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Religion Dispatches
Brian Brown, president of the International Organization for the Family, the parent organization to the World Congress of Families, bragged in a fundraising email about the organization working with…
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Religion Dispatches
The anti-equality World Congress of Families will hold its fourth Caribbean regional summit on June 29 and 30 in St. John’s Antigua, with speakers from US Religious Right groups Focus on the Family…
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Occasionally, a bit of scripture will float into public discourse, often in the context of politicians and civilians sorting through the implications of some bit of policy. The citations are as a rule…
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Religion Dispatches
To almost nobody’s surprise, 2016 ended with another confusing and un-American blow in the “religious freedom” vs. freedom freedom category. As Slate’s tireless Mark Joseph Stern noted, a “bizarre…
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Cuba’s long-time dictator Fidel Castro’s death was both celebrated and mourned.
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Pride celebrations continued this weekend, with major events in San Francisco, New York, and London, where two police officers were engaged, generating both support and religious denunciations. In New…
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Scott Lively, an American who has promoted anti-gay policies around the world, recently argued that, if elected, President Donald Trump should apologize to the world for “Obama’s attempt to force the…
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Plus: Religious Nationalists Support Anti-Gay Push In Kyrgyzstan; Malaysian Religious Police Target Trans People; and more, in this week’s Global LGBT Recap.
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Religion Dispatches
This year saw the launch of the Cubit: RD’s answer to the mainstream media’s coverage of the intersection of religion and science—those too-familiar stories in which religion and science are…
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