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Philly Gives Doctors Wide Leeway with Religious Exemption

By Patricia Miller

…mend that adolescent patients be counseled proactively about contraceptive use as part of routine exams, particularly about emergency contraceptives and long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), because of their potential to dramatically reduce teen pregnancy. The AAP “encourage[s] routine counseling and advance emergency-contraception prescription as one part of a public health strategy to reduce teen pregnancy,” while ACOG now recommends “LAR…

Bin Laden’s Death Does Not Prove that Torture Works

By Sarah Sentilles

…has been punished for engaging in it. Officials are able to champion their use of torture—as Bush did in Decision Points—because no one in the Bush Administration has been held accountable for torturing or for authorizing torture despite the overwhelming evidence that they did so. There are some countries to which Bush and Cheney can’t travel because they are considered war criminals, but they can travel freely in the United States, making the rou…

Lindsey Graham’s Lying “Eye-ranians”

By Haroon Moghul

…me shall not be spoken, sell that lie-dar back to us at bargain prices and use his profits to build a Super PAC to make sure you, I, and everyone here, are focused not on wage gaps but Iranian liars? For lie they do. But how much? When crowds gather to chant ‘Death to America,’ do they really mean ‘Live Long and Prosper’? If so, was Spock a jihadist? Should we interrogate Zachary Quinto? When some Iranian leaders suggest Israel has no place in the…

Khalifah: We Really Do Have Control Over Our Own Destiny

By Amina Wadud

…e, on this, that (and the other). Honestly, I found this very curious. Because I have always been taught, even as a Christian, that I had responsibility for my own soul. My father, a Methodist minister, used to say, “I can’t go to the Judgment for you. You have to go for yourself.” I never forgot this. As a Muslim, the interrelationship between us, as creatures who believe in and intentionally orient ourselves towards God/Allah/the Lord, is one wh…

Thomas Jefferson’s Bible Rejected the Supernatural Jesus in Response to the ‘Stupidity’ of Those Who Deified Him

By Gordon Haber

…he Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth. The subtitle says that it was “for the use of the Indians” but there’s nothing anywhere else to support that intention. Here’s the full title of the earlier book: The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth: extracted from the account of his life and doctrines as given by Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John. Being an abridgement of the New Testament for the use of the Indians unembarrassed with matters of fact or faith beyond t…

Women’s Equality in the Church is No Longer Negotiable

By Mary E. Hunt

…And the Congregation would pay them as restitution for the violence they caused. One effective way to use money for leverage is to encourage people, especially regular churchgoers, to redirect their giving. There are untold numbers of religious/spiritual non-profits, including women’s religious orders that are good alternatives to the local parish for providing services in the community. If one is conscience stricken about worshipping in a buildin…

Blame Muscular Christianity for Driscoll Fiasco

By Hollis Phelps

…onal churches, such as Mars Hill Church and those affiliated with Acts 29, use means that otherwise may be deemed suspect, for the ultimate end of reaching and saving “the lost”? Thus when Driscoll and his church were accused of gaming the system to catapult Real Marriage to best-seller status, Mars Hill’s Justin Dean justified the campaign as follows: Mars Hill has made marketing investments for book releases and sermon series, along with album r…

Who Could Possibly Take Issue With ‘Human Dignity’? Beware of Trojan Horses

By Peter Schwartz

…and more directly aligned with the ways Paul Johnson and Justin Dyer made use of the term. To flesh out this meaning, let’s consider Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital system which in 2019 merged with Catholic Health Initiatives to become CommonSpirit Health, the 5th-largest (and the 2nd-largest non-profit) hospital system in the United States. Here’s how Dignity Health explains its adoption of the term “dignity” to represent its identity to the…

Rape and Richard Mourdock’s Semi-Omnipotent God

By Sarah Sentilles

…ts its religious justifications are similar: it would ban gay marriage because homosexuality is a “sin”; it would ban abortion, even in the case of rape, because, as Mourdock claims to know, life is a gift from God. Predictably, some commentators are recycling the tired talking point that “the left doesn’t get religion” to discredit those outraged by Mourdock’s comments. On the right, New York Times columnnist Ross Douthat argues that the media on…

Prominent Evangelical Pundit Accuses Obama of “Abusing” Faith-Based Office

By Sarah Posner

…obscured by reckless, sloppy and somewhat McCarthyite behavior” by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.) Lee Fang, the Center for American Progress blogger who broke the story, has more details on the funding this week and told me that the Chamber’s use of foreign funding for political attack ads “is unprecedented.” Anything else? I asked Wehner, aside from going after that well-known friend of Jesus, the Chamber of Commerce? His replies incl…