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Marriage Amendments Threaten Religious Freedom
Wed May 9, 2012 10:06 AM EDT
There’s another argument to be made when people fight state and federal marriage amendments like the one just passed in North Carolina. It has the potential to take back the debate because it’s about the Constitution and the First Amendment’s guarantee of relig …
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Will These Supremes Care About "Equal Justice for All?"
Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:47 PM EDT
I lost what was left of my naiveté about the equal justice ideal of the Supreme Court with their decision in Bush v. Gore to select George W. Bush president by suspending Florida’s vote recount in 2000. That political overreach by the increasingly activist right-win …
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What Do We Learn from Rush's Latest Offense?
Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:24 PM EDT
Anyone paying the slightest attention has heard of right-wing talker Rush Limbaugh’s three-day rant against a female Georgetown University law student whom Republicans refused to allow to testify at a congressional birth control hearing. It wasn’t about one or two wo …
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Will "Culture Wars" Work Again?
Thu Mar 1, 2012 9:21 AM EST
“Culture Wars” are back in the headlines. They actually never left politics. Right-wing leaders have been invoking the symbol of “Culture Wars” ad nauseam without attracting mainstream media attention. But now current Republican leaders and presidential c …
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Sex in 2012
Wed Feb 1, 2012 10:26 AM EST
There’s probably no better time than Valentines Day to assess the state of sex in the US.
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When It Comes to Religion, Let's Keep One Resolution
Fri Dec 30, 2011 10:41 AM EST
This year, let’s keep one resolution – when we talk about religious people, let’s never again refer to them as literalists. That’s because they aren’t, and no one is. No one takes all their scriptures, tradition, or even their natural laws literally.
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Yes "We" Can
Sat Nov 19, 2011 3:10 PM EST
November’s election results renewed hope in progressives that their work still pays off at the polls.
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And We Keep Expecting Them to Be Rational...
Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:02 AM EDT
It’s an important point that right-wing propagandists get, but again and again I hear so many of us miss.
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Does Your Politician Meet the Religious Test?
Fri Aug 12, 2011 4:29 PM EDT
There might actually be politicians who are sincerely religious – think Jimmy Carter – but I wouldn’t trust the words of any of them when it comes to describing their religious faith and what it has to do with their stand on national issue. They’re so suc …
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Eighteen Suicides a Day
Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:12 PM EDT
Eighteen U.S. veterans, on average, commit suicide every day. Eighteen. Every day That’s the latest statistic of one of the most under-reported costs of our wars.
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More Believers are Saying, "It Ain't Necessarily So"
Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:04 AM EDT
The Millennial generation better hurry up and take over.
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Re-Using the Religious Right-Wing for 2012
Tue Apr 19, 2011 4:41 PM EDT
Peter Montgomery, a senior fellow at the People for the American Way Foundation, is closely following the current courting of the religious right-wing by the Koch-funded astroturf group, Americans for Prosperity.
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A Movement for Real Change We Can Believe In
Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:08 PM EDT
There’s so much happening politically that looks like a war on democracy that I haven’t been able to focus on the status of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” since it was “ended,” or the progress, or lack thereof, of civil unions and marriag …
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Egyptian Hope; American Pessimism
Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:51 AM EST
The world watched as younger generations in Egypt rose up against the old guard represented by 82-year-old Hosni Mubarak, who had been their President as long as most could remember.
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When the Right Claims Words Don't Matter...
Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:24 PM EST
When gay-bashers around the country torture, torment, and kill lesbians, gay men, transgender people, and those perceived to be, they often are repeating words spoken from pulpits.While sitting on a panel of religious types, that was the response I gave when asked if I blamed an …
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When Can a Speaker of the House Cry?
Sat Jan 1, 2011 1:14 PM EST
Some are calling right-wing Ohio Republican John Boehner “The Weeper of the House,” as he strengthens his control over the US House of Representative’s agenda.
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This Generation Gap Really Matters
Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:42 AM EST
The election returns are in. There are many ways to look back at them as we look forward to a new Congress characterized by even more Republican bullying. For many of us, the country took a step backward. It looks like a real mess, at least in the short-run.
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Why Obama Became the Right-Wing's Devil
Wed Nov 3, 2010 10:28 AM EDT
Back in November 2008 we saw the perfect storm for the religiously addicted I described in When Religion Is an Addiction. Their “Christian” president who was dealing their high of being right was ending his eight-year term.
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Marriage Amendments Threaten Religious Freedom
There’s another argument to be made when people fight state and federal marriage amendments like the one just passed in North Carolina. It has the potential to take back the debate because it’s about the Constitution and the First Amendment’s guarantee of relig …
Will These Supremes Care About "Equal Justice for All?"
I lost what was left of my naiveté about the equal justice ideal of the Supreme Court with their decision in Bush v. Gore to select George W. Bush president by suspending Florida’s vote recount in 2000. That political overreach by the increasingly activist right-win …
What Do We Learn from Rush's Latest Offense?
Anyone paying the slightest attention has heard of right-wing talker Rush Limbaugh’s three-day rant against a female Georgetown University law student whom Republicans refused to allow to testify at a congressional birth control hearing. It wasn’t about one or two wo …
Will "Culture Wars" Work Again?
“Culture Wars” are back in the headlines. They actually never left politics. Right-wing leaders have been invoking the symbol of “Culture Wars” ad nauseam without attracting mainstream media attention. But now current Republican leaders and presidential c …
Sex in 2012
There’s probably no better time than Valentines Day to assess the state of sex in the US.
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