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A Virginia Town Gave a Church $10,000 to Help Renovate Its Stained-Glass Windows

The town of Colonial Beach, Virginia recently gave away grants to help revitalize the boardwalk downtown. They want it to look beautiful to help draw in tourists, and these grants, which come from the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development, are meant to help with those efforts. All of that sounds perfectly fine. The …

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Jul 9 2018October 22, 2018

U.S. experts applaud U.K. ban on 'gay conversion therapy'

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LGBTQ advocates in the U.S. hope that a move by the British government to end the “abhorrent practice” of so-called gay conversion therapy, announced on Tuesday, will affect legislation on this side of the Atlantic. “If a nation can say we’re not going to do this to LGBTQ people anymore, a state can do it,” said …

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Jul 6 2018October 16, 2018

The White House Is Tearing Down the Wall Between Church and State

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Many Americans were shocked last week when Attorney General Jeff Sessions turned to the Bible — specifically, Paul’s epistle to the Romans — to justify President Trump’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents. This scriptural justification for a political decision should not have surprised anyone, because Mr. Trump’s administration has consistently treated the separation of …

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Jul 6 2018October 23, 2018

In Leaked Sermon, GOP Candidate Mark Harris Said a Woman Has One Title: “Helper”

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Mark Harris, a Republican running for Congress from North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, said in a 2013 sermon that a woman only had one title according to the Bible: “Helper.” He also suggested it may not be the “healthiest pursuit” for women to ever prioritize their careers. The sermon, which Harris gave as pastor of First Baptist …

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Jul 6 2018October 22, 2018

E.P.A. Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Under a Cloud of Ethics Scandals

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Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and architect of President Trump’s aggressive effort to rewrite the government’s rule book on environmental regulations, resigned on Thursday in the face of numerous ethics investigations that doomed his tenure. Despite Mr. Pruitt’s efforts to nurture a close relationship with the president, Mr. Trump himself announced the resignation …

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Jul 6 2018November 9, 2018

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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Jul 5 2018October 23, 2018

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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Jul 5 2018October 22, 2018

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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Jul 5 2018October 19, 2018

The Supreme Temptation of Amy Coney Barrett

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There’s little that President Trump loves more than cementing his supporters’ adoration of him while making his foes squirm. Nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court would do both. She’s not just a staunch conservative over whom Republicans and Democrats would wage a familiar fight. She’s the prompt for an all-out culture war. I …

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Jul 5 2018October 23, 2018

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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Jul 3 2018October 23, 2018

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A Virginia Town Gave a Church $10,000 to Help Renovate Its Stained-Glass Windows

U.S. experts applaud U.K. ban on 'gay conversion therapy'

The White House Is Tearing Down the Wall Between Church and State

In Leaked Sermon, GOP Candidate Mark Harris Said a Woman Has One Title: “Helper”

E.P.A. Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Under a Cloud of Ethics Scandals

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

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

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

The Supreme Temptation of Amy Coney Barrett

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

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