What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment
On Monday, the Supreme Court took a dramatically new approach to the First Amendment, though…
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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…
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The Democrats’ Real Religion Problem, And All Of Ours
Hand to God, every mainstream commentator on religion and politics has a liturgy—a catechism—they must…
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Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap
The anti-equality World Congress of Families will hold its fourth Caribbean regional summit on June…
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Union Busting for God: Catholic Colleges Invoke “Religious Freedom” to Violate Catholic Teaching
The 2013 death of 83-year-old Duquesne University adjunct Margaret Mary Vojtko helped open up a…
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Jennifer Knapp and Me: Coming Out While Evangelical
The audience in the cramped cafe included two demographics rarely seen together: evangelicals and lesbians….
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Wait Until You’re Denied Service, Federal Court Tells LGBT Mississippians Challenging “Religious Freedom” Law
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled today that Mississippi’s…
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GOP “Stealthcare” Bill Reveals Catholic Bishops’ Priorities
It’s unlikely that many of the Catholic bishops who voted last week to make permanent…
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The “Religion” Episode: Aziz Ansari and the Cultural Politics of Muslim Self-Representation
To call Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series Master of None “peak TV” is not to do…
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A Meeting of Minds… and Computers: What Are the Costs of Using Technology to Merge Humans with Machines?
Facebook and Elon Musk have recently announced ventures that could transform what it means to be human. The potential is enormous—but so are the risks.
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