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LGBTQ students at Christian colleges file class-action lawsuit to stop religious exemption
Religious colleges can discriminate and still receive federal funds because of a religious exemption. These students say that resulted in expulsion, fines, humiliation, and conversion therapy.
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Beto O’Rourke is ahead of his time when it comes to anti-LGBTQ religious institutions
While liberals criticize him for his “fumble,” he was ultimately willing to take the right position and oppose religion-based discrimination.
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Commentary
The Supreme Court could issue a major ruling in favor of LGBTQ rights soon
The courts have ruled again and again that religious beliefs don’t exempt people from following the laws.
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Jeff Sessions’ new Russiagate lawyer is just as horrible as you’d expect
Sessions hired a notoriously homophobic racist to be his lawyer.
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South Carolina’s first out state legislator is from ultra-conservative district
The Republican legislator’s part of the state is home to the Christian fundamentalist school Bob Jones University.
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Commentary
Evangelicals confuse ‘freedom’ with free rein to insult others
For fifty years, Bob Jones University, in Greenville, S.C., prohibited interracial dating and Bob Jones Jr. once claimed that Catholicism was a “satanic counterfeit” of fundamentalist Christianity.
Despite the ugly rhetoric and vile policies, Republican candidates regularly flocked to the school and groveled for its endorsement. The GOP luminaries who appeared at the university include Ronald Reagan, Dan Quayle, and Bob Dole.
This ignoble political ritual ended in 2000 after presidential candidate George W. Bush was excoriated for appearing at the school…
