As a Minister I’m Fed Up With Anti-Trans Legislation Written by Adults to Pick on Children, All in the Name of Religious Freedom
Last month in Louisiana, my home, a member of our state legislature introduced legislation designed…
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Arkansas’s Creationism Bill is Also Motivated by Anti-Trans Bigotry
The average American might not realize that the prejudices and superstitions that underlie the push…
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Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts
When Twitter and Facebook shuttered the account of Donald Trump, along with thousands of others…
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No “Cancel Culture” on the Right: How Conservative Christians Protect the Powerful
This week, Harper’s Magazine set off a firestorm by publishing “A Letter on Justice and…
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How a Stars and Stripes Hijab on ‘Rupaul’s Drag Race’ Reveals America’s Troubling Relationship to Gender, Ethnicity and ‘That’ Religion
Honestly, we blame ourselves. We should have known that releasing an episode of Keeping It…
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New LDS Handbook Cements Anti-Trans Policy—And it Doesn’t Make a Whole Lot of Sense
I was raised in the LDS Church. In fact, I’m a sixth-generation Mormon. Or, rather,…
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Anti-Transgender Panel at Values Voter Summit Continues Shift Towards Storytelling as Tactic
Religious conservatives have begun to employ heartbreaking stories of people who have detransitioned to bolster the same old misinterpreted statistics and discredited studies that have propped up the infrastructure of anti-trans advocacy for years.
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Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Corrupt, but Liberty U’s Problems Go Far Deeper
Scathing new reports demonstrate that Jerry Falwell Jr. is unfit to be Liberty University’s president, but while Falwell’s departure is long overdue, it would only represent the removal of one rotten apple, while leaving the tree in place.
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Ringing in a Christian Nationalist 2019 With an Even Larger Legislative Playbook
A Christian nationalist coalition, including the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation, has published a new state legislative playbook for 2019 that’s 30 percent larger, and 100 percent as committed to a nation that reflects its sectarian values.
Read MoreMarriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap
Queer Asia has issued a call for submissions for the Queer Asia Film Festival and…
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