Andrew Thorburn resigned as CEO of the Essendon football team in Australia less than 24 hours after taking on the new job due to widespread backlash over his other job: chairing a Christian church that promotes anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion views. Those bigoted ideas stood in stark contrast to the more progressive values of the football club, […]
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How deep does ‘anti-woke’ opinion go among atheists?
Several globally-prominent atheists have established themselves as opponents of what they call “wokeness.” But an attempt to compare them to atheists generally, and even the prominent atheists’ most ardent fans, shows that the sentiment is not widespread.
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On Yom Kippur, and its homophobic beginnings
In the early days of October, millions of Jews will observe Yom Kippur. During this most sacred day of the Jewish religion, the faithful will spend hours fasting, praying in synagogue, and spiritually atoning for their wrongdoings against God and people. While many Jews are not regular synagogue attenders, if they do ever go to […]
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Adam and Steve: Queer artists repurpose Genesis as a gay love story
By “queering” Genesis with their music, Dorian Electra and Lil Nas X repurposed the Adam and Eve dynamic, turning it into a gay love story.
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Banned Books Week: Fighting censorship and preserving free speech
With the number of book bans increasing at a rapid pace and becoming evermore divisive, the attention to Banned Books Week, which runs September 18-24, 2022, is more important than ever. The American Library Association’ (ALA)’s officials reported 729 challenges in 2021, making it the highest number of challenges tracked since the ALA Office of […]
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Parents shocked that Christian school will kick out openly LGBTQ students
The Charles Finney School, a private Christian school in New York, recently updated its policies to ban openly LGBTQ students, and some (extremely naïve) parents are in shock that administrators could be so cruel. The biggest changes came in the “lifestyle” section of the student handbook, which spelled out how the school now had the […]
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St. Louis Archdiocese chooses anti-LGBTQ bigotry over free school lunch
The Archdiocese of St. Louis has told leaders at all its Catholic schools to start charging kids for food, letting them know they should stop participating in the government’s National School Lunch Program which provides free meals to children across the country. The reason? If they continue using those government funds, they might have to […]
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Maine’s religious schools are choosing bigotry over taxpayer dollars
One of the Supreme Court’s biggest blows to church/state separation in the past term has effectively achieved nothing. The bang became a whimper because the conservative Christians in Maine who wanted taxpayer money to fund religious schools have now realized they’re better off on their own. Carson v. Makin involved a voucher program that allowed […]
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OK GOP candidate Scott Esk still wants gay people stoned to death
UPDATE: Scott Esk has lost his race: Scott Esk, a conservative Christian who believes sexually active gay people should be stoned to death because the Bible says so, is on the verge of becoming a state representative in Oklahoma. Esk advanced to a runoff after a GOP primary back in June, and that runoff is […]
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A Christian camp director was told to denounce his trans son. He quit instead.
Chris and Lindsay Kinman worked for a Christian ministry in jobs they absolutely loved… until people there found out they had a trans son. The Kinmans had to decide what meant more to them: their religious principles or their transgender child. They chose their child. That’s the summary of what’s supposed to be a heartwarming […]