Category Archives: Faith Friday

Jeff talks about Attorney General Jeff Sessions new Religious Liberty Task Force that will look to empower the government to allow more discrimination against women and LGBTQ people under the guise of religious freedom

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We are on a fast moving train where those with a theocratic bent have come to power, have used corruption to maintain that power, and may soon control all branches of government with a takeover of the Supreme Court. Many rights, especially sexual and privacy rights, may be gone by next year, and there may be nothing we can do about it.

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What is being done to children in our name by the president is monstrous, but how we respond to it matters, so that we do not wind up copying some of the same bad and dangerous behavior.

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Jeff looks at extremism in Christianity, and why we should be calling out the extremists in the same way we demand that the Islamic faith calls out their extremists.

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Our forefathers had some very enlightened ideas about Religious Freedom, but religious conservatives are turning those ideas upside down, promoting discrimination and even allowing people to die because of disagreements on religious doctrine.

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Pope Francis can be maddening on these issues, as he provides so many contradictory messages. Jeff explains where things currently stand.

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The Trump administration is using the power of the State to force the religious views of evangelicals onto everyone else. Jeff talks about how this mixing of Church and State diminishes our Democracy, and how it is being used for an all out assault against gay and women’s rights.

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Jeff looks at some of the faith inspired crazy of late, especially around sex issues.

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Jeff Booth talks about the recent rash of arrests of religious leaders accused of sexual misconduct, and the challenges in a creating a church that is both sexually open but intolerant of sexual abuse.

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Jeff looks at the White House Bible Study Group, a group of radical extremists who wouldn’t know what Christianity was if Jesus himself showed up and tried to explain it to them. He explains the ties to Christian Dominionism and how it uses religion to justify extremist hate of gays, women, and others.

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