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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Religious Liberty</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>Church, State, Gay, Straight</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/church-state-gay-straight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, it&#8217;s time for one of my broken-record rants. In the wake of President Obama&#8217;s endorsement of same-sex marriage, we&#8217;ve had a predictable&#8211;and increasingly tiresome&#8211;outpouring of criticisms to the effect that government recognition of such unions violates the &#8220;religious liberty&#8221; of those who oppose them. No, it doesn&#8217;t. Government recognition of civil same-sex marriages is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious War and Peace</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/religious-war-and-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/religious-war-and-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Douthat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e pluribus unum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mainstream religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since today marks both Passover and Easter, it seems appropriate to consider the role of religion in American life&#8211;or at least, theories addressing that role. So in today&#8217;s New York Times, Ross Douthat bemoans the disappearance of what he calls &#8220;the religious center&#8221;&#8211;what many of us who are not Christians experienced as something rather less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of &#8220;Agendas&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/speaking-of-agendas/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/speaking-of-agendas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Family Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[candidate questionnaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creationism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay "agenda"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend sent me a copy of this year&#8217;s American Family Action Pac political questionnaire. Rather than characterize it, I decided to let it speak for itself. (The odd numbering and format are original.) Indiana Family Action PAC  2012 Questionnaire for State Candidates Please circle the response that most accurately reflects your position on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining &#8220;Religious Liberty&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/defining-religious-liberty/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/defining-religious-liberty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homophobia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[South Bend Indiana]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, the South Bend City Council will consider amending its Human Rights Ordinance to include protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation. HR Ordinances&#8211;while relatively toothless in Indiana&#8211;express a municipality&#8217;s intent to discourage some people from picking on other people based solely upon their religion, race, gender and other markers that are irrelevant to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rabbinic Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/rabbinic-wisdom/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/rabbinic-wisdom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conscience clauses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Sasso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious liberty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Sandy Sasso has an important column in this morning&#8217;s Star. There has been a lot of heat&#8211;and considerably less light&#8211;generated by the requirement that health insurance companies make contraception available free of charge to employees of Catholic universities and hospitals. Much of that heat has been deliberately stoked&#8211;a politically cynical  ploy intended to rile up faithful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whose &#8220;Conscience&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/whose-conscience/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/whose-conscience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forced sonogram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several Facebook friends recently posted the same cartoon: a pregnant woman lying on an examination table getting a sonogram is looking at the machine&#8217;s screen as her doctor moves the sensor over her belly. She asks &#8220;What&#8217;s that other thing in my uterus?&#8221;  The doctor replies &#8220;The State of Texas.&#8221; The reference is to one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irony-Challenged Santorum</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/irony-challenged-santorum/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/irony-challenged-santorum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the dust-up over contraceptive coverage, Rick Santorum&#8211;along with a number of other GOP (male) elected officials&#8211;has condemned the Obama administration&#8217;s &#8220;assault&#8221; on &#8220;religious liberty.&#8221; This charge has produced some truly ludicrous moments; yesterday, for example, the news was filled with photos depicting the witnesses at a trumped-up congressional hearing into the pernicious effects on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious Liberty, Contraception and Gay Rights</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/religious-liberty-contraception-and-gay-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/religious-liberty-contraception-and-gay-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazing—and embarrassing—as it may seem, the American Taliban is once again waging battle against sex. This time, their target is contraception. Their fig leaf is a definition of “religious liberty” that neither the nation’s Founders nor the courts would recognize—the same definition that they employ in their ongoing war against civil rights for gays and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Girls&#8221; of All Ages</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/girls-of-all-ages/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/girls-of-all-ages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraception]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve watched the recent insurance/contraception controversy play out with an increasing sense of unreality. The GOP attack on the HHS rules seemed so transparently political&#8211;after all, some 26 states have had similar rules for years, and somehow religiously-affiliated hospitals and universities have lived with them. I chalked it up to the same partisan frenzy that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Political Eddie Haskell</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/a-political-eddie-haskell/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/a-political-eddie-haskell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eddie Haskell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious liberty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I was driving to work yesterday,  NPR was broadcasting a snippet of a speech made the night before by Mitt Romney. That&#8217;s when it hit me. I&#8217;d been trying for weeks to pin down who it was that Romney reminds me of, and with the patent insincerity of that speech, it finally clicked. Mitt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God and Caesar</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/god-and-caesar/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/god-and-caesar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious conflict]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In his regular Monday e-letter today, noted theologian Martin Marty tackles the recent uproar over HHS regulations requiring religious institutions—including charities, hospitals and schools&#8211;to provide health insurance to their employees that covers some procedures with which their church and members disagree. He notes that this sort of conflict between government rule making and religious dogma is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Question for the Godly</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/a-question-for-the-godly/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/a-question-for-the-godly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY clerk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times recently reported on a town clerk in upstate New York who was refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite passage of the recent New York law recognizing such unions. She cited evangelical Christianity as a bar against performing her official duties. “For me to participate in the same-sex marriage application [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pathetic Policy Discourse</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/06/pathetic-policy-discourse/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/06/pathetic-policy-discourse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[separation of church and state]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of examples of what happens when those making policy don&#8217;t know what they are talking about, but here&#8217;s one that just annoys the hell out of me every time it comes up. The New York legislature is preparing to vote on whether the state will recognize same-sex marriage. The Times reports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constitution 101</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/05/constitution-101/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/05/constitution-101/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 15:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[public square]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion Clauses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, the American Constitution Center conducted a poll to assess the country’s constitutional literacy, and drew a depressing conclusion: Americans revere the Constitution, but have virtually no idea what it says or means.  If that conclusion seems a bit “over the top,” consider some of the more indignant reactions to two recent court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whose America? Whose Values?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2007/07/whose-america-whose-values/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2007/07/whose-america-whose-values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What with the charges and counter-charges about the war in Iraq, the use—actually, abuse—of Executive Privilege, and locally, the uproar over property taxes, this little tidbit hasn’t gotten much ink. But it is a telling indicator of the wildly different definition of the term “American values” held by today’s citizens. &#160; Sessions of Congress begin [...]]]></description>
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