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Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling

By Sunnivie Brydum

…servative Christian views on sexuality and gender to a federally protected class—a goal that seems to track with Moore’s own Reconstructionist tendencies.) But the precise makeup of the Senate for the bulk of Moore’s term is still undetermined—and regardless, Democrats face a Sisyphean battle when it comes to turning the Senate blue in 2018. Like many of the bills introduced by Sens. Cruz, Paul, and Lee, legislation authored or sponsored by Moore…

GMO or No: Problematic Intersections of Religion, Biotechnology, and Food

By Brittany Shoot

…cinal intervention. Unlike Judaism, Islam has few specific requirements to classify food as inherently good or permissible, and only disallows wine, pork, and its byproducts. The Qur’an states that food is part of living a full life, and caring for one’s physical body—as part of the larger self—is an essential part of salvation. In his essay, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Muslim ethicist Ebrahim Moosa examines the ways that Muslim lea…

Daschle Is Gone—But the Stench of Insider Corruption Lingers

By Peter Laarman

…ortance and self-love that come with being part of the permanent governing class. They take their extreme privilege for granted. Daschle said Monday that he just didn’t see that the car and driver he enjoyed might represent taxable income, rather than “a gift from a good friend.” Hello? And did Obama seriously think that because Daschle wasn’t registered as a lobbyist, he wasn’t effectively lobbying for the private-sector clients that dumped $5 mi…

A Whiter Shade of Faith: Saturday’s Tax Protests and the Religion of Whiteness

By Peter Laarman

…t it is African American families (many of them new entrants to the middle class) who have taken and will continue to take the worst hits in the Great Recession that continues to unfold. But the thing about a mythos, in this case about an entire worldview shaped by resentment and fear of falling, is that it is not susceptible to being corrected by mere facts. I think it might be helpful to look back at expressions of White Faith from a century ago…

Pathological Optimist Documentary Makes a Medical Martyr of Anti-Vax Crusader

By Gordon Haber

…was in the pocket of a lawyer looking to develop the British version of a class-action suit. Over the course of Wakefield’s “research,” he earned £435,643 in addition to his hospital salary; meanwhile certain companies that Wakefield had an interest in were filing vaccine- and autism treatment-related patents. Wakefield sued Deer for libel and lost—which, in Britain, means that Wakefield was responsible for both his own and Deer’s court costs. Th…

Aasif Mandvi on Islamophobia, Acting, and the Long Shadow of Jon Stewart

By Haroon Moghul

…y. You know what I mean. Go to school, learn what it is what you want to do. A lot of people in Hollywood are like, I can do it, I can act, I’m just gonna go there, get an agent and do it. It makes a difference when you have a class—it’s like anything else. You’ve got to dedicate the time to it. And here’s the thing, it’s not an easy road. It’s just something that you love, and if you can’t see your life being fulfilled if you don’t do it, then do…

Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ts: Celebrants will be split into two different types. There will be a new class created of “religious marriage celebrant” who can refuse to conduct a marriage ceremony if it is contrary to their religious beliefs. Australian Defence Force chaplains will also be able to refuse to solemnise a marriage. Celebrants have 90 days to decide whether they want to be registered as a “religious marriage celebrant” and identify as such in any advertising. On…

“Split at the Root”: Adrienne Rich and (Religious) Identity

By Ryan Harper

…ury or so, every aspect of my identity will have to be engaged. The middle-class white girl taught to trade obedience for privilege. The Jewish lesbian raised to be a heterosexual gentile. The woman who first heard oppression named and analyzed in the Black Civil Rights struggle. The woman with three sons, the feminist who hates male violence. The woman limping with a cane, the woman who has stopped bleeding are also accountable. The poet who know…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…ith organized crime and with the distrust of their new government. It is a classic immigrant story, made all the more poignant by the contrast between the two brothers: one tattooed in ways which make it impossible for him to deny his own identity, while the other seeks to mask his identity, having adopted an assimilating name and demeanor. He refuses his mother-in-law’s suggestion that he take his son back to the world they came from, yet he’s co…

Paul Weyrich, “Godfather” of Modern Conservative Movement, Dead at 66

By Bill Berkowitz

…ation [about] how he might accomplish his dream [bringing together working-class Catholics and evangelical Protestants] when he attended a political strategy session run by liberal operatives.” Although Weyrich hadn’t been invited to the confab—and to my knowledge he never revealed how he got there—Martin’s book quoted him as saying that “there before my eyes was revealed the modus operandi of the left:” They had all these different groups, includ…