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Analysis: Obama's course correction on birth control politics shifts dynamic
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's opposition is now the divided one.
For three weeks of heated rhetoric, Republicans cast the president's new rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide insurance for free birth control to...Tags: Newt Gingrich, The Associated Press, Health Treatments, Family Planning, Laws
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From the Right: Church of the state: Wait for it
Of all the strange things that have happened in the interpretation of “the separation of church and state” injunction in our Constitution, the latest is by far the most dangerous. We are used to the revised standard version in judicial...Tags: Health Treatments, Justice and Rights, Family Planning, Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Inoculating against religious freedom
A few weeks ago, Rick Santorum got some criticism for saying the U.S. Supreme Court erred in saying states may not outlaw contraception. The idea that Americans could legally be forbidden to buy condoms or birth control pills struck most people as a gross...Tags: Family Planning, Rick Santorum, Career and Workplace, Civil Rights, Health and Safety at Work
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Silicon Valley gives conservative Christians a boost
Silicon Valley, the politically liberal technology hub, is an unlikely incubator of conservative Christian activism. But a group of its venture capitalists is backing an ambitious project that seeks to affect the 2012 election by registering 5 million...Tags: Activism, Protestantism, Barack Obama, NASCAR, Auto Racing
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Group wants presidential pledge to religious freedom
The Religion WorldOpen Doors USA is presenting the pledge to ask all presidential candidates—including Republican, Democratic, Libertarian and independent—asking each of them to sign a Presidential Pledge for Religious Freedom. A candidate's signature... -
Archbishop Wenski deplores contraceptive mandate by feds
The Religion WorldA letter from Florida Catholic Archbishop Thomas Wenski will be read at all parishes this Sunday deploring the contraceptive mandate imposed on health plans by the Department of Health and Human Services. Here's the letter: Dear Brothers and Sisters... -
Let's socialize contraceptive services and be done with it
Change of SubjectDemocratic U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer, Calif.; Patty Murray, Washington; and Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire published an editorial in today's Wall Street Journal (read the whole thing on the San Francisco Chronicle's website) defending mandatory free... -
First Baptist David Uth on Obama and birth control
The Religion WorldFirst Baptist of Orlando Pastor David Uth sided with the Catholic bishops on the controversy over requiring religious organizations to provide birth control among their health care benefits. Here's what Uth told his congregations this past Sunday: “... -
A Long, Red-Faced Rant on This Contraception Horseshit
Off The MarkleyHere I am reporting to you from what I guess must be the Fifteenth Century, where apparently a mysoginistic cabal of old white men in the Vatican can tell American women that they must allow every sperm a chance to conceive in their womb. Obama caved... -
Most Americans don’t believe religion is under attack
The Religion WorldOn the heels of a months-long heated debate on religious liberty, a new national survey finds that 56 percent of Americans do not believe that the right of religious liberty is being threatened in America today. Another 39 percent believe religious... -
Cubans praise Pope Benedict's call for religious liberty
World NowTens of thousands of people crowded Revolution Plaza to hear Pope Benedict XVI speak Wednesday. Many praised the pope’s call an expanded role for the church, though they noted that Cuba had taken baby steps toward more religious freedom in recent... -
Bishops call for special day of prayer for liberty
Valley 610Pennsylvania's Catholic bishops are calling on the faithful to observe a day of prayer, fasting and abstinence for religious liberty, saying the cherished right is under assault by the federal government. In a joint letter, the 10 Latin and Eastern Rite...
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