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CultureJuly 3, 2009

Sacred&Profane: The “Cult” of Oprah Inflames Religious Right

By Gary Laderman

The Religious Right’s wildly popular video attack on Oprah’s “dangerous” teachings may not be as far off base as it first appears.

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- 4 hours ago

.@WillieFrancois3: "The future of our communities, democracy, & humanness can no longer sustain the death-making institutionalism so intimately associated with the American vocation of policing, profoundly soaked in racism, classism, & abuse of power." https://t.co/Zb65crkec2

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- 1 day ago

"CPAC is now the venue where calls for violence are made, either alongside or else by, the power brokers of the Republican Party; where far-right ideas are laundered into the mainstream," writes @tlecaque: https://t.co/MBljsa2Vqj

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- 2 days ago

"If Republicans who supposedly support LGBTQ nondiscrimination really cared about protecting the rights, liberties, & equalities of queer Americans, they would work to rein in & reform their own party—or, failing to do so, abandon it," writes @C_Stroop: https://t.co/K4r8rmQ7ja

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