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There has been a debate among local bloggers about the nature of secularism and the problem of religious privilege in a secular society. These sort of “god debates” generally produce more heat than light.

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The Department for Education has announced the final eleven Free Schools to open in 2011, bringing the total number to 24. Five of these eleven have a religious ethos, bringing the overall number of religious Free Schools to eleven of the 24.

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Family Research Council senior fellow Peter Sprigg appeared today on The Matt Friedeman Show on the American Family Association’s American Family Radio to discuss the budding controversy over the right-wing “charity” service CGBG. The…

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As we noted last week, Rick Perry spent some time this weekend at James Leininger’s ranch in Texas meeting with a bevy of Religious Right leaders and activists.
According to Time, there was some 300 such leaders in attendance and Rick Scarborough, thou…

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On an episode of Faith & Freedom scheduled to air tomorrow, Liberty Counsel’s Matt Baber dedicates the program to discussing how “homo-fascists” are unfairly pressuring businesses to drop out of the “charity-giving&rdqu…

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In 2010, C. Peter Wagner turned over control of Global Harvest Ministries to Chuck Pierce, who then founded Global Spheres to carry on Wagner’s work … like declaring that he prophesied that Hurricane Irene would hit Washington DC as a sign that He is…

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As we have been noting for the last week or so, everyone on the Religious Right has developed collective amnesia when it comes to the issue of dominionism, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
One of the major proponents of dominionism is…

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On his radio show Focal Point yesterday, American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer called on all fifty states to criminalize homosexuality. In 2003, the Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas overturned anti-sodomy laws in the fo…

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Although our secular Constitution in Article VI explicitly bars such a religious litmus test, it’s no holds barred for dirty theopolitics in the land of FOX-TV, tea party politics and the evangelical extreme right.

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Prisons and proselytizing: Baptist program for Texas inmates raises church-state questions

I am all for prisoners having the right to worship and access to academic training that helps prevent recidivism, but I’m very wary of a new program in Texas.

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