TX Gov. Warns Southern Baptists That People Are Trying to “Silence the Faithful”

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See if this makes any sense to you: At the annual gathering of the Southern Baptist Convention, with an estimated 15,000 attendees representing more than 47,000 churches, with Vice President Mike Pence scheduled to speak to the crowd on behalf of an administration that bows down to the Religion Right and a Congress in which more than 90% of …

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Sessions announces initiative on zoning regulations for religious institutions

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced an initiative on Wednesday aimed at boosting the Justice Department’s role protecting religious institutions from cumbersome zoning rules. “Under the laws of this country, government cannot discriminate against people based on their religion — not in law enforcement, not in grant-making, not in hiring and not in local zoning laws,” …

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Boy Scouts of America: We Still Don’t Want Open Atheists in Our Organization

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The Boy Scouts of America, over the past several years, has slowly accepted gay troops, gay leaders, trans boys, and, most recently, girls into their ranks. They’re even changing their name to Scouts BSA next year to get away from the limiting word “boys.” The attempts at inclusion (and subsequent publicity) have been good news for an organization that’s seen …

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Referendum on blasphemy expected to be held in October

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The Cabinet has agreed that a referendum should be held later this year on removing the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution. Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan brought a proposal to Tuesday’s meeting seeking approval to proceed with the referendum, which is expected to be held in October. It would likely take place at the same time …

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Doctors divided, AMA to continue to study physician aid-in-dying

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With its members arguing for and against physician-assisted dying, the American Medical Association voted yesterday to continue to review its stance on the issue. A recommendation that the AMA maintain its opposition to medical aid-in-dying was voted down, with delegates at the group’s annual meeting in Chicago voting to continue to review its guidance on …

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Mike Pence will address Southern Baptists — just as they’re reckoning with race and sexual misconduct

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This year was always going to be a controversial one for the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, which takes place Tuesday and Wednesday in Dallas. From the public outcry surrounding former president Paige Patterson, who was fired from his post as head of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary after making a series of remarks that …

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The GOP Still Wants to Repeal the Johnson Amendment Through a “Must-Pass” Bill

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Republicans’ attempts to repeal the Johnson Amendment aren’t over yet. For more than a year now, Donald Trump has promised the Religious Right that he would sign a repeal of the rule, which forbids places of worship from endorsing political candidates if they want to keep their tax exempt status. If he were to rescind it, Christian …

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Ralph Reed: Congressional Leaders Aim To Slip Johnson Amendment Repeal Into ‘Must-Pass’ Bill This Year

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During this weekend’s annual Road to Majority Conference, Faith and Freedom Coalition chairman and Religious Right activist Ralph Reed told attendees that Republican leaders in the Senate have been working with him to place a repeal of the Johnson Amendment in a “must-pass bill” before the end of this Congressional session. A provision in the …

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Indiana GOP votes to keep definition of marriage as ‘between a man and a woman’

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The Indiana Republican Party voted to keep language defining marriage as being “between a man and a woman” in its platform, rejecting language meant to be more inclusive of same-sex couples. Members at the GOP state party’s convention on Saturday overwhelmingly voted to keep the language first adopted under then-Gov. Mike Pence (R) in 2014, the Times …

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Is Your Hospital Catholic? Many Women Don’t Know.

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About one in six women in the United States name a Catholic facility as their go-to hospital for reproductive health care. But more than a third of these women are unaware that their hospital is Catholic, according to a survey revealing an “information gap” about Catholic hospitals, where religious rules dictate access to contraception, sterilization, and abortion services. …

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