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• Turning Back the Clock:
  With the administration accommodation on this there is a broad majority favoring universal access to birth control including the more moderate Catholic groups, like Catholic Health Care Association. Meantime the Roman bishops, the old guys with the red hats, the P.P.A. -Pedophile Protection Association, have made themselves an ...
• Turning Back the Clock:
  Chris, not by mainline Protestants, (Methodist, Presbyterian, UCC, Episcopal,etc.)but by the fundamentalist Evanglicals.
• Senator Betsy Johnson joins Republicans in holding CCOs hostage to tort reform:
  Ah, the female Joe Lieberman or Ben Nelson of the Ore. Senate. Good way to become the world's worst person by your colleagues.
• Turning Back the Clock:
  Excellent news conference. Women get their free contraceptive health care. Now the Roman hierarchy and their partners the GOP can rail away, but are revealed for what they are, women haters trying to rally their base of bigots. They are losing on this issue: Fox News poll: "61 percent of ...
• Turning Back the Clock:
  Apparently the GOP has cut a deal (well constructed and planned ahead of time according to today's NY Times )where the Vatican gets to dictate what health care American women get to have in our country. And the GOP may now nominate Rick Santorum who thinks any form of ...
• OR House: Matt Wingard blocks child abuse bill :
  I don't wish to repeat this meaningless argument with you, Joshua since you have need to hold the demon religion responsible for every ill in the world. But even rational science does not provide a basis for moral law and the dignity and essential worth of human beings. That ...
• OR House: Matt Wingard blocks child abuse bill :
  Certainly the behavioral history of the RCC clergy is that of ignoring mandatory reporting. But it has not been the public position of the RCC particularly after losing millions of dollars and many bankruptcy procedures. Whereas many conservative evangelicals hold a public position to this day opposing mandatory reporting.
• OR House: Matt Wingard blocks child abuse bill :
  In this case can't the GOP caucus remove Wingard from his chairmanship and facilitate the movement of the bill. If they don't, the entire GOP should be targeted for obstructing the protection of children and for aiding and abetting child abusers.
• OR House: Matt Wingard blocks child abuse bill :
  Painting everyone with the same brush, are we? I have known plenty of nihilist secularists who think they are not accountable to any moral law, that it's all fantasy. But I wouldn't paint every secularist as a sociopathic nihilist.
• OR House: Matt Wingard blocks child abuse bill :
  Not surprising. Many of the right wing Christian fundamentalists don't believe in mandatory reporting of child abuse. They believe there should be pastoral and parental discretion on how these cases should be handled, and they don't believe that the govt. has a responsibility to protect children and a ...

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