New Report Shows Dems are Far More Religiously Diverse Than GOP — Though One (A)religious Group Remains Woefully Underrepresented
Although the House of Representatives has yet to conduct any business due to a far…
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Update #2: No Safe Place For Truthtellers: A Larger Frame For the House Chaplain Brouhaha
Pundits that play the story as merely another “unforced error” on Ryan’s part miss this crucial point about the containable rage of the exposed despoilers toward someone who is, by all accounts, a mild-mannered and well-regarded figure.
Read MoreOnward Christian Trump Soldiers
In preparation for the coming July 4th festivities, Rep. Doug Lamborn, who represents Colorado Springs…
Read MoreWill House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?
Where, oh where, are the “budget is a moral document” types when we really need…
Read MoreThe Pastoral is the Political: Let’s Stop Hyde-ing
Hyde could not attack the rights of rich and middle-class women, so he targeted poor women.
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Christianity’s Greatest Counterfeit
Like it or not, the Republicans in Congress are now a kind of congregation, a reality of church, a particular church, but still a church. Inescapably, now they present a Christianity in total power.
Read MoreDid America Just Dodge the Next Sarah Palin?
Mia Love—Black, Mormon, Republican, and poised for political stardom—fails to launch.
Read MoreA Buddhist and a Hindu Walk into the Congress…
Surprising notes on the religious (and non-) make up of the U.S. Congress.
Read MoreThe Other Mormon Candidate
Yes, there are Mormon Democrats.
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Apoplectic about Abortion: One Woman’s Emotional Roller Coaster
I used to be angry, now I am apoplectic. I also used to be fraulein and now I am a frau. I used to be a mademoiselle and now I am madame, a señorita and now a señora. In other words, I am a mature woman whose human rights are vanishing before her very eyes. For a long time, I have become habituated to freedom, confusing myself, apparently, with a human being—or even a man. I don’t like it when Congress treats me like a girl by hacking away at abortion rights and talking about eliminating funds for family planning.
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