Religion Dispatches
When evangelical activist Brad Phillips told senior members of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa about what he had seen and heard during a recent trip to South Kordofan, Sudan, they called an emergency hearing.
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Republican Congressman Chris Smith, a conservative Catholic, introduces “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” says abortion is “not health care.”
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The Tea Party-inspired constitutional recitation of January 6 immediately ran into the problems any fundamentalism has with sacred scripture: what do you do with the parts that speak to the original intent of an entirely different era—stoning adulterers, casting down fire on one’s enemies, selling all one’s possessions and giving to the poor, requiring the return of runaway slaves, and counting slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation?
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National Public Radio may soon be under real assault from Republican lawmakers, if Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes’ comments about “liberal Nazis” are any indication. A congressman from Colorado Springs, Doug Lamborn is leading the charge.
Read More“The earth will end only when God says time to be over”
Read MoreThe fixers and string pullers party while jobless numbers mount.
Read MoreHas the incivility and outright hostility finally wound down, or is it just getting started?
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