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All rights reserved. en-us http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2382/catholic_pro-choice_leader%3A_democratic_party_has_%22turned_its_back%22_on_poor_women/ <p>Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, supports health care reform bill but says party strategists used women's reproductive health as "bargaining chip."</p> Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:35:01 PDT Sarah Posner http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2381/education%2C_texas-style/ <p>Will excising Thomas Jefferson backfire on the Texas Board of Education?</p> Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:10:01 PDT Lauri Lebo http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2383/the_nuns%E2%80%99_chutzpah/ <p>By breaking with bishops on health care reform, nuns roil the big boys.</p> Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:50:01 PDT Sarah Posner http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2377/america_ranks_toward_the_bottom_of_social_mobility/ <p>New report busts free market myths.</p> Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:32:01 PDT Jonathan L. Walton http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2367/some_good_old_fraud%2C_for_a_change/ <p>A new book illuminates the making of scientific frauds.</p> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:00:01 PDT Arri Eisen http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2372/brooks_misreads_niebuhr/ <p>Theologian did not endorse bipartisanship.</p> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:50:01 PDT Daniel Schultz http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2370/catholics_coming_around_on_senate_health_care_bill/ <p>Is Stupak being marginalized?</p> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:28:01 PDT Sarah Posner http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2369/ignoring_is_bliss/ <p>Explaining the Beck strategy.</p> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:42:01 PDT Daniel Schultz http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2365/hayworth%3A_just_say_%E2%80%9Cneigh%E2%80%9D_to_gay_marriage/ <p>Conservative favorite challenging John McCain for his Senate seat pulls a Santorum.</p> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:47:01 PDT Candace Chellew-Hodge http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2364/don%27t_feed_the_trolls/ <p>Pushback against Beck's social justice comments only fuel Beck.</p> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:43:01 PDT Daniel Schultz http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2363/about_that_focus_on_the_family_drama/ <p>Whether Dobson was forced out or not, a "new face" has been in the cards.</p> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:30:01 PDT Sarah Posner http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2362/younger_believers_leave_the_culture_wars_behind%2C_but_it%E2%80%99s_unclear_how_far/ <p>Taking the pulse of millennials requires more than public opinion polls.</p> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:54:01 PDT Mark Bergen http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2359/american_family_association_turns_on_virginia_governor_over_lgbt_discrimination/ <p>Not conservative enough?</p> Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:56:01 PST Candace Chellew-Hodge http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2360/dowd_misses_the_muslim_world_in_her_backyard/ <p>She didn't need to go to Mecca to learn about Islam.</p> Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:20:01 PST Hussein Rashid http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2355/stop_watching_glenn_beck%3A_preaching_to_the_choir/ <p>Beck is preaching to his own choir, as are his detractors.</p> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:32:01 PST Daniel Schultz http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2351/in_texas%2C_religious_conservatives_go_on_attack_in_board_of_education_curriculum_review/ <div>Liberty Legal Institute says on Fox and Friends that "educrats" are trying to indoctrinate Texas children and the Board of Education is just trying to restore conservative values to the curriculum.&nbsp;</div> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:54:01 PST Lauri Lebo http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/mediaculture/2348/islam%2C_meet_maureen_dowd/ <p>The <em>Times</em> columnist&rsquo;s latest betrays a terrifying ignorance of Islam.</p> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:42:01 PST Haroon Moghul http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2350/texas_school_board_votes_to_remove_thomas_jefferson_from_curriculum/ <p>References to Jefferson are removed from section on the Enlightenment.</p> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:03:01 PST Lauri Lebo http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2345/obama_under_fire_from_civil_liberties_groups_over_faith-based_policies/ <p>Obama still hasn't fulfilled campaign promises to reform Bush policies.</p> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:56:01 PST Sarah Posner http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2344/richmond%27s_religious_right_darlings_target_gays_and_lesbians/ <p>Governor Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli prove that the religious right, once again, is not dead.</p> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:34:01 PST Candace Chellew-Hodge http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2346/texas_history%3A_ignoring_the_experts%2C_round_2__/ <p>Texas Board of Education members continue "Christian Nation" quest to rewrite history.</p> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:26:01 PST Lauri Lebo http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/religionandtheology/2343/mainliners%2C_be_a_little_brutal_and_divisive/ <p>What does all the quiet good work of Mainline Liberals really come to in a public square dominated by the right?</p> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:31:01 PST Daniel Schultz http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/scienceenvironment/2342/global_warming_denialists_the_new_creationists_/ <p>Claiming to oppose &lsquo;scientific dogma&rsquo; climate change foes seek to &lsquo;teach the controversy&rsquo; in schools.</p> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:02:01 PST Lauri Lebo http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2339/call_for_a_catholic_tea_party_movement_claims_bishops_conference_is_too_liberal/ <p>Conservative Catholic group urges a tea party for Catholics, to oppose health care reform.</p> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:13:01 PST Sarah Posner http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/religionandtheology/2338/td_jakes_pushes_for_rehab_of_prisoners/ <p>Though he's frequently associated with the excesses of televangelism TD Jakes should be praised for doing the progressive thing.</p> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:24:01 PST Jonathan L. Walton