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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New Anti-Trans Strategies Floated at Family Research Council’s Pray Vote Stand Summit
As anyone with access to the internet is likely aware, former college football star Hershel…
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Secularism in the US is Larger, More Diverse and More Dynamic Than Ever, But You Wouldn’t Know it From the Media
“I’m done waiting for mainstream media to cover nonreligious people and secular issues fairly and…
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What ‘Faith Groups Do X’ Journalism Reveals About the Press’s Priorities
Along with freedom of religion, freedom of the press stands as one of the five…
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Why Grownups Have Caught Halloween Fever (And Why it’s Unlikely to End Anytime Soon)
It’s spooky season again, the time of year when we’re drawn to horror; when The…
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Survival of the CrossFittest: After a Schism Over Racism Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness?
This weekend, Oct. 23-25th, marks the end of the 2020 CrossFit Games season, with ten…
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‘Empty the Pews’ Chronicles the ‘Nurtured Insanity’ of a Fundamentalist Upbringing
There is a great exodus taking place in Christian circles. Can it be called a…
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The Student Debt Crisis Is So Bad Even Clergy Are Packing Their Bags
Millions of taxpayers, particularly those fortunate enough to not accrue education debt and those who diligently paid off their debts, reject the idea of taking on the debt of people who consciously entered college with this burden. But structural and moral crises like this one require a legislative approach that no household savings plan or practice offers.
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The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements
In right-wing circles, theories about cultural Marxism in the era of Trumpism come entangled with other anti-Semitic theories, often arguing that George Soros and a shadowy “globalist” cabal are working to dissolve national borders and sovereignty into a totalitarian-communist “New World Order.”
Read MoreLDS Leaders Owe Repentance and Apology for Cruelty to LGBTQ People and Their Children
While LDS leadership rescinded its prohibition on baptizing children of LGBTQ parents, they bizarrely claim that neither the church’s nor God’s will have changed. You can all but hear them say, “Look, don’t blame us for the fact that God finds your gayness abhorrent! We’re just messengers!”
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