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In malpractice case, Catholic hospital argues fetuses aren’t people

John Tomasic | 01.24.13 | 11:59 am | The Colorado Independent | View Article

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Lori Stodghill was 31-years old, seven-months pregnant with twin boys and feeling sick when she arrived at St. Thomas More hospital in Cañon City on New Year’s Day 2006.

At the intersection of Church and State streets in Salem, Ore.; via Shutterstock.

Christian anti-abortion group sues government for taxpayer funding

| 11.30.12 | 9:01 am | View Article

Should taxpayer funds be used to help a “Christ centered ministry” buy and renovate a building in which it will offer Bible instruction and other services aimed at preventing abortion? More…

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Civil liberties groups decry church messaging at polling places

| 11.20.12 | 11:23 am | View Article

In South Saint Paul, Minn., on Election Day, residents showed up at St. John Vianney Catholic Church to vote and were greeted with a banner outside the polling place entrance that read, “Strengthen Marriage, Don’t Redefine It.” More…

Video still from Colorado for Family Values 1992 Amendment 2 campaign (source: GLAAD).

Colorado civil unions battle reanimates old-school Christian right group

John Tomasic | 06.13.12 | 11:10 am | The Colorado Independent | View Article

DENVER– Opposition to a gay-rights civil unions bill defeated here last month was directed in large part by Colorado Springs-based evangelical empire Focus on the Family and the Colorado Catholic Conference. The Christian-right campaign, however, also reenergized a leading anti-gay rights activist organization of the 1990s, influential rough-and-tumble group Colorado More…

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Mich. GOP elects controversial lawmaker to RNC

| 05.22.12 | 5:53 pm | View Article

LANSING — Michigan Republicans ousted long-standing National Committeemen Saul Anuzis this weekend, instead opting for a right-wing state lawmaker who has sparked controversy on numerous issues, including his attempts to eliminate funding for HIV programs.
State Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) bested former Michigan GOP Chair Anuzis in what Agema’s Tea More…

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Anti-bullying group barred from Catholic school ceremony

| 05.08.12 | 2:24 pm | View Article

The Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, said Monday that a foundation supportive of LGBT students cannot present a scholarship to a student at one of the Diocese’s schools because the foundation’s mission is “contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.”
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Virginia ‘conscience clause’ allows discrimination in adoption

| 04.25.12 | 11:54 am | View Article
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed a bill into law this month that will allow state-subsidized adoption agencies to reject potential parents because of their sexual orientation.
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Jobs for Christians

Taxpayer-funded crisis pregnancy centers are using religion to oppose abortion, and many of them only hire Christians
| 04.24.12 | 10:00 am | View Article

If you want to help carry out the anti-abortion mission of the taxpayer-funded Care Net Pregnancy Resource Center, you have to be a Christian. More…