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  • December 7, 2012
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Share This Chain Letter or You’ll Go to Hell

It’s always a little disappointing when a Facebook friend you like puts up a post that expresses views you really don’t like. This time it was a chain letter that apparently originated with “holiday confessions” by CBS presenter Ben Stein, but … Read more →

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  • November 28, 2012
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Helping People is Harder Than Condemning Them. Also, Contraception is Awesome.

Libby Anne of Love, Joy, Feminism has been blogging a lot about how she lost faith in the pro-life movement. Today she has a post about social safety nets for poor women and families, and the idea that women must somehow … Read more →

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  • November 20, 2012
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Church of England Votes Against Women Bishops

From the BBC: The general synod of the Church of England has voted narrowly against the appointment of women as bishops.   The measure was passed by the synod’s houses of bishops and clergy but was rejected by the house … Read more →

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  • November 15, 2012
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“Is Religion Bigger Than Humanity?”

Savita Halappanavar’s family gives an interview in the Bangalore Mirror: Savita’s brother, Sanjeev Yalagi, asked: “Is religion bigger than humanity? My sister begged to be saved. But, the doctors waited for three days and it 
resulted in my sister’s death. … Read more →

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  • November 14, 2012
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Woman in Ireland Dies After Doctors Refuse to Complete Miscarriage of Non-Viable Fetus

In Galway, Ireland, a pregnant woman went to the hospital experiencing severe pain, which turned out to be a miscarriage. From the BBC: Savita Halappanavar’s family said she asked several times for her pregnancy to be terminated because she had … Read more →

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  • November 1, 2012
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More Good Links from The Atlantic

The Atlantic has started a new section called “The Sexes” to discuss issues related to gender. There were two articles that caught my eye: “Work-Life Balance as a Men’s Issue, Too”, by Anne-Marie Slaughter (author of “Why Women Still Can’t … Read more →

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  • October 23, 2012
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Rethinking Vision Forum

Check out Rethinking Vision Forum! It’s a website that compiles articles expressing concern over Vision Forum, an organization that promotes Christian Patriarchy and the Quiverfull movement. Libby Anne from Love, Joy, Feminism asked bloggers to link to it to help the website stay high … Read more →

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  • October 22, 2012
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Well, This is Weird

The Friendly Atheist has a secretly filmed video of rituals inside a Mormon temple. Watch it. Some religious rituals make sense, on a collective consciousness sort of level. I understand baptism as a symbolic threshold thing, and I understand communion … Read more →

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  • October 9, 2012
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Execute the Parents! No Wait, Execute the Children!

Sometimes we need a reminder of the absolute wrong way to do things. Case 1: Meet Clifford Russell, a Romney campaign worker in Virginia, as interviewed by Christopher Cook in The Progressive. “What’s killing us is all these entitlements, we’ve … Read more →

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  • September 11, 2012
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History of Sexuality–Virgin Mary–Abortion

This is from an article in Religion Dispatches, featuring two historians, Thomas Laqueur and Virginia Burrus, discussing Todd Akin’s rape/pregnancy comments in the context of theology and church history. Dr. Laqueur studies the history of sexuality, and was asked a … Read more →

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