The religious right didn’t get the Supreme Court victory it hoped for. Yet.

In one of the most anticipated Supreme Court rulings of the year, involving the question of whether an anti-gay baker has to bake a cake for a gay wedding, the court today decided to punt. While you’ll probably see a lot of headlines proclaiming “Christian Baker Wins At Supreme Court!”, in fact the justices decided not …

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Preacher Defends $54 Million Private Jet Request: “I Don’t Dupe Nobody”

Preacher Jesse Duplantis may have thought his request for a brand new $54 million private jet would just be seen by his gullible followers, but once the internet found out, there was no stopping the coverage. Everyone wanted to chime in on the Christian televangelist who already owns a private jet, but wanted a new one to avoid the pesky problem of stopping …

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"In God We Trust" on money isn’t religious endorsement, federal court rules

A federal court has ruled that printing “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency doesn’t amount to a religious endorsement and therefore doesn’t violate the U.S. Constitution. The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reports the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago made the ruling Thursday in a lawsuit brought by a self-declared Satanist, Kenneth …

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3 years after same-sex marriage ruling, protections for LGBT families undermined

Conversion therapy aims to change an LGBT person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Now the controversial practice is being regulated in many states. A Supreme Court ruling sanctioning same-sex marriage in 2015 was hailed as a milestone moment that would see discrimination crumble and equality triumph for LGBT couples — and for their children. But in the past three …

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The sin of silence

The epidemic of denial about sexual abuse in the evangelical church. Rachael Denhollander’s college-aged abuser began grooming her when she was 7. Each week, as Denhollander left Sunday school at Westwood Baptist Church in Kalamazoo, Mich., he was there to walk her to her parents’ Bible-study classroom on the other side of the building. He …

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Fears Trump's anti-choice picks could set back abortion fight for a generation

Wendy Vitter is the kind of judicial nominee anti-abortion campaigners banked on when they cast a vote for Trump. She’s a former prosecutor and general counsel for the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans who lobbied against abortion access, cheered laws which make abortion “difficult”, and believes abortions hurt women. Vitter has insisted she could keep …

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How Republicans Are Using The Anti-Abortion Playbook To Undermine Same-Sex Marriage

Just one month after the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, Ryan T. Anderson, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation, turned to the anti-abortion playbook. “Everything the pro-life movement did needs to be done again, now on this new frontier of marriage,” Anderson wrote in Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious …

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