Separation of Church and State

Separation of Church and Hate

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2008 | Living

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Dr. Susan Corso

May I respectfully request that anyone who is truly spiritual, and who understands that all humans deserve love, begin to pray for the separation of church and hate?

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Hey Mr. God, Lookie What I Did to Those Nasty Homosexuals!

Tom Gregory | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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Tom Gregory

The passage of California's Prop 8 comes to many as a shock, to some as a wake-up call, and to the rest of America as no real surprise. In 2000, B...

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California's Shame

Emily Cotler | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

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Emily Cotler

Equality for all. What could be more basic and simple than that? And yet, California's Proposition 8 passed. If you don't know what Prop 8 entails, it...

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Premature Emancipation? A Pragmatist's View of the Gay Marriage Struggle

Gary Cohan | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

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Gary Cohan

Civil rights are not won in the war zone of national elections or State referenda but, rather, in a series of small but important evolutionary steps.

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The Third Reich Rises for Prop 8 (Video)

Tom Gregory | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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Tom Gregory

2008-10-30-prop8pull.jpg At a recent Prop 8 rally Brad Dacus, an official campaign spokesman, actually compared the right of same-sex couples to marry to the rise of Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany.

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Prop 8: Preying on California

Tom Gregory | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

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Tom Gregory

The church poking its nose into politics has too long been too pervasive and too powerful in Bush's America.

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Remember the Alamo -- Tony Alamo

Diane Dimond | Posted 09.28.2008 | Living

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Diane Dimond

An 11 year-old said Alamo ordered four men to hit him with a paddle 140 times for some minor offense. The preacher dodged child abuse charges.

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S.C. Legislature: Lord's Prayer a Legal Document

Chris Rodda | Posted 09.26.2008 | Style

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Chris Rodda

A recent bill contrives to add the Lord's Prayer to the list of documents to be included in "educational and informational material regarding the history and background of American law."

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Do Liberals "Get It" When it Comes to Fighting Fundamentalism?

Evan Derkacz | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

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Evan Derkacz

Do the liberal values of dialogue and compromise actually have any effect when dealing with this powerful network?

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Praying For Pipelines Not My Kind Of Religion

Linda Hansen | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home

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Linda Hansen

Most people of faith pray for peace, an end to poverty, disease and human suffering. For others, their God wants the good guys to have the big bomb, most of the world's oil and plenty of cash.

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The Divided States of America: One Nation Under Two Gods

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

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Michelle Haimoff

These diametrically opposed, partisan visions of America can never be reconciled because both parties feel that they are fundamentally saving the other party from itself.

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G O P is not G O D

Buddy Winston | Posted 09.09.2008 | Home

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Buddy Winston

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Sarah's Boykin Moment

William Fisher | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

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William Fisher

There's an issue surfacing that's far more serious than the sale of Alaska's jet -- it's far more serious because it goes to the very heart of Governor Palin's approach to governance. The issue is God.

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Pastor Endorsements Sought By Conservative Group Lobbying IRS

Washington Post | Peter Slevin | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

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CHICAGO -- Declaring that clergy have a constitutional right to endorse political candidates from their pulpits, the socially conservative Alliance De...

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To Boldly Go Where No Californians Have Gone Before

Tom Gregory | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

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Tom Gregory

Now that he has the legal right to marry, actor George Takei sat down with me enthusiastically gushing about his upcoming nuptials to his partner of twenty-one years, Brad Altman.

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Major Christian Organization Endorses the Military Religious Freedom Foundation

Chris Rodda | Posted 09.06.2008 | Home

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Chris Rodda

I'm extremely happy to be able to write something about an organization that represents the views of the far more numerous mainstream and progressive Christians in our country.

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Obama's Faith-Based Program for Muslims

Steve Posner | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

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Steve Posner

Obama's faith should be irrelevant since unlike Bush's Christian-dominated faith-based initiatives, he insists that he will not use government resources to promote either Christianity or Islam or any other religion.

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Do We Really Need A 'Faith-Based' Initiative?

Barry W. Lynn | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

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Barry W. Lynn

I wish a presidential candidate would have the gumption to ask what has become a forbidden question: Do we need a faith-based initiative at all?

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God Bless Barack Obama

Bill Press | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Bill Press

Obama is standing up to the religious right, saying that when making the laws that govern our nation, we don't turn to the Bible. We base our laws on the only sacred text all Americans worship: The U.S. Constitution.

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The End of Freedom in America?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living

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John W. Whitehead

You'd think the schools would be grateful for a teacher who serves as a positive, moral role model for young people. But when religion is involved, even heroes like Marcus Borden find themselves under fire.

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There ISN'T anything wrong with that

Mariangela Anzalone | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home

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Mariangela Anzalone

Obama is not Muslim. He's not a terrorist, either. He has said so many, many times. Yet the internet campaign continues. Addressing the matter again this week, he at last said what I wanted to hear.

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Their Mullahs -- and Ours

James E. Groves, MD | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

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James E. Groves, MD

Mullahs everywhere tend to have a world view based on three core beliefs, about theocracy, infallibility, and patriarchy.

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Where Are All These Mormons Coming From?

Doug Bremner | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

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Doug Bremner

Bottom line is I can't see that the Mormons are any crazier than the evangelical Christians. Or any more sane for that matter.

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Religious Tests, Bigotry and the Race for the White House

John W. Whitehead | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

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John W. Whitehead

Despite the Constitution's clear prohibition of a religious test for office, the race for the White House has turned into a campaign to get Americans to vote in blocs for particular candidates based on their religious beliefs.

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Romney, Religion and John F. Kennedy: Two Speeches, Two Different Viewpoints

Barry W. Lynn | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

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Barry W. Lynn

I was outraged that Romney thinks that the Constitution is somehow based on faith and that judges should rule accordingly. That's a gross misunderstanding of the framework of our constitutional system.

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