Religious Liberty
Thus Spake the Profits
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Religious Liberty on January 13th, 2013
We do seem to live in the Age of Hypocrisy. A Facebook friend posted a comment about Hobby Lobby, the craft store chain headquartered in Oklahoma. Like Chik-fil-A, the chain makes much of its Christian values, closing on Sundays and, most recently, suing the Obama Administration over the mandate to include contraceptive coverage as part [...]
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I Think We Need Truth in Labeling
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Religious Liberty on January 11th, 2013
My best friend called me yesterday, fuming about a solicitation call she’d just received. The woman caller identified herself as a volunteer for the Republican Party. She began by thanking my friend for her past, generous support of the GOP–and indeed, my friend was an active Republican voter and donor for many years. Her husband [...]
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Spawn of Citizens United
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Religious Liberty on January 2nd, 2013
During my six years as Executive Director of Indiana’s ACLU, if my youngest son called the office when I was out, he’d leave a message: “just tell her Satan’s spawn called.” (He found the popular caricature of the ACLU endlessly amusing.) I thought about “spawn” when a Facebook friend pointed me to a recent, truly [...]
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The Real Blasphemy
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Religious Liberty on December 16th, 2012
The horrific shootings at Sandy Hook have given all the usual political opportunists an opening. It isn’t just the gun culture apologists, either–Mike Huckabee and his fellow theocrats have seized the moment to renew their attacks on separation of church and state. According to Huckabee (and a number of people posting to Facebook) this tragedy [...]
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Coming Out
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Religious Liberty on October 13th, 2012
Coming Out Day is today, October 11th. These days—four states are preparing to vote on same-sex marriage, with victory likely in at least one, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell headed for the dustbin of history, and progress being made on a wide variety of civil rights issues affecting lesbians and gay men—the incredible importance of coming [...]
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