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US Catholic Bishops Jump on Anti-Trans Bandwagon With Gratuitous Vote to Amend Healthcare Directives

By Chrissy Stroop

…% of US counties, where 38.7% of US women of reproductive age live, have a high Catholic hospital market share.” The key concern about Catholic hospitals is the restrictions they place on women’s and reproductive healthcare. Predictably, reports of severe harm to women who were denied medical best practices at Catholic hospitals over the last few years have proliferated, along with the growth in Catholic market share. As the Washington Post report…

Gimme That Old Spice Religion

By Frederick Clarkson

…omote. To this end, VF creates a beautiful glossy catalogue populated with high quality photographs of [the] Phillips children and friends in romantic historic costumes and settings: Jamestown, the Massachusetts Bay Colonies, and the Wild West. In these images, and generally in the literature and stories of Vision Forum, gender roles are greatly exaggerated and glamorized. The featured women are often attractive in a somewhat fragile, old-fashione…

“Religious Liberty” Catholics Reap What They Sow in Trump

By Patricia Miller

…rsements. Leaving aside the fact that the United States consistently ranks high on the list of the countries with the most religious freedom, you would think that conservative Catholic leaders who have been behind the promotion of the idea that we are undergoing a sustained assault on religious freedom would be ecstatic at Trump’s defense of “religious liberty.” But no. Princeton University professor Robert George, who has been one of the most inf…

Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling

By Sunnivie Brydum

…of the “lower civil magistrate” who is called to address the corruption of high-ranking public officials. So while the speculations about the dominionist direction a Sen. Moore would likely try to take the GOP in are accurate, Political Research Associates fellow Frederick Clarkson has a different prediction for Moore’s time in Washington: “He’s not there to reform the Senate. He’s there to undermine it.” That may sound like it harkens back to the…

For Love or Threat: Pro-Life Prayer Includes Names, Photos of Abortion-Rights Advocates

By Alana Massey

…ith an impending Supreme Court decision over clinic buffer zones and large numbers of clinics shutting down in the face of new regulations, hostilities between activists outside abortion clinics have escalated in recent years. Thus, it would seem that the Pro-Life Action League (PLAL) urging supporters to pray for abortion advocates and providers each day during Lent, and to forego one meal a week for them, might be an olive branch worth celebrati…

Manufacturing Religious Freedom Martyrs

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…ampaign, is a textbook work of spin that turns a complete non-issue into a high-stakes drama pitting two innocent (pretty, white) women against the oppressive forces of liberal government overreach. Let’s start with the title of the ADF’s press release, which coyly asks, “Jail time for Phoenix artists who disagree with government?” So, you might wonder, did the women refuse to serve a gay couple? Were they found to have violated the ordinance? Hav…

Why Immigration is Such a Key Motivator of Nationalist Aggression and Hostility

By Willie Young

…can shed some light on this question. In The Clash Within, Martha Nussbaum highlights how Hindu nationalist rhetoric frequently revolves around themes of national purity, unity, and control. Together, these tropes create the image of a single national body politic: independent, self-contained, free of shame or disgust. This image of the body, often figured as “Mother India,” plays a central role in Hindutva ideology. While such a body is easy to i…

Journalistic Blind Spots and the “Centrist-to-Liberal” Christian

By Mark Hulsether

…er article, “The New Evangelicals.” Before proceeding, let me underline my high esteem for FitzGerald’s reporting and analysis; it has few equals and I have repeatedly learned from it over many years. Moreover, I am pleased that the New Yorker featured her, putting an exclamation point on an argument that has been gaining strength for several years: that the power, morale, and cultural weight of politically moderate evangelicals has reached a sort…

Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

By Joanna Brooks

…ther we practice polygamy? A few weeks ago, I sat in front of a radio microphone for the BBC program “The World”; with me on the program was a high-ranking public relations official for the LDS Church. Together, we did the same program twice: two back-to-back hours of the same hour about Mormonism, one time for the American audiences, and a second time for the whole world. During the first hour, taping for American audiences, when the inevitable p…

Conservative Christians Finally Get Serious About Divorce

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ndal is the fact that evangelical Protestants divorce at rates at least as high as the rest of the public. Needless to say, this creates a significant credibility crisis when evangelicals then rise to speak in defense of marriage. While Mohler is not about to drop his crusade against same-sex marriage and abortion, he does finally admit one thing—divorce is more dangerous that gay marriage: But divorce harms many more lives than will be touched by…