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Are US Bishops Responsible for Anti-Abortion Amendment in Health Care Reform?

By Frances Kissling

…Congress and defeat. When candidates and incumbents believe (as they do in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Colorado and the South) that the local bishop and parish priests can convince 2% of those Catholics in the pew to vote against them because they are pro-choice, the die is cast. And when the Democratic party decided in 2004 to court anti-abortion, but otherwise progressive, candidates like Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, they set the stage for a Dem…

Reconstructionists Celebrate “Ruling Over the Earth” Day

By Julie Ingersoll

…ion known as Presuppositionalism. As I explained a few months back when an Ohio judge with ties to Phillips and Rushdoony posted his “Philosophies of Law in Conflict” on the wall in his courtroom: “Rushdoony…argues that all systems of knowledge are ultimately rooted in assumptions (presuppositions) that cannot be proven…’Knowing’ begins with choosing an authority to follow, and there are only two choices: God or human reason. In this view, there i…

The Quietly Crumbling Wall of Separation

By Robert Marus

…urt’s 2002 Zelman v. Simmons-Harris decision that gave the thumbs-up to an Ohio voucher program involving religious schools) chipped away at longstanding restrictions on state funding of deeply religious organizations. Establishing Establishment Worse than the funding cases, though, were two recent lines of federal jurisprudence that have made it more difficult for plaintiffs to prove violations of the Establishment Clause. In one, federal judges…

McCain Endorser: “Destroy” Islam

By Martin E. Marty

…ted in the camps of the three presidential campaigners. Parsley, pastor of Ohio’s mega-est megachurch, twelve-thousand-member World Harvest Church in Columbus, calls for “destroying” Islam. Parsley is most explicit in his well-selling book Silent No More and in broadcasts to large and presumably assenting audiences. While Americans know that some who claim Allah would like to destroy Christian civilization, citizens often overlook the tit-for-tat…

Why Tea Party (Hearts) David Barton

By Lauri Lebo

…nt role in the 2004 presidential election, courting the Christian right in Ohio with “family values” issues. But as People for the American Way notes in a newly released extensive report on Barton, it’s only in the past year that he has hit the “big time.” According to the article, Barton is one of the primary leaders responsible for convincing the supposedly secular tea party movement to embrace his brand of far-right Christian conservatism. To t…

Famous Atheists, Fat Ministers, Papal Tweets, and a Mega-Hoax

By Michael J. Altman

…An atheist billboard ended up being posted on the property of a church in Ohio. American ministers are fat and happy. The Obedient Wives Club is spreading among Muslim women in Asia. It’s becoming harder for female rabbis to find a puplit. On Tuesday, an elaborate hoax claimed that the Southern Baptist Convention was close to endorsing gay marriage. South Korea’s Christian president and his kneeling prayer pose a challenge to the country’s plural…

Bishops Double Down on Issues of Pelvis Over Poverty

By Peter Montgomery

…e school’s commencement address. And Xavier University, a Jesuit school in Ohio, announced that it will drop contraception from its employees’ health insurance coverage. Notably, if not surprisingly, there was no public response I have seen from the bishops or their culture war allies on the release of documents exposing the crass racial and ethnic wedge strategies being pursued by the National Organization for Marriage with tons of funding from C…

Personhood USA says Romney would Permit “Death Penalty” for “Babies Conceived in Rape”

By Katie Toth

…reme policy stances. In late 2011, Patrick Johnson, a spokesperson for the Ohio branch, decried a bill that would outlaw abortion from the moment of discernable heartbeat. He said that such incremental measures “justify some abortions.” Johnson also said his state has no obligation to follow the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution. Drafting laws in the hopes that the Court will give them a favorable ruling, he said, was compliance i…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…on, Roe v. Wade.” One thirty-second ad—currently running in New Mexico and Ohio—is called “The Gianna ad” and features Gianna Jesson who is identified as an “Abortion Survivor.” “My name is Gianna Jesson, born 31 years ago after a failed abortion,” Genson states. She goes on: “But if Barack Obama had his way, I would’t be here. Four times Barack Obama voted to oppose a law to protect babies left to die after failed abortions. Senator Obama, please…

Imagine There’s no Islam…

By Martin E. Marty

…ek we sighted the hard-to-miss, politically-minded preacher Rod Parsley of Ohio, who wants the Christian United States to wage war for the “destruction” of Islam. Suppose he and his “theonomist” allies succeeded? Ex-CIA man and Vancouver professor Graham E. Fuller gets cover treatment in the January/February Foreign Policy, for his mental game treatment of “A World without Islam?” The sub-head reads: “What if Islam had never existed? To some, it’s…