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Trump’s Abortion Gag Rule Is State Violence

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…ics for comprehensive care and counseling on family planning. According to California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, Latinas comprise 53 percent of the nearly one-million women who receive services at Title X clinics in California alone. Nearly a million African-American women rely on Title X-funded health care. According to the Black Women’s Health Imperative, 21 percent of patients who rely on Title X for birth control and reproductive health…

Pro-Born: A Former Evangelical on the Single-Issue Politics of White Christians

By Bradley Onishi

…ount to blasphemy in my evangelical world. As a youth pastor at a Southern California megachurch, voting Democrat was not unlikely; it was unthinkable. The few times I garnered the courage to admit my uncertainty to other ministers they looked at me in disbelief. Despite my reasoning that the war in Afghanistan was leading to the deaths of innocent people and that more support for the poor, for single parents, and for education all seemed to align…

Why We Won’t Let Jonestown (Or 9/11 or Sandy Hook) Die

By Kelsey Osgood

…however; a few miles away, five people, including Congressman Leo Ryan of California and two NBC News employees, had been shot on a tarmac while waiting to shepherd defectors home to the United States. About 150 miles away, in the Peoples Temple office in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, member Sharon Amos slit the throats of her three children and then killed herself. Though the world would not know the correct death toll until more than a wee…

Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News …

By Kiera Feldman

…rtion conservatives only took notice when a Planned Parenthood in northern California started using the prayers last month. The Six Rivers Planned Parenthood’s “Forty Days” programming runs through April 27 with events at Episcopal, Methodist, Jewish, and Unitarian Universalist houses of worship. Suddenly, with stories in Fox News, Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink, Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, and elsewhere, conservative media cast Rev. Turner as a fr…

Supreme Court Will Hear Challenges to Anti-Equality Laws

By Elizabeth Drescher

…t announced that it will review a federal appeals court ruling overturning California’s Proposition 8, which in 2008 barred marriage of same-gender couples. The justices will also consider whether health care, pension, inheritance, and other benefits offered to heterosexual couples and their children can be denied by the federal government to LBGT persons. Opponents of marriage equality, seeing an opportunity to tighten judicial interpretation of…

Free Yiddish Lessons, Vacation Liberty School, and Brangelina’s Universalism: The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…opposition to mosque building in the United States. A mosque in Temecula, California is facing opposition from the Baptist church next door because of “the whole issue of Islam and what it stands for.” It seems it’d be easier to build mosques if they didn’t have any connection to Islam. In New York, the Cordoba House mosque (a.k.a. the dreaded “Ground Zero Mosque”) is still embroiled in controversy. The latest blocking strategy has been to apply…

Is Islam Eco-Friendly?

By Amina Wadud

…recycle people. There was no recycling system like I have here in Northern California, so the trick was to get what was salvageable before the trash was collected. Now, the trash collector was only a person who took a rake and removed the trash manually. This was then dumped in a cart and pushed away. That was it. Better than the kampong fire system I guess. In every neighborhood that had such a system, the recycle people would come earlier to sal…

Did We Drink the Kool-Aid in “Suicide Cult” Disappearance?

By Julie Ingersoll

…lahoma City Bombing, also commented to RD about the recent developments in California: The desire of the believers to retreat to the mountains to pray strikes me as an action firmly entrenched in the tradition of Christian asceticism. The rush to label the group as a ‘suicide cult’ probably says more about the mentality of law enforcement officials and sensational media than about the psychological state of this small prayer group. Scholar Jayne S…

The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…river was a Muslim. A woman working as a hostess at a Disney restaurant in California is filing a discrimination complaint after being sent home for refusing to remove her headscarf. Managers have tried to find a back of the house job for the woman but she wants to work up front and in her hijab. Zaytuna College, in California, hopes to be the first accredited Muslim college. While these comic books bring Islamic values into popular culture. A New…

Misusing Cesar Chavez in Immigration Debate

By Luis Leon

…lent to the population of one very small Central Valley town. The labor in California’s agricultural fields was largely taken up by Mexican migrant workers—the very workers Chavez had been unable to reconcile to his American union, whom he had branded “scabs” and wanted reported to immigration authorities. This is far from the whole story. In fact Chavez did organize and reconcile undocumented workers to his union. He also worked to repeal the inf…