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Is Bishop Finn above the law? Some Catholics say yes.
Why is it when religious leaders are accused, or even convicted, of abusing or neglecting children, the devout rush to defend them? Take the case of Bishop Robert Finn of the Kansas City-St. Joseph...
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The Real Michael Pearl
Both TV and print media have pitted me against Michael Pearl, as I have been vocal about my concerns that his teachings about childrearing are dangerous. I have written extensively about Pearl in...
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Are you raising your child in a religious authoritarian culture?
As I stress in my book, Breaking Their Will, children are at most risk for being religiously abused or neglected when they are raised in religious authoritarian cultures. These cultures are homes and...
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A Dangerous Evangelist Threatens to Come to America
I don’t care to criticize others for their religious beliefs. It’s not my business whether one worships Allah, Yahweh, Jesus, the pope, Mohammad, or Warren Jeffs. But when I see religious leaders...
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Imam: Shafia murders were “unbelievable.” Really?
Last week in Montreal, three Muslims from Afghanistan were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for killing four family members, including three teenage girls. According to...
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The Politics of Big Religion
I recently read that the attorney for Bishop Robert Finn is trying to get his client’s case thrown out, by convincing a judge that Finn was not responsible for reporting cases of child sexual abuse....
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No Refuge
In Breaking Their Will, I write about the polygamous, religious sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or FLDS. Around 2003, the group’s leader, Warren Jeffs,...
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A deadly ritual
If you want to understand just how religious authoritarianism harms children, look no further than the actions of a powerful group of rabbis in New York known as Agudath Israel. AI is a Jewish...
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Pious and bloodthirsty
This week, a 14-year-old Pakistani girl named Malala Yousufzai was nearly killed when a member of the Taliban shot her on a school bus. Her “crime”? Trying to seek an education for herself and other...
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Religious patriarchy does not harm only women
It’s hard to believe that women in a family would not do all they could to come to the aid of a dying infant. But that is what happened in the case of David Hickman. The infant was born two months...
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