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Why Should Church and State Be Kept Separate?

November 16th, 2011

By now many of us are familiar with the right-wing argument that religion and government are inextricably intertwined, that the two have always mixed and can never be completely separated, and that the Constitution does not bar religious influence in governanc Continue Reading »

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Protecting Bullies in the Name of Religion

November 16th, 2011

It's almost impossible to believe that a lawmaker would try to insert a religious exemption into a proposed anti-bullying law, but that's exactly what one Michigan senator tried to do. Now, however, it looks as though that exemption will be removed from the bi Continue Reading »

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Does Reading the Bible Make People More Liberal?

October 27th, 2011

Frequent Bible-reading can make people more liberal, posits a Baylor University doctoral candidate in his master's thesis, contradicting commonly-held stereotypes about liberals and conservatives. (That is something for ULC wedding officiants to ponder, given Continue Reading »

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What’s So Wrong With Halloween?

October 24th, 2011

As Halloween approaches, many families are preparing for fun parties, trick-or-treating, apple-bobbing, and pumpkin-carving, but one pastor is waging a spiritual "battle" against the "evils" of the holiday through a process of Christianization. The new, Christ Continue Reading »

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Sex, Race, and the Biology Excuse

October 20th, 2011

Digging Up Dinosaurs Have you ever heard anyone exclaim, "It's biology!" when confronted with the problem of male promiscuity, or the disproportionately high number of black people in American prisons? Perhaps their wording was "It's genetic!" Either way, it s Continue Reading »

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