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After spending 15 years of her life serving as “proof” that gays and lesbians can “change” and become heterosexual, Yvette Cantu Schneider has officially become “ex-ex-gay.” Now married and a mother…

By “celebrating” liberal victories years after they’re even remotely controversial, the religious right rewrites itself into history’s good book while continuing to play to the worst elements in our contemporary culture.

Has the anti-choice movement “professionalized and matured?”

Via Emily Hauser, I was alerted to this Joint Statement on Israel and Gaza by Imam Mohamed Magid and Rabbi Michael G. Holzman. Magid is the president of the Islamic Society of North America, and…

The nine most terrifying words in the English language, are ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help. – Ronald Reagan There’s an irony embedded in the outraged responses of the “religious…

Like many of you, I’ve been spending much of July fuming over how to properly vent my frustration with the disturbing implications of SCOTUS’s Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College rulings. Not being a…

Last week HuffPo Religion’s executive editor Paul Raushenbush wrote about a ” stunning resurgence” of progressive Christianity. The right, he notes, had been the “default religious voice” of the final…

Evangelicals have enjoyed a longstanding right to define the terms of “religious freedom” as it benefits their own cultural position

Mark Schaming is the director of the New York State Historical Museum in Albany. Soon after September 11, 2001, he organized an exhibition called “The World Trade Center,” the first such visual…

This past weekend creationist Ken Ham, best known to most for his highly publicized debate with Bill Nye, posted an odd reflection concerning alien life to his blog. The impetus for Ham’s post appears…