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Senator Ted Kennedy: A Catholic We Could Canonize

…he Shrivers never agreed, and Eunice and Sarge were active early on in anti-abortion efforts. Ted, who at that time expressed anti-abortion views but had not needed to vote on the issue, came around to the pro-choice position by the time the first Senate votes on abortion were required following Roe v. Wade. The first issue was whether federal Medicaid funds could be used for abortion, and the Senator was always in favor of such funding. Perhaps h…

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Soldier Hot Line Draws Calls Over DADT Repeal

…far between. The New York Times builds its whole story out of a handful of phone calls and an email. But the article indicates that those who run the various nonprofits that help soldiers achieve conscientious objector status expect a floodgate of calls if Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is formally repealed. The good news is that the groups don’t think there is legal basis for the claims. In the “don’t ask, don’t tell” cases, Ms. McNeil concluded that there…

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Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

…eadership and the congregation. There’s no way that someone like me, little-queer-Asian-woman-me, would have been enough to make them change hundreds of years of history, money, politics. So I don’t think about what my church could have done to keep me. Because they’re just so far from that, it feels foolish for me to think about it—as if I could lay out a multi-step/5-year plan for them, that even if they could follow it, and we jumped several ye…

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Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

…. I learned of the message on Monday, October 11, from a 70-something, self-described ex-hippie named Herb who frequents the East Atlanta coffee shop where I often study. Perhaps noticing the text on Buddhism sitting beside me, he asked, out of the blue, something like, “So do you know about the cataclysmic event that’s gonna happen tomorrow night?” “Which one?’ I responded, thinking he was referencing the economy, or the election, or the environm…

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Is Bart Stupak As Marginalized As He Claims?

…nd the Stop the Abortion Mandate coalition, it has enabled the growing anti-choice contingent in the party. Stupak was elected in 1992 — before anti-choicers were explicitly sought out by the party leadership. According to the Times piece, “In the primary, he beat a candidate who supported abortion rights. But when he tried to hire Democratic political consultants for the general election, they refused — with expletives, he says — to work for a ca…

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The Rundown Truth: Scientology Changes Strategy in War with Media

…ber—was illegally retrieved, and that he was subjected to surveillance and phone-tapping.         The church, meanwhile, countered that Behar’s article was a slanderous, sensationalist attack on a legitimate religious organization and part of a much longer history of misunderstanding and persecution that this religious minority has faced since its inception. In keeping with Scientology’s aggressive response to its critics, the church hit Behar and…

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Black Masses Continue to Titillate Conservative Catholics

…arrative has inspired others to mobilize against self-declared Satanists 35-year-old Adam Daniels of Oklahoma City has been a leader for a string of short-lived Satanic groups including The Church of the IV Majesties and most recently Dakhma of Angra Mainyu. Since 2010, Daniels has been involved in organizing “black masses” or “Satanic exorcisms” at the Oklahoma City Civic Center three times. The most recent event had an audience of zero. Daniels…

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Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

…say to you—take someone like my mother, who passed in 2007. She was a dyed-in-the-wool Pentecostal fundamentalist. All my life. She was serious about God, serious about the Bible, serious about how if you don’t do what the Bible says you’re going to hell. Plain and simple. And I remember one day having a sort of epiphany about my mother. And I said, you know, How do I reach my mother? Shirley and I had been together several years by that time and…

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Denying Communion to Prochoice Politicians

…either told legislators to refrain from receiving communion, or issued not-in-my-backyard threats against candidates who do not live in their diocese, telling them they would not be welcome to receive communion should they ever show up in their fiefdom. Fiefdom is a reasonable synonym for Diocese in the Roman Catholic context, for each bishop is a little prince with feudal powers. For all the talk about Roman Catholicism as a centralized power, t…

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Planned Parenthood ‘Stung’ By Lila Rose

…posted.” In July, she once again “posed… as a 14-year-old impregnated by a 31-year-old; a Planned Parenthood staffer says, ‘Just say you have a boyfriend, 17-years-old, whatever.’” The Orange County Board of Supervisors also “voted to suspend a grant worth nearly $300,000 to Planned Parenthood that was earmarked for sex education, not abortions… [after] a conservative Tustin businessman raised the issue with Supervisor John Moorlach after meeting…

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