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San Diego Catholic Church: Clinton Satanic, a ‘Mortal Sin’ to Vote Democratic
“It is a mortal sin to vote Democrat … immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell.”
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Unlike American Evangelicals, Pope Francis Says Christians Owe LGBT People an Apology
“We Christians have much to apologize for; and those apologies need not be confined to just one area. Ask forgiveness, and not just say we’re sorry.”
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Pope Francis Hints At Eventually Allowing Women Priests
This is a big deal and could signal the Pope’s thinking that perhaps it is time for women to become priests.
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In Major Document Pope Exhorts Priests To Be More Welcoming and Less Judgmental
Pope Francis opened the door for Priests to offer divorced and remarried Catholics a path to take Holy Communion.
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Clinton Impeachment Attorney Ken Starr Isn’t Jumping Up to Support Kim Davis
Ken Starr dished out some reality to a religious freed summit audience, cautioning them that choosing which laws to obey is problematic
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Pope Francis Will Enter Hostile Republican Territory When He Visits Congress
The GOP is unhappy the Pope is adhering to Jesus’ teachings – not those of Ayn Rand, Charles and David Koch, and every teabagger in America
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Pope Francis Warns Churches To Practice Religion Or Start Paying Taxes
The Pope is put off that there are churches that would rather use buildings they own to make money than to house refugees
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Pope Francis Outshines Republicans by Forgiving Women Who Have Had Abortions
The Pope, once again, has moved in the opposite direction of the Republican mainstream, declaring that, as part of the Church’s jubilee year of mercy (8 December to 20 November 2016), women who have had abortions should be granted forgiveness.
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Cultural Genocide as Right-Wing Answer to Ireland’s Gay Impertinence
St. Patrick drove the Pagan snakes out of Ireland 16 centuries ago. Today, Gordon Klingenschmitt wants to drive the gay snakes out of Ireland
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Vatican Says Irish Marriage Equality Vote Was The Defeat Of Humanity
Although a weapon like same-sex marriage able to jeopardize the existence of the world’s largest religion sounds terrifying, the Vatican went a step farther and claimed the recent democratic vote in Ireland legalizing same-sex marriage is not only a clear and present danger to Christianity, it was a “defeat for humanity.”
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Marco Rubio Says Marriage Equality a Real and Present Danger to Christianity
Rubio talks about being globally competitive, but does hating gays more than Putin’s Russia make us globally competitive, too?
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Now Israelis And Republicans Are Very Angry At The Pope
Recently, although Republicans love the Vatican’s support for opposition to equal rights for women and the LGBT community, there has been growing enmity over the Pope’s opposition to income inequality and anthropogenic climate change. The Pope finally went too far this past week when he failed to comply with Israel’s agenda that Palestine will never be a sovereign state.
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Republicans Want The Pope To Stay Out Of Politics Unless It’s Conservative Politics
Congressional Republicans are upset with Pope Francis for making political statements on issues like income inequality, climate change, and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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Pope Francis Says Christians Must Become More Demanding In Support Of Equal Pay For Women
In his weekly Wednesday general audience, Pope Francis came out publicly in favor of equal pay for women.
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New Progressive Pope Embraces Old Conservative Vatican Bigotry
What the so-called more “Christ-like” Pope has not done is rescind any of the Church’s archaic moral policies his predecessors kept in place and apparently Francis has no intention of changing them anytime soon; regardless of his Fox-created “friendlier pope” public relations image.
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Tom Delay’s GOP Crusade to Establish Theocracy Is Doomed To Fail
The latest indication that Republicans will enjoin the Catholic bishops’ and religious right’s war against the Constitution, was disgraced former speaker of the house Tom Delay who said unapologetically that, “gays undermine his religious liberty.”
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The Real Unseen Danger of Indiana’s Legal Discrimination Law
It is why although the law appears only to target the LGBT community and allow the ‘faithful’ to legally punish same-sex marriage partners by refusing to hire, serve, or provide them with medical care, it is important to remember there is no mention of gays in the law.
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During Severe Drought San Francisco Catholics Soak The Homeless Who Are Seeking Shelter
In a conscientious city like San Francisco, water conservation measures are taken very seriously by businesses and residents alike; except for the San Francisco Archdiocese led by embattled Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone. The latest outrage, and it is a monumental outrage on humanitarian and water conservation terms, against the Archdiocese is the harshest criticism for installing a watering system to drench the homeless to prevent them from sleeping in doorways around the sanctuary at St. Mary’s Cathedral.
