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Religion Dispatches

Illinois Bishop Greets Marriage Equality with Exorcism

Bishop Paprocki says God told him to pray “Be gone, Satan”
Peter Montgomery
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Religion Dispatches

Students at Conservative Catholic College Speak After Sudden Cancellation of Pro-Gay Speaker

“It would take a person with a stone-heart not to be moved…”
Rob Shryock
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Religion Dispatches

New Challenges to Gay Marriage Bans From Within States & Denominations

Challenge this snowball at your own risk.
Candace Chellew-Hodge
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Religion Dispatches

GOP Chair Reince Priebus: "There's only one sovereign God"

So much for the Republican notion of diversity.
Daniel Schultz
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Religion Dispatches

How Will Religious Conservatives Follow Through on Marriage Bluster?

Catholic and evangelical leaders have pledged massive resistance to marriage equality. Now what?
Peter Montgomery
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Religion Dispatches

Mormons Absorb SCOTUS Prop 8 Ruling

Progressives celebrate, conservatives stake out the “religious freedom” defense, but the true lessons of Prop 8 for Mormons have yet to be absorbed.
Joanna Brooks
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Religion Dispatches

DOMA Defeat Represents “Persecution,” Some Say

Right-wing twittersphere is aflutter with talk of “polygamy,” “pedophilia,” etc.
Anthea Butler
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Religion Dispatches

For Conservatives, the Future Looks Dim... and Gay

Religious opposition to LGBT equality is diminishing—even among young Republicans.
Candace Chellew-Hodge
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Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

Wait. Using your wife’s death to score cheap political points against a group of people you hate isn’t “morally wrong”?
Candace Chellew-Hodge
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Religion Dispatches

Right-Wing Parody of Coming Out Reveals True Parody

On the wrong side of history—again.
Candace Chellew-Hodge
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