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Morality A-Quiver: The Fight Against Contraception
Pat Bagley, "Personhood Defined"I originally wrote this article nearly five years ago. In light of recent events, I think it is still topical-- indeed, that more than ever the topic bears public...
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Religion of Peace: Christian Violence and the Cry of "Blasphemy"
Nicki Minaj, regardless of your opinion as to whether she is talented or talentless, has raised the hackles of the religious. Her recent Grammy appearance has some Catholics raising the Blasphemy...
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Friday Links Bonanza (3/2/2012)
Since the last festival of links:PoliticsGOP Culture Warrior Rick Santorum: Said he wanted to "stop the bickering and focus on the issues." Which issues, Rick? Pretended that JFK tried to abolish...
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Despite GOP Rhetoric, Majority of Americans Don't Buy That Religious Liberty...
Ever since the Obama administration mandated that employers cover contraception in their health care plans, the religious right and the GOP have been claiming, over and over again, that religious...
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Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life
This is a two-part article meant to explore the legal and philosophical underpinnings of abortion. In this first part of the article, I'd like to give some thought to a common objection to a woman's...
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Did "Stand Your Ground" Contribute to Martin's Death? Yes, or No, It Surely...
Curiously, most of these articles start from the viewpoint that Zimmerman’s actions were legal, defensible, and had nothing to do with Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” (SYG) law. I sit at an interesting...
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Andrew Sullivan on Mormonism and Christian Nationalism– Did Jesus Foresee the...
In some ways, Mormonism is the perfect form of Christianity for Christianist nationalist politics. It is the only form of Christianity that believes Jesus visited America; that the Garden of Eden was...
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Shocking Christian School Textbooks- Government Funded Creationism?
This 2012-2013 school year, thanks to a bill pushed through by governor Bobby Jindal, thousands of students in Louisiana will receive state voucher money, transferred from public school funding, to...
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Paul Ryan Claims Romney Budget, Which Adds $10 Trillion To Debt, Will...
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s budget would add $10.7 trillion to the debt and reduce federal revenues to just 15 percent of GDP, exploding the “prairie fire of debt” Romney...
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Having It Both Ways: Cardinal George on Chik-Fil-A and Religious Bigotry
On July 16, 2012, CEO Dan Cathy of Chik-Fil-A went on public record about Chik-Fil-A’s longstanding opposition to homosexuality and support for organizations fighting against the right for gay...
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On the Stupidity of the Tu Quoque Defense of Todd Akin-- Kerry Gauthier is No...
Akin represents a view held at the top of the Republican PartyLOL, what a bunch of predictable yet feckless idiocy. OK, we all get it-- a Republican Senator says something monumentally stupid, showing...
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Mukasey's Sophistry
US Soldiers waterboard a prisoner during the Viet Nam conflict. The soldiers responsible were court-martialed.Originally written in the fall of 2007, this article addressed then Attorney General...
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Obama Post Convention Bounce "Gone"? I Wouldn't Bet On It.
So, Scott Rasmussen is claiming that Obama's post-convention bounce has evaporated? Wow, I'm not exactly sure what to do with the stupidity of Rasmussen's contention. Golly, a respected pollster like...
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Modern Conservative Principles: "Whatever Obama's For, I'm Against"
Originally published on Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:48 AM EDT . Doesn't appear that very much has changed in the last 18 months, does it?If recent history has shown us anything, it's shown us an absolute...
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Poisoned, Persecuted, and Tortured: American History Through the 'Christian...
Originally published on Fri Apr 17, 2009. If you search the Internet for the tag "Christian Nation," you'll find plenty of articles on the subject. And in all those articles, you are likely to find...
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Murder's OK, Torture's OK, Treason is OK-- We're Conservatives
It doesn't work if the other party is filled with assholes.Originally written on Tue Sep 1, 2009. Three years later, I believe the actions of conservatives in America merely confirm everything in this...
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Abortion & the Constitution
Original date of publication Thu Dec 14, 2006This is part 2 of a discussion concerning the legal, moral and philosophical underpinnings of the abortion debate. The last article considered the...
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Karl Rove's Ironic Battle Against Truth
Karl Rove, the Republican master of obfuscation and lying, has an Op-Ed out in the Wall Street Journal in which he claims that Obama's biggest opponent is the truth.The problem with this claim that...
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GOP Can't Seem to Shake Racists from Among Its Ranks
From Mecklenburg County Facebook pageA few words regarding the latter half of this post-- below the bar, I've included verbatim an article I wrote on October 20th, 2008 regarding the McCain campaign's...
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State of the Presidential Race: 1 November 2012
National Poll Aggregators:Huffington Post Election Dashboard (tracking 561 polls)-- Romney +0.2TPM -- Obama +1.3RCP -- TiePollTrack -- Obama +0.4Polling Analysts (chance of winning):FiveThirtyEight --...
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