Your Uterus Is “An Important Subject” About Which Your Fellow Citizens “Wish To Converse”
Today the Supreme Court invalidated a Massachusetts law that required protesters at abortion clinics to…
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Black Mass Hysteria at Harvard: The Real Story
When the Satanic Temple offered to perform a historical re-enactment of a black mass through the Harvard…
Read MoreSatanic “Black Mass” at Harvard Excites Conservatives
The Satanic Temple, the group behind the proposed monument to Satan in Oklahoma, has announced that they will hold…
Read MoreAll the Belly-‘eich’-ing
On the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich and the perils of opposing LGBT equality.
Read MoreObama’s Compromise With Catholic Bishops Was a Bad Idea
As Obama meets Francis it’s a good time to remember that he gave an inch and the Bishops may just get their mile too.
Read MoreCorporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court
The view from inside the courtroom.
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Satanist Monument Shines Light on Christian Privilege
Will the challenge to build “an homage to the historic/literary Satan” at Oklahoma’s capital actually change anything?
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Marriage Equality: A Civil Religious Moment
Ralph Reed is doing a kind of constitutional drag performance for the press, dressing his religious values in secular sequins and pearls, but we all know what’s beneath the costume, right?
Read MoreAn Obituary for Right-Wing Evangelicalism?
Satirist and right-wing watcher Becky Garrison imagines a memorial for a movement.
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‘Religious Freedom’: Constitutional Principle or Electoral Politics?
In some quarters the Catholic Health Association’s rejection of the Obama administration’s compromise was treated as a reversal of position. But is it really all about contraceptive coverage?
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