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New Mexico Rep. Cathrynn Brown (R) whipped up a PR nightmare last week when she proposed a bill forcing rape survivors to carry pregnancies to term—or face jail time.

From a modest building in a central neighborhood in Goiânia, the capital of the Brazilian state of Goiás, Filipe Coelho is launching the American Center for Law and Justice’s (ACLJ) Brazilian branch, following the example of the Christian Right organization’s offices in Eastern Europe and Africa.

Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX), headquartered in Fort Belvoir, VA, is a national nonprofit organization ostensibly advocating for the “ex-gay” community.

Have you noticed how common it is for right-wingers to describe things they oppose in terms of religion? Back in April, for example, Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab (the social media platform of choice…

The Knights of Columbus are in many cases a charitable force for good, but their efforts against the rights of women and LGBTQ individuals overcasts any goodwill they may have hoped to earn.

Saturday, shoppers nationwide were asked to stand up for Hobby Lobby, a chain of over 500 stores that faces debilitating fines under the Affordable Health Care Act for refusing to cover contraception in its insurance plans. Much like last August’s Chick-fil-a Appreciation Day, created by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to support its “Godly values” and opposition to same-sex marriage, supporters were asked to head for the cash register in honor of Hobby Lobby Appreciation Day.

Yesterday, I and about 40 others crammed into the Springfield, MA, office of Arise for Social Justice, fresh from the first oral hearing of the lawsuit brought by Ugandan gay rights activists against Scott Lively–the notorious holocaust revisionist who, as PRA broke in 2009, traveled to Uganda to promote the virulent homophobia that lead to the “kill the gays” bill.

Daniel Silliman’s new book, Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith, is an engaging history of evangelical fiction, focused on the infrastructure of publishers…

“I love the wharf, listening to jazz at Westminster Church, and playing basketball with other guys. I’m a transgender man and I’m part of DC.” If you’ve bussed around our nation’s capital in the past year, you may have seen this ad (left) displaying a D.C. transgender resident, Iden Campbell McCollum.

For all the ink spilled on Alexander Hamilton by historians, and for all the buzz generated by the Hamilton musical, there’s a hidden history to this iconic founder that never made its way to the page…