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Congresswoman storms out of National Day of Prayer event in protest

Rep. Janice Hahn attended the annual non-partisan National Day of Prayer gathering on Capitol Hill yesterday, expecting a unified, peaceful event. But after listening to Dr. James Dobson from Focus on...

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Alabama's Chief Justice Slams Marriage Equality; Says First Amendment For...

Alabama's Chief Justice, Roy Moore, has made outlandish and/or outrageous comments before. If you were wondering if he had slowed down or become more discreet about some of his views, the answer is no....

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Christianists launch campaign to get HGTV to put Benhams back on the air

As many of you know, real estate agents David and Jason Benham had inked a deal to host a house-flipping show on HGTV.  But HGTV tore up that deal on Thursday after People for the American Way revealed...

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After the SCOTUS Ruling: A Plan To Ensure Secular Government

The day after the SCOTUS ruling, I think the best headline I read was by Andy Borowitz. It read: "In landmark decision, Supreme Court strikes down main reason the country was started." Painfully...

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Oklahoma to pay over $300,000 in fees as 'anti-sharia' amendment found...

You may recall Oklahoma as being one of the states where Republican legislators verily wigged out at the thought of Creeping Sharia, back in the wettest days of the spittle-flecked 2010 campaign...

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East Texas restaurant to gay couple: "We just don't like fags."

If you caught ericlewis0's diary last night, you know that Houston's City Council voted yesterday to approve an Equal Rights Ordinance banning discrimination against LGBT people (among other categories...

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FRC Prays To Stop LGBT Pride Month

Pierre Bynum, the Family Research Council's prayer director, has called on members to pray to G-d to "stop the advance of this official celebration of sin."From Right Wing Watch:“Only heaven knows...

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Crucial religious liberty regulations in Air Force at death’s door

General Mark A. Welsh III Chief of Staff, United States Air Force 1670 Air Force Pentagon Washington, DC 20330-1670 Re: Air Force Instruction 1-1 General Welsh, I have just become aware that you have...

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Finally, A Politician Who's Honest About "Biblical Principles"

Scott Esk is a candidate for the state House in Oklahoma. Last summer, he wrote on gay people are "worthy of death" and that violence against gay people is "in the old testament under a law that came...

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Religious Exemptions: The First and the Fourteenth

This is the first of what I think will be three diaries that directly resulted from my experience at NN 14. Religious exemptions was identified as one of the five major post-marriage issues for the...

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AFA: The First Amendment Only Applies To Christians; Alarmed Now By...

That Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association has stated or written something offensive or completely inaccurate is nothing new. But, reading or listening to some of the stuff he spews is still...

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Fundamentalist Christian leader blames me for Air Force Academy rape epidemic

"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAs founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), a civil rights organization founded in 2005...

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Live updates from the anti-LGBT, anti-immigrant Family Leadership Summit

The third annual Family Leadership Summit is being held today, hosted by Bob Vander Plaats and various extreme right-wing organizations. The Summit has become an opportunity for every conservative...

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Haters, as shrill as ever, fire up effort to repeal LGBT non-discrimination...

You may remember that, back in December, the conservative Dallas suburb of Plano saw a glimmer of progress when it extended limited anti-discrimination protections to LGBT people. In a 5-3 vote (which...

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TX GOP state rep introduces bill to stop paying clerks who comply with...

It's likely going to be a bad 84th legislative session for all Texans with Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick taking the helm, but it's shaping up to be a particularly defensive one for the LGBT community....

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Obama, the National Prayer Breakfast, and the Tortured Truth of Christian...

AUTHOR'S NOTE: No one sect has a monopoly on murderous misanthropy. As this article goes to press, horrifying details are emerging of the tragic mass-murder of young Muslim-American students in Chapel...

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Texas AG Ken Paxton refuses to say whether state will defy SCOTUS on marriage...

If you've been following the record-breaking flurry of anti-LGBT bills being filed by Republicans in the Texas legislature, you probably know about HB 4105, introduced by Rep. Cecil Bell, Jr....

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The Taliban in Our Midst

[Mikey Weinstein]: This guest Op-Ed from my dear friend, Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) Advisory Board member, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff Lawrence...

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Fundamentalist Christians Gone Wild! (Freak Out Over Civil Rights of Gay...

Color me unsurprised! In the two weeks that have transpired since the Supreme Court’s civil rights “thunderbolt” upholding the right of same-sex couples to marry in all 50 states, the fundamentalist...

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It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see meanspirited bigotry in the armed forces

A simple perusal of recent events in the United States reveals that we still have a very long road to travel when it comes to leaving behind unabashed, bald-faced, old-school hatred and bigotry.One...

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