I won’t belabor the Supreme Court cases I’ve been highlighting recently, but I will mention them; they show a new line of thinking about individual religious freedom that will have an ongoing impact in the courts for years to come. There’s the case of the high school coach who led prayers at the 50 yard …
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In the wake of tragic and preventable mass violence in Tulsa, Uvalde, Laguna Woods, Buffalo, and countless other American towns and cities, the religious right has offered their “thoughts and prayers” and cried for their opponents not to politicize these tragedies with talk of gun control. This call for decorum was seemingly lost on …
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Throughout the month of June, we will be sharing information about historic American figures who were involved in both secular and LGBTQIA+ spheres. Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) was an award-winning playwright, author, and civil rights activist who is perhaps best known as the playwright of A Raisin in the Sun, which was largely inspired by …
The pandemic has democratized lobbying. It has not only become accepted that you can meet with Members of Congress and staff on Zoom, it’s almost become the normal way to do it even if you’re in Washington and could drive, subway, or walk to Capitol Hill. As a result, people anywhere can set up or …
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Throughout the month of June, we will be sharing information about historic American figures who were involved in both secular and LGBTQIA+ spheres. Harvey Milk (1930-1978) was a civil rights activist and California politician who became one of the first openly LGBTQ+ elected officials in the United States upon his election to the San …
We wish everyone in the Black community a happy Juneteenth this weekend. Officially recognized as a federal holiday just last year, Juneteenth National Independence Day is a celebration of the emancipation of slaves in the United States (specifically Texas, which was the last state to free slaves) in 1865. Many arguments for slavery during the …
Throughout the month of June, we will be sharing information about historic American figures who were involved in both secular and LGBTQIA+ spheres. James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, playwright, and journalist who wrote frequently during the Civil Rights Movement and its aftermath in the United States. Though he was opposed to labeling his …
The pandemic is receding from the public eye for now, and most indicators are where they were a year ago — meaning low active cases. But last year saw a dramatic post-summer increase in cases and hospitalizations that is likely to happen again this fall. Just as the virus doesn’t go away, neither do the …
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Throughout the month of June, we will be sharing information about historic American figures who were involved in both secular and LGBTQIA+ spheres. Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a pacifist and feminist activist, an international humanitarian, and a Nobel laureate. The social settlement she co-founded and ran, Hull-House, was an early institution of secular community …
Church and state are becoming less and less separate in churches. Churches, other faith-based institutions, and in fact all nonprofit organizations are prohibited from participating in most political campaign activities but many churches are crossing the line or just ignoring this prohibition. The consequence should be losing their nonprofit status but the IRS has been …
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