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Christian university legally kicks out student for being gay.

A graduate student enrolled at a private Christian college had his admission revoked when the school learned he was gay! What’s more: the Jackson Sun is reporting that even though the evangelical Union University in Jackson, Tennessee,accepts public funding…

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WH officials helped funnel cash into 45’s evangelical base.

Recordings of conference phone calls held by White House officials – including several religious figures that work with or support Trump – reveal that Christian leaders were secretly walked through how to obtain emergency funding from the government. Participants in the calls…

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Catholic Church used an exemption to get billions in federal aid.

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of…

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Pat Robertson: God will destroy America if gays get any (more) rights.

Televangelist Pat Robertson is famous for his hellfire and brimstone brand of religion – and his outrageously stupid claims about LGBTQ people that normally involve blaming the community as the cause of a natural disaster. The minister is particularly notorious for…

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Christian wingnuts mad that LGBT people ruined the 4th of July.

It’s a common stereotype that conservative Christians always manage to find the gloom and doom in anything. But the Family Research Council, a religious right organization that has been classified as an anti-LGBTQ hate group, may have proven the point…