A “Demonic” Drag Show May Signal a New Religious Liberty Front

Myths of Anti-Christian Bias, Queer Erasure, and the Holidays

Sexual censorship is a favored tactic of the religious right in this country. Very few strategies are more characteristic of their attacks on the nation’s sexual and gender diversity than the practice of lumping these identities together with objects of derision—then contrasting that derision with symbols of blind faith they simultaneously present as benign but also as culturally essential to society. Consider the Christmas holiday and the disco…

It’s not just for Christmas anymore: Inside the phony war on Christians

Remember the War on Christmas, when conservatives worked themselves into a lather over America-hating freaks wishing people “Happy Holidays,” putting on community celebrations called “Winterfest” instead of Christmas or parking a Festivus Pole next to a Manger Scene?Or the Black Santa phenomenon, which so horrified Fox News’ Megyn Kelly she felt compelled to declare “Santa is white”?Good times.Right-wingers’ obsession with what they see as secul…

A “Demonic” Drag Show May Signal a New Religious Liberty Front

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s warnings about a “demonic” drag show are part of a wider pattern targeting institutions he claims are hostile to Christianity. Civil liberties advocates say this framing misuses state power and endangers religious freedom for minority faiths.