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Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

…ts image gallery of screen shots from the now-deleted Daily Beast comments list) is enough to make it a plausible theory. A False Equivalence Anti-abortion propagandists have since backed away from the Mason smear campaign, perhaps because the facts don’t add up. Still, a correction has yet to be issued by any of the involved parties and the damage has been done. One Colorado Senator leapt to condemn the ugly tactics of intimidation by “opponents…

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Where Are the Pro-Life Reactions to the Romney/Stericycle Story?

…nd a Pro-Life Congress Committed to Repealing ObamaCare.” Susan B. Anthony List? Its president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, wrote a column for National Review Online yesterday titled “Pro-Lifers Must Unite Behind Romney.” (The discussion in the comments thread did make its way around to the Stericycle story, with folks chiming in both to support and criticize Romney.) Americans United for Life? Again, as of 4 p.m. central, their online media center mad…

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Taking Liberties: 8 Great Stories on Religion and History in U.S. Politics

…reflective 4th. —The Eds. __________________________ RD’s JULY 4th READING LIST The Quixotic Task of Debunking David Barton PAUL HARVEY • Jun 3, 2012 The reason all the refutation in the world will have little or no effect on Barton’s target audience is that his book, The Jefferson Lies, is not really about Jefferson at all; it’s about Barton’s own skewed view of the context of historical scholarship and the academic enterprise—and, for that matte…

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Mormons Take Even More Activist Message to DC Pride March

…e call for signature gatherers that went out over one congregation’s email list.  But even without formal LDS Church involvement in Maryland, you feel compelled to take a more political stance than the Salt Lake City marchers. Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail said, “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.” Many good me…

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Killing Love in North Carolina

…y sex, for some odd reason. So, we’re subjected to the prattling on of moralists who call gay and lesbian people perverts — so because of our perversion we should not be allowed to sign a legal contract between ourselves and our government — free from the meddling of any church body or religious believer. The fundamental unfairness is underscored by one blogger who wrote: ” … married couples don’t have to be saints to get all the state based benef…

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Notify This! Vatican Bungles Response to Sexual Ethics Book

…ated, and demeaned. That the Vatican places masturbation at the top of its list highlights its perverted priorities in a deeply troubled world. It is impossible to imagine the discourse as the men took under their scholarly consideration Margaret’s understated, but nonetheless robust, affirmation of women finding “great good in self-pleasuring… something many had not experienced or even known about in their ordinary sexual relations with husbands…

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Conservative Christian Anti-Abortion Hero is Neither Christian nor Anti-Abortion

…ervative groups, including National Right to Life and the Susan B. Anthony List, continue to use Chen’s struggle against forced abortions in China to further pro-life politics in the U.S. Unfortunately, Chen’s own political statements aren’t really giving them much to work with. First, conservative media critic Terry Mattingly hailed Chen as a Christian pro-lifer, and accused mainstream media coverage of missing the “faith angle”—until it was poin…

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Pamela Geller Bars Muslims from “Human Rights” Conference

…urity detail barred them from entering, telling Baddar he’s on a “no-enter list”; the police later are summoned to escort the perfectly calm and peaceful Muslims out of the hotel. (AAI’s event, in contrast, was open to the public and required no registration or fee.) The whole video is worth watching to understand the paranoid lengths Geller’s staff engages in to avoid having actual Muslims attend her conference. And what kind of person does atten…

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Why are Romney SuperPac Donors Shy?

…a multilevel marketing cosmetics company. NPR remarked on the “Go down the list of people who have given a million dollars to a superPAC, and you realize many of them are not shy about their wealth.” But not so for this particular Romney donor. Why? Wealth means status in the world of Mormonism, as it does just about everywhere else. But Mormon culture and church tradition emphasize privacy and even anonymity in giving. There are no “named giving…

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Bryan Fischer’s Homophobic Attacks on Romney’s Spox

…d Nations, Grenell fought unsuccessfully to have his partner, Matt Lashey, listed among the spouses in the United Nations’s Blue Book, a personnel directory. “It’s concerning that you would have somebody tapped to be potentially in an administration that would continue the policies that we’re seeing in the Obama administration,” Perkins said. See, it’s all a matter of presentation. Perkins knows enough not to go rhetorically off the rails like Fis…

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