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American Nuns Under the Vatican Microscope

By Mary E. Hunt

…civil disobedience and goes to jail to help stop war or nuclear weapons. A number of the questions are clearly designed to elicit answers the Vatican knows full well it won’t like. The data will provide the pretext for concluding that the decline in numbers in progressive groups is a result of their lack of obedience and conformity to the men’s rules. Solution: tighten up the ranks. Enter the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, the alte…

Religious Right Claims Heterosexual Marriage is a Requirement for Statehood

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ears. The bottom line here is that the anti-marriage gang is up to its old tricks, trying to conflate polygamy and marriage equality to create fear and loathing of gays and lesbians. This talking point has an added twist, insinuating that any state that legalizes gay marriage could somehow be kicked out of the union because they have violated some federal law defining marriage as a requirement for statehood. Such a “litmus test” does not exist. So…

By the Way: “Ten Commandments Judge” To Be Alabama’s Next Gov?

By Randall Balmer

…ith and our freedom.” In announcing his candidacy, Moore was up to his old tricks. “Out of Washington comes a dangerous new message that we are not a Christian nation,” he thundered. “Indeed, I refute that.” Several years ago (after the “Ten Commandments” trial), I accompanied a group of students from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism on a tour of the South. We arranged a meeting with Moore, who is an engaging man with a good sense of hum…

Beck Condemns “Bigotry for Sport” in New York

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n’t know. It’s getting hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys sometimes. Time will tell if Beck’s renunciation of violence and bigotry is true or if he’ll soon be back to his old tricks, because while he condemned the New York attackers’ actions as “bigotry for sport,” Beck clearly has no trouble with bigotry for profit….

Cone of Shame: A Spiritual Crisis in the Humanities

By Beatrice Marovich

…(and learned that it was not the gluten). I had all sorts of mad scientist tricks up my sleeve. You might say I’d fallen victim to one of the chief humanist errors: I’d made a fuss about the human ability to rationalize in high style, and I let it feed delusions of omnipotence. Aristotle is often credited with the claim that human beings are the “rational animal”—the one animal who’s touched by, emboldened by, possessed with reason. This allowed u…

Women, Religion, and Film: Higher Ground Raises the Stakes

By Sarah Sentilles

…ipping at the altar of [her]self.” This is one of sexism’s dirtiest little tricks—dismissing feminist liberation as selfish, self-centered navel gazing—and it is a devastating, life-threatening reversal. The community’s disciplining response to Corinne in the film resonates with me in part because I have received similar feedback about my own recently published memoir, Breaking Up with God. Reviewers have called me self-centered, selfish, arrogant…

David Barton: Creationist Founding Fathers Settled Debate Over Evolution

By Lauri Lebo

…that the bible takes a stand against net neutrality. One of Barton’s chief tricks is to conflate two concepts and treat them as the same thing. In this case, he references the 1968 Supreme Court decision of Epperson v Arkansas in which the court ruled that laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution were based on religious objections and therefore violated the First Amendment. On his WallBuilder website, he says the subject of evolution predates th…

Tea Party’s Cosmic Conflict in Wisconsin

By Gary Laderman

…ndamental to its existence is one of the oldest, and most socially useful, tricks in the evolutionary book of human life. An enemy brings life to social solidarity and brings into sharp relief the ultimate values which must be upheld at all costs. What is the sacred enemy that animates the TP? Big Government. All of the various fears that have made their way into contemporary political discourse since the rise of the TP movement—death panels, soci…

Can Shari’ah Be Imposed Through the ‘Homosexual Agenda’?

By Hussein Rashid

…semblance of reality. The latest entry in the category of Stupid Shari’ah Tricks is a minister in Oklahoma who accuses of Rep. Keith Ellison of imposing “sharee” by stealth because he supports equal rights for homosexuals. Now, one of the great talking points to get liberals to stop supporting Muslims is that shari’ah is opposed to homosexuality. This point is generally true. Most traditional religious law, Muslim or otherwise, condemns homosexua…

The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…for Life President Jeanne Mancini told the Times: I don’t think that these numbers are the most important. The number most important for us is 58 million, which is the number of Americans that have been lost to abortion. But either they have the numbers or they don’t. And if they don’t, maybe the media should take a hard look at how it covers a predictable, lightly attended act of agitprop which claims to represent hundreds of thousands of people…