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Oklahoma LGBT Group Launches Campaign Against Anti-Gay ‘Religious Freedom’ Bill

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Oklahoma Republican lawmakers are attacking LGBT parents and same-sex headed families who wish to adopt, by filing a discriminatory bill that would allow agencies that have a religious or moral opposition to same-sex marriage the right to refuse to place a child in their homes. The Oklahoma State Department of Education in January of 2017 …

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Fill Out Your Bracket for the Most Anti-Church/State Separation Bill in America

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The Secular Coalition for America and American Atheists are once again taking 16 state bills that promote religion through the government and pitting them against each other in a March Madness-like tournament to determine the “Worst State Bill” in the country. Among the more shocking bills on the list: Indiana, HB 1422: Would allow a person to legally carry …

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Evangelical Christianity Had Plenty of Problems Before Donald Trump Came Along

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Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and graduate of evangelical haven Wheaton College, is a card-carrying conservative Christian. That’s why his new cover story for The Atlantic, all about how evangelicals have screwed themselves over by latching onto Donald Trump, can’t be dismissed as another liberal screed. His thesis is correct, and it’s something critics of the …

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Pennsylvania GOP candidate Rick Saccone claims his opponents ‘hate’ Trump, U.S., and God

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Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone on Monday evening asserted that his political opponents “hate” the president, the United States, and even God. “They’re energized for hate for our president,” said Saccone, standing alongside Donald Trump Jr. in a firehouse in this western Pennsylvania town. He continued, “Many of them have a hatred for our country. …

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GOP reintroduces bill pitting 'religious freedom' against gay marriage

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The First Amendment Defense Act, commonly known as FADA, has been reintroduced in Congress by Senator Mike Lee of Utah and 21 other Republicans — despite being called “harmful,” “discriminatory” and the “vilest anti-LGBT religious freedom bill of our time” by gay rights advocates. The bill, Lee said, is “designed to prevent the federal government from …

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Catholic Church against Georgia law extending time for sex victims to sue

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The Roman Catholic Church came out strongly Friday against legislation that would extend the time child abuse victims would have to sue the perpetrators and the institutions that harbored them. Rep. Jason Spencer, R- Woodbine, introduced House Bill 605 and pushed it through his chamber, saying many victims don’t find the courage to acknowledge abuse …

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos stumbles during pointed ‘60 Minutes’ interview

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday night and stumbled in answering questions that journalist Lesley Stahl asked during a pointed interview. Stahl repeatedly challenged the education secretary, at one point suggesting that DeVos should visit underperforming public schools to learn about their problems. DeVos responded, “Maybe I should.” The secretary also …

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What Trump’s Judicial Nominees Have in Common: They Really Don’t Want LGBTQ People to Have Rights

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The judicial nominees awaiting Senate action this year are all run-of-the-mill right wingers, except that they really seem to want to go after same-sex marriage. It’s time to sound the alarm again on another bunch of Trump judges queuing up for confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Like the earlier nominees, they are overwhelmingly white and …

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When Will Non-Religious Americans Finally Become an Effective Voting Bloc?

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Even though Americans unaffiliated with any religion now make up nearly a quarter of the United States’ population, our political influence is disproportionately slight and likely could remain underpowered for a good while. The problem is that “Nones,” as demographers call us, are a surprisingly disparate group whose fragmented nature undermines developing the unity and interconnectivity necessary …

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Can an atheist win public office in Tennessee? We’ll find out Tuesday.

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Gayle Jordan, a Democrat running for state senate in Trump country, will soon find out if an openly atheist candidate can win public office in Tennessee. Jordan does not believe in God. It is a fact she shares, but not a focus of her campaign for the vacant District 14 seat that will be decided Tuesday in a special election. “It’s incidental …

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