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Time magazine’s June 11 article “Does God Want You to Be Thin?” celebrates Rick Warren’s faith-based weight loss initiative, with barely a mention of the conservative evangelical pastor’s homophobic teachings. While the “Daniel Plan” and Rick Warren’s incredible shrinking waistline receive five pages of gushing praise, Time glosses over the fact that this “inclusive” plan–open to Christians, Jews, and Muslims, too–mixes getting-in-shape advice with condemnations of sexuality that deviates from Warren’s expectations of normative heterosexuality and sexual identity.

One Million Moms, an organizational arm of the American Family Association, has been involved in an epic battle against gay superheroes since May. In light of DC Comics’ recent announcement that the widely-beloved superhero Green Lantern is gay, which followed Marvel Comics’ announcement that openly gay superhero Northstar would wed his boyfriend in a coming comic book issue, One Million Moms is setting itself up as an archenemy to gay superheroes everywhere.

Almost three years to the day since Kansas abortion provider and women’s rights advocate Dr. George Tiller was assassinated by an anti-choice activist, three reproductive health organizations have fallen victim to arson attacks. Two women’s health clinics in the Atlanta, Georgia, area were targeted in late May 2012, followed by a third arson committed against Women With A Vision, a women’s reproductive health organization in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Technological tools to increase law enforcement’s surveillance capacity will be showcased at the National Sheriffs’ Association annual conference from June 14-18, heightening concerns regarding law enforcement’s targeting of minority communities.

Introduction In many ways, all eyes are on Chicago. The city increasingly finds itself at the epicenter of multiple discourses of violence and safety – from hubristic Presidential tweets claiming…

This week, you’re likely to encounter a lot of commentary on PRRI and Interfaith Youth Core’s new report on religious groups and vaccine acceptance, most of it optimistic. And to be sure, there are…

Yesterday, for the first time, we heard about Christian Nationalism in a government conversation about the January 6 insurrection. The conversation some of us had been having about Christian…

In November 2018, Loretta Ross and PRA convened a diverse group of activists, researchers, and scholars at the Blue Mountain Center, in upstate New York, for a wide-ranging conversation about gender and White supremacy.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a new effort in May 2019 to expand the reach of its deportation machine.

Recently, Atlantic writer Derek Thompson tweeted an image of two graphs of religious survey data. The first showed the number of people who say they “believe in God without a doubt,” broken down by…