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Gay in Uganda – Faith and Sexuality Conference
The challenges to gay Ugandans are severe, and often aggravated by religious groups intent on stoking prejudice and worse. As Chris Morley recently reported, Catholic bishops are now backing the revived bill to criminalize homosexuality, and a government minister (an…
US Bishops’ Selective, Simplistic Uproar Over Conscience
All week, I’ve been struggling to find anything sensible to post about the extraordinary brouhaha whipped up by the Catholic bishops over contraception coverage, health care and “religious freedom.” As a non-American, and as I don’t pretend to understand the detail…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 1
Robert McClory on the Embarrassment the Catholic Bishops Have Become (and How They’ve Gotten There). Robert McClory at National Catholic Reporter writing about the U.S. Catholic bishops and what an embarrassment their campaign for “religious freedom” is for many American…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 2
Two Pictures, Two Thousand Words: Congressional Hearing on Religious Liberty. As Pema Levy notes at Talking Points Memo today, the picture at the head of the posting is from yesterday’s Congressional hearing about “religious liberty,” and has been circulating all…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 3
This Just in: USCCB Legal Counsel Anthony Picarello Tells Media Bishops “Will Not Relent”. This just in: right-wing propagandist legal counsel to the U.S. Catholic bishops Anthony Picarello informed reporters today that the U.S. Catholic bishops “will not relent” on their…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 4
Contraception Battles: More Commentary Hot off the Presses. I can’t avoid that news, because it’s everywhere these days, from an article today at Alternet by Adele Stan about how the bishops’ political powerlessness has been definitively exposed, to a similar statement…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 5
Bill Moyers on Religious Freedom: Freedom of and Freedom from. As always, Bill Moyers is eminently sane in what he writes about the made-up holy war for “religious freedom” that the Republican party (and a large number of white evangelical…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 6
Gerald Beyer on Strange Bedfellows: U.S. Bishops’ Religious Liberty Crusade and Neoliberalism. There was one other valuable article of which I intended to take note in the posting I just uploaded, and I lost sight of it in the thicket…
Bishops’ Hypocrisy on Religious Freedom and Contraception.
A headline at the National Catholic Reporter, to an article on thecurrent contraception controversy, states unambiguously, ”Catholics unite in opposition to contraception mandate“. This is patently untrue. The bishops may have united, and may have the backing of several Catholic…
