Christian Right

A Coeur d’Alene, Idaho couple, Donald and Evelyn Knapp, are the new cause celebre of the Christian right, symbols of a supposedly strong-arm government forcing religious opponents of marriage equality…

The Hobby Lobby decision relied, to some extent, on the existence of a thing called “closely-held corporations”; only that’s not really a thing at all.

Reading the same piece by Robert Jones in the Atlantic that I wrote about in my post Tuesday, about dwindling numbers of white evangelicals in the South, Religion News Service’s Tobin Grant, a…

Heads up: next week Mexico will host the International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) World Conference. According to the Washington Blade, Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, executive…

The “Anba Dlo” water symposium held last weekend in New Orleans featured an unexpected alliance: representatives from Rand Corp, architects, environmentalists, policy specialists, and a Vodou…

Donald and Evelyn Knapp believe in “traditional Christian marriages,” though a lawsuit filed in federal court last week on their behalf calls into question whether that phrase holds any meaning beyond…

It’s like watching history repeat itself: African governments copying the tricks of the past, using propaganda to deny the plight of sexual minorities in their countries, while running full steam to destroy them.

Despite subsequent backtracking, the Catholic world is abuzz with news that the Synod of Bishops could be taking steps toward a dramatic overhaul in the church’s long-standing doctrine on LGBTQ people, as well as its view on divorced members.

The conservative media world is today aflame over subpoenas served on pastors, by the City of Houston, in litigation brought by activists who claim the City wrongfully rejected their effort to put a…

It’s true. Religious liberty is under sustained attack in America—but not in the way the Christian Right would have us believe.