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Archive, Global LGBT Recap, Guest Bloggers**, Peter Montgomery, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderMarch 12, 2017

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

ILGA notes that some women in more than 50 countries went on strike on Wednesday’s…

Archive, Sexuality/GenderFebruary 21, 2017

From “Jane Roe” to “Roe No More”: Norma McCorvey’s Long Strange Trip Through the Politics of Abortion

By Patricia Miller

Roe v. Wade plaintiff Norma McCorvey’s death this past Saturday, February 18, closed a life that not…

Archive, Culture, Politics/Law, Remapping American ChristianitiesJanuary 20, 2017

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

Their decision to participate in Trump’s inauguration epitomizes the Church’s priority of fitting within their surrounding culture, even at the expense of contrasting and competing values.

Meet the New Christian Right, Same as the Old Christian Right

By Patricia Miller

It may not be your father’s Christian right, with new players and new tactics, but it’s still the Christian right and it’s more empowered than its been since the glory days of Ronald Reagan.

Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Diane Winston, Politics/Law, Remapping American ChristianitiesNovember 9, 2016

Might, Right, and White Privilege: It’s Morning in America, the Sequel

By Diane Winston

Religious people don’t vote based on a candidate’s support of the Ten Commandments; they support candidates who promise to inch the world closer to their own vision of what should be.