Trump Is Out to Erase LGBT Americans from Public Life
Remember, back in the olden days of late January 2017, when Sean Spicer and a host…
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Obama Caves on (Another) Contraception Exemption
On Friday the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would capitulate to…
Read MoreGambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers
Gambia: President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers Fiercely anti-gay President Yahya Jammeh, who has called…
Read MoreReligious Leaders Urge Obama to Allow Abortion Funding in Foreign Aid
Religiously-based efforts to prevent girls from getting an education, like the kidnapping of Nigerian school…
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Florida Primary Winner: ‘War on Religion’ Talking Point
Though Gingrich got clobbered in today’s Florida primary, his echoing of the US Bishops’ war on religion talking point is likely to make it all the way to the 2012 election.
Read MoreLDS Church and the Birth Control Controversy
Making access to birth control a national issue helps Obama.
Read MoreReligious Liberty…For Bishops
What of protestants and Jews who believe it’s an obligation of their religion to practice contraception?
Read MoreContraception Isn’t Meat
An argument against Commonweal’s argument against the religious exemption.
Read MoreDemocrats Alarmed Over USCCB Pressure on Obama over Contraceptive Coverage
Concern that administration will cave to USCCB.
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Why Can’t We Take Death Seriously? The Obama Administration’s Latest Retreat
The truth is that the administration simply caved before the still potent specter of so-called “Death Panels”—a specter created last year by the likes of Sarah Palin, John Boehner, and other disingenuous opponents of health care reform. Let’s just say that in this new year, Team Obama is worried to death (pardon the expression) about defending its signature health care law from further assaults from the newly-emboldened Republicans.
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