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After Elections, Radford (VA) Officials Vote to Replace Invocations With Silence

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Elections have consequences, and in Radford, Virginia, a new city council took immediate action to get rid of Christian prayers at meetings. For the past several months, the Radford City Council has opened its meetings with Christian prayers — and only Christian prayers. During council meetings in recent months, the pre-meeting invocation was usually given by the Rev. […]

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She Says She Lost Her Job For Coming Out as Transgender. But Her Biggest Battle Could Come at the Supreme Court Without Kennedy

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Aimee Stephens’s battle isn’t over. The 57-year-old former funeral home director has been in a legal battle for years, since, she says, she was fired from her Detroit-area job shortly after she told her boss in 2013 she was a transgender woman and would start dressing as such. After her termination, Stephens says, she struggled

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Vice President Mike Pence Defends Cruel Anti-Immigration Policy With Scripture

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This shouldn’t come as a shock, but Vice President Mike Pence wants to make clear that he wholeheartedly supports the United States’ “zero tolerance” policy when it comes to illegal immigrants — even those who are fleeing certain death from their countries of origin. Even worse, he’s using Scripture to do it. (I guess he learned nothing after the Jeff

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Here’s Some Advice for the Preacher at an Arkansas High School Football Camp

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I will never understand why high school football teams that break the law by treating practices as church camps publicize it. In Danville, Arkansas, Konnor McKay, a Christian minister, recently spoke at a public high school football summer camp — at the invitation of Waldron High School head coach Jonathan Bates. That illegal act was celebrated in both

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A campaign to blitz the country with ‘In God We Trust’ laws takes root

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As the summer heat waxes and state legislative sessions wane, the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation has scored a few small but significant victories. This year, five state legislatures passed laws mandating that every public school prominently display the U.S. motto, “In God We Trust.” The addition of Arkansas, which passed such a law in 2017,

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Evangelist Says Christians Should Run For School Boards to End LGBTQ Advocacy

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Christian evangelist Franklin Graham said on Saturday that conservative Christians should run for local school boards to put an end to “LGBT advocacy” videos and other policies designed to curb bullying. Graham, who said a month ago that sanctuary cities sheltering undocumented immigrants from Donald Trump‘s draconian policies are a “little picture of Hell,” was responding to a piece by

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Trump makes clear Roe v. Wade is on the chopping block

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Anyone promising that Roe v. Wade will be overturned by President Trump’s next Supreme Court justice is engaging in guesswork — and, in many cases, political advocacy. Abortion rights supporters are understandably concerned about nullifying one of the court’s most prominent and passion-inducing precedents, yes, but we don’t even have a nominee yet. This also happens to be a

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Ohio Doesn’t Need a ‘Pastor Protection’ Law Because Freedom of Religion is Already Enshrined in the U.S. Constitution

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Yesterday, the Ohio House of Representatives approved a preposterous and unnecessary bill to “protect pastors” from having to perform same-sex wedding ceremonies. Crucially, the bill also grants religious societies these same protections, so a Knights of Columbus lodge, for example, that is rented to the public may now be denied for marriage celebrations if the

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A FL School Board Nearly Rejected Science Textbooks After Creationist Complaints

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This story has a happy ending. But before we get there, it’ll make your blood boil. It was almost exactly a year ago when Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a law allowing residents of the state — not just elected officials or parents of students — to challenge instructional material in school districts. It was basically designed

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