Religion

It is remarkable that CNN News Central host Pamela Brown managed to avoid setting the studio on fire from all the straw men she torched during a Tuesday interview with Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters over his plan to put the Bible back in schools as part of an effort to give Oklahoman children an accurate sense of American history. Instead, Brown kept…

The Texas Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that Dianne Hensley, a justice of the peace in Waco, does not have to perform same-sex weddings due to her religious beliefs.

News of the recent violent protest outside a Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles got a standard pro-Palestinian New York Times whitewash from reporters Jill Cowan and Jonathan Wolfe. Much of their take was devoted not to the violence committed by thugs against Jewish people entering a house of worship, but to an abstract defense of the right to protest supposedly coming under threat by…

Pop star Olivia Rodrigo is facing criticism after wearing a fan-gifted T-shirt featuring her face photoshopped onto Jesus during her Barcelona tour stop. Critics argue that this move supports comparisons to Jesus, leading to allegations of blasphemy on social media. This isn't Rodrigo's first brush with controversy, previously causing upset for her open support of abortion and distribution of…

Good Morning America explored the propaganda of LGBTQ+ acceptance and religion.

Dr. Ben Carson appeared on CNN's Late Night with Abby Philip to discuss Louisiana putting the Ten Commandments in classrooms, which CNN thinks is wildly controversial and objectionable. Phillip eventually asked Carson why Trump favors this policy when "he doesn't even try to follow" the commandments. Carson turned to the promotion of Pride Month in schools. Phillip wanted to avoid…

On Friday morning, CNN News Central investigated the Arizona school system and how it has been impacted by school choice. Instead of reporting the undeniable flaws of the public school system, correspondent René Marsh tried her best to focus on the religious and Trump-affiliated groups which have caused an alleged “civil rights issue” by simply staying true to Biblical sexual…

Monday’s PBS News Hour handed over a news segment to an ostensible ratings rival, NBC News and its reporter/podcaster Mike Hixenbaugh, who has a new book out with the portentous title They Came for the Schools -- One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms. Hixenbaugh and his onscreen NBC reporting counterpart Antonia Hylton have…

Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public schools across the state. The corporate media’s reaction to this development is best described as a collective muted hysteria.

In a bit of legal analysis better suited for The View, MSNBC’s Alex Witt suggested on Thursday that pro-life laws violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause as she guest hosted Thursday’s edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports.

Kansas City Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker faced extensive criticism following his speech at Benedictine College, promoting traditional, pro-woman, and pro-religion values and condemning IVF and abortion. However, he found support from teammate and celebrity Travis Kelce, who defended Butker's right to his views and highlighted his respectful nature.

Kentucky diocesan hermit, Brother Christian Matson, has publicly come out as transgender with the support of his bishop, John Stowe. Matson, a biological woman, first identified as a man in college and later converted to Catholicism. Despite facing rejection from multiple bishops and churches, she was finally sponsored by Bishop Stowe in 2020. Matson's decision contradicts traditional biblical…

The season finale of "American Idol" Season 22 marked a significant shift, with a Christian song winning the competition and a performance by Roman Collins and gospel legend CeCe Winans going viral. Their performance of "Goodness of God" received overwhelming engagement on social media, surpassing other performances of the night.

The latest example of taxpayer-supported celebration of the gender alphabet came on Friday’s PBS NewsHour. Anchor Geoff Bennett set the scene of a Christian denomination in crisis. But after laying out the grim facts, Bennett didn’t grill his guest, Rev. Valerie Jackson, about the mass exodus from the denomination. He certainly didn’t invite an opposing religious conservative voice into the…