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Infanticide Still Not a Growing Movement: 30 Years of Pro-Life Fudging

By Daniel Silliman

…has devalued human life to the point it is now acceptable to kill newborns, infants, even toddlers. It’s not true, but the rumors are taken for fact. They are reported as news and treated as outrageous and, at the same time, just what one would expect. Pro-choicers, the story goes, are slipping down their slippery slope all the way to infanticide. Links are then shared and re-shared regularly in on- and offline social networks. The most recent ex…

Teach Your Children Well: Challenging Religion-Based Sexism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…everage against “bad girls” is a popular pastime. But endorsing misogyny is, of course, how we roll. Misogynist authoritarianism demands that women be complicit in their own dehumanization. So when black recording artists rake in millions dehumanizing black women we become willing consumers. We masochistically rush to justify and excuse. Why? Because despite all of the strong-backbone-of-the-black-community post-feminist rhetoric, black women ar…

Evangelical Pastor Argues for Full LGBT Inclusion: “I Think It’s Inevitable”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rve the Sabbath could easily be regarded as a sin against nature. Of course, then, this issue would certainly qualify as a disputable matter. Paul’s answer in the matter is acceptance. If anything, Paul was siding with those he called “strong” on these issues. But, the “weak” side, if anything, had more biblical support for its argument. Sabbath keeping and not eating meat sacrificed to idols was clearly forbidden in scripture, so it makes a great…

Secularism in the US is Larger, More Diverse and More Dynamic Than Ever, But You Wouldn’t Know it From the Media

By Chrissy Stroop

…orstein, consider to be leadership, and how narrow-minded is their view?” I, too, would like to know the answer to this question. Thomas began her organizing work in 2011 because, while data indicated that more and more young African Americans were questioning and disaffiliating from religion, there was a lack of resources available to bring them together and address their needs. Black Nonbelievers, which now has affiliates in seven cities across…

Death Without Religion

By Gordon Haber

…e of its fingers; the Romans gave the body a rubdown with hot water (better, then, to be mistaken for dead in Rome). “Hebraic schools” (Teresi doesn’t say which ones) debated determining death by breath or heartbeat; medieval accounts of premature burial suggest that “decomposition was the only litmus test.” But the real problems began in 1968, when a Harvard Medical School committee determined that brain death occurs when the patient suffers a “l…

Catholic Sex Teaching is No Laughing Matter

By Marian Ronan

…ns. Ya think??? Trouble is, this stuff really isn’t funny. In point of fact, a number of official Catholic statements on sexuality—it’s invariably sexuality and gender they’re riled up about—are downright dangerous. Take, for example, the Ugandan Catholic bishops. As Peter Montgomery reported in RD this week, they joined recently with Anglican and Orthodox bishops “to speed-up the process of enacting the Anti-Homosexuality Law.” This is the bill w…

As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ation, ran a piece entitled “The Silent Persecution of Christians in Kosovo,” which, while undeniably biased, was not entirely untrue. Likewise, in September, in a piece for The American Conservative about the war in Ukraine, Doug Bandow called on readers to “witness NATO’s aggressive war against Serbia over Kosovo.” And two weeks ago, International Family News, a right-wing website run by National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown,…

Good News: Religious Outreach Works On Vaccine Hesitancy. Bad News: We Need It.

By Daniel Schultz

…well when a positive, affirming message is given to them, which is at least somewhat reassuring. Still, according to PRRI, more than 4 in 10 Americans are hesitant or opposed to getting vaccinated. That number could and should be much lower, but we seem to have lost our collective way. Over 500,000 dead, and America can’t even agree on the simplest proposition: getting your shot is good for you, and good for the people around you. Full disclosure:…

The Religious Right and the Tea Party on “Education Choice”

By Julie Ingersoll

…t activists (many of whom are now involved in the tea party) have long been, at most, ambivalent about how to engage issues related to the public schools they do not think should exist. To the surprise of many, they often oppose voucher and tuition tax credit plans, charter schools, and even efforts to teach creationism in the public schools or return prayer to the public schools. As the Times article points out, the tea party seems to be more uni…

PCUSA’s Nod to “Traditional” Marriage Understandable, but Not Accurate

By William E. Smith

…s matters greatly since kinship systems determine what counts as incest and, thus, who is off-limits to marry. The medieval Catholic Church embraced a complex and very expansive system of prohibited family members. The Church initially restricted legitimate marriage to people beyond the 7th degree of kinship, though it was later reduced, at the 4th Lateran Council in 1215 C.E., to the 4th degree. The Reformers, whose ideas helped shape marriage la…