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Commentary
Columbus Day celebrates religious persecution & violence. It’s time to get rid of it.
It’s time for America to honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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Commentary
If Leviticus 18 had never been written, would western religions still be anti-LGBTQ?
Prior to the concept of a single God and the creation of holy texts, condemnations against same-sex sexuality were relatively rare.
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Commentary
Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is tied to Roy Moore
History determines how we frame current events.
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News (World)
Is Saudi Arabia banning transgender people from religious pilgrimage to Mecca?
Reports say the conservative Muslim country has stopped issuing visas to transgender people.
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News (USA)
Texas pastor prays for God to ‘finish the job’ of killing LGBT people
“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.”
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Commentary
Religious oppression and abuse still pervasive in the LGBTQ South
Those 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 here our hopes, dreams, and fears are the product of generations of religious traditions and expectations. We know that the religious oppression …
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Commentary
The Religious Right’s campaign to strip all citizens of religious freedom
Turn 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 you watch how the Religious Right works in court, you know that it’s actually the other way around. Religious freedom has been a strongly held belief in America since the very beginning…
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News (USA)
Bullied, gay student suspended after tearing pages from personal Bible
RICHLAND 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 for tearing Bible pages in school.
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Life
Alan Keyes: Gay rights leads to incest, bestiality, persecution of Christians
Conservative 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 homosexuality” because all rights come from God, and God has said that homosexuality is an abomination.
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News (USA)
Maryland pastor declares LGBT people and supporters are ‘worthy of death’
A 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 and their supporters are “worthy of death.”