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Corporations Suddenly Don’t Have Religious Freedom if They Support Marriage Equality
Corporations apparently have religious freedom if they are against contraception, but they have no right to speak up about marriage equality
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Obama Attacked for Telling the Truth about Christianity’s Bloody History
Republicans are outraged that Christian murdering and enslaving for God should be compared to ISIL murdering and enslaving for God
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Pope Francis Is A U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Public Relations Creation
In fact, Francis is closely aligned with conservative Republican ideology; particularly in his position on addressing poverty and social issues such as homosexuality, same-sex marriage, birth control, and women’s rights.
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On The Roe v. Wade Anniversary A March To Ban Contraception
Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling giving women the right to choose when they give birth and, like every year for over two decades, religious fanatics will protest the landmark decision. Their contention is that patriarchs in Catholic Church, not women, own the right to make reproductive choices for American women.
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Hey Everybody, You’re Not for Free Speech if You Are Only for Your Own
The Pope said, “You cannot provoke, you cannot insult other people’s faith, you cannot mock it” but mocks critics of religion as provocateurs
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Bill Donohue: Muslims and Artists Must Become Catholic to Prevent Further Terrorist Attacks
In Donohue’s ideal world, Muslims and artists would convert to Catholicism, “If both did,” he says, “we would have peace and civility.”
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Hatred And Stupidity Killed 12 People, Not Religion
When it comes ti Islam, why must certain religious organizations “condemn” an attack where they assume their “religious extremists” are responsible?
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Bishops Join GOP Drive To Make Women Celibate Or Birth Machines
American Catholic bishops are taking advantage of the power bestowed on them by the conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby ruling. As is typical of the bishops, their aim is controlling American women and forcing them to either become celibate or perpetual birthing machines.
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The Koch Brothers Launch A Surrogate War Against Pope Francis
The Catholic Pope has garnered nothing but serious opposition and pushback from America’s evangelical and Catholic Republican movement, and now the Koch brothers and their dirty energy cabal have joined what is developing into a dirty oil-evangelical war against Pope Francis.
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Pope Plans To Go All In On Addressing Climate Change
Pope Francis plans to issue an edict on climate change in 2015.
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Catholic Bishops Expanding the Scope of the Hobby Lobby Ruling
It appears nothing short of an outright ban, and criminalization, of all forms of birth control will satisfy the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
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Pope Francis Condemns Those Who Use Religion to Promote Violence
“Let no one consider themselves to be the ‘armour’ of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!”
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It Was Catholic Bishops Who Masterminded The Evangelical Hobby Lobby Crusade
A group of Catholic bishops in America found an easy means to exert control over Christian conservatives and manipulate them to re-establish Vatican control over theocratic and political matters to bring women into subjection to Catholic dogma.
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Actual Religious Freedom Creates an Anti-First Amendment Firestorm in Bible Belt
The Religious Right, which regularly mocks and profanes the beliefs of others, thinks other religions should be banned from mocking and profaning theirs
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Satanic Magic vs Catholic Magic in Oklahoma
The Black Mass vs the Eucharist. In the end, Satanists want to piss on Jesus’ body and Catholics want to eat it
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Wealthy Americans Prove Pope Francis’ Point by Threatening Economic Blackmail
Home Depot founder Ken Langone complained that the Pope is being mean to rich Americans because unlike rich people in other countries, American rich people are benefactors.
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WND Says Social Justice Doesn’t Come from Jesus but from the KGB
The KGB has cleverly and diabolically re-written every Bible ever sold all the way back to the second century of the Common Era, missing only those copies anyone actually bother to read
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Pope Francis Does Not Want Bishops Who Follow a Particular Ideology
The pope’s representative told the American bishops, “You know this comes from my admiration, respect, and loving concern for the Church in America.”
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Ron Paul Talks Religious Demagoguery with Pat Robertson
Ron Paul joined Pat Robertson on the 700 Club to show his Religious Right bona fides and his new homeschool indoctrination program
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A Party Gone Mad – Today’s Republicans are Yesterday’s Fascists
You shouldn’t have to be a liberal to think fascism is a bad thing. Republicans should think so too, and once upon a time, they did. But those Republicans aren’t in power anymore.
