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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>Thus Spake the Profits</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/01/thus-spake-the-profits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Think We Need Truth in Labeling</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/01/i-think-we-need-truth-in-labeling/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/01/i-think-we-need-truth-in-labeling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My best friend called me yesterday, fuming about a solicitation call she&#8217;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&#8211;and indeed, my friend was an active Republican voter and donor for many years. Her husband [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spawn of Citizens United</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/01/spawn-of-citizens-united/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens United]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate religious freedom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During my six years as Executive Director of Indiana&#8217;s ACLU, if my youngest son called the office when I was out, he&#8217;d leave a message: &#8220;just tell her Satan&#8217;s spawn called.&#8221; (He found the popular caricature of the ACLU endlessly amusing.) I thought about &#8220;spawn&#8221; when a Facebook friend pointed me to a recent, truly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Blasphemy</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/12/the-real-blasphemy/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/12/the-real-blasphemy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arrogance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandy Hook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The horrific shootings at Sandy Hook have given all the usual political opportunists an opening. It isn&#8217;t just the gun culture apologists, either&#8211;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Out</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/10/coming-out-2/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/10/coming-out-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CFI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coming out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random Thoughts and a Great Video</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/10/random-thoughts-and-a-great-video/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/10/random-thoughts-and-a-great-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dispatches from the Culture Wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free thought]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I spoke to the Northern Ohio Chapter of CFI&#8211;the Center for Inquiry. It was refreshing to be in a group where science and empirical evidence are respected&#8211;especially on a day when yet another embarrassing Congressman (on the Science subcommittee, no less!) makes a fool of himself. One of the highlights of the program was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pulpit &#8220;Freedom&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/10/pulpit-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/10/pulpit-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charitable deduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom Sunday]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of nights ago, Stephen Colbert took on &#8220;Pulpit Freedom Sunday,&#8221; a protest being mounted by hundreds of pastors against the IRS&#8217; &#8220;political activity&#8221; regulations. Here&#8217;s the deal: the IRS allows people to deduct contributions to charitable and religious organizations, effectively subsidizing those contributions. If I give 100.00 to my synagogue or church, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Separation of Church and State and Buddhists</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/09/separation-of-church-and-state-means-governmen-cant-endorse-buddhists/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/09/separation-of-church-and-state-means-governmen-cant-endorse-buddhists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhist stupa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Establishment Clause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dispatches from the Culture Wars has an interesting report on the removal of a Buddhist stupa from a national park in New Mexico. He quotes the local public radio explanation: The National Park Service said Monday that park service will remove the ten-foot structure containing Buddhist relics from the park this week after getting an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters, They Get Letters&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/06/letters-they-get-letters/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/06/letters-they-get-letters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birth control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inconsistency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious liberty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the Letters to the Editor are just jaw-dropping excursions into the depths of illogic. This morning&#8217;s entrant into the &#8220;it ain&#8217;t what you don&#8217;t know that hurts you, it&#8217;s what you know that just ain&#8217;t so&#8221; sweepstakes is a prime example. The writer says there is no &#8220;war on women,&#8221; rather, it is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candidates and Their Beliefs</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/candidates-and-their-beliefs/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/candidates-and-their-beliefs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 11:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[candidates' religions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend asked me yesterday whether I thought a candidate&#8217;s religion was politically relevant&#8211;whether that religion should be included in the mix of qualifying or disqualifying characteristics we all consider when casting our votes. My answer: it depends. I think a candidate&#8217;s beliefs are always relevant. That is not the same thing as saying his/her religion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church, State, Gay, Straight</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/church-state-gay-straight/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/church-state-gay-straight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious liberty]]></category>
		<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>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[homophobia]]></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>
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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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