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Right-wing politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 day ago

Christian privilege explains the Trump admin's recent hyper-religious ridiculousness - LGBTQ Nation

Christian references by Trump and allies misuse scripture and exploit Christian privilege in their political actions.
fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago

The Trumpiest Court Just Openly Defied SCOTUS

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas did not violate the First Amendment by exposing students to the state's chosen scripture all day, every day, gutting the constitutional separation of church and state in the process.
Law
US Elections
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 days ago

Trump's spiritual advisor says that saying no to him is like saying no to God - LGBTQ Nation

Paula White-Cain claims rejecting Donald Trump equates to rejecting God, emphasizing her spiritual duty to support him.
Philosophy
fromTruthout
4 days ago

Trump Administration Is Using Christianity to Justify Murder and Empire

Whiteness functions as a mask for historical violence, creating an illusion of innocence while being structurally predicated on the dehumanization of Black people.
SF LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
4 days ago

Texas Baptists might end 140-year relationship with Baylor over one LGBTQ+ event

BGCT will review its 140-year relationship with Baylor University following LGBTQ+ advocacy events on campus.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
4 days ago

Anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA pastor called Pride flags "disgusting." He just pled guilty to child sex offenses. - LGBTQ Nation

Silas H. Shelton pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and faces 3 to 15 years in prison.
#christianity
fromwww.theguardian.com
14 hours ago
Right-wing politics

Counter to the message of Jesus': progressive Christians stake a claim to their religion amid Trump-pope feud

Faith leaders are mobilizing against the Trump administration's policies, advocating for social justice and opposing the weaponization of Christianity.
fromIntelligencer
1 week ago
Right-wing politics

Are We Actually Experiencing a Christian Revival?

Young adults are increasingly attending church, indicating a potential revival of Christianity among Gen Z.
Right-wing politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
14 hours ago

Counter to the message of Jesus': progressive Christians stake a claim to their religion amid Trump-pope feud

Faith leaders are mobilizing against the Trump administration's policies, advocating for social justice and opposing the weaponization of Christianity.
History
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Slavery reparations are just, but who exactly owes whom?

Some African elites benefited from the slave trade, complicating the narrative of reparations in the context of historical injustices.
#religious-liberty
US politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 week ago

Trump official says separation of church & state is America's "biggest lie" - LGBTQ Nation

The Trump administration's Religious Liberty Commission rejects the separation of church and state, according to Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's statements.
#donald-trump
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 days ago
Right-wing politics

Trump joined anti-LGBTQ+ religious bigots to read the Bible via livestream - LGBTQ Nation

fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago
Right-wing politics

Trump Thinks He's Become Orange Jesus

Donald Trump feuded with Pope Leo XIV and compared himself to the Saviour, showcasing a troubling political climate and his controversial behavior.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago
US politics

The Evangelicals Who See Trump's Viciousness As a Virtue

Donald Trump delivered a grievance-filled, conspiratorial, factually false, and divisive speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, insulting critics and praising authoritarian leaders.
US Elections
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

What Trump's Bible stunt says about his complicated history with Christianity

Donald Trump read from the Bible in a livestream event aimed at regaining support from evangelical Christians.
Right-wing politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 days ago

Trump joined anti-LGBTQ+ religious bigots to read the Bible via livestream - LGBTQ Nation

Donald Trump participated in a Bible reading event organized by a group opposing LGBTQ+ rights, reflecting his controversial relationship with Christianity.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Why are straight white men overrepresented in positions of power? | Steve Phillips

Addressing inequality requires questioning the overrepresentation of straight white American men in power rather than focusing solely on the underrepresentation of marginalized groups.
Law
fromABA Journal
3 weeks ago

Millions of Americans continue to lack meaningful access to justice. What can be done about it?

