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Religion Dispatches
“Religious freedom” is a tactic that has worked for powerful straight white men for centuries—why switch it up now?
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Religion Dispatches
One of the nation’s largest campus ministries has demanded that its LGBT-affirming staff quit by November 11th.
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Religion Dispatches
A vortex of news stories concerning the upcoming GOP convention, platform, and Trump coronation—placed together with forthcoming works about the rapid racial and demographic remapping of American…
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Religion Dispatches
When 15-year-old Alex Cooper came out to her devout Mormon family, they drove her from the family home in a Southern California suburb to an unlicensed in-home treatment program whose proprietors…
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International Activism and Advocacy The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released “ Born Free and Equal: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Human…
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Religion Dispatches
5 things the church can do if it cares about the children.
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Religion Dispatches
An interview with repentant ex-gay activist Alan Chambers on his new book and the downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism.
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Religion Dispatches
On the eve of the papal visit, William Penn’s City of brotherly love, Philadelphia, is feeling anything but. With each twist and turn over the long hot summer in the planning for the papal visit…
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Religion Dispatches
PlanetRomeo released a global “ Gay Happiness index,” placing Iceland at the top and Uganda at the bottom of 127 rated countries. Last Friday, HBO’s Vice broadcast “A Prayer for Uganda,” a documentary…
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Religion Dispatches
The Boston Globe reported this week that the U.S. State Department will appoint a special envoy “to advocate for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people overseas.” Legislation…
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