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The Pope, the GOP, and the March for Life

By Sarah Posner

…Painting conservatives as out of the mainstream (at least for a state like New York) has caused a frenzy against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Charles Pierce: The other day, Cuomo gave a radio interview in which he made the unremarkable point that the kind of Republican who wins elections in, say, Alabama, likely would have something of a tough row to hoe in New York. “If they are extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New Yor…

How the Logic of Law Enforcement Leads to Spying on Muslims

By Haroon Moghul

…, has been all over. With all the talk of the NYPD and its relationship to New York’s huge Muslim community, of which I am a part, we deserve a sustained and public conversation. But back to the Times first. Samuel Rascoff, a Professor at New York University’s School of Law (and former head of intelligence analysis for the NYPD), has an op-ed in today’s edition, “Uncle Sam is No Imam”: The strategic problem is easier to see: Is the government a cr…

John Lennon + New York City vs. Qur’an-Burning Pastor

By Evan Derkacz

You can sure see why a conservative Christian like Ray Comfort might (posthumously, tastelessly) seek to make John Lennon a spokesperson for conservative Christian dogma. Below, John Lennon (posthumously, slightly off-key) overpowers the silly rant of the loopy, mutton-chopped, Qur’an Burning Pastor Terry Jones. Okay, not John Lennon himself, but you get the idea. (And below that is my attempt to restore the name Terry Jones to its rightful own…

The Women’s March, Anti-Semitism, and ‘The Jewish Farrakhan’

By Shaul Magid

…tect elderly Jews from racial violence. Branches of the JDL soon opened in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, and many other cities. Kahane himself espoused explicitly racist views of African Americans. Of course, he denied he was a racist—as most racists do—even publishing an essay in 1987 in The Jewish Press, a Brooklyn-based weekly he edited, entitled “I Hate Racism.” By the early 1970s, Kahane and the JDL became embroiled…

Is the Pope’s Concern for Immigration Just a “Numbers Game”?

By Megan Sweas

…diversity of migrants also challenges the church on a local level. Veteran New York Times religion reporter Laurie Goodstein covered these tensions without framing the church’s interest in immigration reform as a play for more members. “Do not be afraid to welcome them,” Francis told the bishops. “Offer them the warmth of the love of Christ and you will unlock the mystery of their heart. I am certain that, as so often in the past, these people wil…

The Real (and More Interesting) World Behind Magic in the Moonlight

By David Walker

…and what they squashed with the other. Born to an Irish-American family in New York in 1861, Robinson came to prominence as a Chinese magician in London around the turn of the century where, in 1905, he waged stage-war with—and won the title “The Original Chinese Conjurer” from—Ching Ling Foo, the native Chinese magician from whom Robinson had actually stolen his Chung Ling Soo act. In 1898, before leaving the U.S., Robinson had published, under h…

RD10Q: Believing in the Bible, Not God

By Bruce Ledewitz

…sert that some action is cruel, do I mean simply that I consider it to be cruel or do I mean that it is in fact cruel? Most of us, believers and nonbelievers, mean the latter. This position is called the objectivity of values and C.S. Lewis considered it, and not belief in God, to be the core of a religious orientation. The opposite position, that people invent values, that man is the measure of all things, in other words, is scarcely imaginable….

Hate, An American Voter Value

By Gary Laderman

…ws and sites suggests that hate stories—not just hate crimes, a relatively new legal designation, but also stories that focus on conflict and hostility based on passionate dislike for the other—are staples in news media. Additionally and beyond the news, so much of popular culture is fueled by depictions of hate and difference overcome by cruel violence. Whether it’s the cowboys killing the savage Indians, the space hero destroying the ruthless al…

Right-Wing Parody of Coming Out Reveals True Parody

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ure, breaks covenants and does often irreparable—mental, spiritual and sometimes physical—harm to those involved. Homosexuality, with its struggle to gain entry into marriage and enjoy the right to keep a job and a house despite that classification, seeks to do nothing of the sort. Instead, gay and lesbian people seek to enter into holy covenant with one another. Are there gay adulterers? Sure, but statistically speaking, they’ll always be vastly…

Katy Perry’s Evangelical Hangover

By David Mihalyfy

…ent of praise music, while Madonna is endlessly trying to scandalize with crucifixes and nuns’ habits as she produces videos and tours all with the ornate regimentation of a mass. For each of them, religion matters, but their different backgrounds have led them to parcel out their music and their celebrity presence in strikingly different ways; while Madonna can’t escape St. Peter’s, Perry still bears the signs and scars of the megachurch. Since t…