Celebrating Religious Freedom Day By Taking Back the Revolutionary Meaning of ‘Religious Freedom’
Religious freedom has been at the center of American history since the founding. (And by…
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The Far-Right Embrace of the Knights Templar isn’t Just About Faith, Tradition or History — It’s About Hate
In 1302, the island of Arwad, off the coast of Syria, fell to Mamluk forces….
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The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie
On Monday, the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home in Florida, during which, according to…
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Fresh From Horrors of Draconian Anti-Abortion Laws, Christian Right Hoosiers Consider Draconian Anti-Abortion Law
I was born (and mostly raised) in Indiana, so let me start off with some…
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Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
Sculpted, sweating, bare torsos doing push-ups, bulging muscles, two scantily-clad men locked in a fight—they,…
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Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive
In the Fall of 2019, the secretive Christian Right state legislative campaign, Project Blitz, became…
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Satanic Temple’s ‘Satanic Abortion Ritual’ May Challenge States’ Anti-Abortion Laws
Last week, The Satanic Temple (TST) introduced “the Satanic Abortion Ritual”—a ritual designed to provide…
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There’s no Legal Reason for Churches to Receive Quarantine Exceptions
If you’d asked me even two months ago what the next issue or event to…
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Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom
Either sincere religious conviction should be a defense, or it shouldn’t. There should be a healthy debate about religious exemptions in a pluralistic society, but not about the content of the religious conviction concerned.
Read MoreLGBTQI ‘Equality Act’ Enjoys Broad Support; There’s Just One Problem
Though an estimated 70% of the overall population supports nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people, and a new survey shows that a majority of every religious group agrees, there remains at least one significant hurdle.
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