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Female Deacons: Pope Francis Walks It Back, Women Clergy Weigh In

…uccession with Rome, are also excommunicated when ordained. In the case of Georgia Walker, the first Roman Catholic Woman Priest ordained in Kansas City, she was informed of her excommunication by certified letter in 2015 because of her participation in what the diocese referred to as a “simulated ordination.” In spite of the advocacy of groups like the Women’s Ordination Conference, little progress has been made on the issue. It’s understandable,…

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The Power of Bad Faith! Prophesying a “Death Panel” for Health Care Reform

…ent “for the people by the people,” when we can embrace a nebulous idea of freedom. The question of “freedom for what?”, though, remains irrelevant for this faithful tribe of self-proclaimed patriots. But the problem with this, like all unyielding yet nihilistic forms of faith, is that it obscures the real circumstances of existence and any possibility for positive growth among its adherents. Theological certainty coupled with an insecure social r…

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Double Helix: The Environment Is the Economy

…p local, integrated approaches to making our neighborhoods and communities better places to live. Instead, the great majority of science research dollars go into ‘pill design’: it’s already screwed up, so let’s design a pill to cure it. And scientists rail against ‘those people’ who want to teach creationism in schools and ‘who don’t know what good data are when they see them!’ Instead, evangelicals speak out against the teaching of evolution and…

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Do Sheriffs Actually Have the Power to Disrupt Elections?

…have been acting as local megaphones for election conspiracy theories since 2020. At the spring 2024 CSPOA gathering, several CSPOA sheriffs and leaders referenced the debunked claim that undocumented immigrants are voting illegally and rigging elections in favor of Democrats. And, some Sheriffs are making headway “tracking” immigrants in their county. In one case, Sheriff Dar Leaf of Barry County, Michigan, conducted a local investigation into al…

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Is Anti-LGBT Legislation the New Southern Strategy?

…we don’t really know what that means in terms of his support of “religious freedom” measures or other discriminatory laws. Anti-gay bigotry seems to be the new “Southern Strategy” for the Republican Party, and they are poised to continue to include opposition to same-sex marriage in their Party Platform—as they have since 1992. The easy passage of discriminatory legislation in Southern states, and elsewhere, is strongly connected to religious comm…

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‘Eff Around and Find Out’ — Federal and State Law Enforcement Reaffirm Their Commitment to Election Integrity 

…. These warnings and safeguards for election integrity are lessons from the 2020 election cycle: in 2020, 147 Republican lawmakers began proceedings to overturn the election results following a nation-wide effort by conservative politicians to prevent people from voting by enacting stricter voting laws, in addition to far-right militias destabilizing the election process due to conspiracy theories. [For a brief overview of threats and interference…

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God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

…by Jindal, now the governor of Louisiana, Nathan Deal, now the governor of Georgia, and Mike Pence, a conservative hero who’s now running for governor of Indiana. While campaigning for president, Bachmann took up the “tyrannical judges” mantle, this time in connection with the Iowa Supreme Court’s ruling that the state’s gay marriage ban was unconstitutional. She applauded the ouster of “black-robed masters,” the three Iowa judges who had ruled sa…

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Freshwater Becomes Martyr in 3…2…1…

…orical science is based on correct knowledge of the past. The Bible provides this knowledge as it is the history book of the universe; any ideas about the past apart from the Bible are simply based on the opinion of man who was not there. Georgia Purdom, the writer of the piece, concludes by demonstrating AIG’s contempt for the First Amendment and religious freedom: But I encourage you to pray for Mr. Freshwater and others like him who truly are m…

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Morehouse Men in their Sunday Best

…institutionalize flawed cultural logic. The goal of higher learning is to promote intellectual flourishing and creativity, not professional provincialism and class-based pretentiousness. The last I checked, dear ol’ Morehouse was better than that. And I am know for a fact that Robert Franklin’s brilliance is far superior to a pedagogical approach worthy of the 19th century Freedman’s Bureau. As the hymn-writer penned, “we’ve come too far. Oh, can…

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‘Hello, Trump Warriors!’ Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon’s First Rally

…York!” Its crime: the release of the illegal, “this monster,” who went to Georgia and killed “our girl,” Laken Riley. Therefore, New York’s courts have no standing: They dispatch brown-skinned killers (he was released after an arrest for operating a car dangerously with a child) to murder pretty White girls and yet convict a president for, what, scoring with a pretty White girl? Here is the topsy-turvy world of American liberalism: a bad man rewa…

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