Evangelicals and Catholics didn’t always share the same views on contraception and abortion. A look at how their alliance came to be and how it’s shaping crucial legal battles.Â
Religion
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Tolerance For the Non-Religious, Here and Around the World
As on most things religious, the United States is an outlier.
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Israel-Palestine Peace: A Hostage to History
Recent comments from Benjamin Netanyahu suggest that he wants to bring the messy topic of subjective historical narratives to the negotiating table.Â
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Platinum-Level Citizenship
Highly-religious Christians’ battle to change the very nature of the First Amendment.Â
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Pope Francis’s “Cardinal” Rules
Thinking about Otto Preminger’s film 50 years later in the context of Pope Francis.
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Bishops May Not Be the Crooks This Time
The ACLU is suing Catholic leadership over a hospital’s mishandling of a high-risk pregnancy. But is it really their fault?
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The Contraception-Mandate Cases Aren’t Really About Contraception
They’re about expanding religious-freedom rights for corporations.Â
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The Gay Awakening
While Christian leadership has held fast against the changing tide of public opinion on same-sex marriage, congregations have moved on without them.
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A Church Basement Revival without the God Part
Even if you can start a religion that prominently features Bon Jovi songs, should you?
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George W. Bush Prepares to Offend Millions of Jews, Probably without Realizing It
Somebody needs to clue Dubya in about how Jews are going to feel about this.
