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Religion Dispatches

No, Climate Change Deniers Aren’t Modern Day Galileos

Let’s say you’re a prominent climate change denier. And then Pope Francis comes along and announces that climate change is going to be a major item on his agenda for the coming months. What do you do…
Andrew Aghapour
Michael Schulson
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Religion Dispatches

What Republicans Mean When They Compare Climate Change to Religion

Last week, Texas Republican Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal comparing climate change to religion. Smith argues…
Andrew Aghapour
Michael Schulson
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Discrimination on the Taxpayer’s Dime? The Fight To Curtail the Overreach of RFRA

Religious exemptions have allowed employers to discriminate based on faith—slippery slope would be an understatement.
Sarah Posner
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Religion Dispatches

What the Catholic Supreme Court Justices Get Wrong About Marriage

For a millennium the church had no “coherent or obligatory liturgical tradition” regarding marriage.
Patricia Miller
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Religion Dispatches

The Ethics of Everest

In the wake of tragedy, considering both the human and the moral costs of the ultimate sports pilgrimage.
Michael Schulson
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Religion Dispatches

In Marriage Arguments, Scalia Frets Over Clergy Religious Freedom

A Freudian slip reveals something about the Establishment Clause.
Sarah Posner
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The Theological Hijacking of Religious “Freedom”

If I were Steve Inskeep, here’s how the conversation might have gone.
Timothy K. Snyder
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Tarso Luís Ramos

Political Research Associates
Tarso Luís Ramos has been researching and challenging the U.S. Right Wing for nearly 30 years. He joined PRA as Research Director in 2006 and lead PRA as Executive Director from 2008-2024. At PRA…
Tarso Luis Ramos
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Frederick Clarkson

Political Research Associates

Senior Research Analyst

Research, writing and speaking on the Christian Right with a focus on matters related to religious freedom.
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Cloee Cooper

Political Research Associates

Research Director

Cloee Cooper is a journalist and researcher with over a decade of experience researching far right movements and their inroads into law enforcement and local government. She was granted the 2021 Soros Justice Media fellowship to develop a podcast on far right sheriffs and holds a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, specializing in social justice and investigative reporting. Before the mainstream knew of White nationalism, she tracked, monitored, and organized against anti-immigrant organizations with ties to White nationalism with the Center for New Community from 2009-2012.
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