Over the last few weeks, passionate arguments have been made in support of or against House Bill 2, the bill that requires transgender people in North Carolina to use the bathroom of the sex listed on their birth certificate. I even saw a long, eloquent post on an acquaintance’s Facebook …
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Police arrest children’s minister Willie Lee Bell Jr, 29, at First United Church of Cedar Hill as he’s caught in the act of molesting a 6-year old Witnesses beat a Texas youth pastor caught in the act of sexually a 6-year old boy he lured behind an apartment building before …
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On Friday, the Republican-majority Georgia Senate passed a bill to allow legal discrimination of gays and lesbians as part of “religious freedom.” The bill, which passed 38 to 14 along party lines, would allow for faith-based organizations to refuse service to same-sex couples. The bill, which is a hybrid of …
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The Justice Department has announced that Martin Alan Schnitzler, 43, pleaded guilty to “obstructing persons in the free exercise of religious beliefs” in the Middle District of Florida for a Nov. 13, 2015 hate crime against Muslims. He is responsible for calling two mosques located in Pinellas County, Florida to make …
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Larycia Hawkins, the Christian professor suspended by Wheaton College for wearing hijab out of solidarity with the Muslim women who face discrimination in the Christmas season, will not be returning to work. In December 2015, Hawkins was put on leave after making the following statement on her Facebook page along …
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Indiana Senate Bill 220 passed the senate 34-16 and will now advance to the state House. This bill would offer the possibility of judges to impose harsher sentences to convicted criminals whose actions targeted victims based on race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, disability, national origin, ancestry or sexual orientation. Indiana …
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For decades Bill Gothard was the influential leader of a Christian homeschool movement that drew in conservative Christian families such as the Duggars from “19 Kids and Counting.” The now 81-year old resigned in 2014 after being accused by 30 women including minors of sexual harassment and molestation. On Wednesday 10 …
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2015 has been a frightening year for religious congregations of all kinds, between the recent vandalism and threats toward mosques to the June massacre in a historically black church. Before the holidays bring the highest number of attendees into the nation’s Christian churches, leaders are seeking to hire police officers, …
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Chicago Tribune: “Hawkins, a political science professor at the private evangelical Christian college in Chicago’s west suburbs, announced last week that she would wear the veil to show support for Muslims who have been under greater scrutiny since mass shootings in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.”
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In the wake of the San Bernadino shootings, California Muslims are particularly threatened by hate speech
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Members of the Sikh community are concerned that their similar appearance to Muslims leaves them vulnerable to anti-Islamic attacks.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education examines how hate speech spreads violent Islamophobia through college campuses
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