US Catholic Bishops Jump on Anti-Trans Bandwagon With Gratuitous Vote to Amend Healthcare Directives
In recent years, the market share of Catholic hospitals—which unconscionably restrict healthcare options for all…
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Conservative Christians Insist the Toxic Theology Portrayed in the Duggar Family Doc is ‘Fringe’ — But is it Really All That Different?
Conservative Christian social media influencers have an important message to deliver after a new documentary…
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Top Five (Less Sensational, But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson (1930-2023)
Sure, it’s easy to poke fun at Pat Robertson for his 2,000-pound leg press claims or to scold him for his vile Haiti comments, but Robertson thrives on the ‘persecution.’ Our list spins the Robertson moral differently and shows just why he’s been a truly dangerous figure.
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New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals
Remember when transgender Americans seemed to be having a positive cultural moment? Former child actor…
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White House Antisemitism Report Includes Encouraging Diagnoses — But Leans on Destructive Strategies
Recently, the Biden administration released the U.S. National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism, an unprecedented report…
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Blaming Young People For the Fall of Roe is Like Holding Firefighters Accountable for Arson
“Sometimes I’m irrationally mad at younger women,” wrote the acclaimed television critic and Pulitzer Prize…
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Exactly 30 Years Before Illinois AG’s Devastating Sexual Abuse Report, a Plan for Prevention was Implemented, Then Scrapped
“Way too damned little and way too damned late.” That’s what one life-long Illinois Catholic…
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Dalai Lama’s ‘Suck My Tongue’ Controversy Reveals Centuries-Old Christian Distortion of Tibetan Buddhism
In February 2023, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, appeared in Dharamshala, India at an…
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What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
In The Family (now also a Netflix series), journalist and author Jeff Sharlet wrote about…
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A Christian Nationalist by Any Other Name… Is Still a Christian Nationalist
Before the late 1960s, it would have been hard to find anyone in the USA…
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