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What "Catholic Spain" Really Looks Like

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

June 24, 2009 - 8:40am

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Jason Webb creates false divisions by placing the Church at the center of political discourse in Spain—by depicting it as a great force that you’re either for or against.


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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 - 1:09pm

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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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Seminarian Pro-Choice Because of Her Faith

By Jeff Fecke, Blog of the Moderate Left -- moderateleft.com

March 17, 2008 - 9:44am

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Seminarian Kelli Clement says she is not pro-choice "in spite of" her faith. Rather, her faith, she says, "instructs me to be pro-choice." She calls for deeper connections between religious liberals and the broader progressive community.


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Is Morality the New Religion for Giuliani and Edwards?

By Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check

August 30, 2007 - 9:22am

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Both Giuliani and Edwards listen to, but don't always profess to obey, religious imperatives.


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Canada's Political Secret

By Pamela Pizarro, RH Reality Check, North America

August 30, 2007 - 8:48am

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How is it that our neighbor to the north manages to enact the liberal legislation the U.S. can't seem to pass?


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