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In the land of Cleopatra and Hatshepsut women are beginning to make strides toward equal rights. Here’s hoping 2009 will be even better.

The landmark event depicts a religion in transition, but what of the criticisms that it’s just a publicity stunt?

According to Bush administration insiders, the religious right was considered a bit of an irritation. But Obama might be about to give it some real power.

Pollsters ask voters why they supported Prop. 8, and it turns out religion played a major role: LGBT folk have a lot of work to do.

President Obama got his campaign slogan from Cesar Chavez, but on this 16th anniversary of the great labor leader’s death we still have no national holiday to commemorate his legacy.

Those apocalyptically-minded souls—nationalist and Republican, and all-too-knowing virtually to a person—are also ironically the most anti-democratic forces that contemporary Christianity has produced.

What’s driving the birtherism? Not Donald Trump.

It’s not that Christianity itself is hostile to sex, but the Texas evangelical experiment trivializes both sex and marriage.

On the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the Vatican takes care to deny the rights of LGBTQ people.

Don’t hate me because I prefer stories about my father butchering The Temptations’ version of Silent Night to dressing my kids in kente cloth.