Religious Persecution
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Is Saudi Arabia banning transgender people from religious pilgrimage to Mecca?
Thursday, December 1, 2016Reports say the conservative Muslim country has stopped issuing visas to transgender people. -
Texas pastor prays for God to ‘finish the job’ of killing LGBT people
Tuesday, June 21, 2016“These 50 sodomites are all perverts and pedophiles, and they are the scum of the earth, and the earth is a little bit better place now.” -
Religious oppression and abuse still pervasive in the LGBTQ South
Sunday, September 14, 2014Those of us living in the South are very aware of the multi-generational religious oppression and abuse that many LGBTQ people face coming from our Christian families, churches, and communities. For many LGBTQ people living… -
The Religious Right’s campaign to strip all citizens of religious freedom
Monday, June 2, 2014Turn on any cable news show and you'll hear conservatives, particularly the Religious Right, giving long tirades about religious freedom and how the Left is seeking to strip it away from good God-fearing Americans. But if… -
Bullied, gay student suspended after tearing pages from personal Bible
Monday, November 4, 2013RICHLAND HILLS, Texas -- The American Humanist Association, an atheist rights advocacy organization, has sent a complaint letter to a Texas school district, claiming that administrators violated a student's First Amendment rights when they suspended him… -
Alan Keyes: Gay rights leads to incest, bestiality, persecution of Christians
Thursday, September 19, 2013Conservative political activist and author Alan Keyes returned to “Dr. Chaps” Gordon Klingenschmitt’s “Pray In Jesus Name” program on Thursday where he made the case that there can be no such thing as a “right to… -
Maryland pastor declares LGBT people and supporters are ‘worthy of death’
Wednesday, October 24, 2012A recent town hall meeting sponsored by the Maryland Family Alliance, a coalition working to defeat Maryland's marriage equality law, has inflamed the gay marriage debate on news that a local pastor declared that LGBT people… -
Love is just as biblical as hate
Sunday, October 21, 2012Never forget that the bible was used to justify the Crusades, the Inquisition, and burn heretics. It has been misused to persecute Jews, support Hitler, and fuel the Holocaust. In American history, the bible was used… -
Rational argument is not immune to religious manipulation
Sunday, March 18, 2012There has been so much effort put into overcoming the religious authoritarian control over human societies and individuals. ... Our achievements towards the freedom to live our lives in natural harmony with each other, without being…
Further Reading
Federal court rules Mississippi businesses can discriminate against LGBTQ people
Trump pledges to defend religious freedom from attacks at anti-LGBTQ conference
This apple farmer will be the next 'religious freedom' posterboy
Is Neal Gorsuch the reason Supreme Court keeps delaying LGBTQ rights case?
No one knows what Trump's ‘religious liberty’ executive order actually means
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DOJ honoring student & lawyers fighting for trans rights to rebuke Trump admin
