Barak Obama

Remember, back in the olden days of late January 2017, when Sean Spicer and a host of other administration cronies promised that Trump was a steadfast ally of LGBT Americans, and that there were no…

On Friday the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would capitulate to demands of Catholic and conservative Christian non-profit organizations that claimed that filling out a form…

Gambia: President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers Fiercely anti-gay President Yahya Jammeh, who has called gay people “vermin,” went a step further last week, threatening to kill Gambians who seek…

Religiously-based efforts to prevent girls from getting an education, like the kidnapping of Nigerian school girls by Boko Haram, have resulted in murder and attempted murder (the Malala case), as…

Though Gingrich got clobbered in today’s Florida primary, his echoing of the US Bishops’ war on religion talking point is likely to make it all the way to the 2012 election.

Making access to birth control a national issue helps Obama.

What of protestants and Jews who believe it’s an obligation of their religion to practice contraception?

An argument against Commonweal’s argument against the religious exemption.

Concern that administration will cave to USCCB.

The truth is that the administration simply caved before the still potent specter of so-called “Death Panels”—a specter created last year by the likes of Sarah Palin, John Boehner, and other disingenuous opponents of health care reform. Let’s just say that in this new year, Team Obama is worried to death (pardon the expression) about defending its signature health care law from further assaults from the newly-emboldened Republicans.