When the Trump administration issued a directive in August that expanded a “religious exemption” for federal contractors who are accused of discrimination, activists feared the worst. The policy was essentially legal guidance, but it targeted LGBT rights specifically. Now their fears have escalated. The Trump administration is currently planning to create a formal religious-liberty regulation …
The Justice Department has launched an investigation into alleged sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy across the state of Pennsylvania — a major escalation of government scrutiny of the church long sought by victims of pedophile priests. Read the full article at the Washington Post
When a Turkish court released American Andrew Brunson after two years of confinement, it was a profound moment for Christian evangelicals, who had made the pastor a symbol of religious persecution worldwide. In Brunson’s case and others, they had prayed for deliverance. And President Donald Trump, they said, delivered. […] Under the radar, government agencies, …
Evangelical leaders praise Trump after pastor’s release Read More »
Intercessors for America, the pro-Trump group that has been mobilizing its prayer warriors to help elect “godly” candidates in the 2018 midterms, has bumped up the frequency of its monthly prayer calls and will be holding them every week between now and the election. Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia was the featured guest on last …
A new study reveals the scope of psychological damage done by Indiana’s 2015 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to gay, lesbian, bisexual and questioning Hoosiers. Although the study, led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health’s Center for LGBT Health Research, stops short of suggesting Indiana’s law directly caused LGBQ people to feel …
Pence’s Religious Freedom Policy Made ‘LGBQ’ Hoosiers Sick—Literally Read More »
The Trump administration is making a mistake by encouraging abstinence-only sex education programs, which haven’t been shown to help prevent teen pregnancy or cut rates of sexually transmitted diseases. For all the Trump administration’s work to discourage abortions, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is taking a backward approach when it comes to preventing …
It sounds like a historical horror, but ‘treatment’ for sexual orientation remains legal in most of the world, including the UK. Mathew Shurka was 16 when he sat down with his father and told him he was gay. Brought up in a conservative New York suburb, the youngest child in a secular Jewish family and …
‘I still have flashbacks’: the ‘global epidemic’ of LGBT conversion therapy Read More »
Why are you an atheist or agnostic? The obvious answer might be because you don’t believe in God. Or maybe you don’t think anyone can know if God exists. Becka A. Alper of the Pew Research Center, using data obtained late last year, just published an analysis looking specifically at the reasons “Nones” gave for why they don’t belong …
Why Are Many Americans Abandoning Religion? A Lot of the Credit Goes to Pastors Read More »
Rep. Mike Kelly, a devout Catholic and Notre Dame alum, likened the passage of the Affordable Care Act — the largest expansion of healthcare in 50 years — to the attack on Pearl Harbor, fumbling FDR’s famous line, saying, “I want you to remember August 1, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a date …
No, Rep. Mike Kelly, protecting children from bigotry is not “anti-religious” Read More »
This morning on Fox & Friends, Former Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden was invited to talk about Joe Kennedy, the former Bremerton High School football coach whose contract wasn’t renewed after he continued praying on the field while working. Kennedy sued — and lost repeatedly — but his lawyers are now asking the Supreme Court to consider his case. Bowden …
FOX News Guest Blames School Shootings on Coaches Who Don’t Pray with Students Read More »
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