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The right to erect a monument, for any cause, is an opportunity. It’s a chance to lend dignity and consequence to a public space. A monument is also an aesthetic opportunity. It doesn’t have to be beautiful, but a successful monument makes it hard to imagine its setting without it. The American Atheists monument fails on both counts.

People who want to stop abortion are quick to publicly ask God’s aid in ending a practice they think is murder. It’s easy to find examples of their public prayers. But people who believe women ought to be in charge of when they bring life into the world are less apt to pray their cause publicly. Many of those people are acting out of religious faith that is every bit as deeply held.

An Amnesty International report and new documentary shed light on religion’s role in anti-gay persecution in Africa.

Australia’s largest state passed a new law that would allow police to demand the removal of any head covering.

If you can’t beat ’em…

A right-wing legal group holds a conference call. “Satan” is mentioned.

A gay professor mines his past to reckon with responses to the closure an apology of a premier practitioner of “reparative therapy.”

Christians (understood to mean here heterosexual activist traditionalists) have become identified with actively pursuing the denial of rights and benefits to others that they themselves enjoy. In other words, the “Gospel” has been identified with the cause of self-benefiting social discrimination against a minority group, a losing hand if ever there was one.

Why the frail response by LGBT organizations to the Voting Rights Act repeal this week?