Read an Associated Press story, “Doctors denounce abstinence-only education.” It’s posted by MSNBC.

Read a U.S. News and World Report article that asks whether schools are giving students too much – or too little – information about sexual matters. The magazine says California, Pennsylvania and, most recently, Maine have turned down federal money for abstinence-only curricula so they can teach what they believe is best.

See the Supreme Court of the United States blog’s comprehensive coverage of the Arizona v. United States case.

Written by John Danforth (Viking Adult, 2006). Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri and an ordained Episcopalian minister, speaks out against the conflation of political agendas with religious views and the religious right’s focus on wedge issues.

The National Center for Health Statistics posts statistics about teen births.

Written by Gregory A. Boyd (Zondervan, 2006). Boyd, a theologian and pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minn., discusses his worry over the growing alignment of Christianity and the right-wing ideology of the Republican Party.

Written by Randall Balmer (Basic Books, 2006). Balmer, an evangelical Christian, writes about what he believes has been the hijacking of the Christian faith on behalf of the Republican Party.

Written by David Kuo (Free Press, 2006). Kuo, who served as George W. Bush’s deputy director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, discusses his path of disillusionment as he tried to blend faith and politics in the Bush White House.

Sept. 14, 2011, First Things column by Joe Carter where he dismisses the idea of an oppressive American theocracy ever materializing