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American Nuns Under the Vatican Microscope

…civil disobedience and goes to jail to help stop war or nuclear weapons. A number of the questions are clearly designed to elicit answers the Vatican knows full well it won’t like. The data will provide the pretext for concluding that the decline in numbers in progressive groups is a result of their lack of obedience and conformity to the men’s rules. Solution: tighten up the ranks. Enter the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, the alte…

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So Much For Evangelical Support For Immigration Reform

…airman of Liberty Counsel, Ken Blackwell, the former Secretary of State of Ohio, and Lou Engle of The Call to Conscience are publicly threatening to withhold their support, claiming that Schumer and President Obama would be willing to forego reform for millions to help “only about 36,000” gay and lesbian couples. They don’t seem to notice that they are threatening to tank legislation that would help tens of millions because they can’t open up thei…

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Teacher Who Burned Cross into Student’s Arm Finally Settles Suit

Almost three years after an Ohio science teacher used a Tesla coil to burn a cross into the arm of a middle-school student, the convoluted case has finally come to a conclusion. A federal judge last week approved the settlement agreement between the family of the burned student and teacher John Freshwater. The debacle first began in December 2007 when Zachary Dennis came home from school with a burn mark on his arm in the shape of a cross. His pa…

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Paul Ryan: I Reject Ayn Rand, She’s an Atheist!

…a subject he eventually studied as an undergraduate at Miami University in Ohio. “But it’s a big stretch to suggest that a person is therefore an Objectivist.” “I reject her philosophy,” Ryan says firmly. “It’s an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a person’s view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas,” who believed that…

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Hagee and McCain Part Ways

…only about half of the people in EU member countries “believe in a god,” a number shockingly lower than anything we find here in the United States. But we might remind our European friends that a political arena free from religious concerns is the exception to the global rule. Even among their own “I” nations, while Iceland’s politics may maintain a secular purity, Ireland and Italy are decidedly more complicated cases. Which is all prelude to ref…

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Prominent Pro-Life Catholic Democrat Switches Sides

…now identify as Catholic than at any other time, and GOP Catholics now outnumber Catholic Democrats, effectively ending the party’s historic but long-faltering alliance with Catholicism. According to the Pew Research Center, there are 69 Catholic Republicans in the 114th Congress, up from 37 in the 111th Congress, and 68 Catholic Democrats, down from 98 in the 111th. And, Pew reports, “the share of GOP members who identify as Catholic also has gr…

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‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup

…calls “the truth of God.” Co-panelist Troy McIntosh, Executive Director of Ohio Christian Education Network, speaks of his “model Christian school” that’s easily scalable and can be replicated by the dozens within years. Both celebrate the June Supreme Court ruling on Carson v. Makin that allows school vouchers to be used at religious schools. The educators’ conversation is moderated by Joseph Backholm, Senior Fellow for Biblical Worldview and Str…

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By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

…dance included Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values in Ohio, Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., Donald Hodel, former head of the Christian Coalition and Focus on the Family, and Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Church in San Diego. Also present were Rick Scarborough, founder and president of Vision America, and David Barton, president of WallBuilders; both men have fashioned entire careers out of their denials that the…

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Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

…at there are, thanks to Trump peddling a lie about migrants eating cats in Ohio. Mexicans aren’t bringing their crime to the US any more. “Prisoners” and people who “escape asylums” (from who knows where) are not only taking jobs from Black and Mexican people, but also “doing the crime” now. Also, they have a recipe book for eating pet cats. I’m fairly certain Trump thinks asylum seekers are people who escape mental institutions and hightail it to…

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Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right

…was attending Cedarville University, a conservative Baptist university in Ohio, when she was introduced to debate. During her senior year at Cedarville, she and her father launched a national debate league for homeschooled students through HSLDA. A far-right lobbying organization for Christian homeschoolers, HSLDA saw debate as a powerful way to groom the next generation of Christian leaders. Describing the goals of the league upon its founding,…

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