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Republicans are weaponizing a backlash against marriage equality
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (53+ words) This year at least five red states are trying to erase Pride month, renaming June to celebrate the heterosexual family'as if it's not celebrated every day in American life. The homophobic MAGA GOP Congressman Andy Ogles of Tennessee'one of the…...
Southern Baptists to debate strict ban on female preachers
19+ hour, 39+ min ago (52+ words) The Southern Baptist Convention begins next week, and among the amendments being presented is a tougher rule to block women from the pulpit. Currently, the SBC only affirms that it believes women do not belong in the office of the…...
How these red state governors are trying to replace Pride Month
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (487+ words) Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Las Vegas in October 2023 (Gage Skidmore) As elected officials, sports teams, and many Americans across the country celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month, some red states have chosen to not only ignore it, but counter Pride…...
Thomas' 'historically illiterate' speech gets history 'wildly inaccurate': scholar
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (268+ words) When U. S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announced his retirement in 1991 and President George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas, he wanted the seat to be held by another Black justice. Marshall was an historic figure: Appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967, he…...
Trump uses voter ID push to stoke base with 'men in women's sports' claim
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (204+ words) After touting the controversial SAVE America Act as "a Country Defining fight for the Soul of our Nation! , President Donald Trump is now suggesting it would reshape rules for sports participation and health care access for transgender people " changes the…...
'Political stunt': Trump admin rages at NYC for directly defying his Pride flag order
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (356+ words) New York City elected officials and activists re-raised the LGBTQ+ pride flag on Thursday at the Stonewall National Monument in defiance of a Trump administration edict that led to the iconic emblem's removal. In response, the U. S. Department of the Interior…...
Anti-gay bias surging 'sharply' among least expected groups: report
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (363+ words) The success of the TV show "Heated Rivalry," about two closeted hockey players who fall in love, may be masking the fact that anti-gay bias has "surged particularly sharply" since 2020, say two research psychologists in a New York Times opinion…...
'Psychological projection': MAGA's 'very weird about sex' " and it's hurting them
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (398+ words) The community of "involuntary celibate" men that trend toward President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement have had a difficult year. Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte noted Wednesday that the biggest loser of 2025 appears to be the incel movement,…...
Supreme Court may allow religious right to undermine First Amendment
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (292+ words) U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett on September 18, 2025 (LBJLibrary Now/Flickr) When the U. S. Constitution's First Amendment was adopted in 1791, the Founding Fathers were clear about two things: (1) freedom of religion would a Constitutional right, and (2) government would not favor…...
Student's Bible-based essay grade leads university to put instructor on leave
6+ mon, 4+ day ago (445+ words) The University of Oklahoma has placed a graduate student instructor on leave after they gave a student a failing grade for a gender-roles essay that appeared to be based on an interpretation of Christian Bible theology. The student "publicly contested…...