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A reassessment of religious rhetoric in the debt ceiling debate.

If you are the Catholic parent of LGBT daughter or son, you know firsthand that it is your child’s sexual identity, and not a belief in the Immaculate Conception, that puts them at risk for beatings and taunting. We find it reprehensible when a legacy of discrimination is invoked by those who themselves advocate repression. Archbishop Dolan and his colleagues should stop pretending that they face anything like the intolerance that our children do.

The first annual Wild Goose Festival, held in North Carolina at the end of June, was a snapshot of the state of the conversation regarding the status of LGBTQ folk in progressive Christianity.

While there are some religious elements to be found in Democratic politics, the party as a whole doesn’t begin to approach its rival’s Republicanity.

In 2005, Rolling Stone contributing editor Janet Reitman first stepped into the New York Church of Scientology to begin research on what culminated in her 2006 article, seeking “to understand Scientology: not to judge, but simply to absorb.”

Religious right sweetheart has to backpedal on gay marriage gaffe.

Joe Nocera’s casual use of the Tea Party’s “jihad.”

The latest bloggingheads.

We have one party: the Party of Wealth.