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    • Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously
      Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously
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      It’s Time to Put an End to Virginia’s Racist Death Penalty
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      We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom
    • As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues
      As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues
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      Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point
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      It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
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      We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory
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      Watch: Is The Religious Left a Mirage or Are Journalists Just Missing the Story?
    • Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
      Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
    • ‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical
      ‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical

Patricia Miller

Patricia Miller is a Washington, DC–based journalist and the author of Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church. Her work at the intersection of politics, sex and religion has appeared in The Atlantic, Salon, The Nation, Huffington Post, RH Reality Check and Ms. Magazine.

Sex/Gender/JusticeApril 10, 2019

Anti-Choice Groups Prove It’s Not Just About Abortion Anymore

By Patricia Miller

Anti-choice groups are highly critical after learning that one of their own has agreed to contraception referral in order to qualify for Title X funding.

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Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeApril 2, 2019

Catholic Bishops Fund Anti-Choice ‘Clinics’ Set to Receive Trump Title X Funding

By Patricia Miller

The Trump administration is funneling $5.1 million in federal Title X family planning funding to a chain of faith-based anti-abortion medical clinics called Obria. Turns out that the Catholic Church has funded them too.

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History/Theology, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sex/Gender/JusticeNovember 2, 2018

Catholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)

By Patricia Miller

It’s not hard to extend the bishops’ logic on discrimination against LGBTQ foster parents to the assertion that Christian social services agencies shouldn’t be “discriminated” against for refusing to work with Jews and Muslims.

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OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeOctober 24, 2018

DC Attorney General Goes ‘Religious Freedom’ Route to Investigate Catholic Church

By Patricia Miller

Any felony activity the DC attorney general discovers in the course of his investigation could be forwarded to the U.S. attorney.

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Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeOctober 22, 2018

Is This Finally the Reckoning for the Catholic Church on Sexual Abuse?

By Patricia Miller

A Justice Department investigation marks a major turning point in the decades-long sexual abuse crisis, but there are indications the Church will not surrender without a fight.

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OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeOctober 3, 2018

‘Son Worry’ and the Hypocrisy of the ‘Purity’ Movement

By Patricia Miller

Those in the throes of “son panic” contend that the greatest danger regarding sexual assault is to the reputations of innocent men. But there’s a problem here.

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History/Theology, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeSeptember 27, 2018

This Radical Religious Freedom Dissent Reveals Kavanaugh’s Views on Sex and Power

By Patricia Miller

Both the sweeping religious liberty claims defended by Kavanaugh and the assertions of his defenders come from the same place: a desire to reassert traditional, patriarchal sexual mores.

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History/Theology, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeJuly 24, 2018

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Contraception Reversal

By Patricia Miller

Behind the official explanation for the continued ban on birth control was the need to maintain the link between sex and procreation, which was essential to the maintenance of the traditional, subordinate role of women, a key concern of the Catholic Church.

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFG, Patricia Miller, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJanuary 19, 2018

New Survey: Catholic Women “Disengaged & Disengaging” — And Don’t Listen to US Bishops

By Patricia Miller

Nearly five years into Pope Francis papacy, with its great expectations for a revival of…

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Archive, Patricia Miller, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJanuary 2, 2018

Will 2018 Be the Year of Catholic Health Care Dominance?

By Patricia Miller

The news that two major Catholic health care systems, Ascension and Providence St. Joseph Health,…

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