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During the controversy surrounding the selection of a design for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, there was one unofficial proposal so quietly audacious that even the man who put it forward, art…

A network of conservative Roman Catholics and Evangelicals is using a “religious liberty” framework to attack same-sex marriage, access to contraception and more using a narrative of “religious liberty”. Where did this narrative come from?

Maggie Gallagher is an anti-LGBTQ pundit and president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, which advocates a hard-line conservative agenda on marriage, sex, divorce law, and pregnancy. She is also well-known as a co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).

Muslim communities across the United States have watched with trepidation to see what the fallout from the Boston Marathon bombings will be. Likewise, civil libertarians have anticipated that the Justice Department and the FBI would seek ways to suspend normal criminal procedures, on the basis that they need to gather intelligence about terrorist organizations. Similar discussions took place in 2010, following Faisal Shahzad’s attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square.

“What is the Church’s stance on feminism?” This is the question addressed in a brief anonymous statement (four paragraphs, thirteen sentences, 224 words) published in January’s issue of the New Era, a…

As Frederick Clarkson noted on RD earlier this week, every January 16 we celebrate Religious Freedom Day. On this day 234 years ago, the Virginia Assembly passed the Virginia Statute for Religious…

On January 16 we celebrate Religious Freedom Day to commemorate what may be the most revolutionary and liberatory idea in the history of civilization. It was the reason many joined the American…