Texas Schools to Get a Bit More Cash and a Lot More Christian Nationalism

Assessing the 89th Legislature’s effect on public education

"...school libraries, something that far-right groups like Moms for Liberty claim is necessary because the libraries contain what they..."

June 6, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Does Dan Patrick Even Understand the Cannabis Industry He’s Trying to Kill?

Texas Lege’s draconian bills are making even the stoners frustrated

"...sold a spirit of Texas that’s steeped in personal liberty with limited government and pro-business philosophies. And yet, all..."

April 18, 2025 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin

MAGA Moms and the Republican Resistance to School Vouchers

Make education public again

"...an appropriate education in order to be admitted. Private religious schools could reject students on the basis of sex..."

March 21, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Brutalist

Epic achievement about an immigrant in America

"...– into people damaged by war, loss, racial and religious intolerance – and its intimate access to bodies as..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin Film Festival Review: The Brutalist

A post-WWII immigrant tale with contemporary resonance

"...– into people damaged by war, loss, racial and religious intolerance – and its intimate access to bodies as..."

Oct. 27, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Packed Room at Trib Fest Hears Warnings on Christian Nationalism

The endless struggle continues

"...Tyler, Executive Director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. “It uses the gospel as respectability for the..."

Sept. 25, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Even Chaplains Don’t Want Chaplains Instead of Counselors in Public Schools

Christian nationalism is the problem

"...to replace their certified counselors with untrained chaplains. Not-fanatical religious figures are urging schools not to do it...."

Aug. 24, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Texas GOP's Book Bans Are the First Step in Anti-Public Education Crusade

Banning books (for Jesus!)

"...bills that would allow taxpayer money to subsidize private religious schools. The group had a major success in 1995..."

June 30, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Public Notice: Your Government at Work

The Texas Legislature and “the disturbing category of ‘Who Knows?’”

"..."For 40 years, the religious right has used 'faith' to push hateful, exclusionary legislation..."

May 26, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...June 6, that she was dropped off at Newark Liberty International Airport a day after the Austin Police Department..."

June 10, 2022 News Feature

Death Watch: SCOTUS Hears Texas Spiritual-Advisor Case

A prayer for the dying

"...enforced in Texas without obstruction; it argues that Ramirez's religious convictions (and Mur­phy's before him) are an insincere pretext...."

Nov. 12, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Abortion Care Providers “Heartened” After SB 8 Hearing at SCOTUS

Oral arguments focus on law’s vigilante enforcement

"...to pass similar laws that curtail constitutional rights, including religious liberty and marriage equality, “we would live in a..."

Nov. 1, 2021 News Post by Mary Tuma

COVID-19 Is Still Here, but Texas Wants Us to Move On

That's not an order

"...health restrictions as an onerous threat to freedom and liberty, rather than a necessary response to the Trump administration's..."

May 15, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Point Austin: Punching Down in Our Names

Abbott’s refugee rejection confirms the triumph of Trumpism

"...both inhumane and counterproductive. Many objections have come from religious organizations, among the main facilitators of refugee resettlement...."

Jan. 17, 2020 News Column by Michael King

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...protect sexual orientation. "There was a solid block of religious right people who had been fighting the inclusion of..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

aGLIFF 2019 Announces Full Lineup, Including Trixie Mattel Documentary

Gay Chorus Deep South to open jampacked fest schedule

"...fight for LGBTQ rights was won. But politicians and religious conservatives launched a state-by-state campaign to retract the human..."

July 17, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Supreme Court Weighs in on Fetal Burial Law

Indiana law upheld, Texas suit to move ahead

"...their fetuses after abortion or miscarriage – imposing an often-religious ritual on women stripped of their choice. In a..."

June 14, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

The House's LGBTQ Caucus Makes History

The good, the bad, and the religious exemptions

"...this session was once again framed in terms of "religious liberty," with many bills – including Senate Bill 1978,..."

May 31, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

LGBTQ Forces Prevail at Capitol – For Now

One religious liberty bill dies; another moves forward

"...businesses who've donated to or are affiliated with a religious organization from being penalized by city or government officials..."

May 17, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Headlines

"...to anti-LGBTQ groups. Paxton wrote: "The Constitution's protection of religious liberty is somehow even better than Chick-fil-A's chicken."..."

April 5, 2019 News Feature

Religious Refusal Bill Prepped to Grant Texans License to Discriminate

"Sincerely held" nonsense at the Senate

"...the Senate Committee on State Affairs sent a sweeping religious refusal bill to the full Senate Monday evening, March..."

March 29, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Sweeping Religious Freedom Bill Heads to Senate

The Senate State Affairs Committee approves a license to discriminate

"...whimper, the Senate State Affairs Committee sent a sweeping religious refusal bill to the full Senate Monday evening, March..."

March 26, 2019 News Post by Sarah Marloff

Qmmunity

Signs of hope in the Capitol

"...with the gender marked on their birth certificate, a religious liberty law was passed allowing foster care and adoption..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Upcoming Legislative Session

Lawmakers set to tackle immigration, education, legalization, transportation, and more

"...with its anti-trans bathroom bills and nearly two dozen religious liberty bills – was bad, 2019 is going to..."

Dec. 14, 2018 News Feature by the News Staff

Texas GOP: Not Muslim-Free

Following Tarrant County controversy, Republican Party of Texas reaffirms commitment to religious liberty for all

"...adopted a resolution reaffirming the party's "core values of religious liberty and the freedom to practice all faiths." This..."

Dec. 7, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Tomar Williams Hones Four Decades of Soul

Breakout of his family band, the performer seizes on his pop, soul, R&B, and hip-hop successes and failures in Tomar & the FCs

"...heads. Dismissal ended in Austin, where 6:AM played Steamboat, Liberty Lunch, and other famed venues as Eighties orbitals to..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Ora’s Last Stand?

Running circles around City Council

"...Houston attempted to frame the issue as one of religious liberty, because churches on the proposed route complained to..."

Oct. 26, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

AISD: Get With the Times

Modernizing the district in more ways than one

"...representing Celebration in the matter: Texas Values and First Liberty Institute. The two have become leading crusaders in the..."

Sept. 28, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...Warriors of Liberty City D: Evan Rosenfeld, Andrew Cohn Warriors of Liberty..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Holy Roller

The personal is edible at Callie Speer's new hot spot

"...references rebellion – the black leather jacket palette, tongue-in-cheek religious iconography, the blinking marquee from Club de Ville –..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

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