The Trump administration is making a mistake by encouraging abstinence-only sex education programs, which haven’t been shown to help prevent teen pregnancy or cut rates of sexually transmitted diseases. For all the Trump administration’s work to discourage abortions, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is taking a backward approach when it comes to preventing […]
Sex ed focused only on abstinence is a mistake Read More »
It sounds like a historical horror, but ‘treatment’ for sexual orientation remains legal in most of the world, including the UK. Mathew Shurka was 16 when he sat down with his father and told him he was gay. Brought up in a conservative New York suburb, the youngest child in a secular Jewish family and
‘I still have flashbacks’: the ‘global epidemic’ of LGBT conversion therapy Read More »
Why are you an atheist or agnostic? The obvious answer might be because you don’t believe in God. Or maybe you don’t think anyone can know if God exists. Becka A. Alper of the Pew Research Center, using data obtained late last year, just published an analysis looking specifically at the reasons “Nones” gave for why they don’t belong
Why Are Many Americans Abandoning Religion? A Lot of the Credit Goes to Pastors Read More »
Rep. Mike Kelly, a devout Catholic and Notre Dame alum, likened the passage of the Affordable Care Act — the largest expansion of healthcare in 50 years — to the attack on Pearl Harbor, fumbling FDR’s famous line, saying, “I want you to remember August 1, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a date
No, Rep. Mike Kelly, protecting children from bigotry is not “anti-religious” Read More »
This morning on Fox & Friends, Former Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden was invited to talk about Joe Kennedy, the former Bremerton High School football coach whose contract wasn’t renewed after he continued praying on the field while working. Kennedy sued — and lost repeatedly — but his lawyers are now asking the Supreme Court to consider his case. Bowden
FOX News Guest Blames School Shootings on Coaches Who Don’t Pray with Students Read More »
Not since the religious right burst onto the national political scene four decades ago has an American president done more to cultivate its good will than Donald Trump. Let us count the ways. He assembled a Who’s Who of evangelical activists as his religious advisors. He pledged to do away with the Johnson Amendment barring
Why religion won’t help the Republicans in the midterms Read More »
It’s been more than a week since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of the taxpayer-funded “Religious Freedom Task Force” with a lot of fanfare, yet we still know almost nothing about it, and that’s pretty terrifying. Church/state separation groups as well as religious allies have described the Task Force as “one-sided” and a ploy to use religion as
We Still Know Almost Nothing About Trump Admin’s “Religious Liberty Task Force” Read More »
When President Trump stood beside Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki last month and said, “I don’t see any reason why it would be” Russia who attempted to influence the 2016 election, the subsequent firestorm of criticism included liberals as well as prominent Republicans. “I am a tea party conservative, that will never change. But
When Franklin Graham met Putin Read More »
Four out of the five Republican candidates running for state superintendent of public instruction said they believe Arizona students should be taught creationism and intelligent design as part of science learning requirements. The candidates’ comments came during Wednesday night’s debate hosted by The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. Jonathan Gelbart was the sole Republican candidate who opposed teaching students creationism
Most GOP candidates for top Arizona schools post support teaching creationism Read More »
Standing beneath the cast aluminum statue of Lady Justice in the Department of Justice’s Great Hall, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a bold statement last week: “Many Americans have felt that their freedom to practice their faith has been under attack.” He spoke of Catholic nuns being forced to buy contraceptives. (Actually, the Affordable Care Act required
Poll suggests religious freedom push is having an effect Read More »
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