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Trending: State Legislation That Allows College Student Groups To Use Religion To Discriminate
Legislators across the country are pushing bills that would allow religious student groups on college campuses to discriminate against anyone who doesn’t adhere to their religious beliefs, all while getting school funding and official recognition. - Blog Post
Poll Shows Nearly Half Of American Voters See ‘Christian Nationalism’ As A Threat
What the Religious Right is offering is a form of what I call 'historical creationism.' Just as they don’t like evolution so they fashioned a new, bogus 'science,' Religious Right activists don’t like our nation’s actual history, so they invented a fake one. - Blog Post
The Supreme Court Returned To The Issue Of Death-Row Inmates And Spiritual Advisers And This Time Got It Right
It’s good that a court majority changed course on this issue. Government policies that give preferential treatment to Christianity, in the correctional context or in any other, fly in the face of the First Amendment. - Blog Post
Americans Say No To Religion-Based Discrimination By Businesses
A new poll finds that 57 percent of Americans say they oppose allowing small-business owners to refuse services to LGBTQ people if the owner believes it would violate his or her religious beliefs. Only 36 percent favor allowing businesses to discriminate.