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The Heritage Foundation’s big impact on US politics
Gallons of digital ink have been spilled in the past year about Project 2025, the sprawling far-right policy document that promises to gut LGBTQ+ rights, abolish the…
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Church fires longtime music director over same-sex marriage
The longtime music director at a northern Michigan church said he was fired just a few months before retirement after officials learned that he was in a…
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Gay teacher fired from Catholic school settles with diocese
Gay third-grade teacher Michael Califano was fired last year from the Maria Regina School, a Catholic school on Long Island. Califano, who filed a federal civil rights suit, says he was told his dismissal…
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Trump frames election as spiritual battle for Christian support
Standing before hundreds of people in a suburban Detroit chapel, at an event organized by Donald Trump’s campaign, Marlin J. Reed declared…
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L.A. Catholic Church covered up abuse for decades, costing $1.5B
Clergy sex abuse scandals have rocked Catholic churches across the world, but few places have seen the financial toll of the Los Angeles Archdiocese…
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Some are calling Kamala Harris a ‘Jezebel spirit’
Christian nationalist leaders are telling followers that Vice President Kamala Harris is under the influence of a “Jezebel spirit,” using a term with deeply…
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‘Evangelicals for Harris’ challenge Franklin Graham’s stance
While giving a sermon in 1988, the Rev. Billy Graham, a renowned Christian evangelist, recalled a passage from the Bible that he let a man sitting next to him on a plane read…