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Catholic College Won’t Reveal Insurer; Yet Another Contraception Accommodation in the Works?

By Patricia Miller

…tep further and asserted that not only are contraceptives not a preventive service, but actually pose a health threat to women, revealing a deep hostility to women’s exercise of fertility management: Unlike other mandated “preventive services,” prescription contraceptives covered by this mandate do not prevent disease. Instead, they disrupt the healthy functioning of the human reproductive system, temporarily or permanently creating the condition…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…had undermined their investigation. “You don’t release a press release and contact the media if you want to protect your children. But that’s just from a police perspective.” In a culture war against reproductive health and rights, however, drama is a key weapon. Because it works. What ultimately got a guffaw out of Investigator Spottke was prominent pro-lifer Jill Stanek’s unwarranted assertion that “whether this is deemed a terrorist attack or h…

Praying in Fear

By Shabana Mir

…gate and sat down opposite a woman sitting in a phone booth. I made no eye contact with her. I sat down, wearing my black bubble jacket, and pulled my furry hood over my head (women and many men cover their heads in prayer). And then, what did you think I did, fall down in prostration in St. Louis airport? Bah, how foolhardy do you think I am? Every time I imagine doing such a thing, I imagine some little old lady’s eyes widening in fear as she se…

Religious Conspiracy Theories About Giffords Shooting Emerge

By Sarah Posner

…e user ppsimmons, and his theories are being promoted by Special Guests, a service that books conservative guests on talk radio, which is also plugging Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, in connection with Gallups’ videos. As I wrote yesterday, Pratt told me last summer he is a “Biblical Christian” and insists that state militias need to be “given new life” because the federal government is largely unconstitutional. Pratt is…

Why Even Progressive Christianity Must Own Its Complicity in Anti-LGBT Violence

By Layton E. Williams

…ith emphatic input from others, the idea evolved into an ecumenical prayer service with Jewish and Muslim partners, music, and a reading of the victims’ names. We tied hundreds of rainbow-colored ribbons along the railing outside our building in memory of victims of anti-LGBT violence, and we hung a giant rainbow flag over the front doors of our sanctuary, which look out onto Chicago’s famous Magnificent Mile. My church has a long history of engag…

Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…vocates have charged the South Korean military with a campaign against gay servicemembers: The army declined to provide details of its investigation. It insisted that it was not cracking down on gay soldiers; instead it said that it was trying to root out sodomy and other homosexual activities, which right-wing Christian groups have called a growing blight on its readiness to fight North Korea’s 1.2 million-strong military. But in the past week, e…

Proposition 8—the Rematch?

By Bill Berkowitz

…f thousands through e-mail alerts, online newsletters, its OneNewsNow news service, and its radio broadcasts heard on AFA’s 195-station national radio network. The AFA’s report noted that its Web site “is attracting some 1.2 million visitors each month, which reflects a growth of over 400% in the past 12 months.” The AFA claims that “over two million people can immediately share their opinions with policymakers and corporations simple by respondin…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ations have on the larger political scene.” AU’s research indicates that a number of religious right organization are more than adequately prepared to wage many a culture war battle in the coming years—whether from inside or outside the circles of government. The Top Ten Organizations are: Pat Robertson’s Virginia Beach, Virginia-based Christian Broadcasting Network’s revenue in 2006 was $246,986,289. James Dobson’s Colorado Springs, Colorado-base…

Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…and nuns, Christian and otherwise, live in monasteries and convents; and a number of historic Protestant churches, especially those best endowed financially, provide parsonages. But over time, an increasing number of clergy have made their own living arrangements. Churches found parsonages prohibitively expensive; congregants preferred to see their donations go toward services rather than clergy housing; and new religious ventures, especially the…

Show Me the Way of the Hebrews: The Making of an African American Rabbi

By J. Lester Feder

…scripture and tradition that it felt more like a study group than worship service to me. I didn’t feel expected to know the rituals or the prayers—a good number of Beth Emet’s members were in the middle of the conversion process, and were also learning. It spoke to my love of history, and my delight in arguing over the meaning of words. But it did not awaken any religious feeling, which part of me hoped it would. The rituals still did not resonat…