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Justice Denied by the “Culture of Life”

A standard misconception of the religious right is to privilege sexual “sins” over the sin of, say, a lack of economic justice for women. A story from Genesis 38 retold...

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2010: What Did We Believe In?

It shouldn’t be surprising that the most sacred concerns of Americans are also some of the most contentious political issues of our day.

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2010: A Banner Year for Biblical Patriarchy

A look at Christian Reconstructionist Vision Forum’s year end report.

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Bristol Palin’s New Book Reveals Heterosexual Agenda

Yes, they do recruit.

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Did Jesus Help Ghanaian Women with Birth Control?

Just ask them directly.

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Personhood Shenanigans

Lila Rose is not from Mississippi...

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Mississippi Personhood Amendment Fails

What does this mean for fetal personhood measures across the country?

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Contraception Isn’t Meat

An argument against Commonweal's argument against the religious exemption.

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Religious Liberty…For Bishops

What of protestants and Jews who believe it's an obligation of their religion to practice contraception?

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Liberals Enabled Bishops in Contraception Battle

What propelled a ginned up controversy into a media frenzy wasn’t that the Bishops opposed Obama—again; it was that “even progressive Catholics” were up in arms about it.

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“Symbolic” Personhood Bill Could Kill

Here’s an idea: if you want to make a statement, print a T-shirt.

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How To Control Your Ungodly Urges… On a Budget!

In wake of Rush Limbaugh calling a Georgetown U student a "slut" RD has some helpful hints on how to avoid...well, you can read the headline.

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LDS Church-Owned Radio Station Stands By Rush Limbaugh

Advertisers flee misogynist heavyweight, but not Bonneville Communications.

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Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

Where Bush would sign something because anti-choice was his base, Perry actively instigates. A report from the frontlines of the kinder, gentler scorched-earth campaign against abortion and birth...

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Growing Catholic Resistance to Bishops’ Crusades

Pittsburgh and Seattle parishes are respectfully saying “no thank you” to bishops accusing Obama of a “to hell with you!” attitude.

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Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

I was both saddened and gratified by Mark Oppenheimer’s follow-up piece on the authors of Open Embrace, a Protestant couple’s jointly-written book on why they chose not to use artificial contraception,...

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Former USCCB Spox: HHS Doesn’t Speak for Me on Contraception

Is it supposed to?

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The Truth about Catholics and Condoms

The Pope took a big first step that the rest of the leadership must follow. 

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Catholic Cohabitators, Fornicators, and Masturbators, Please Step Up

On sacrament-denial and slut-shaming: why Barbara Johnson is a Catholic hero.

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LDS Church and the Birth Control Controversy

Making access to birth control a national issue helps Obama.

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