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Religion Dispatches
When David Klinghoffer of the Discovery Institute called me out last week on a recent RD post, I decided to take the opportunity to review the history of the conservative think tank’s role in promoting the inclusion of intelligent design theory in the American science curriculum.
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Religion Dispatches
How can a secular state justify its desire to discriminate between married persons and single persons? What compelling state interest is served by creating such social groups? I suspect that when this debate has made its way through the courts, a new issue will have emerged: that the state has no business in the marriage business, period.
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Religion Dispatches
Discovery Institute once again runs away from school board after discussion of…Creationism.
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Religion Dispatches
Nevada Senate candidate says in a radio interview that government social programs violate the Ten Commandments.
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In echoes of Dover, a school board member in Louisiana suggests litigation just might be worth it.
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At the Fathers’ House International church in Henderson, Kentucky, Pastor Lisa Bourland is seated on the floor of the altar in the prayer room washing the feet of speakers for that evening’s Women, Weapons of Warfare (WWW) conference. Behind her is a blank movie screen—the…
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Religion Dispatches
Faith-based groups were active last week in publicly protesting Arizona’s law, evoking compassion, the dignity of the human, the imago Dei in all of us.
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Religion Dispatches
The following video was shot and edited by RD associate editor Sarah Posner to accompany her feature, Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe.
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