FPL News Reel: February 16, 2012
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Liberal Catholics challenge bishops on Obama’s contraception rule
By Dan Gilgoff — CNN, Belief Blog
That support was politically important for the White House because the administration doubted it could ever win support from the bishops, even after Friday’s revision.
President Obama and Bishops should keep talking
By Stephen Schneck — The Hill, Opinion
The administration’s move quells the political firestorm in Washington that had raged in recent weeks. More importantly, the tweak answers the specific objections that America’s Catholic bishops identified repeatedly since last summer. It’s curious, then, that reception by the bishops has been mixed.
Strange bedfellows: religious liberty and neoliberalism
By Gerald J. Beyer — National Catholic Reporter, Opinion
Is the fight really about religious liberty, or is it about neoliberalism completely eradicating the hard-won social protections of workers and the poor?
What War on Religion?
By Stephanie Mencimer — Mother Jones
If Obama is hell-bent on waging battle with religious institutions—as his critics allege—he sure has a funny way of showing it.
Dems Accuse GOP Of Denying Fair Hearing On Birth Control Rule
By Pema Levy — Talking Points Memo, TPMDC
Democrats are accusing Republicans of denying a witness who holds contrary views an opportunity to testify at a hearing on President Obama’s birth control regulation…
Media should challenge Santorum and Gingrich’s ‘cafeteria Catholicism’
By James Downie — Washington Post, Opinion
Problem is, when it comes to many other Catholic teachings, Santorum, Gingrich and other Catholic conservatives completely ignore the church.
Evangelicals Defined: The History of American Evangelicalism
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — Huffington Post, Religion
Evangelicals have been in the news a lot lately, from the Denver Broncos’ Tim Tebow and his take-a-knee prayers to the Texas pastor and his wife who spent 24 hours in bed preaching the virtues of sex in Christian marriages…So who are these Christians?
Hundreds rally against Alabama immigration law
By Andy Brownfield — Associated Press
The Rev. Dr. Sharon Richards, president of the Metro Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the bill has caused an economic disaster.
Tennessee Police Training Seminar Taught By Notorious Anti-Muslim Activist
By Jillian Rayfield — Talking Points Memo
…officers in Tennessee attended a training seminar in Murfreesboro this week that was taught by a known Islamophobe who claims that Muslims should not get First Amendment rights.
Susan B. Anthony’s Hit List
By Monica B. Potts — The American Prospect
How a group founded by anti-abortion feminists became a powerful foe of Democratic women.
