Secular Group Calls On Obama To “Keep His Word” on Faith-Based Office
The cost to justice of theo-political alliances.
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Democrats Look to Conservative Evangelicals on Immigration
On a teleconference last month with a loose coalition of white and Latino evangelical leaders, Sen. Charles Schumer, the New York Democrat who had recently unveiled a legislative proposal for comprehensive immigration reform, pleaded with participants to bring Republican senators to the table to…
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Christian Lawyers Claim Religious Persecution
The Christian Legal Society has sued Hastings College of Law for its refusal to recognize their group as an official campus club, claiming their freedom to practice their faith is being challenged. An expert on church-state separation law says the case is more about the religious right’s “political moxie” to claim religious persecution than about religious liberty.
Read MoreReligious Right Panic Over Kagan’s Sexuality
Right wing groups demand to “out” Supreme Court nominee.
Read MoreThe Family Values Canard
Focus on the Family forgets about the family.
Read MoreConservative Military Chaplains Fight Repeal of DADT
The choice is not obeying God or man — chaplains are bound to obey the military code.
Read MoreA Catholic Bishop on sex ed, where Jewish singles mingle, and Queen Antoinette’s cult?: The Week In Religion… Poetically
A roundup of the latest from the world of religion.
Read MoreELCA Removes All Barriers to Gay Inclusion
LGBT candidates can now be ordained.
Read MoreHealth Care Reform Forgets the Gays
Some people still left out of historic victory.
Read MoreRichmond’s Religious Right Darlings Target Gays and Lesbians
Governor Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli prove that the religious right, once again, is not dead.
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