
Eight years ago, in an opinion warning of the “violent consequences of the assumption of religious authority by government,” retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor offered a challenge to her fellow conservative justices eager to weaken...

Somehow, without an instruction book or half-decent advice (ahem) we all have to figure out our own sexuality. That word - sexuality - frankly gives me the creeps, because it sounds manufactured by robots in a factory somewhere. I prefer sexual taste...

National Library of Ireland on the Commons...

The only real opposition to legalizing same-sex marriage is among religious bigots -- those fundamentalists who want to impose their own religious views on all other Americans (in spite of constitutional guarantees of freedom of, and from, religion).

Once upon a time in a land of rolling hills and fields of corn and beans, there was a little farm girl wih red curly hair and freckles. She lived on an old farm where her great great grandparents had settled when Indians hunted amidst its creek...
By My side of the street on May 19, 2013 in:
2013, Christianity, Church, Community, Faith, Family, God, Human Rights, Relationships, Religion, Writers

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 people on Saturday, telling them he sometimes nods off while praying at the end of a long day and that it “breaks my heart” that the death...

Just a reminder that "freedom of religion" involves more than just the right to believe in your religion. It also guarantees that no person will be required to believe in any specific religion (including christianity), and that any person has the rig...