June 6th 2026
1. The Money Behind the Push to End Marriage Equality
A new conservative campaign launched in January aiming to dismantle marriage rights for same-sex couples has revealed its financial backing. The initiative, named the “Greater Than” campaign, represents a coalition of 47 anti-LGBTQ+ organizations seeking to leverage the conservative Supreme Court majority to overturn the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
Investigative reporting from The Seattle Times and LGBTQ Nation reveals that a major force behind this effort is an organization called Them Before Us, run by anti-LGBTQ+ activist Katy Faust. IRS filings show the group’s revenue exploded from under $50,000 annually to nearly $1 million in 2024. This massive influx of cash includes a $300,000 donation from The Servant Foundation, a conservative Christian organization heavily funded by Hobby Lobby founder David Green and his family (the same foundation behind the prominent “He Gets Us” Super Bowl ad campaigns).
The strategy pivots away from traditional religious arguments, instead attempting to reframe the debate around “children’s rights” to capitalize on recent cultural panics regarding LGBTQ+ individuals and adoption.
- Read the full report at LGBTQ Nation.
2. Intelligence Analysts Fired in Richmond Field Office
FBI Director Kash Patel has terminated at least five bureau intelligence analysts based out of the Richmond, Virginia field office. The firings stem from a controversial, internal 2023 memo titled, “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.”
The original memo suggested that white supremacist and racially motivated extremist groups were attempting to recruit within a small subset of “radical traditionalist Catholics,” indicating that local Catholic congregations could provide intelligence-gathering opportunities. It had originated from a domestic terrorism investigation into a Virginia extremist who joined a Catholic sect unrecognized by the Vatican.
When leaked, the memo sparked massive backlash, an apology from then-Director Christopher Wray, and a House Republican investigation accusing the bureau of weaponizing law enforcement against religious freedom. Crucially, a 2024 review by the Justice Department’s Inspector General found no evidence of anti-Catholic bias or malicious intent by the analysts, concluding instead that it suffered from poor tradecraft and weak analytical standards. Patel’s firing of the analysts on Friday overrides those independent findings.
- Read the full story at MS NOW.
3. The “Demonic Cover-Up” of America’s Founding
Far-right MAGA pastor and self-proclaimed prophet Hank Kunneman claimed during an appearance on the Elijah Streams program that “the devil and his demons” are actively orchestrating a massive government and media cover-up to hide America’s true history. Kunneman dismissed the secular historical consensus, claiming that spiritual forces are suppressing the narrative that the United States was formally “dedicated” to Jesus Christ at its founding via spiritual covenants and prayers.
When the host noted a growing cultural pushback asserting America was never founded as an explicitly Christian nation, Kunneman compared historians and journalists to the Roman and Herodian governments plotting to lie about Jesus’ resurrection. Right Wing Watch notes the obvious historical reality: there are no such “covenants” or dedications in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. In fact, the Framers explicitly barred religious tests for public office and banned an official state religion altogether to prevent exactly this type of theocratic framework.
- Read the details at Right Wing Watch.
4. Faith Conversion: The Hidden Bias in LLMs
A new academic paper published by researchers at Brigham Young University and the B.H. Roberts Foundation reveals that large language models handle queries about religious conversion with systematic, reproducible asymmetries. Published in the CEFE·AI AllFaith Benchmark, the study tested 20 major commercial and open-source models (including Claude, Gemini, GPT, and Llama families) across 182 directed religious pairs under tabula rasa conditions (completely clear histories without system prompts).
The researchers simulated a sincere user seeking advice on transitioning from Religion A to Religion B, then flipped the prompt (Religion B to Religion A). While no models directly told users to convert, they used significantly more encouraging, positive language for specific faith trajectories.
The Leave/Join Asymmetry: On average, models heavily favored transitions into Catholicism, Bahá’í, and Sikhism (showing high support for joining and low support for leaving). Conversely, they disfavored conversions toward Atheism, Agnosticism, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. The study found that these patterns were robust across variations in phrasing, with Elon Musk’s Grok 4.20 exhibiting the strongest asymmetrical bias of all models tested.
- View the pre-print publication on arXiv.
5. Technology vs. Theology: The Antichrist and the Pope
An extraordinary ideological battle has broken out between Silicon Valley billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel and the Vatican over the moral and metaphysical boundaries of artificial intelligence.
- Thiel’s Escapade: In lectures and essays for the conservative religious magazine First Things, Thiel warned that advanced AI risks “summoning the Antichrist.” However, Thiel’s definition is deeply subverted: he argues that the true 21st-century Antichrist figure isn’t the technology itself, but rather the “Luddite” regulators and tech pessimists who use apocalyptic fearmongering to shut down scientific progress. Thiel has gone as far as accusing tech regulators of playing this role, while simultaneously shifting assets away from firms like Nvidia to back unregulated AI initiatives under favorable legal frameworks abroad (such as Javier Milei’s “nonhuman” legal framework in Argentina).
- The Papal Encyclical: Days prior, Pope Leo XIV issued a staggering, 42,300-word encyclical titled Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”). Addressed to 1.4 billion Catholics, the Vatican took a remarkably clinical, grounded approach that completely deflates Thiel’s theatrical prophecy. The Pope states that AI systems “merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence” and are fundamentally incapable of true moral agency or spiritual meaning because they lack an embodied physical presence. They do not have bodies, cannot feel joy or pain, cannot mature through relationships, and cannot understand love, work, or responsibility.
The Vatican warns that the real danger of AI is entirely human: the immediate temptation to offload our own moral responsibilities onto code and convince ourselves we have built something that can feel in our place.
- Read the complete analysis at International Business Times.
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