How Trump Uses “Religious Liberty” to Attack L.G.B.T. Rights
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Masha Gessen on why a strategy of homophobia and opposition to L.G.B.T. rights has proved irresistible to Donald Trump.
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Trump steadily fulfills goals on religious right wish list
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Trump Not a Defender of Religious Liberty but a Threat
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How the Trump Administration Has Harmed Faith Communities - Center for American Progress
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Well-funded Christian group behind US effort to roll back LGBTQ+ rights, LGBTQ+ rights
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Trump steadily fulfills goals on religious right wish list
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Trump Gives Health Workers New Religious Liberty Protections - The New York Times
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Trump pushes to rollback LGBT healthcare protections, Civil Rights News
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How LGBTQ Rights Will Fare Under a Conservative Supreme Court - Bloomberg
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We've Defended Trump's First Amendment Rights, but his Latest Jan. 6 Indictment Claims are Nonsense
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How the Supreme Court Champions 'Religious Liberty' - The Atlantic
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Proxy Wars over Religious Liberty
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True Believer? Why Donald Trump Is The Choice Of The Religious Right : It's All Politics : NPR
Matt Sharp on Religious Freedom and LGBTQ Issues