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Anti-Choice Groups Target Anti-Choice Democrats With Health Care Lies

By Sarah Posner

…n fact exclude such federal funding, and anyone using federal subsidies to purchase a plan that covers abortion from the exchange must, according to the law, use their own funds for an abortion.) On a press briefing call today, in which this issue was described as one that could decide “key races” in the midterms, AUL’s legal counsel William Saunders asserted that the health care law is a “massive expansion of abortion.” But the Guttmacher Institu…

‘A Slice of Heaven’: Lakota Look to Buy Back Stolen Sacred Lands

By Johnny P. Flynn

…e free, prior and informed consent of the indigenous peoples concerned and after agreement on just and fair compensation and, where possible, with the option of return.” [Emphasis added]. Eventually, the determined efforts by the Lakota to get the US Government to return the lands in the Black Hills drew the attention of the United Nations. In 2012, James Anaya, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indige…

Affordable Care Act Needs “Fix,” Clergy Say

By Daniel Schultz

…tax subsidies provided by the ACA to help lower-to-middle income Americans purchase insurance. Observers generally agree that the exclusion of church health plans from eligibility for the exchanges, which occurred because they do not sell policies to the general public, was an oversight caused by staffers scrambling to draft bill language under tight deadlines. Because employees of religious institutions are usually paid modestly, many will qualif…

Art(ful) History in Texas

By Lauri Lebo

…s, into its science curriculum under the guise of “supplemental material.” After eleven parents challenged the board’s actions, Judge John E. Jones ruled that intelligent design was merely revamped creationism and was unconstitutional in public school science class. Even though McLeroy will no longer be on the board (he lost his primary reelection bid this spring to a more mainstream Republican), McLeroy said he believes the supplemental materials…

White House Unveils Contraception Accommodation Plan [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…scheduled to host a conference call today at 11:30 a.m. They postponed it after it became clear the White House was set to announce the accommodation today. The letter says the religious conscience of women and the separation of church and state support the requirement for coverage without an exemption for religious institutions. It’s clear that the White House was not seeking to appease the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has already…

Cruz Backs Bishops on Religious Liberty Claims

By Patricia Miller

…y protects employees that go out on their own time with their own money to purchase reproductive health care.” As for the idea that the measures were cooked up to drive faith-based groups out of the District or sideline the Catholic Church, he said, “The purpose of the bill is to protect an employee’s right to purchase reproductive health care without fear of being fired or discriminated against.” That’s not to say that this issue isn’t extremely…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rts struck it down, the environment has proved too dangerous for a growing number of Ugandans. But in Kenya they face constant attacks, kidnappings, extortion and police harassment. Recently, almost a dozen LGBT people were taken by the United Nation’s refugee agency (UNHCR) to a safe house in Nairobi, after they were attacked on a night out. Even that agency – the very group tasked with protected LGBT people – has admitted its own staff are hosti…

Spiritual McCarthyism and the Catholic Vote

By Bill Berkowitz

…bsite of the Catholic National Advisory Council, and after plac[ing] three phone calls to his campaign … we were told … that someone would get back to us, but no one did.” Donohue noted that he “personally e-mailed [Mark] Linton [Obama’s National Catholic Outreach Coordinator] informing him of the three phone calls, requesting that he respond to my question: ‘I would like to know whether the Catholic National Advisory Council for Sen. Obama is sti…

As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem

By Chrissy Stroop

…cs were polled separately from the undifferentiated mass of “nones,” their numbers would be better. In any case, the report’s assumptions notwithstanding, the data clearly show that America’s white Christians continue to exhibit a large and dangerous anti-social and anti-democratic streak. The report’s treatment of the white evangelical demographic in particular seems to be overly rosy, given that the drop in white evangelical vaccine refusal from…

Student Expelled from Sorority for Transphobia Illustrates the Problem with Evangelical Understanding of Pluralism

By Chrissy Stroop

…ght-wing attempts to package anti-pluralism as pluralism or diversity. If, after all, you believe that trans people should not exist—even that we do not exist, despite all evidence to the contrary—you aren’t exactly welcoming those who are different from you. Of course, Hines wouldn’t have been sanctioned for merely holding that bigoted belief. But when you demean and disparage a member of a marginalized group in a very public way, you’re contribu…