When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System
Thirty people in a queer club were shot with an AR-15 by a man with…
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Transphobic and Anti-Abortion Policies are a Direct Threat to My Religious Freedom
The Public Religion Research Institute recently highlighted an important statistic: nearly all Unitarian Universalists (97…
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Don’t Buy Alito’s Assurances: Here’s What Happens Next After Roe Falls
The leaked first draft of Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson has…
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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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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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Red Pop and Freedom: How (And How Not) to Celebrate Juneteenth, a New Federal Holiday
On June 15th, the U.S. Senate passed by unanimous consent a bill making Juneteenth a…
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When the Golden Rule is Used to Silence Dissent and Protect the Politically Powerful
On Sunday, NBC’s “Meet the Press” interviewed Senator Ron Johnson. ABC’s “This Week” interviewed House…
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Christian Terrorist in TX Was Paid ‘Investigator’ for Prominent GOP Activists and Donors
On Tuesday, December 15, disgraced former Houston Police captain Mark Anthony Aguirre was charged with…
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Texas Faith Leaders Say Governor’s Use of Pandemic to Ban Abortion is an Attack on Religious Freedom (Updated)
UPDATE April 21: On April 20, after this article appeared, the 5th Circuit Court of…
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New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country
“Our [Founding] Fathers intended that this nation should be a Christian nation, not because all…
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