Women Are Not “Pork”
The Democratic leadership caved in to conservative Republicans on family planning this week. The opposition for the religious right goes back to the historic rupture between sex and reproduction in the 20th century.
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Obama’s Divisive Choice of Rick Warren
In his zeal to appeal to all, the president-elect chose a pastor to give the invocation at his inauguration who has compared gays to pedophiles and abortion to the Holocaust. Why did he do it?
Read MoreProposition 8—the Rematch?
RD News Round-Up—December 8, 2008: Proposition 8—The Rematch; California Supreme Court Justice in Religious Right’s Crosshairs; American Family Association’s 40th Birthday; and “The Last Languages Campaign,” Breakaway Episcopalians, and “Counterfeit Pro-Lifer[s].”
Read MoreIs God the Supreme Abortionist?
As we help US culture emerge from its anti-scientific faith moment, we need to stress a rational morality.
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Proposition 8, The Mormon Coming Out Party
While the LDS Church’s leadership role in the passage of Proposition 8 may have been a surprising new direction for observers here in the United States, the Church has been instrumental in the organization of a world-spanning alliance of right-wing Christians and Muslims.
Read MoreChristianity and Condoms
The United States has exported its contradictory and confusing HIV prevention strategy to Africa: Abstain, Be Faithful, Condoms (ABC). Herewith a modest proposal to reconcile Christianity, identity, and HIV prevention…
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RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy
His “new evangelical” positions on global warming, condoms, et al., separate Warren from the old guard of the religious right—but when it comes to reproductive and gay civil rights, the best-selling reverend assumes the hardest of the hard line.
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Searching for Sex, Life and Abortion on Catholic Google
What happens when you search for contraception on the new Catholic-sanctioned search engine?
Read MoreWould Obama Have Chosen a Racist for Inauguration?
Commentators maintain that the selection of Rick Warren was a shrewd political calculation. But what of the moral center?
Read MoreSarah Posner to Mark Silk: Dems don’t need to cater to the center-right evangelicals.
A recent RD article has sparked a conversation around the web…
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