Showing posts with label pro-life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pro-life. Show all posts
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Recent Religion + Politics Commentary: "Pro-Life" Movement, Christian Nationalism, Southern Baptists and United Methodists, Leonard Leo and New USCCB President

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Here are some valuable articles I've read in the past week or two about religion and politics and their intersection:
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Nation with Soul of a Church on Eve of Historic Election: Weaponized Bibles Brandished with Guns as Nuns Choose to Be Photo Props for Trump

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Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone, " God and the GOP: Will evangelicals stay loyal to Trump? "  Charles Pierce writes ,  Just i...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

National Catholic Reporter Review of Sarah Posner, Unholy — "Sarah Posner's 'Unholy' implicates Catholics as well as evangelicals"

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Here's a review I wrote of Sarah Posner's Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump , which appeared in th...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

The Current US Election and Spectacularly Failed "Pro-Life" Politics of US Catholic Bishops

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Pew Research Center, 22 July - 4 August 2019 Catholic bishop Tobin of Rhode Island tweeted during last night's debate , "Joe Biden ...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Commentary on the Discussion of Amy Coney Barrett's Religious Views and Their Pertinence to Her Supreme Court Nomination

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Robert Ellsberg on Twitter, 27 September 2020   Frank Cocozzelli, " A Catholic’s Case Against Amy Coney Barrett ": The issue with ...
Monday, July 13, 2020

News Commentary in Time of Plague: 43 Pages of Obituaries in Houston Today (and the Role Many US Christians Are Playing in the Pandemic)

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OUR LOCAL PAPER: The Houston Chronicle obituary section was 43 pages today. Let that sink in. — Rogelio Garcia Lawyer (@LawyerRogelio...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

As US President Demands That Churches Re-Open, Case Study from Minnesota

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Friday, May 22, 2020

In a Play to His Base, US President Demands That Churches Open "Right Now": Twitter Talks Back

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President Trump says the country must reopen churches and other places of worship because they are essential. He said, “If they don’t d...

As US President Demands That Churches Be Re-Opened, Tragic Failure of Imagination of Many US Christians Driving Re-Opening Project

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There are times in history when it becomes apparent that the human community (or portions thereof) cannot continue doing business as usua...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Here's How I See the Response to the Pandemic Playing Out Now in the United States: People Who Will Pay Highest Price for "Re-Opening" Are the Vulnerable, Elderly, Poor, Minorities

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The U.S. just reported its deadliest day for coronavirus patients as states reopen, according to WHO. At least 2,909 people died of Covid...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Whose Life Is Expendable, Whose Is Not? More on Tacit Agenda of the "Pro-Life" Party Supported by White Christians to "Re-Open" US

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Two days ago, I wrote ,  What most "pro-life" white Christian Republicans will not say out loud right now — though an inc...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

While the Elderly, Minorities, and the Imprisoned Die, A Push to "Re-Open" the Country by "Pro-Life" Christian Republicans

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Reported US coronavirus deaths: 7 weeks ago: 0 deaths 6 weeks ago: 17 deaths 5 weeks ago: 49 deaths 4 weeks ago: 249 deaths 3 weeks ...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Facts, Numbers, Trump's Real Pandemic Record — and Continued Truth-Skirting of "Pro-Life" White Christians as Death Tolls Mount

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In my absolutely darkest moments right after the 2016 election I could not imagine this moment: thousands of Americans dying a day, an ec...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

12,000 US Catholics Sign Petition to Bishops to Permit Public Masses for Easter: "The Reckoning Is Upon Us"

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Kansas Gov Laura Kelly puts in place a stay-at-home order and a ban on large gatherings, like other (sane) governors. Republicans in K...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Cardinal Collins on Agitation of US Right for Congregational Worship During Pandemic: "Shallow" and "Absolutely Irresponsible"

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It’s so strange to hear people lamenting that they are deprived of church now, when many of those same people have been perfectly content ...
Sunday, April 5, 2020

Today's Guardian on Growing Backlash to Appeals to Cease Religious Gatherings, Fueled by Top GOP Leaders

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Since it appears some people just do not intend to get what's going on with some communities of faith — churches, notably — in the ...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Quote for Day: Right-Wing Evangelical Churches Want to Resist Closing Services — But Risk Killing Off Their Congregations

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David Neiwert, " Evangelical churches run smack into coronavirus' lethal reality, but some continue to resist " David N...
Friday, April 3, 2020

As Some Officials Exempt Religions Gatherings from Stay-at-Home Directives, Medical and Legal Experts Respond to "Incredibly Bad Idea"

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St. Ambrose of Milan, Cain and Abel , book 1, chapter 1, 3-4, from " Advice on Prayer — Ambrose, " at Crossroads Initiative  ...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Again, Belligerent Response of Many "Pro-Life" US Christians to Pandemic Restrictions Illustrates Serious Dangers of "Pro-Life" Christanity to the Rest of Us

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At the risk of sounding like a broken record : these video documents need to be preserved for the record, so that if there is a future b...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Pro-Life Head of Liberty University Reopens School Against Sound Advice: Nearly a Dozen Students Now Sick with COVID Symptoms

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Jerry Falwell Jr., 25 May 2009 , from the Brainyquote website Despite pleas from some of his own employees, from the governor of Virgi...