One Utah

If you read only one article this week, read this one:
Suddenly, the doctor was at the door to my mother’s room again. He waved me out into the hall. He needed a medical directive. Immediately. Her vital signs were tanking. If we were going to put a tube in her, and put her on machines [...]

“We are here to stand up for the unborn, to stand up against the dogs of hate who defend abortion on demand,” Wimmer said. [snip]
The supporters said the cost of the fight will not be an issue. Wimmer said that a group based out of Washington, D.C., which he would not [...]

The news that Bristol Palin, age 17, is five months pregnant has, to say the least, focused attention on questions of sexuality education (her mother, Republican VP candidate, current Governor of Alaska, is on record supporting abstinence-only), and reproductive freedom (the Governer opposes abortion except in the exceedingly rare circumstances it is necessary to save [...]

Allow me to begin at the most basic.
Gender identity is broadly defined as one’s sense of one’s self as male or female. Most human beings’ sense of gender identity corresponds to their physical gender. People with vulvas/vaginas identify as female, people with penises identify as male. However, gender is a far more [...]

So, the back story goes something like this: Old, white haired Catholic guy in Great Britain issues stupid statement attributing a host of things to demonic possession - which he deems contagious.
Promiscuity, as well as homosexuality and pornography, says 73 year-old Fr. Jeremy Davies, is a form of sexual perversion and can lead to [...]

There are some problems with the polling questions as Jesse points out but it shows Americans are pro-choice:
I’m not a particular fan of the “legal under any circumstances” versus “legal only under certain circumstances” distinction, if only because I think most people can think up at least one circumstance where someone shouldn’t be allowed to [...]

Last night channel surfing I happened across a show on one of the Christian networks that are cropping up in the 200 range on the TV - it as an hysterical (as in characterized by hysteria) show about the way in which Christians are being - reach for your smelling salts girls - persecuted by [...]

What are we? 90 days from election day?
Abortion as an issue is not going away for one simple reason: religious conservatives cannot accept that it is legal.
As Pastor Dan says:
there are people who are determined to take that right away, and as McFadden himself points out, are a hair’s breadth of doing [...]

The anti-abortion crowd has been, for a very long time, very quietly anti-contraception. Arguments against contraception range from the ludicrous (use of contraception leads to abortion) to the medically inaccurate (chemical contraception is actually a form of chemical abortion). Since 98% of American women will use contraception during their lives, arguing against it [...]

PZ Myers reports receiving:
somewhere well above 12,000 hate mail messages from religious people, mostly Catholic; two reasonable messages from Catholics who said that while they are unshaken in their faith, they approve of my opposition to cracker idolatry; and zero comments of any kind from admitted Muslims.

Sam Harris, in The End of Faith [...]

For a long time now, the ridiculous right has been ginning up pointless controversies over claims that religious people have the right to refuse to do their jobs on the basis of their faith.
From Rob Boston, at Talk to Action:
Stories abound in the media of “pro-life pharmacists” who refuse to fill birth-control prescriptions and Muslim [...]

Easter this year is the earliest easter since 1913.  Easter won’t be this early again for something like two centuries.  What that means is that we are nearing the end of Holy Week.  Holy Week is not an easy journey; it is a journey from Palm Sunday into the Passion; a journey from celebration to brutality [...]