‘Bad Faith’ Reveals This isn’t First Rodeo for Racism and Religious Right
The Religious Right is experiencing another, devastating Covid surge, especially in Southern states with Republican…
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Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?
In 2018, I published an article here on Religion Dispatches about how abortion is a…
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First Roe, Then Contraception: Unless Action is Taken, Supreme Court is About to Strike Down Fundamental Rights of American Women
Sixteen days before Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, the Supreme Court scheduled a conference on a…
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The Christian Right’s Main Moral Argument Against Abortion Rights Completely Ignores This Critical Issue: It’s Time to Raise It
With an increasing number of states almost entirely banning abortion if the Supreme Court ends…
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The Lament of the Christian Disney Dad: What Evangelicals Really Hate About ‘Wokeness’ at Disney World
Conservative Christians have long seen the Walt Disney Company as an enemy in the culture…
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Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right
The late Norma McCorvey, aka Jane Roe, is back in the news, thanks to the…
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Opposing Anti-Choice Legislation Isn’t a Violation of Religious Freedom, It’s an Expression of It
While some have argued that opposition to a woman’s right to make decisions about her body is a legitimate religious freedom issue, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the religious freedom issue at stake in the abortion debate.
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How a Catholic-Majority SCOTUS Fulfilled an Evangelical Dream
This is not a majority Catholic court. It’s the Supreme Court that the strange alliance of the religious right built.
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Life After ‘Roe’: Clergy Consider Handing Out Morning-After Pill in Church
“The thing most of us have been talking about is to encourage the use of medical technology, the morning-after pills and very good new drugs. There are already very interesting groups of women my age feeling we could take the risk of loading up our vans to take road trips and give them out at churches.”
Read MoreKavanaugh’s ‘Jesuitical’ Response to ‘Abomination’ of ‘Roe v. Wade’ in 2006
Jesuitical: crafty; sly; intriguing.
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