Tag: homophobia

Over the years, Fox News Channel has given us a lot of reasons to wonder where its standards are--or if it even has any...

For much of 2015 and 2016, Carl Higbie was a very familiar face to anyone following coverage of the presidential campaign. The former Navy...

Lately, whenever a natural disaster occurs, you can almost take it to the bank that some unhinged pastor is going to suggest that it...

Homophobia runs very deep in some elements of the religious right. In many cases, it can get to the point that basic standards of...

If the latest polls are to be believed, Luther Strange is facing a steep climb to keep Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat in Alabama--even...

These days, one of the sure things when a disaster strikes is that religious right leaders will open their mouths, stick in their feet,...

The religious right would like us to believe that all it wants is to give Americans with "traditional values" a place at the table....

In early June, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced he was calling the legislature into special session in mid-July. The primary purpose will be to...

In case you missed it, the only reason Donald Trump's head is still above water is that over 70 percent of white evangelicals still...

For the better part of two decades, a fringe charismatic church in western North Carolina has faced accusations that it subjected its members--including kids--to...

What do most Americans picture when they read the word "terrorist?" Most likely, the image that comes to mind is of a brown skinned man,...

Two weeks ago, North Carolina lawmakers repealed the state's monstrously homophobic House Bill 2 in a way that didn't make anyone happy. They replaced it...

To a significant segment of the religious right, pop superstar Katy Perry is a traitor. For those who don't know, Perry grew up in...

Ever since North Carolina passed its outrageously discriminatory and outrageously unconstitutional "bathroom bill," the state's LGBT community has had a lot of reason to...

During the most recent episode of "Amazon Grand Tour," Richard Hammond surprised everyone with a very strange comment about eating ice cream. In response...

Susan Olson is a former child TV star who played the character Cindy Brady on the hit 60's show The Brady Bunch. Today Olson is...

Lexi Magnusson, 34, who lives just outside of Seattle, Washington put up an impressive light display after her neighbors expressed homophobic opinions. She posted...

It's that word again. The word racism; it's a loaded gun really. Not all those who voted for President-elect Donald Trump were motivated by hatred. Some...

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro was many things to many people while he was alive – a dictator, revolutionary, and an ardent Communist. Regardless...

Back in 1997, a San Antonio woman was sentenced to decades in prison for leading a gang-rape of her two young nieces. However, the case...