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Women’s Rights Activists Bleed and Defecate on ISIS Flag to (Apparently)...
[Note: All links in this post should be considered Not Safe For Work!]Egyptian women’s rights activist Aliaa Elmahdy isn’t afraid of a little controversy, to put it mildly. For a few years, she’s been...
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Anti-Abortion Advocates Will Erect Memorials and Hold Services for Aborted...
If you haven’t already marked your calendar, you’re going to want to get right on it, because tomorrow is “National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children,” at least according to anti-abortion...
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Massachusetts Mega-church Votes to Let Women Serve as Elders
The Christian community is still shockingly slow to accept women among their ranks of leadership, which is particularly egregious since one of the earliest Christian bishops was a woman (her name was...
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Are Men More Likely to Be Secular Than Women?
This is a guest post written by Phil Zuckerman. Zuckerman is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College. His latest book, Living the Secular Life, will be published this...
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C’mon, Cosmo, You Have to Endorse This Candidate! #CosmoVotes
Earlier this month, editors at Cosmopolitan magazine — a publication known mostly for celebrity coverage and long lists of sex tips — announced that they would be making political endorsements this...
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After 16 Years and 7 Kids, This Quiverfull Mother Got a Divorce from Her...
At the American Atheists National Convention this year, Vyckie Garrison spoke about how she left the Quiverfull movement after giving birth to seven children and being hailed by many as a model...
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Catholic Sports League Tells Girl She Can’t Play Football, Even After She...
Cece Lucia, an eighth grader at St. Simon Middle School in Indianapolis, happens to be on the football team — and she’s a really good kicker.In her first game on Sunday, she made both of her attempts —...
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North Dakota School District Says Girls Who Wear Jeggings Are Just Like...
The Devils Lake School District in North Dakota knows exactly how to get students to pay attention in class: The girls just need to stop wearing clothing that’ll distract the boys, even if they’re...
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Can a Christian “Lean In” Movement Propel Women in the Workplace?
Liberty University, Jerry Falwell‘s evangelical powerhouse college in the hills of western Virginia, is loosely working with Christine Craine of Hillsong Church (in Australia) to start a program...
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In Snub to Jihadists, Kurdish-Led Province Issues Women’s Rights Decree
In a courageous and welcome rebuke to ISIS, Kurdish officials in a region of Syria have issued a 30-point decree that elaborates on the rights of women — a slap in the face to the Muslim extremists who...
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If You Had Premarital Sex, This Baptist Pastor and College President Believes...
Recently surfaced video reveals some profound thoughts on modesty from Paul Chappell, pastor of the Lancaster Baptist Church of Lancaster California and president of the West Coast Baptist College.He...
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Church of England Names First Female Bishop
Two decades ago, the Church of England allowed women into the priesthood. In November, the Church officially said that women could hold leadership positions. And now, in the year 2014, almost five...
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Why a New Christian Book Focusing on Girls’ Changing Bodies Mostly Misses the...
When I was at Grove City College, one of my professors asked us if we identified with our bodies as our physical selves. That question was revolutionary to me, a child of evangelical church culture. To...
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Conservative Christian Blogger: Accepting Caitlyn Jenner for Who She Is...
Conservative Christian blogger Matt Walsh (who you may remember for his recent, peculiar defense of the Duggars) is deeply offended — for women — when people refer to Caitlyn Jenner by her name. (That...
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Christian Writer Creates Guide to “Training Your Wife”
We know that one of the worst aspects of conservative Christian culture is how women are often treated as inferior to men. (Or, to paraphrase pastors, they’re equal; they just have “different roles.”)A...
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Ricki Lake’s New Film About Birth Control Gets Contraception All Wrong
In Mexico City, in 1951, yams changed the world of contraception forever.A chemist by the name of Dr. Carl Djerassi had found a way to synthesize the hormones they contained. While it would take...
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Richard Dawkins Fails Spectacularly on Feminism and Islam
It’s not unusual for renowned atheist Richard Dawkins to rub people of faith the wrong way. It’s not unheard of for him to get on the bad side of feminists. But it’s not every day that he pisses off...
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There Was Nothing Wrong with Richard Dawkins’ Tweet That “Islam Needs a...
[Note from Hemant: There was an overwhelming response to a recent post on this site about a tweet made by Richard Dawkins, including strong disagreements within our writing team. For that reason, we're...
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Camille Paglia Calls Prominent Atheists “Juvenile” and Christopher Hitchens...
Camille Paglia, dissident feminist and social critic, has finally driven a stake into the heart of her relevancy, and I’m not just saying that because I disagree with her.In her latest interview on...
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To Show She’s Still Pure, a Rape Survivor in India Will Have to Balance a...
A rape victim in India — who was denied an abortion by the government — will now have to prove her purity if she wants to get back together with her husband. And the test involves balancing an 88-pound...
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