo…

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Anti-Gay Activism Falling Victim to Capitalism?

…to fund “a ballot initiative to add a ‘religious liberty amendment’ to the Colorado state constitution, similar to other amendments they’re promoting in Florida and North Dakota, among others.” Also, according to karoli’s math, it would appear that CitizenLink funding for the year has dropped by about 50%. Ouch. A perfect storm, of sorts, may be to blame for the drop as the economy wanes and acceptance of gays and lesbians in both church and socie…

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What Justice Gorsuch’s Record Suggests About the Masterpiece Cakeshop Case

…t justice will support Phillips, the baker, in obtaining an exemption from Colorado’s anti-discrimination laws. During his career as an appellate judge, Gorsuch has been notably willing to carve out exemptions for litigants with strongly held religious beliefs. He was on a panel of the Tenth Circuit that in 2013 issued a split decision in favor of Hobby Lobby and Mardel, two companies owned by an evangelical Christian family whose members refused…

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Silence of “Religious Liberty” Activists on Muslims’ Cases Not What You Think

…employer, Cargill Meat Solutions, a meat processing plant in Fort Morgan, Colorado. Until recently, employees had been allowed—with prior permission from a supervisor—to take one or two short breaks per shift to pray, as required by their faith. While the employer claims this policy has not changed, in early December a group of workers was not permitted to pray when they chose to, then told by a supervisor “If you don’t want to work here, go home…

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