Millions of Americans face legal challenges without access to affordable legal assistance, highlighting a significant justice gap.
NYC LGBT
fromQueerty
6 years ago

Pastor says he used oral sex to "suck demons" out of men - Queerty

Rev. Dr. William Weaver claims he performed oral sex on parishioners to 'suck' demons out, facing a lawsuit for sexual assault.
NYC parents
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 weeks ago

The parents rights movement has never cared about empowering all parents. Just conservative ones. - LGBTQ Nation

Parents cannot control all external influences on their children, but they can guide them in developing critical-thinking skills.
#trump
US Elections
fromThe Nation
1 week ago

How Trump Keeps Getting Away With Blasphemy

Trump posted an image of himself as Jesus, provoking backlash and highlighting his controversial relationship with religious figures.
Right-wing politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Trump Faith Honcho Gushes About Trump Rattling Off So Many Sermons!' Amid Fights With Christians

Trump's faith journey is described as strong, influenced by his mother's devotion and notable religious figures.
Social justice
fromBuzzFeed
1 week ago

I Kept My Christian College Ministry Leader's Abuse Secret While Being Their Purity Poster Child

Dolores Huerta's revelation of sexual violence reflects a broader struggle with purity culture and its impact on recognizing and addressing assault.
LGBT
fromJezebel
3 weeks ago

Far-Right Christian Group Gets the Supreme Court to Greenlight Gay Conversion Therapy

The Supreme Court ruled that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors violates free speech, endangering LGBTQ+ youth's safety and wellbeing.
Right-wing politics
fromQueerty
1 week ago

Franklin Graham defends Tr*mp's "nice" Jesus pics, regrets it faster than Peter denied Christ - Queerty

Franklin Graham defended President Trump regarding AI-generated images depicting him in a Christ-like manner, stating there were no spiritual references in the images.
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 weeks ago

Christian Pastor Tells Trump, No One Has Paid the Price Like You Have'

Paula White stated, 'No one has paid the price like you have paid the price.' She emphasized that Trump faced betrayal and false accusations, similar to Jesus, and that his journey reflects a divine plan.
US Elections
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

A conservative Christian tore down a Pride flag in a public freakout. Now he's paying the price. - LGBTQ Nation

Tucker Kemp reached a pre-trial intervention agreement after attacking a Pride flag at Starbucks, requiring community service and anger management classes.
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 week ago

Baptist college stirs controversy in approving LGBTQ+ event to counter Turning Point USA rally - LGBTQ Nation

The Southern Poverty Law Center has noted that the conservative youth organization, founded by the late Christian nationalist activist Charlie Kirk, employs a strategy of 'sowing and exploiting fear that white Christian supremacy is under attack by nefarious actors, including immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community and civil rights activists.'
Right-wing politics
fromThe Atlantic
4 weeks ago

Homophobia Is Back. It's Different Now.

LaBeouf hasn't anchored a box-office hit in more than a decade, and little of his 2020s art-house work has drawn buzz. The most notable thing he's starred in lately was a clip of him on a podcaster's couch, hunched and diminished, talking about his fear of gay people.
LGBT
fromwww.nytimes.com
4 weeks ago

Opinion | Is There a Religious Revival in America?

In 2025, the nonreligious share of the American population declined again, with the atheist-agnostic share back down to levels seen in 2014, suggesting a potential revival.
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fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

Faith Leaders Confront Christian Nationalism With Theological Resistance

Clergy play a vital role in resistance work against authoritarianism, using their presence and faith to support communities under threat.
Right-wing politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The Guardian view on Britain's religious right: using and abusing faith in the pursuit of power | Editorial

Reform UK's policy aims to prevent church conversions to mosques, exploiting cultural division for political gain despite rare occurrences of such conversions.
#christian-nationalism
Right-wing politics
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

Christian Nationalists in US Government Push Attacks on Iran as Holy War

The rhetoric surrounding Easter reflects a shift towards a militant interpretation of Jesus among some Christian nationalists.
Right-wing politics
fromJezebel
1 month ago

How Many Horrifying Christian Nationalist Pastors Can Pete Hegseth Have?!

