Hi, I'm Chloe Gia, and you're listening to On God's Campus, Voices from the Queer Underground,

a podcast about white Christian supremacy and being queer on the most conservative campuses in the country.

Think of me as your guide and translated as we explore the carefully constructed

subculture of religious education.

Joining me, our co-host Paul Carlos Southwick, a resident legal expert and historian,

and Aaron Green, our biblical scholar.

What you will find here is a roadmap to change from the underbelly of the church's best kept secrets.

Let's try an experiment.

Go outside and ask some random strangers why being gay is wrong. If you're in a red state,

like the one I grew up in, odds are that most of those people would say because it's a sin or it goes against the Bible. Even if they

aren't religious they suddenly reach for this argument. The US was built on

this idea of a separation of church and state, but in many ways the Puritan Christian values of the

people who colonize this land have shaped this country into a Christian nation

whether we agree with it or not. After all, as the mighty dollar reads, in God we trust. As we

unpack some of the most fascinating Supreme Court cases at the center of this

clash between human rights and religious liberty, it will become

crystal clear that among the greatest threats to human rights and democracy in the United States

are the thousands of taxpayer-funded Christian schools, colleges, and seminaries

that are being positioned as pawns in a larger political fight against so-called

woke ideologies and liberalism.

So much for the separation of church and state, am I right? At age 11, my mother gifted me a life application Bible. It has a red leather-bound cover.

The spine is now broken, but I keep it held together by red duct tape. The pages are

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