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Daily Links: "We Should All Get To Do What We Want To" Edition

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This week the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools denied an appeal by a Jewish Orthodox school team to have their state semifinals game moved to any night other than Friday night.

Bishop William E. Lori gave the editors of America magazine a lashing today for their criticism of the USCCB’s contraception conniption.  Lori, it would seem, still thinks that religious liberty is reserved for his institution alone.

In an article at Washington Post‘s “On Faith,” David Kuo and Patton Dodd wrote this:  “The subject of evil is disallowed in our public imagination today.”  It’s an absurd statement, one that any foreclosed home owner, imprisoned black kid, unemployed white mom, or me, a single white woman living next to the projects in Brooklyn, can laugh at.  They were defending Santorum’s devil talk (not Santorum, they’re moderates after all) and castigating the media for not recognizing that a whole lot of people believe in the devil.  Geesh.  What they clearly don’t get is that most Americans only really care what Santorum specifically believes because they know he intends to legislate it.  On them.  Regardless of what they believe.
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Daily Links: “We Should All Get To Do What We Want To” Edition

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This week the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools denied an appeal by a Jewish Orthodox school team to have their state semifinals game moved to any night other than Friday night.

Bishop William E. Lori gave the editors of America magazine a lashing today for their criticism of the USCCB’s contraception conniption.  Lori, it would seem, still thinks that religious liberty is reserved for his institution alone.

In an article at Washington Post‘s “On Faith,” David Kuo and Patton Dodd wrote this:  “The subject of evil is disallowed in our public imagination today.”  It’s an absurd statement, one that any foreclosed home owner, imprisoned black kid, unemployed white mom, or me, a single white woman living next to the projects in Brooklyn, can laugh at.  They were defending Santorum’s devil talk (not Santorum, they’re moderates after all) and castigating the media for not recognizing that a whole lot of people believe in the devil.  Geesh.  What they clearly don’t get is that most Americans only really care what Santorum specifically believes because they know he intends to legislate it.  On them.  Regardless of what they believe.
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Showing Them to the Dining Room

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The Obama administration has failed to regulate discrimination by federally-funded faith-based organizations

By Andy Kopsa

I have been investigating and reporting on an anti-gay Christian political organization, the Iowa Family Policy Center (IFPC), for over a year now.  The IFPC, a state affiliate of the Family Research Council*, a premier national anti-gay rights organization, has received over $3 million in government grants since 2005.  When I began uncovering the ease with which the IFPC (and numerous other FRC state affiliates) applied for and received federal funding, coupled with their blatant anti-gay political message, I began investigating the history and mechanics of the faith-based funding system.

I, like many others, anxiously awaited President Obama’s executive order expected to revise George W. Bush’s policymaking and funding criteria for faith-based organizations. But the order released on November 17th offers little in the way of true reform. Instead it is a wordy regurgitation of existing transparency reformations, offers minor tweaks to protections of beneficiaries, does nothing for spending oversight reform and completely eschews legalized hiring discrimination allowed faith-based organizations.

In 2008, then candidate Obama said that although he supported funding faith-based programs, he would do away with hiring discrimination.  However, like so many Obama promises, that is one yet to be fulfilled. Continue Reading →