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  • Moral Values0

    Can it really be so long since the U.S. presidential elections? What, all of two months! The attack rhetoric is all gone now and, uninterrupted by paid political ads, television programming is back to the usual numbing flicker. It's jingle bells and Auld Lang Syne and elections in Iraq for us. But the political landscape

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  • Moral Outrage0

    It was a horrific tale of cruelty and abuse that ended in the death of a 7-year-old boy. His offense: not knowing all of 13 Bible verses! National and international media groaned out the sordid details of how last year a Wisconsin couple, Timothy and Tina Hauschultz and another son, 15-year-old Damian, meted out the

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  • Moral Dystopia0

    The Handmaid’s Tale, extrapolating, as befits a dystopian novel, on the then-current trends in society when written in 1985, is even more a part of political discourse today than in the Reagan era. With the election of Donald Trump, feminists, many of whom were not even born when the novel was published, appeared at the

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  • Monkey Fever in Kansas0

    The Kansas State Board of Education recently decided to demphasize the teaching of evolution in the Kansas public schools. This recharged the ongoing debate across America about the relative merits of evolution and creationism as curricular subjects in the nation's public schools. Evolution is the scientific theory that organisms evolve over time by adopting traits

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  • Money And Meanness0

    This past summer saw the release of a fifth book from radical right-wing author Ann Coulter. Since then, Godless: The Church of Liberalism has probably raised more hackles than all her other books combined. The day of its release she was interviewed by Matt Lauer of NBC's The Today Show . The conversation began as

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  • Mistakes Were Made0

    Why is there still a gaping hole in antidiscrimination protections for religious employees? In 1964 the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, sweeping civil rights legislation still considered to be one of the most significant legislative achievements in American history. While lawmakers’ primary motivator was the nation’s fight against racial inequality, the Civil

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