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Pastor faces manslaughter charge after man dies in baptism gone wrong

2+ hour, 10+ min ago  (681+ words) In October of 2023, a man named Robert Yap (also known as Robert Smith), who had Parkinson's disease, traveled hundreds of miles, to Erdington, Birmingham in England, to get baptized. He had already been baptized as a young man but the…...

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Cedarville professor who preached sexual morality charged with multiple sex crimes

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (612+ words) For decades, John Kent Tarwater, a professor of finance at the private Christian Cedarville University in Ohio, dabbled in writing about sexual ethics. He wrote a 2021 piece for the Journal of Markets & Morality in which he argued it was "permissible…...

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2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (15+ words) School district cuts ties with group that secretly targeted kids for conversion to Christianity'friendlyatheist. com...

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friendlyatheist. com > p > florida-attorney-general-says-state

Florida attorney general says state can ignore its own constitution to fund religion

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (488+ words) Article I, Section 3 of Florida's Constitution is about as blunt as it can be when it comes to the issue of using taxpayer dollars to fund religion: It says you can't. That passage is the state's version of the "Blaine…...

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These Christian men want women barefoot, pregnant" and off the voter rolls

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1007+ words) Roughly 80% of white evangelical voters have supported Donald Trump in the previous three presidential elections, and a significant percentage of those voters were white evangelical women. But there's a movement afoot within those circles to prevent women from voting at…...

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Mormon leaders double down on transgender exclusion in new handbook update

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (670+ words) The Mormon Church recently updated its General Handbook'the book that spells out their rules and policies'and they have made it explicitly clear that transgender people are not welcome within their walls. Literally. But the latest revision goes even further. It's…...

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Federal judge shuts down Christian ministries" bid to kill Johnson Amendment

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1768+ words) In a surprising but welcome ruling, a federal judge on Tuesday rejected a Trump-approved settlement that would have destroyed the Johnson Amendment and allowed pastors to endorse political candidates without jeopardizing their ministries" tax-exempt statuses. The coalition of Christian ministries…...

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Supreme Court hands victory to anti-LGBTQ "conversion therapy" advocates

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (961+ words) The Supreme Court has ruled 8-1, on the global Transgender Day of Visibility no less, that faith-based torture of gay kids is acceptable because conservative Christians believe, with no actual evidence, that they can turn people straight. It's yet another example…...

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Federal judge orders removal of Ten Commandments display outside Arkansas Capitol

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1406+ words) After nearly a decade, a federal judge has just ordered the Ten Commandments monument outside the Arkansas State Capitol to come down because the law that ordered it to go up is unconstitutional. Just like atheists and Satanists said. Some…...

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Bulls cut Jaden Ivey after anti-Pride rant (but not because he's Christian)

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (742+ words) The Chicago Bulls waived guard Jaden Ivey on Monday after he made comments on Instagram disparaging Pride Month in the NBA" all because he's a Christian. But despite with right-wing propagandists are already saying, Ivey wasn't fired because of his…...