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Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…2006, declined a request for an interview. However, he says on the TPCN website that he joined the group after conducting research that convinced him that “countless women were suffering through a decision they never really wanted to make—nor wouldn’t have to—if just one other person were available to listen, support, protect, and educate.” According to a 2011 report by NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, the money spent on Alternatives to Abortion could have…

Dark Sisters Opera Aims to Humanize Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…Joseph Smith in Sharon, Vermont. What I’ve loved about LDS history is how site-specific it is: it treats America the way some people treat Israel. There is this procession of sacred sites still held sacred. Colorado City has that same heightened sense of place. I drove and walked around Colorado City and attempted to be as invisible as possible. Ha! It kind of worked. One thing that surprised me was this roadside espresso stand, with two women in…

Prop 8 Ruling a True Test of Liberty (Religious or Otherwise)

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t to their right to discriminate based on religious beliefs. Their new Web site even points out that “contemporary laws that ‘redefine’ marriage to include two persons of the same sex threaten to stifle the Church’s ability to teach publicly about and witness to the uniqueness of marriage as a lifelong bond between one man and one woman.” Which is ridiculous. They can still say what they want. What’s really threatened is their authority to have co…

Occupy in Exile: Sacred Space is Everywhere

By Donna Schaper

…red so sacred by some that they found the possibility of a mosque near the site as desacralizing. The blend, not the division, of sacred and profane spaces really matters to justice and its hopes. If the spirit of Occupy Wall Street and its home at “Liberty Square” is to survive and have impact, we occupiers need a larger understanding of what sacred space is and what it isn’t. Sacred space can be anywhere, any time. Lots of people want to turn th…

Evangelicals and Newt: Love Him or Hate Him?

By Sarah Posner

…The open letter, written on a blog that bears no names or footprints (the site registration is private), lambasts Vander Plaats not only for his association with Gingrich, but for accepting Gingrich’s help in securing $200,000 in “seed money” for his campaign to oust judges who had ruled in favor of gay marriage. There’s something odd, though, to my eyes, about the phrasing in the Iowans for Christian Leaders in Government materials. Like it wasn…

Birth of Hipster Hasidism?

By Nicole Greenfield

…-Lubavitch headquarters, and, according to one Hasidic landlord, a growing number of “yuppies [who] bring pritzus [immodesty] to our neighborhood.” In the anonymous open letter posted on the Jewish community site COLlive (and first reported by the New York Daily News), the landlord expresses concern over the introduction of “a very different way of life: new nightclubs and bars, sun tanning on rooftops, bike lanes” and presses others to “reinforce…

Komen, Planned Parenthood, and Conspiracy Theories

By Sarah Posner

…therwise support abortion or immoral embryonic stem cell research. So it’s best to support organizations that do not.” As with Republican efforts to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood’s family planning services, the right’s crusade against the Komen Foundation was not just based on opposition to abortion, but on religiously-motivated conspiracy theories about reproductive medicine. Komen should stop funding Planned Parenthood not jus…

God’s Body, God’s Plan: The Komen Furor and Abortion as Black/Latino “Genocide”

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…unwanted pregnancies are exhorted to just believe that God has a plan. The site claims that, “If you are a Bible-believing Christian yet you don’t believe that God can and will take care of you and your baby, His gift to you, then you are calling him a liar.” Bulging numbers of African American foster care and homeless youth are apparently the result of the unwillingness of apostate black women to cling blindly to faith in God’s plan. In Californi…

Yoga Guru or CEO? Saving the Brand When Scandal Strikes

By Andrea R. Jain

…oga world. The accusations, (re-posted in early February from an anonymous site by blogger Yoga Dork) can be summarized as follows: Friend heads a Wiccan coven in which he has sex with female members; Friend had several sexual relationships with married Anusara employees and teachers; Friend violated federal regulations regarding employee benefits by suddenly freezing Anusara, Inc.’s pension fund; and finally, Friend put his employees at legal ris…

Yom Kippur Prayers for Corporate Atonement at Occupy Wall St.

By Sarah Posner

…Kippur, and a Kol Nidre service is scheduled to be held in Zuccotti Park, site of the Occupy Wall Street protests. RD Senior Editor Sarah Posner spoke with Daniel Sieradski, the organizer of the service, who has been described as “a major figure of the Jewish Internet world and a cultural trailblazer” by the Jewish Daily Forward. Sieradski, the former publisher of Jewschool, is a cause media entrepreneur whose current project is Jew It Yourself:…