Transparently Cruel: How Transgender Rights Became The New Front In Christian Nationalists' Culture War

By Emily Starbuck Gerson

"People are going to die.”

That, put simply, will be the consequence of the historic, nationwide surge of anti-LGBTQ legislation, says Mary Wilson, a retired Christian pastor in Austin, Tex­as. As an out lesbian who advocates for LGBTQ youth, she testified against her own state’s recent efforts to restrict their rights.

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Americans United & the National Women’s Law Center file suit to challenge Missouri’s abortion bans.

Abortion bans violate the separation of church and state. Americans United and the National Women’s Law Center—the leading experts in religious freedom and gender justice—have joined forces with thirteen clergy from six faith traditions to challenge Missouri’s abortion bans as unconstitutionally imposing one narrow religious doctrine on everyone.


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