Reading Time: 2 minutes The conservative majority on the Supreme Court has reportedly decided to overturn Roe. This could mean the beginning of the end of the court’s legitimacy.
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Pastor Jack Schaap, who groomed a teenage girl for sex, is out of prison
Reading Time: 7 minutes Pastor Jack Schaap is out of prison. I didn’t think I’d be saying that until his scheduled release date next February, but the Federal Bureau of Prisons now says he’s a free man. Schaap (which rhymes with “cop”) was a church leader whose fundamentalist preaching stood in stark contrast to the crime he eventually committed. […]
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The Supreme Court should stop taking religious beliefs so seriously
Reading Time: 3 minutes With a conservative super-majority on the Supreme Court, it’s no surprise that the justices are handing victory after victory to the Christian Right. This week was dominated by the revelation that conservative Christians were about to achieve their biggest victory ever after decades of reshaping the Court (and dismissing all the people who’d be hurt […]
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A teacher tore down a non-Christian verse on her classroom ‘prayer wall’
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Christian teacher at a public high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma is using her position to preach to students. There’s anecdotal evidence she’s doing this, it’s not the first time she’s been caught promoting her radical views to students, and she’s openly admitted suggesting that all teachers should follow her lead. Somehow, though, she’s faced […]
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Could a SCOTUS Roe v. Wade reversal really help the Democrats?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Last night, a Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) draft opinion was leaked, showing they have voted to overturn the 50-year legal precedent of Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling that established the right to abortion. Justice Samuel Alito wrote a draft, which was circulated in February, and was leaked to Politico. It seems […]
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If the Supreme Court overturns Roe, conservative Christians may regret it
Reading Time: 6 minutes Conservative Christians have wanted to overturn Roe for decades, but they may regret their wish finally coming true.
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SCOTUS and the city of Boston’s forced flag attack
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Supreme Court just ruled that the city of Boston must allow religious flags to be flown on flagpoles at city government buildings. The ruling is based on the premise that the city had created a “limited public forum” by allowing the flags of other nations or private organizations to be flown on the flagpoles, […]
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Supreme Court: Boston can’t reject a ‘Christian’ flag (but there’s an easy fix)
Reading Time: 8 minutes The Supreme Court ruled today that Boston officials violated a man’s free speech rights when it refused to erect his Christian flag outside City Hall. It was a unanimous decision from the mostly conservative Court, and the only silver lining here may be that the decision comes with rather simple solutions. Harold Shurtleff and his […]
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How the NYT botched its coverage of the Supreme Court’s football prayer case
Reading Time: 8 minutes The New York Times‘ hit podcast The Daily published what should have been a straightforward episode on Wednesday morning about a controversial church/state separation case in front of the Supreme Court. Instead, they screwed up basic facts and leaned heavily on the Christian side of the debate. The case in question is Kennedy v. Bremerton […]
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Youth pastor who was ‘betrothed’ to 14-year-old girl charged with sexual abuse
Reading Time: 4 minutes When Robert Fenton was 26 and a youth pastor at Abide In the Vine Fellowship in Owego, New York, he told a couple that attended the church that he was drawn to their daughter and “meant to be with her.” She was 14 at the time. The church didn’t allow them to get married because […]