Catholic Bishops Now Push Health Care Bill They Held Up
USCCB claims a bill that doesn’t sufficiently restrict abortion is not “genuine health care reform.”
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Stupak Forming Fault Lines in Left-Leaning Faith Groups?
With left-leaning faith groups unable to agree on abortion issues, the religious right—with the help of anti-choice Democrats—were able to convince Democratic strategists that they spoke for people of faith. Will the inability to take a strong stance for women’s rights split religious coalitions?
Read MoreShould Churches Get Tax Exemptions?
In the wake of the Catholic Bishops’ lobbying hard for the Stupak Amendment a pastor weighs in on tax exemptions for Churches.
Read MoreWhy Don’t Churches Have to Disclose Lobbying Activities?
A Democrat in Congress has called for changes to the IRS rules on church issue advocacy. That’s not likely to change, but perhaps some transparency is in order.
Read MorePro-Choice Groups Livid Over Passage of Stupak Amendment
Groups had compromised with anti-choice ideologues to gain passage of broader health reform measure rewarded with biggest rollback of reproductive rights in decades.
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Politics, Not Religion, At Heart of Health Care Reform Wrangle on Abortion
Despite repeated compromises from pro-choice Democrats, anti-choice Dems threaten to kill health care reform unless all their demands are met.
Read MoreCatholic Bishops to Use Mass to Lobby Against Health Care?
Both pro-choice and pro-life supporters of health care reform must speak out against this immoral use of religious services.
Read MoreA Tale of Two Abortion Narratives: Dems Overreaching on Abortion?
Are the Democrats “overreaching on abortion” as some have suggested, or are some religious leaders willing to tank health care for minor gains on pet issues? Depends on whom you ask.
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‘Soul Murder’ in the American Workplace
As the media yawns at the latest unemployment numbers, our columnist seeks religious leadership on the taboo subject of our dysfunctional relationship to work. For even if the economy recovers and “full employment” returns, we will still be encountering a workplace that remains a site of utter terror in some instances and a site of routine abuse and low-grade anxiety in others.
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Conservative ‘Cafeteria Catholics’ Favor Opposition to Gay Marriage Over Health Care
As the debate over gay marriage is reignited in New Jersey, the local Roman Catholic bishops threw themselves in with a zeal they have yet to display in the fight for universal health care, despite theological requirements that they fight for it. Are they acting like “cafeteria Catholics,” picking and choosing which parts of the Church’s mandates to follow?
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