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News We Care About
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Republicans are changing state laws to try to get out of federal vaccine mandates (NPR, 11/22/21) ([link removed])
"New laws strengthening religious exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines could also wind up undercutting laws on the books requiring vaccinations for school-aged children..."
Report: Expansion of religious exemptions undermining law (UPI, 11/26/21) ([link removed])
A new report contends the right to religious exemptions from the law has expanded vastly in the past decade and is threatening the liberties of others.
Why is France so afraid of god? (The Atlantic, 11/22/21) ([link removed])
How the country came to view religion as a threat to national identity...
The impossible politics of church-state partnerships (Deseret News, 11/23/21) ([link removed])
While state partnerships with religious organizations enjoy bipartisan support, enacting legislation on those partnerships can be quite divisive.
Commentary
(Everyone has an opinion...)
"We Remember a United States That Fought the Nazis' (Religion Dispatches, 11/22/21) ([link removed])
A German Scholar of Fascism Weighs in on Christian Nationalism in the U.S.
Evangelical Christian groups flout the law – again (OpenDemocracy, 11/26/21) ([link removed])
"Christian Right groups promoting anti-LGBT practices in the US and abroad, despite bans, is nothing new: they’ve been doing it for decades"
The Conservative War on Education That Failed (The Atlantic, 11/23/21) ([link removed])
A full century ago, the most effective school-ban campaign in American history set the pattern: noise, fury, rancor, and fear, but not much change in what schools actually teach. The vague term that galvanized conservative angst? Evolution.
The Moral Collapse of America’s Largest Christian University (The Dispatch, 11/21/21) ([link removed])
"Rarely in my life have I ever seen a single significant American institution face such a staggering run of scandal and controversy as Liberty University"
Secular Americans
(Who are we? What are we up to?)
Debbie Allen, Secular Coalition For America: Being An Advocate ([link removed])
In this presentation to the Humanist Society of Santa Barbra, Debbie Allen, SCA's Executive Director, describes the nature of secular advocacy in America today and the work of the Secular Coalition for America.
Happy (belated) Separation of Church and State Week! (The Humanist, 11/26/19) ([link removed])
"Separation of Church and State Week is observed annually during the week of Thanksgiving. It’s the secular movement’s response to National Bible Week, which kicks off with International Day of the Bible on the Sunday before Thanksgiving."
Republicans more likely than Democrats to believe in heaven, say only their faith leads there (Pew Research Center, 11/23/21) ([link removed])
A new study from Pew reveals interesting insights on the partisan differences of holding specific supernatural beliefs...
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