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What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?

By Shalom Goldman

…nation for Christ and His glory,” a mission unlikely to appeal to many American Jews, whatever their political persuasion. Today, terms like “Judeo-Christian tradition” and the claim of American exceptionalism have become a staple of the rhetoric of presidential candidates. In the 2008 campaign, John McCain said, “The number one issue people should make selection of the president of the United Sates is ‘Will this person carry on the Judeo-Christi…

Netanyahu’s (Republican) Esther Moment

By Sarah Posner

…ain completely silent at this time, God’s punishment will come to us also. Today, John Waage, senior news editor for the Christian Broadcasting Network, thanks Israelis for “lending” America their prime minister to warn us of the dangers that our own president has so inadequately confronted. Next week, Waage writes, Netanyahu will “explain why his country cannot tolerate the threat from another group of evil anti-Semites in Iran to annihilate the…

Lesbian Nuns: Still Immodest After All These Years

By Susan Henking

…’s history had begun to develop as a field, “gender” as a category of historical analysis had not yet emerged (Joan Scott published her famous article in 1986). If I were to stumble upon the file on Benedetta Carlini today, I would make use of the scholarship that has developed in recent decades. The introduction and some of the notes would have had much more extended discussions about some of the issues that they and my book raise. I would especi…

Anti-Contraception Activists Claim Their Suits are Last Resort to Undermine Health Care

By Sarah Posner

…list-style diktats will be used, not to provide better or more affordable health care, but to expand Planned Parenthood’s abortion empire across the backs of American taxpayers and people of conscience—and at the expense of our religious freedoms. In light of today’s ruling, Americans will greet Independence Day with prayer, sacrifice, and renewed energy to continue our opposition to this mandate. We must also recommit ourselves to restoring full…

Let The Sun Shine In: Marriage Equality Comes to Broadway

By Paul Gorrell

…r and Marriage Equality There are many risks in doing a production of Hair today because of the ways that society has changed; the play could easily come across now as camp or nostalgia. Yes, we are a nation that continues to wage war, which still creates indescribable tragedy in our contemporary lives. But with Iraq and Afghanistan, we “sacrificed” by going shopping, the bodies of dead soldiers were hidden from our television sets, and we allowed…

Religious Freedom Not Harmed by Tenth Circuit Decision in Utah Marriage Case

By Sarah Posner

…Marriage Act. Like many of the district court opinions, the Tenth Circuit today rejected arguments that marriage equality infringes on the religious freedom of its opponents. Because, the court noted, it ruled that same-sex marriage is a fundamental right protected by the Constitution, its opponents cannot argue against it based on claims that legalizing it would result in infringements of religious freedom or create religious strife. The opinion…

Francis Now and Then: The Ecological Politics of Saints

By Beatrice Marovich

…I should probably note, at this point, that one can only give so much historical credence to a hagiography. This is meant to be a miracle tale: one beyond belief. I’m not going to trouble this story for historical veracity. But what I want to emphasize is the particular approach that Francis takes. “Tree huggers” and the women of the Chipko movement protected trees and their denizens from the powers of human technology. Here, the people of Gubbio…

Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics

By Christopher Douglas

…ler reminds us, conservative white Christians have since faced the first African-American president—and then the first African- and Asian-American woman Vice President. They have seen the Supreme Court strip school-mandated Bible reading, prayer, and so-called “creation science” from public schools, even as evolution became standard fare. They have watched feminism challenge gender roles, and the Supreme Court legalize abortion and mixed-race marr…

Pentagon Report Rejects Religious Right Arguments On DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to pass. As today’s Pentagon study notes: “[B]y 1953, 95 percent of all African-American soldiers were serving in racially integrated units, while public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, and other cities were still racially segregated.” AFA’s talking points on the trumped-up religious freedom issue are still having an effect on those who have a vote in the repeal. Even Democratic Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas echoed AFA’s talking points, saying, “I…

American Jewish Leaders Get Gaza Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…ried at this moment about Jews in the progressive camp. This segment of American Jewry has struggled in the past with Gaza, dividing over whether to back Operation Cast Lead in 2008. Reservations about Israel’s use of force in Gaza have continued. In 2009, Yoffie called American Jewish critics of Cast Lead “morally deficient, profoundly out of touch with Jewish sentiment and also appallingly naïve.” Yoffie’s words supporting what the Israeli mili…