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Bush's war on women's bodies

Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:26 PM
As the sun finally begins to rise and banish the darkness of the Bush years, we continue to witness an alarming chain of eleventh-hour regulations emanating from the White House. The latest of those offenses against decency was published today : The Bush
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Bishops in retrograde

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:50 PM
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is issuing a statement which characterizes any pro-choice legislation enacted under the Obama administration as an " attack on the church ." By some bizarre twist of logic, they also assert that any such legislation
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A curious church sign

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:10 PM
On the drive home from work today, I saw a church sign that read simply, "Proverbs 29:2." That was it. There was no expository text beyond the bare citation. When I got home, I looked it up : When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but
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David Neiwert on the TVUUC shooting

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:50 PM
David Neiwert, who has written extensively about eliminationist rhetoric from the right wing against liberals, had this to say about Sunday's tragedy in Knoxville: In reality, of course, rhetoric like this has historically played a critical role in some
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The day after

Monday, July 28, 2008 8:50 PM
Yesterday, a senseless act of non-random violence struck this city. A man, mad at the world and blaming liberals for his personal ills, targeted the innocent congregants of a progressive church in Knoxville, killing two and wounding seven. Like everyone
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Another day, another papal apology

Monday, July 21, 2008 10:48 PM
A couple of days ago, the Pope apologized again, this time in Sydney, for the Catholic Church's global sex abuse scandal : Speaking in Sydney, where he is participating in World Youth Day celebrations, the pontiff called the abuses 'a grave betrayal of
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Marsha Blackburn and other wingnuts sign off on theocracy

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:50 PM
Thirty-one members of the US House of Representatives seem to think the establishment of an American theocracy is a more urgent matter than any of the economic, military, or environmental problems we face. Those 31, including Tennessee's own resident
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The fruits of deliberate ignorance

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:33 PM
Despite the fact that creationism and its dark twin intelligent design are nothing more than religious dogma tarted up to look like science, a disturbingly high number of science teachers in US schools insist on presenting that propaganda to their students
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The Pope sticks his nose where it doesn't belong

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:20 PM
Pope Benedict gave an address in Washington today in which he derided our country's founding principle of separation between church and state. Our nation's firewall between clerical and legal authority really seemed to bother him. Arguing for an even
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Southern Baptists shift on global warming

Monday, March 10, 2008 8:32 PM
In a fairly surprising move, leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have adopted a position on global warming which stands in direct contradiction to their position taken only a year ago : Signaling a significant departure from the Southern Baptist
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