Satanic Temple Organizing a Rally for Religious Liberty
The trouble started in 2015 when Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert sponsored a bill to erect a Ten Commandments monument at the capitol.
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At Jeffress’ First Baptist Church of Dallas, Trump Support Is Part of a 150-Year Tradition
Before Jeffress was W.A. Criswell, Billy Graham’s segregationist preacher, George Truett, the anti-Catholic namesake of the Chick-fil-A founder, and so on.
Read MoreTrump’s Abortion Gag Rule Is State Violence
Being for reproductive justice is non-negotiable for a feminism based on economic justice.
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The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Contraception Reversal
Behind the official explanation for the continued ban on birth control was the need to maintain the link between sex and procreation, which was essential to the maintenance of the traditional, subordinate role of women, a key concern of the Catholic Church.
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How a Catholic-Majority SCOTUS Fulfilled an Evangelical Dream
This is not a majority Catholic court. It’s the Supreme Court that the strange alliance of the religious right built.
Read MoreThe ‘White Lie’ Connecting Trump’s Pardon of Arsonists, Immigration Fiasco, and Charlottesville
In its melodramatic posturing, the Bundy occupation was almost like a ceremonial re-enactment of the heart of white possessiveness.
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The ‘Pro-Family’ Movement Has Little to Say About Family Separation
Unlike the vast majority of the pro-family movement, which is almost exclusively white and middle-class, these separations have largely affected people of color.
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Life After ‘Roe’: Clergy Consider Handing Out Morning-After Pill in Church
“The thing most of us have been talking about is to encourage the use of medical technology, the morning-after pills and very good new drugs. There are already very interesting groups of women my age feeling we could take the risk of loading up our vans to take road trips and give them out at churches.”
Read MoreThe Dark Side of Our Obsession With Trapped Thai Children
Surely most of us, no matter our political bent, feel sad for the entrapped children in both circumstances. But our collective conscience leads us to two different interventions on their behalf.
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Can Christians Lie? How Conservative Evangelical Bible Interpretation Has Shaped ‘Truth’
We are all like Sanders and other conservative white evangelicals insofar as we all have confirmation bias, making it difficult for us to accept evidence contrary to what we already believe, but the history and faith practices of white evangelicals offer an additional set of tools of belief.
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