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San Francisco: Pope owes millions in taxes

January 22, 2009

This should cause great wailing and gnashing of teeth:
San Francisco will try to collect up to $15 million in taxes from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, which is refusing to pay certain taxes on properties the church is transferring from one Catholic nonprofit organization to another.
That tax bill would be the second largest of its [...]

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The [sane] Catholics strike back

November 20, 2008

Want evidence that not all Christians are bat shit crazy nutballs who want to establish a theocracy here in the United States?  Well, then you need to check out what the Catholics for Choice have to say about Bill Donohue(PDF) and the Catholic League.
It is not pretty nor nice, but it’s most definitely a solid [...]

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Priest just says "No" to Obama supporters

November 14, 2008

On the heels of Catholic bishops vowing to continue their war on the rights of women comes yet more news of Catholic leaders being assholes. This time it’s a priest in South Carolina who’s decided to tell Obama supporters not to take communion.
His reason? Because supporting Barack *Hussein* Obama over that other guy who was [...]

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Bishops promise war against Women

November 13, 2008

While Obama has often used the right wing frames when it comes to abortion, Obama made a promise to those of us who support reproductive freedom.  His promise was that one of his first acts as president would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).
What is FOCA? It’s a bill that forbids [...]

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Religious leaders upset over Prop 8 Protests

November 8, 2008

Just days after succeeding at removing the civil rights of gay people, the Mormon church has issued a statement calling for “mutual respect” and declaring that “no one on either side of the question should be vilified, harassed or subject to erroneous information”.
This from the group that donated $20 million of a total of [...]

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