Secretary of War Defense Pete Hegseth's pastor, Brooks Potteiger, expressed a desire for Texas state rep James Talarico to be 'crucified with Christ.'
Right-wing politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

Former Trump official admits that their goal is to impose their Christian values on other Americans - LGBTQ Nation

A former Trump administration official advocates for Christians to impose biblical morality through legislation at all government levels.
Right-wing politics
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

Christian Nationalists in US Government Push Attacks on Iran as Holy War

The rhetoric surrounding Easter reflects a shift towards a militant interpretation of Jesus among some Christian nationalists.
Right-wing politics
fromJezebel
1 month ago

How Many Horrifying Christian Nationalist Pastors Can Pete Hegseth Have?!

Secretary of War Defense Pete Hegseth's pastor, Brooks Potteiger, expressed a desire for Texas state rep James Talarico to be 'crucified with Christ.'
Right-wing politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

Former Trump official admits that their goal is to impose their Christian values on other Americans - LGBTQ Nation

A former Trump administration official advocates for Christians to impose biblical morality through legislation at all government levels.
Miscellaneous
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Religious Freedom Includes the Freedom to Leave Religion

True religious freedom requires psychological capacity to choose freely, not just legal protection of beliefs, as cults use psychological entrapment rather than physical confinement to prevent members from leaving.
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Christian groups 'outraged' at Reform conference held in Church House

Church House has provided a veneer of spiritual legitimacy to Reform's anti-migrant and anti-Muslim politics, and their cynical scapegoating. As followers of Jesus, we must refuse to let the architecture of [the venue be used as a moral backdrop for policies that contradict the very heart of the Christian faith].
UK politics
US news
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race

Jeffrey Epstein promoted race science by sharing white-supremacist race-and-IQ material and seeking contact with proponents who claimed genetic bases for intelligence differences.
Left-wing politics
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

How the University Replaced the Church as the Home of Liberal Morality

Universities have replaced churches and unions as primary institutions shaping young liberals' moral imagination, community, and political activism.
Fundraising
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

They say you have to buy blessings': the London women who gave everything to a controversial church

The Fundraising Regulator found that the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God breached fundraising codes by soliciting large donations from vulnerable donors without safeguards or consideration of their circumstances.
Right-wing politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 weeks ago

A right-winger tried to own a No Kings protestor with gotcha questions. She skewered him instead. - LGBTQ Nation

A woman's powerful responses at a protest left a right-wing interviewer speechless, earning her widespread praise online.
Public health
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

"Look at who's in political control": How HIV disclosure laws are steeped in racial bias - LGBTQ Nation

Thirty-two states criminalize HIV non-disclosure during consensual sex, with Black Americans arrested and convicted at disproportionately higher rates than their representation among people living with HIV.
#immigration
Philosophy
fromemptywheel
2 months ago

Liberalism Has Failed - emptywheel

Liberalism replaced hereditary elites with a hereditary elite, eroded virtue, and produced elites who despise ordinary people, prompting a return to ordered, virtuous social structures.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
9 months ago

Church stands by call to execute gay people: "I will not apologize for preaching the Word of God." - LGBTQ Nation

An Indianapolis church leader endorsed a sermon that urged LGBTQ+ people to kill themselves and used violent, demeaning language; YouTube removed the video.
US politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

White people are increasingly protesting oppression. The interest convergence theory explains why. - LGBTQ Nation

An armed, masked ICE officer in Minneapolis fatally shot Renee Nicole Good at point-blank range as she moved her car away from an ICE operation.
#lgbtq-rights
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago
LGBT

"Erasure is not neutral": The inextricable link between LGBTQ+ rights & a functioning democracy - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago
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"Erasure is not neutral": The inextricable link between LGBTQ+ rights & a functioning democracy - LGBTQ Nation

LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

Christian teacher wins right to refuse to read gay children's books in school - LGBTQ Nation

A Nashville public charter school teacher secured an accommodation to avoid reading a children's book about two gay fathers after enlisting a Christian nationalist legal group to threaten the school.
Right-wing politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
10 months ago

MAGA pastor begs Christians to stop calling people "gay" because it's "insulting" - LGBTQ Nation

Everett Piper argues against labeling individuals by their sexual orientation, equating such labels to animalistic instincts and suggesting support for conversion therapy.
Right-wing politics
fromAdvocate.com
1 month ago

A pivotal moment: Jesus's warning should trouble Christian Trump supporters and Epstein defenders.

