Recent Votes

• Why the Bible is Unreliable in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate: A Quick Study in Why Secularism is the Best Game in Town

  The same-sex marriage debate has been all the rage in America. You have people who support it, Christians (and other faith groups) who don’t and Christians who do. You’d think with a book to detail exactly how Christians should think and act, there wouldn’t be s …

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• What One Week on an Abortion Fund Hotline Taught Me About the Economics of Stigma

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  Here in the US, where Americans spend an average of $110 million on fast food each year, some will spend $10,000 for breast implants, and still others will drop $90 on yoga pants, somehow covering the costs of an abortion is one of the most lavish and morally egregious things y …

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• The Reason for the GOP's War on Women

  It should be so obvious by now. The Republicans are backing such measures as discouraging insurance coverage of birth control, obstructing abortion in every way possible, and apparently wishing women back into the “barefoot and pregnant” 1950s. And what does this acco …

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• 22 Million Children Could Be Left Without Food Stamps Due to Budget Cuts

  Source: Youth Today

  Some 22 million children who depend on the federal nutrition assistance program that replaced food stamps could lose their benefits under a 2013 budget resolution recently approved by the House Agricultural Committee. The budget, approved in April, would cut more than $33 billi …

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• GOP Lawmaker: Coat Hanger Abortions Support 'Moral Values'

  Source: Politics | The New Civil Rights Movement

  A GOP lawmaker in Mississippi says that coat hanger abortions support “moral values,” and brags that his state was able to defeat Roe v. Wade, acknowledging their efforts are probably unconstitutional, but, “hey, you have to have moral values,” Mississip …

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