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RH Reality Check: Welcome to Common Ground

By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

June 16, 2009 - 8:00am

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Why is RH Reality Check, a site founded and dedicated to promoting progressive ideas about the full spectrum of sexual and reproductive health, engaging this discussion about common ground?

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Far-Right Reveal Extremism Surfaces (Again) in Abortion Battle on Sebelius

By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

April 27, 2009 - 8:44pm

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In the Sebelius nomination fight, Americans can see the far-right and their manipulative abortion politics for what they really are -- distractions.

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Obama Invites Openly Gay Bishop to Pray at Inaugural Event

By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

January 12, 2009 - 2:10pm

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I'll see your Pastor Rick Warren and raise you a Bishop Gene Robinson. The high-stakes symbolism of the Obama Inauguration.

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HIV Activists/Gay Men Sentenced in Senegal: The Other Side of Rick Warren's "Humanitarian Issue"

By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

January 8, 2009 - 12:09pm

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The distance between Pastor Rick Warren and the sentencing of nine gay HIV activists in Senegal can be measured in inches, not miles. This is a real humanitarian issue Pastor Warren, not a fight to protect the privilege of heterosexual marriage.

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Change is NOT Coming to the Pro-Life Movement: Worn Out Rhetoric Greets Obama Appointments

By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

January 6, 2009 - 1:04pm

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Calendars everywhere read 2009, but in the "pro-life" movement it seems they are stuck in 2004.

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Virginity Pledges Fail Says Johns Hopkins Study

By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

December 29, 2008 - 12:22pm

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Shocking News! Yet another study finds that virginity pledges promoted by abstinence-only programs don't work. How much longer will strapped taxpayers be forced to shell out $1.5 billion for programs that actually endanger teen health?

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Rocks and Hard Places for Gay Christians this Christmas

By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

December 23, 2008 - 1:13pm

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During this Holy Season for every faith, many are up in arms over a prayer Rick Warren will offer, some planning to disrupt it, which will only cede the moral authority progressives now have.

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Obama Makes Healing Gesture, Can Pastor Rick Warren Do the Same?

By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

December 17, 2008 - 2:50pm

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President-elect Barack Obama makes a genuine gesture toward healing divisive social issues by inviting Pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. Will Pastor Warren grasp the potential for genuine healing and lead conservatives to a new middle ground?

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OMB Approves HHS Refusal Clause, Last Stop Before Publication

By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

December 16, 2008 - 11:12am

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OMB approves refusal clause rule, last stop before publication in the Federal Register. Sec. Michael Leavitt's consolation prize to the far-right is just about done.

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Americans Embrace Pro-Education, Pro-Prevention, Pro-Choice Values in Historic Election

By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

November 4, 2008 - 11:55pm

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President-elect Obama envisions a society that allows Americans to move past the division that has defined a generation of the most bitter politics, division that brought our government to a stalemate.

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