Jesus condemned those who harm vulnerable people and those in power who enable such harm through inaction or complicity.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

State violence against Black Americans laid the groundwork for fascism | Jason Stanley

Expansion of racially targeted, arbitrary state violence into broader populations exemplifies an imperial boomerang, where colonial tactics return domestically and risk fascist normalization.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

The far right thinks kids are property, not people. This is the heart of the anti-trans moral panic. - LGBTQ Nation

Right-wing views treat children as parental property, while liberal views recognize children as autonomous human beings with independent identities and needs.
Right-wing politics
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

The New Faces of Christian Nationalism

Mercy Culture megachurch in Fort Worth uses its political arm, For Liberty & Justice, to elect candidates committed to religiously infused far-right politics, exploiting the weakened Johnson Amendment restrictions on church political endorsements.
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account

Since Richard Nixon was forced to resign, powerful people in both political parties have worked assiduously to ensure that their leaders would escape the consequences of their actions. Trump has evaded punishment for crimes both low (campaign-finance violations, for which he was convicted, though he will serve no time thanks to his 2024 victory) and high (his attempted overthrow of the federal government in the aftermath of his 2020 election loss, for which he was spared by the Supreme Court's decision to grant him a kingly immunity).
US politics
Right-wing politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

Catholics Condemn Ted Cruz For Endorsing Papist Cabal Conspiracy Theory: You Should be Embarrassed'

Senator Ted Cruz faced widespread backlash after endorsing an anti-Catholic conspiracy theory article claiming Catholics were orchestrating a takeover of the Republican Party.
Right-wing politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

Donald Trump calls Dem. candidate an "insult to Jesus" for supporting trans people - LGBTQ Nation

Trump criticized Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico as 'whacked out' for supporting transgender people and referencing Talarico's statement that God is nonbinary.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

America's contract to protect white women has always been tenuous

In the hours after the 7 January fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother of three, gut-wrenching footage of her killing was released, discrediting initial claims from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and the Department of Justice that she was shot in self-defense. As a response to the public outcry, the Trump administration and a chorus of conservative public figures unleashed a litany of dehumanizing and defamatory remarks about Good,
US politics
US politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

Trump's special election security advisor blames the Devil for church Pride displays - LGBTQ Nation

Clay Parikh, a special government employee, promotes election conspiracy theories, expresses deep distrust of U.S. institutions, and advances anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

The U.S. thinks God is on its side in Iran. Here's why that's a problem... - LGBTQ Nation

So, a Christian Nationalist regime with their Jesus on their side, allied with a Jewish Nationalist regime with their HaShemon their side, have gone after an Islamic Nationalist regime with their Allah on their side, while each Nationalist regime believes they have morality on their side. And religious wars continue to bring humanity to the brink!
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months ago

Pete Hegseth Invited Pastor Who Suggested Slavery Actually Wasn't That Bad to Lead Prayer at Pentagon

There was horrific maltreatment on the one hand, and then there are other stories that are right out of Disney's Song of the South.
US politics
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 months ago

We Must Teach Young Americans That Associating Black People With Apes Is Racist

U.S. president Donald Trump shared a racist video on his Truth Social account in which former American president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama were depicted as apes. I was unsurprised, yet nonetheless disgusted. U.S. senator Jon Ossoff also found the video unacceptable. He said during a rally in Atlanta that Donald Trump was "posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
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