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Will Minnesota Voters Be on the Right Side of History?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…legalizing ‘gay marriage’ will have negative consequences on religious freedoms and impact what is taught in elementary schools.” These “themes,” of course are not based in fact since studies show children of gay and lesbian parents thrive, and no one’s “religious freedoms” have been impacted in the states that do allow gays and lesbians full entry into marriage. NOM and their cohorts, of course, have absolutely no interest in having a “conversati…

The Exorcist Files, Getting Mad at God, The Obama Prayer…

By Michael J. Altman

…of New York has eliminated its entire kosher inspection division. New York Rep. Peter King is promising to use his new position as chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security to hold hearings about Islam in America. Record numbers of Brits are converting to Islam, according to a new survey. Opponents of Scientology in Chicago are fighting for the right to protest outside the Church of Scientology. Atheists, agnostics, and humanists protes…

Democratic Women Walk Out of “Freedom of Religion” Hearing

By Sarah Posner

…paration of Church and State: Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?“ Speaking to reporters outside the hearing room, Holmes Norton lashed out against Republican Chairman Darrell Issa’s refusal to let the Democrats call any witnesses. All of Issa’s witnesses are opposed to the contraception coverage requirement and are testifying about Issa’s framing of the hearing: that it’s about religious freedom…

Catholics Across the Globe Reject Vatican’s LGBTQ Cruelty — Others Blame the Sock

By Mary E. Hunt

…tive. Some try, unsuccessfully. I begin, however, with the myriad positive replies which have come from around the world—from the Philippines and Malta to Argentina and New Zealand. If this were a Vatican trial balloon to gauge support for excluding same-sex loving people, it lost air on liftoff and crashed immediately. There are many casualties, especially young people who are taught such nonsense in Catholic schools. Some African Catholics repor…

New Book: God Favors Supply-Side Economics

By Gordon Haber

…nce, published by Multnomah Books, “the evangelical division of Penguin Random House.” And what are the biblical principles of finance? Although he doesn’t use the term, apparently Hovind (sorry, God) prefers supply-side economics. The idea is that production is the engine of economic growth; i.e. if you make stuff, people will buy it. And like most supply-siders, he (or He) argues for minimal taxes and a tiny government, and against the Federal R…

The ObamaCare “Abortion Fee” Hoax

By Patricia Miller

…raception mandate case, this suit brings together high-profile political objections from the Catholic bishops, a well-funded conservative public interest law firm, and a willing and sympathetic plaintiff—Mr. Bracy conveniently is head of Rhode Island Right to Life—with claims of religious freedom to chip away at women’s access to health services. Reproductive health advocates have voiced fears that the cumbersome segregation methodology could forc…

Evangelical Islamophobia as American as Apple Pie

By Shalom Goldman

…mongering during the election cycle was not uniformly successful. House of Representatives member, Keith Ellison, for example, kept his Minnesota seat despite the anti-Muslim invectives he endured. And not only did he win, Rep. Ellison, a convert to Islam many years earlier, got 68% of the vote. Tea Party Nation founder, Judson Phillips, sent a mass email a few days before the November 2nd elections calling Ellison “One of the most radical members…

The Year in Reproductive Justice: 2015 Summary

By Harry F. Knox

…nizations claim that signing such a letter impinges on their religious freedom. The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and similar state-enacted RFRAs, also played a significant part in 2015. Spurred by the Supreme Court’s terrible 2014 Hobby Lobby decision, corporations now have the same religious freedoms that individuals enjoy. Emboldened by this decision, religious conservatives have perverted one of our fundamental liberties, which wa…

Bishops Seek Expanded Definition of “Federal Funding” to Curtail Abortion

By Patricia Miller

…epublican hearing on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, a reboot of Rep. Christopher Smith’s effort to attach a Stupak Amendment-like ban on private abortion coverage to the Affordable Care Act, shows just how undeniably the Catholic bishops have become the national face of anti-abortion efforts. The real action on abortion restrictions is in the states, where previously little known groups like Americans United for Life promulgate model le…

Does Barack need the Black Church?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…bout Bill Clinton being “every bit as black as Barack Obama,” based on the numbers of black women Clinton has bedded; and Rev. Al Sharpton has remained uncharacteristically quiet—aside from repeated accusations that Senator Obama does not have the civil rights track record that Sharpton has claimed for himself. Yet these men share something more than hesitancy toward Senator Obama. They each exemplify the widespread view that the black church is t…