Religion Dispatches
…. In 2010, The Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security issued a report entitled “Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim American Communities,” which argues based on sociological evidence that mosques are actually important sites for moderating religious extremism, and that most people who become radicalized are divorced from any religious community. In the last week, the Muslim and American Public Opinion Survey, a project hosted by The Univers…
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…for “traditional Catholic views on women’s gender roles and sexuality and reproduction became joined.” Yet dissent among Catholics on reproductive health issues persisted: Lay Catholics embraced the Pill and had abortions at rates higher than their Protestant counterparts while Catholic theologians debated the Church’s stringent teachings on contraception and pregnancy terminations. In October 1984, Ruether joined nearly 100 theologians, ethicist…
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…ous beliefs,” said Brigitte Amiri, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project. “If they don’t want to provide the care that’s required under the contract,” she added, “they shouldn’t compete for the contract.” Laycock also raised questions about the viability of the bishops’ RFRA argument. He said via email, “RFRA does not require government to manage its affairs to conform to any private citizen’s religion.” As a result,…
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…e-sex weddings, other comments by lawmakers show their intent was broader. Republican Rep. Bruce Borders suggested anesthesiologists who oppose abortion should not have to anesthetize women undergoing the procedure. The Indianapolis Star reported that “Borders said he believes the Bible’s command to ‘do all things as unto the Lord’ means religious believers need to be protected not just in church, but in their workplaces as well.” If that workplac…
Read More…e who blamed gays for tornadoes and autism won the primary and will be the Republican challenger to Rep. Jan Schakowsky. Taiwan: Church-Sponsored ‘Happy Family’ Rally Draws Pro-Equality Protesters, Including Buddhist Nuns On Sunday, Christian churches held a “Happy Family” rally by “to promote the idea of a family as consisting of one father, one mother and their children.” One participant held a homemade sign praising anti-gay laws in Uganda and…
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…in the pews. We should be likewise demanding accountability from the many Republican leaders now self-servingly distancing themselves from Donald Trump. These include Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who no honest observer could paint as genuinely concerned with democracy as opposed to keeping up appearances as he helps his party hoard power gained through anti-democratic means, defying the will of the majority of Americans. Thankfully, so…
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…ube account advertises, a “startling revelation.” While it has been widely reported that Loughner attended a Giffords event in 2007 (Nick Baumann at Mother Jones reported that, according to a friend, Loughner was angry because he believed Giffords inadequately answered one of his questions) Gallups’ video twists this into the falsehood that Loughner worked for Giffords’ campaign. (What’s more, the Gallups video flashes a photograph of Loughner as…
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…s identified in the letter also fueled cries of election fraud, with Gosar reportedly playing a role in planning the riots. Inevitably, their sanctified Sinophobia and contempt for democracy merged in their followers’ imaginations; attempted sedition, during which rioters paraded signs such as “CCP wants world domination,” was the inevitable result. At the beginning of a new administration, the God-fearing conspiracy theorizers targeting Biden’s “…
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…s open for debate as there was a sizable outcry on social media when House Republicans, led by Missouri Rep. Vicki Hartzler, attempted to add an amendment to the defense authorization bill that would ban all surgical care for transgender service members. The amendment, which could be read to prohibit all clinical care for trans troops aside from talk therapy, failed by a narrow margin last week. Nevertheless, it appears that the cynical, anti-LGBT…
Read More…ts,” proclaiming: You are in a foxhole fighting to save our constitutional Republic… …and the last thing you need is a Republican bayonet in your back. But that’s what liberal John Cornyn has been doing to you every day. And we have less than 90 days to stop him. Stockman is known as a Tea Party Republican, one for whom the rigid conservatism of all those RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) is not pure enough. (Even WorldNetDaily, hardly one to shir…
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