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A Catholic House Divided Over Reproductive Health Care: Bishops Launch a New Campaign

By Frances Kissling

…t CHW, which is comprised of 40 hospitals and more ancillary facilities in California, Arizona, and Nevada. Olmstead, in this case, stood alone. No other bishop with a CHW hospital in his diocese demanded that it or its hospitals substitute their medical judgment for the bishops. The issues surrounding religion and conscience are complex, and especially so when the religion is Catholicism and the subject is women and reproduction. We have come to…

Obama’s Preaching Doesn’t Reach

By Anthea Butler

…se. Not everyone was impressed, however. Maxine Waters, congresswoman from California and a member of the CBC, said “she found the president’s language a bit curious. She says that Obama didn’t address Hispanics in such a blunt manner and would never use that language in a speech to a gathering of gays or Jews.” I agree. While my Twitter feed was filled with happiness about the president finally “speaking the truth,” I was perturbed by his rhetori…

Anti-Gay Activism Falling Victim to Capitalism?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…as used the money it has raised in the past, spending $700,000 to help the California Family Council Foundation fight for Proposition 8. They are also using their donations to fund “a ballot initiative to add a ‘religious liberty amendment’ to the Colorado state constitution, similar to other amendments they’re promoting in Florida and North Dakota, among others.” Also, according to karoli’s math, it would appear that CitizenLink funding for the y…

Even Tougher Questions to Ask Mormon Presidential Candidates

By Joanna Brooks

…Church leaders solicited $25,000 donations from wealthy Church members for California’s “Yes on 8” anti-marriage-equality campaign. High-ranking Church leaders even scheduled phone calls with individual members to make the ask in person. Did Church leaders solicit an individual contribution from you to the Yes on 8 campaign or any other anti-marriage-equality initiative? If so, how did you respond? How would you respond in such a situation? 2. Mo…

The Religious Right’s New Target: Transgender People

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…gious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Moore tackles California’s new law protecting the rights of transgender students, allowing them to freely use bathrooms or locker rooms they feel fits their gender identity. Moore emphasizes that Jesus tells us we are born “male and female” and the existence of transgender people “who feel alienated from their identities as men or as women” is simply the result of the “fallen” nature of…

Newt Gingrich Visits the “Holy Ghost Bartender”

By Sarah Posner

…spirit.” The movement has swept churches in Lakeland, Pensacola, southern California and Toronto. Although holy laughter has caused quite a controversy in charismatic circles, historians say it has been around for centuries. “It’s better than doing crack cocaine; it’s better than drinking alcohol,” says David Wilson, a 38- year-old carpenter and former substance abuser who now attends the River. “It’s a spiritual high I never want to come off of….

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…times You Can Break Something So Bad So why Louisiana? Why not Michigan or California or South Carolina? And why a storm and a flood? Why not an earthquake or a tornado or a fire? In the same Atlantic interview, Zeitlin responds: I think that redemption, or enlightenment, or some sort of truth is found very close to destruction. It’s in the most extreme situations where you find this, where you get this abandon that allows you to understand yourse…

Bishops Release Religious Liberty Manifesto Vowing Disobedience to “Unjust Laws”

By Sarah Posner

…f Christian students on college campuses, alleging that “the University of California Hastings College of Law has denied student organization status to only one group, the Christian Legal Society, because it required its leaders to be Christian and to abstain from sexual activity outside of marriage.” The CLS requires members and those wishing to hold leadership positions in the club to be professing Christians and to disavow “unrepentant particip…

Anti-Contraception Activists Claim Their Suits are Last Resort to Undermine Health Care

By Sarah Posner

…Similar claims have been rejected by state supreme courts in New York and California, and many constitutional experts believe they will not fare any better in federal court. That has not stopped anti-contraception activists from continuing to litigate these claims in the court of public opinion as the suits go forward. Americans United for Life, one of the leading purveyors of the falsehood that the ACA funds abortion coverage, sent out a press r…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…previously on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Francisco.” Oh, and she has a female spouse, Academy Award-nominated ﬁlmmaker Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D., with whom she has a 35-year long relationship. Her research showed that children raised by lesbian parents “were rated signiﬁcantly higher in social, school/academic, and total competence and signiﬁcantly lower in social problems, rule-breaking, aggressi…