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Pope Francis the Hipster and What He Means for America’s Culture Wars
You have to wonder at what point Pope Francis will have pulled the rug out from beneath America’s Catholic and Evangelical clergy.
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The GOP Dream: An America Like Heaven that is For Christians Only
According to Republicans, if liberals would stop saying no to fundamentalists, we could have the America Jesus intended when he wrote the Constitution!
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Traditional Family Values Christians Throw Family Hating Jesus Under the Bus
For the sake of the very modern concept of “family values” it is essential that people not listen to Jesus and put their family second, after the Kingdom of God.
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When Dogma Trumps the Constitution and Dollars Trump Dogma
In short, this is a story about the Catholic Churches priorities. Dogma trumps the constitution and dollars trump dogma.
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Fundamentalist Says Refrigeration Removes Sin. Tough Luck Gays and Lesbians!
Oklahoma Pastor James Taylor says if you can refrigerate something (like shellfish) it isn’t an abomination anymore
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Personhood of Convenience: The Hypocrisy Behind Sanctity of Life
One might think that the gospel, and all those deeply held religious values really are only wallet deep.
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House Republicans Waste More Time Trying to Ban Abortion and Birth Control
Apparently, voter rejection of extremist views against women in the recent election is lost on Republicans because they are persisting in attacking women’s reproductive rights as the primary focus of their war on women.
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Man Charged with Blasphemy for Pointing out Weeping Jesus Miracle was Plumbing Problem
In India, you can apparently be charged with blasphemy for pointing out that a statue of Jesus is not, in fact, crying.
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Ryan to Evangelicals: Obama’s Path Compromises Judeo-Christian Values
Paul Ryan says Obama’s path compromises some non-existent values; the real problem is that Obama stands between Ryan and the Constitution
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Billy Graham’s Debate Day Present to Romney – You’re not a Cultist
Billy Graham was clear about what constituted a cult. But for the sake of theocracy in 2012, Billy Graham sold his soul to Satan
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The Devil Inside Paul Ryan and Todd Akin’s Redefinition of Rape
Romney and Ryan are trying to run away from Akin this morning, saying they are for abortion in the case of rape, but history tells a different story.
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The Case against Using Religious Freedom to Block Birth Control Access
As the birth control mandate went into effect this week, religious freedom arguments continue to threaten it. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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Pastor Who Wants to Kill Gays Should Read his Gay Friendly Bible First
Yet another Evangelical hater wants to kill gays like the Pilgrims did but he might want to stop and read his gay friendly Bible first
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Closing Minds and Banning Science in North Carolina
By banning science, by banning any discussion at all of climate change in North Carolina, the anti-regulation Republicans are regulating scientific thought.
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The Veil of Church Secrecy: The Right Ignores Pedophilia Unless Blaming Gays
The Right has been trying to pin pedophilia on the gay community while at the same time, enabling actual occurrences of pedophilia
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Sure, the Christian Right Champions Religious Freedom – For Themselves
The Christian Right pretends to be champions of religious freedom; but the only freedom they care about is their freedom to ignore ours
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Catholic Bishop Goes Into Persecution Mode – Claims Obama is Hitler
After spending 1500 years relentlessly persecuting every alternative to itself, the Catholic Church has the audacity to claim it is the persecuted party
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The War On Religion Taken To Its Most Logical And Absurd Extremes
If Republicans want religious legislation to run this country, do it right. Only cover health-related matters that do not violate the 10 Commandments.
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Santorum And Gingrich Lose Their Minds In An Orgy Of Obama Derangement
Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich responded to Obama killing their phony war on religion by going on a full on orgy of Obama Derangement.
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Pope Benedict Blames Society Not The Church For Child Sex Scandal
It is a modern-era phenomenon to shirk responsibility for one’s actions that at one time was the domain of criminals and spoiled little children. In the past, the clergy preached that unless one accepted responsibility for their actions and repented, they were still sinning. So, in keeping with the tendency of today’s mindset of deflecting blame, the Pope stated that the church’s child sex-abuse scandal was a product of secular society where child abuse is commonplace.