The Most Forgotten Queer Folks in the US are Fighting Back Against a Powerful — and Publicly Funded — Group That Discriminates With Impunity
“How do we get people to view the CCCU as an extremist organization, the same…
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With Demons Held Responsible These Days for Everything from Covid to LGBTQ Rights, Take a Visual Tour of the History of Demonization
During our season of political madness, it took a lot to trigger a double-take, and…
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Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it’s the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy
This month, a $100 million advertising campaign and website have been launched nationwide to help…
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The Right Wing Slant on Religious Freedom is a Slippery Slope
Christian Right legislation that has often seemed to be aimed at undermining or rolling back…
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Kirill’s Sermon May Be Bad Preaching and Even Worse Theology — But it’s a Top-Notch Rejection of Liberal Democracy
Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, gave a sermon on forgiveness this…
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The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe
In late February, I went through an episode of online bullying that made me feel…
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If Kirill’s Bizarre Sermon Blaming War on Pride Parades Comes as a Surprise, it’s Time to Learn the History
Today is Clean Monday, the first day of the Orthodox Christian Lent. Yesterday was Forgiveness…
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In His ‘Forgiveness Day’ Sermon — a Slightly More Sophisticated ‘GloboHomo’ Rant — Kirill Lays Out an Authoritarian Vision in Which His Version of God Might Dominate and Rule the Human Race
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian…
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Don’t Laugh at Rick Scott’s ‘Plan to Rescue America’ or Be Fooled by Reports of a ‘Backlash’ — His Only Mistake Was Revealing the Truth of Today’s GOP
On Tuesday, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) unveiled what he modestly calls “An 11 Point Plan…
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A Twisted Love Story: How American Evangelicals Helped Make Putin’s Russia and How Russia Became the Darling of the American Right
If someone from 1965 were to arrive in a time machine, there’s likely much about…
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