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According to the latest Quinnipiac University poll of Republican likely caucus-goers, Donald Trump is still earning the admiration of 20 percent of evangelicals, bested only by Ben Carson at 27…

In the Guardian, Bisi Alimi writes, “If you say being gay is not African, you don’t know your history.” His story notes, “The idea that homosexuality is ‘western’ is based on another western import –…

At first blush, it doesn’t seem that Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and the Little Sisters of the Poor, the order of nuns who refuse…

Years ago, I remember Christian right leaders fretting about pastors going to jail if they expressed their anti-gay views; when that didn’t come to pass, they fretted about churches losing their tax…

You could read this as a straightforward narrative of medical recovery. Or you could read it as a fraught parable of modern identity: Doctors diagnose a two-year-old boy, Alex, with autism. Like other…

Could a course prevent public schools from becoming battlefields?

This morning a judge freed Kim Davis, the heretofore obscure Kentucky county clerk who has made national headlines because of her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. As of this…

Why we need to head back to civics class for this one…

The Pew Research Center has pubished a new report on cellphone etiquette. If you’ve ever wondered whether your fellow Americans are judging you for talking on your phone in public, or checking…

Kim Davis, Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, has been jailed for her defiance of a court order to process marriage licenses for same-sex couples. Her view is that, by refusing to process any marriage…