But by now it is painfully clear that far too many white Protestants are willing to throw both law and reason overboard for the sake of preserving straight white male supremacy.
The crusade against abortion in the United States is absolutely designed to target cis women. But people across the gender spectrum need abortion care.
#ExposeChristianSchools was launched shortly after it was reported that Karen Pence was teaching at a Christian school that excludes LGBTQ students and teachers. It quickly went viral with many sharing their own stories of surviving Christian schooling.
The Trump rules banning abortion referrals at Title X-funded clinics, similar to a Reagan-era policy, "mandates discrimination" and could meet legal challenges from states.
The recently concluded Vatican summit on sexual abuse in the church was framed in the same old top-down way that's at the heart of the problem. Lay people, both women and men, experts in the law, psychology, and theology were excluded. What could be more wrong with this picture?
It seems like American Christians might be alarmed to learn that the nation they hold in regard is confiscating Bibles, criminalizing evangelization, and torturing believers.
Arkansas Republicans are ensuring legal abortion will end in the state should Roe v. Wade fall, while GOP lawmakers in Missouri push a so-called fetal heartbeat abortion ban.
Emerging research implicates this systematic lack of protection in the disproportionately high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among Black girls and women.
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