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“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

…her bizarre analogy that not providing birth control to employees is like “high schools that have removed soda machines from their property because they don’t think soda is good for children.” According to Veit, the “school simply doesn’t want to be responsible for providing something it believes is bad for its students. It is the same with us.” But the Little Sisters aren’t arguing that they don’t want to provide birth control because it’s “bad”…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…uality issues. The bishops’ fall 2014 synod on the family was the scene of high-profile sparring over language referring to gay people, which conservative forces seem to have won. Francis will be visiting the United States in 2015 in what is sure to be one of the big religion stories of the year. Francis will be coming to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families in September. Not to be confused with the World Congress of Families (see below)…

Women are (Still) Fleeing the Church — And the Cause is (Still) Pretty Clear

By Patricia Miller

…women went to services at least weekly, versus 34% of men. As Burge notes, higher levels of education correlate with greater church attendance: that same year, 27% of men and 30% of women with a high school degree or less went to church. But in 2012, something interesting happened—for the first time, the level of church attendance more or less evened out for college-educated men and women, with 31% of men and 32% of women going weekly. Notably, wh…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…s to fight fire with fire. While the conservative establishment takes “the high road,” national conservatives should, according to her, have one response: As the Greeks said, Molon Labe; or the Texas version: Come and Take it. […] conservative principles are not meek, that was just our failed former leaders. They are battle tested. Such language is only fitting given the pervasive hyper-masculinist messages, down to the “Washington was a Chad” sti…

Evangelicals, Oppose Park51 At Your Own Eschatological Risk

By Stephen V. Anderson

…book! [Kissinger was the lead candidate in 1974, the year I graduated from high school].) Irony: that many of those most convinced Obama is not a Christian (and/or an Islamic seed ready to sprout) are pinning their hopes and pledging allegiance to a Mormon. If one questions the president’s religious identity (as unclear, a ruse or “You Lie!”) how much more must that be so for (the soon to be ordained?) Mr. Beck? More irony: that those most convinc…

Focus on the Family Goes to Bat for Bullies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o feel okay sending their children into the sexually charged atmosphere of high school armed with nothing more than a simple purity pledge, even though studies have shown them to ineffective. So, it was no shock to see Cushman continuing to use broad platitudes to deny reality during the interview. Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network, made it clear that “when school level policies actually mention sexual…

Was George W. Bush the Last Hippie?

By David R. Williams

…ching for God in the Sixties? What sparked your interest? I graduated from High School in 1967, took a year off to see the world in the merchant marine, ended up in the McCarthy for President campaign, and landed at Harvard the next year in time for the first student takeover. I was in SF during the summer of ’68, when chaos was simmering, and in Chicago in August of ’68 when chaos erupted. I did the dope and lived the life. The sixties, as they d…

Biology Textbooks Approved in Louisiana Over Creationist Objections

By Lauri Lebo

…Elementary and Secondary Education there voted 8-2 to approve recommended high school biology textbooks, over the objections of creationists who were horrified that teachers were going to teach their children science. In November, the state’s school board had held off adopting the biology I and biology II textbooks due to the complaints. I’ve written about it here and here. As one of the residents, and son of Family Forum founder Darrell White, h…

Reuters probes LDS Church Wealth

By Joanna Brooks

…religion.” The story also focuses on the LDS Church strategy of buildling high-cost temples around the world, as compared to Seventh-Day Adventist strategy of building less expensive, smaller meetinghouses and humanitarian facilities, including hospitals. According to Reuters, Adventist growth rates are three times LDS growth rates. LDS Church finanical records from nations like Canada and Australia, which require more openness in charitable repo…

Proposition 8, Mormonism, and the Other Fight for Alternative Marriage

By Holly Welker

…d by their families when they come out; the overall result is an extremely high rate of suicide among young people in Utah. Gay Mormons who survived their suicide attempts were interviewed in the film. The movie examines why Mormons not only in California but across the country obeyed the command to donate their time and money (including huge sums from families of modest means) to fight gay marriage. Members and former members of the church descri…