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Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 10:58am By Chris HallOn Monday, CarnalNation wrote about the links between American fundamentalists and the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which would make being an HIV-positive gay or lesbian a capital crime, and which seems almost certain to pass. Shamefully, it...
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Monday, November 30, 2009 - 3:22pm By Chris HallPastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church (left) and Ugandan Minister Martin Ssempa (right). The Ugandan anti-homosexuality law, which would make same-gender sex punishable by imprisonment and apply the death penalty to lesbians and gays who are...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 1:18pm By The Woodhull Freedom FoundationThis month's column is by B.A. Carrington, who describes herself as a "progressive, martini-swilling, skeet-shooting lady." She's been investigating the religious right from the inside for ten years. I silently rode down the hotel...
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Monday, September 21, 2009 - 11:21am By Chris HallGenerations of parents have greeted the discovery of a copy of Playboy under their son's mattress with decidedly mixed feelings: on the one hand, their precious little angel has dirty magazines without permission; on the other, at least it proves...
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Friday, July 24, 2009 - 1:04pm By Chris HallLast month, CarnalNation ran a story about a video on the Internet that showed the clergy of Manifested Glory Ministries, a Connecticut church, performing an extremely violent and disturbing exorcism on a young man who supposedly had a "gay...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 11:21am By Chris HallCatherina Lorena Cenzon-DeCarlo, a nurse at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center, is suing the hospital because she was required to assist in the termination of a second-trimester pregnancy. Cenzon-DeCarlo, who is Catholic, objected to...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 11:04am By Chris HallThe story of Bryce Faulkner, the young student who recently disappeared and who is thought by his friends to have been forcibly taken to an "ex-gay" ministry, has gotten a lot of attention and sympathy on queer and feminist sites recently...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 8:00am By Louis ShackletonThe Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University By Kevin Roose Grand Central Publishing $24.99, 336 pp. “I wouldn't go to any of those schools. Yale, Harvard, Princeton. No way. I heard they have naked...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 1:21pm By Chris HallThere's a very distinct difference in how the story of Romeo and Juliet ends up in the English version and in the Afghan version. As told by Shakespeare, the young couple marries against the wishes of their feuding familes and wind up killing...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 9:39am By Chris HallThe government of Afghanistan has decided to delay passing a law that would essentially have placed Taliban-like restrictions on womens' rights, including when and under what conditions they could leave the house, and when they were compelled to...
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Monday, February 2, 2009 - 6:31pm By Lauren WissotLarry King’s interview with Ted Haggard – the pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs and the leader of the National Association of Evangelicals until his meth and rent-boy proclivities forced his ouster – on CNN Thursday...
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 12:52pm By Chris HallThe Religious Right has a lot of opinions on women and sex, and have never been shy about sharing them with the rest of us. One of the most recent ways for you to get fundamentalist ideas about sexuality in undiluted form is the documentary The...
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