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Rebranded as ‘Biblical Counseling,’ Conversion Therapy is ‘a Colonizing Effort’ — A Q&A With The Author of ‘Shame-Sex Attraction’
Last December, the evangelical organization Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit challenging Colorado’s ban on ...
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JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins
On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former ...
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Silence of the Nuns — Oscar Darling ‘Conclave’ Contains Subtle Indictment of Catholic Church’s Views on Women
There are many pleasures for students of the Catholic Church in Conclave—which recently received eight Oscar nominations—from the glimpses behind the doors of the uber-secretive papal conclave itself ...
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Trump’s EO to ‘Combat Antisemitism’ Wields Jewish Safety as a Weapon to Crush Palestine Solidarity
Last week, Trump released an executive order pledging to combat antisemitism by ordering a draconian crackdown on Palestine solidarity protests. That same day, reporters leaked a memo from an agency ...
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From Street Gang to Revolutionaries — José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez and The Young Lords Laid Groundwork for Radical Racial Justice Movements
Jiménez migrated from Puerto Rico to the mainland at age two with his mother, Eugenia, once his father had saved enough money working as a farm laborer in the Northeast. The family moved to Chicago in ...
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Despite the GOP Devolving into a White Christian Nationalist Party, Majority of U.S. Does Not Support Christian Nationalism
In the wake of the election of Donald Trump with the strong support of White evangelical and other conservative White Christians, my organization, PRRI, released yesterday our annual update of the ...
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Freedom for ‘Q Shaman’ and Justice for Leonard Peltier Are Mutually Exclusive
One of President Biden’s final acts as US president was to grant clemency to American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), who will be released into home arrest ...
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Confronting Trump Directly, Bishop Mariann Budde Showed That Not All Religious Leaders are Spineless Sycophants
Bishop of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde, led A Service of Prayer for the Nation on January 21, 2025, at the Washington National Cathedral. President Donald J. Trump and entourage were among the ...
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While Global Media Are Clear on Musk’s Nazi Salute US Media Engage in ‘Nazi-Washing’
At President Trump’s post-inaugural festivities, Elon Musk rose to the podium emblazoned with the Seal of the President of the United States to make a speech. It was a privilege earned through the ...