Posts Tagged religious right

By Katie Halper • 11 years ago

Israel’s theocratic sex-ed problem

In an age of religious strife and division, it is truly heart-warming to how organized religions, regardless of their denomination, can share in the wonderful tradition of undermining science and education. As many know, the Christian religious right frequently rears its head to oppose teaching things like evolution, or the Age of Enlightenment, or how not to get pregnant, or how not to get an STI. But did you know Jews do it too? Well, now you do.

The Israeli Ministry of education, in an extremely pro-education move, has asked text book publishers to remove chapters on little not-so-importanty things like human reproduction, safe sex and contraception from science textbooks used in state religious junior high ...

In an age of religious strife and division, it is truly heart-warming to how organized religions, regardless of their denomination, can share in the wonderful tradition of undermining science and education. As many know, the Christian ...
By Maya Dusenbery • 12 years ago

No-duh contraception reminder of the day: Birth control costs money

There a lot that’s surreal about the recent debate over birth control coverage. For one: the timing. It’s 2012 and news stories about birth control in the U.S. have to include a reminder that 99% of heterosexually active women have used it. You’ve got Fox news saying liberals support birth control “to get rid of the poor” and the American Life League warning of a slippery slope towards forced consumption of the Pill.

In an avalanche of crackpot myths about contraception, I’m especially infuriated by the conservative idea that IUDs grow on trees and birth control pills rain down from the skies. Georgia Rep. Tom Price says that “not one woman” has ever been ...

There a lot that’s surreal about the recent debate over birth control coverage. For one: the timing. It’s 2012 and news stories about birth control in the U.S. have to include a reminder that ...