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As they say in the scientific community: Derp!

Nine months into Donald Trump’s presidency, it should surprise no one to learn that his administration is going out of its way to restrict civil rights, rather than expand them. Nevertheless, a brief…

Constance McMillen wins $35,000 in damages, and changes discrimination policy at high school…

Anti-abortion news and opinion websites have taken to calling Chinese dissident Guangcheng Chen “pro-life,” which is fundamentally misleading. Chen is not opposed to abortion, per se, he’s opposed to forced abortion.

Calls for “goodwill” towards “all of God’s children.”

We taste the bread, we smell the incense; you don’t have to put that down lower because you don’t understand the theological concepts. Don’t feel bad about having an experience involving stained glass windows; that’s not a trivial thing.

A brochure for the land boasts that the buyer can sit and “let your mind wander back in time & imagine the Native Americans… who passed across this land that is now a part of yours & your family’s legacy forever!” Buyer beware on that “forever” stuff.

Among other things, staking the credibility of Christian faith on the first three chapters of Genesis ignores the God of Exodus, who uses creation in service of liberation.

A report from India in the wake of new protests. “The emotions are much stronger—the sense of concern, the sense of anxiety, the urgency,” an activist says. “You have your fellow beings torturing themselves… So when this is happening in Tibet, of course people here feel very intense and strongly. But what we can do is very limited.”

National Religious Campaign Against Torture renews calls for investigation.