We will take action in short order to follow the President’s instruction to safeguard the deeply held religious beliefs of Americans who provide health insurance.
Opinion: HHS Secretary Celebrates Chance To Deny Women Contraceptive Access
Opinion: Trump Gives Churches Free Rein To Campaign For Profit
Greedy evangelicals expected much more in remuneration for their electoral support for Trump’s candidacy than freedom to violate IRS rules with impunity.
Opinion: Trump Gives Raging Anti-Choice Propagandist HHS Public Affairs Job
Yoest has a long record of undermining women’s access to health care by distorting the facts; her selection shows the administration is pandering to extreme evangelical conservatives.
The Diabolical Plot Behind Trump Cabinet’s Weekly Prayer and Bible Lessons
She thinks biblically, She doesn’t need time to figure out how to vote because she sees the world through a scriptural lens. "We need more like her in office."
Opinion: SCOTUS Hears Arguments To Tear Down Church and State Barrier
A ruling for theocracy will effectively demolish church-state separation and neuter the First Amendment’s religious clauses.
Opinion: Texas GOP Bill Allows Officials to Refuse Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
"Texas Senate has no problem with taxpayer-funded discrimination against virtually anyone who doesn't meet a public official's personal [religious] standards."
Opinion: Pence’s Rush To Break Senate Tie and Eliminate Women’s Access to Healthcare
We must use the full force of Congress and strength of the [Catholic] pro-life movement to defeat this absurd rule that allows poor women to have healthcare.
Jeff Sessions Believes the First Amendment Separation Clause Is Unconstitutional
Jefferson stating separation of church and state is contained within the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is "unhistorical" according to Sessions.
Vice President Mike Pence Wants the Bible Taught As Science
The evangelical fundamentalists, all 13.2 percent of them, are appealing to vice president-elect Pence by petition and demanding that he, as head of domestic policy, inform president-elect Trump that it is crucial to immediately issue an executive order in"definitely banning” the teaching of evolution as science.
Trump’s Emboldened Religious Right Will Wreak Havoc on America
*The following is an opinion column by R Muse*
Over the course of the last several years no small number of pundits and commentators have trumpeted the demise of the religious right and their masters at the Vatican. As the recent election appeared to look bleak for Trump, and by extension the Republican Party and evangelical movement, it did appear to many that Trump would take down the religious right along with the Republican Party. Of course none of that transpired as predicted. Instead, as this column warned, the religious right turned out in force to increase their power and authority over government and even if the results were different, the religious right would have transformed an electoral defeat into a new and improved persecution complex that a sympathetic Republican majority would take advantage of.
56-Million Voters Handed the Kochs and Religious Right Control Over America
Instead of a White House firewall to stop the Koch GOP Congress' disasters, the Kochs and evangelicals have a fascist with a rubber stamp.
Trump Helped Fracture The Religious Right – Not Break It
The fault lines among evangelicals that the election of 2016 has exposed are likely to reshape national politics for years to come.
The National Review Says Because Theocracy Has Been Held Off, the Threat Never Existed
On the contrary, we have seen religious laws against abortion, contraception, marriage equality, religious diversity, education, and even global warming
GOP Platform’s Hideous Plan to “Rebirth” the Constitution
"If God-given natural rights come in conflict with government, court, or human-granted rights, God-given natural rights always prevail."
GOP Platform Committee Embraces A Purely Puritanical Agenda
Republicans will end up with a platform that will be Victorian in its moralizing and deeply critical the modern American family.
Judge Decimates the GOP’s Religious Freedom Concept – Strikes Down Mississippi Law
Judge Reeves noted that “the title, history and text of the law showed it to be the State’s attempt to put LGBT citizens in their place."
DOJ Warns North Carolina Its Bathroom Law Is A Serious Civil Rights Violation
"North Carolina's HB2 is deeply discriminatory and violates civil rights law in all kinds of manners."
Oklahoma Republicans Are One Signature Away From Banning Abortion
Oklahoma evangelical Republicans force doctors to give patients deceptive and unscientific advice just to keep their medical licenses.
Two More GOP States Pass Laws Nullifying the Constitution
Religious Republicans passed unconstitutional legislation denying a wide swathe of the population their constitutional rights.
Theocracy Warning In Republican Strongholds Of Kentucky and Texas
The latest drive toward an iteration of Sharia Law for the cult of right-wing Christians panting for a theocracy is playing out in Kentucky.