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Religion Dispatches

Glenn Beck Hijacks It’s a Wonderful Life

Claims “God will provide” for Ohio town hit hard by economic downturn.
Lauri Lebo
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Religion Dispatches

Hate Crimes Drop, But are Gays Safer?

Gays subject to disproportionate violence.
Candace Chellew-Hodge
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Tony Perkins: Soldiers Will Quit if Gays Can Serve Openly

What goes on between some people’s ears is greasier than a Thanksgiving turkey dipped in used motor oil.
Daniel Schultz
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Ending DADT = Draft?

The Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins has a new scare tactic to defend Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
Candace Chellew-Hodge
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Catholics for Equality Decries USCCB Election as Yielding to “Increasingly Uncharitable Demands of the Pope”

Election of Dolan as president and Kurtz as vice-president of USCCB evidence of “increased Vatican influence in US politics.”
Sarah Posner
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Religion Dispatches

Taking the Right-Wing Echo Chamber to the Halls of Congress

Michele Bachmann lists her dream team of constitutional scholars.
Lauri Lebo
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Sarah Palin Calls Biblical Patriarchs “Neanderthals”

Exposes fault lines on gender roles.
Julie Ingersoll
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Robertson’s Organizations Persist in Calls for Probe of Congressional Muslim Staffers

On the Christian Broadcasting Network yesterday, Jordan Sekulow claims to have identified “a problem within Islam.”
Sarah Posner
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Louisiana Panel Votes in Favor of Science Textbooks

Louisiana Family Forum behind creationist attack.
Lauri Lebo
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Louisiana Citizens Horrified that there’s Evolution in Science Books

Complaints about textbooks stem from Christian organization behind anti-science law.
Lauri Lebo
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