This is the right of a woman and her doctor.These decisions should be made between the two of them with open, careful, honest, truthful consults. Not the legislature.
Opinion: Montana Bill Charges Abortion Doctors With Homicide
Opinion: Pope Francis Warns There is No Heaven for ‘Bad Hypocritical Christians’
The Pope wasted little time lashing out at fake Christians whom he said would be better off being a non-believer, an atheist, than a “bad Christian.”
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."
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.
Bernie Sanders Delivers Stirring Message Of Hope And Opportunity At Vatican Conference
Bernie Sanders delivered a speech that stuck to his core values of hope change in our politics while stressing that young people are the key to solving issues ranging from income inequality to climate change while speaking at a conference hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
Mischief or Mistake – The Vatican Didn’t Invite Senator Sanders To Meet With the Pope
“Senator Sanders was not invited by the pope, but by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences; the Pope will not meet with the candidate."
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.
Pope Fires Vatican Ambassador To America For the Kim Davis Ambush
It is clear now that the Pope hated being ambushed into meeting with the American face of evangelical bigotry, Kim Davis
Grand Jury Finds 50 Priests Raped Hundreds Of Philadelphia Children
The wheels of justice didn’t turn at all in Philadelphia because the Church concealed the crimes and protected the rapists.
New Poll: Two-Thirds Of Voters Outraged At GOP Attacks On Women’s Reproductive Rights
According to a new poll, when voters were informed about the religious Republican drive to ban access to legal abortion in the states, they were "disgusted and angry" and two-thirds of voters want Republicans stopped in their tracks.
Constitutional Dunce Scalia Needs To Be In An Asylum, Not SCOTUS
Scalia may have surpassed charlatans like David Barton in an attempt to "establish Christianity" as the nation's state religion
Congressional Republicans Empower Evangelicals To Sue Governments For Enforcing Law
The reality is that the purpose is to punish the federal government for not adhering to Catholic and evangelicals' religious edicts
Pope Francis Joins The War On Christmas Calling The Celebration “A Charade”
"There will be...parties, bright trees, even Nativity scenes, all decked out, while the world continues to wage war. It's all a charade."
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
Religious House Republicans Plan To Deny Contraception Access to 4.6 Million Women
There is no other reason for Republicans to try defunding Title X than denying family planning services and contraception from women.
Nazi-Friendly Rick Wiles Says Our Government is Run by Nazis
No, our government is not run by Nazis, but I have no doubt that if it was, Jim Bakker and Rick Wiles would be the first to join
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."
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.
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.
Right-wing Congressman Steve King Bashes Jews Who Are “Democrats First And Jewish Second”
During a radio interview, Iowa GOP Congressman Steve King blasted liberal American Jews for being Democrats first, and Jewish second.
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.
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.
McConnell Promises Republicans Will Escalate The Religious War on Women
Now, the Republicans' first order of business with Mitch McConnell sharing Senate Majority Leader duties with Ted Cruz is precisely what they did when they won the House majority in 2010; attack women's right to choose when they give birth.
Catholic Church Says Religious Freedom Protects Them From Going to Court
As the group of bishops were the instigators behind the Neo-American religious imposition as freedom ideology, it was not surprising that they came up with yet another twist on how they exercise "their" religious freedom.
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).
Iowa Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Can’t Escape The Republican Anti-Woman Crusade
For a senatorial candidate from Iowa, the way to show support for a religious principle is voting for a constitutional amendment that effectively eliminates a woman's constitutional rights, and then claim the amendment really would not do anything at all.
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.