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Public opinion means little when agendas are defined and driven by ideologues. But it does matter when those same ideologues are amplified to convey a grossly inaccurate picture of American values – [...]

True religious freedom means that people seeking care should be able to make decisions based on their own beliefs and circumstances, not the religious views of their doctor or state legislators. But [...]

The Buffalo shooter wasn’t unique. His manifesto echoed racist sentiments found not only in the deep corners of the Internet, but also in places like Fox News. Best-selling author Jeff Sharlet (The [...]

Our hearts are with the people of Buffalo following the massacre of ten Black residents by a white supremacist in a local grocery store. Motivating the shooter was the racist, xenophobic, and [...]

Contrary to popular belief, a majority of Americans across faith traditions support civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ people. Unfortunately, a vocal minority continues to use faith as a [...]

The Establishment Clause – or as Jefferson coined it, our nation’s “wall of separation” between religion and government – has long been the bedrock of our democracy. But it’s increasingly clear that [...]

It seems that every time news breaks of another anti-democratic, anti-freedom crisis, we find the fingerprints of the Christian nationalist movement. From the prominence of the Religious Right in the [...]

It feels like we are in crisis mode as we approach decision season in the Supreme Court. Reproductive rights, public school funding, students’ religious freedom rights, and more hang in the balance, [...]

The fight to preserve religious freedom and reproductive access reached a dangerous turning point this week. A leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health [...]

Right wing media continues to trumpet the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden is not legitimately our president and that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. This is one of many alternate-reality [...]