A University of California-Santa Cruz researcher says “kinky people” should be recognized as a protected class. UCSC researcher Sam Hughes argues during an interview with City on a Phil Media that those who engage in taboo sexual activity are often discriminated against in ways he says are comparable to those experienced by members of the LGBT community.

After a former Sesame Street scribe said he wrote Bert and Ernie “as a loving couple,” Sesame Workshop, the education organization behind the children’s program, issued a statement proclaiming that the beloved characters “do not have a sexual orientation.” “As we have always said, Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves,” the statement read. “Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street puppets do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.”

Black First, Land First spokesperson Lindsay Maasdorp has told the author of this article and others about the controversial party that my “existence is a crime.”

When it comes to distinguishing Republicans from Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections, a tax-policy expert contends it can’t be said enough that Democrats intend to roll back the tax cuts and reform that many economists believe have been the major catalyst for the current economic resurgence.

On June 15, Christian Action Network (CAN) filed a “friend of the court” brief to overturn a federal court ruling upholding Islamic indoctrination programs in the public schools. CAN is based in Forest, VA.

The spreading threat of children being indoctrinated into Islam claimed new ground in West Virginia to the shock of parents in and around Gerrardstown last month. What broke the controversy was the courageous stand by a dad whose seventh-grade daughter came home with a thick learning packet on Islam.

A student and her father who brought a federal lawsuit against a Maryland public school district, alleging that it compelled the student to “profess” tenets of Islam and be subjected to Islamic indoctrination at school, have lost the first round in court.

In a landmark ruling Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court castigated a state civil rights commission and ruled 7-2 that a baker’s religious beliefs were violated. The ruling in "Masterpiece Cake Shop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission" has a clear message: the religious beliefs of merchants must be respected.