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From “Jane Roe” to “Roe No More”: Norma McCorvey’s Long Strange Trip Through the Politics of Abortion

By Patricia Miller

…82% of likely Clinton voters supported abortion rights, while only 36% of Trump voters did so. Fully 60% of Trump supporters thought abortion should be illegal in all most cases, while only 16% of Clinton backers would ban abortion. And the anti-abortion movement, which—as their exploitation of McCorvey demonstrates—has always had a better sense of the theatrics of the politics of abortion, married that to a fierce grassroots legislative ground ga…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…d one? This question was asked immediately, and repeatedly, in response to news reports on the Vatican document. CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the National Catholic Reporter and others reported on the new teaching, and in the comments sections of these pieces, there was a great deal of outrage from Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Some complained that the Church just wanted more money and that the Church was looking for an angle…

Obsession with Attackers’ Backgrounds Misses the Point of Terrorism

By Ali Olomi

…. Under Yusuf ibn Ayyub, celebrated as Saladin, jihad was defined as the struggle to restore Islam to Jerusalem after it had been purged from the city by the Crusaders in 1099 CE. In the 18th and 19th century jihad takes on a decidedly anti-colonial bent. The Muslim reformer, Muhammad ibn Abd’ al-Wahhab used jihad as a purifying force to eliminate foreign influences from the Arab heartlands. In 1830, Emir Abdelkadir, the Algerian Sufi, conducted j…

Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy

By Jonathan Root

…hawk his goods. Certainly, media outlets—most notably Breitbart, but also CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC—seem to have profited from Trump’s headline-friendly candidacy. But no one else has used it to sell condos, cabins, Hobbit homes, or buckets of freeze-dried food. In this, Bakker represents an illustrative extreme—the reductio ad absurdum of America’s politics-as-entertainment culture, and the extraordinary fulfillment of all the ways that faith, ap…

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…twangier, and more direct than Nashville would allow—there would be no pre-Rubber Soul Beatles sound (go back and listen to it again), no Gram Parsons or Sweetheart of the Rodeo, no Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakam or Sturgill Simpson, arguably no X or the Replacements (no, really, listen to it all again). Haggard’s band, the Strangers, were a tight band, more precise and fluid than anybody this side of Captain Beefheart or all but the best bluegrass co…

Reparative Therapy is Quackery, Rabbis Agree—But that Doesn’t Mean it’s Okay to Be Gay

By Jay Michaelson

…communities”—because that clearly has worked so well in the past. In other words, reparative therapy, and JONAH in particular, is the only thing holding back the Rabbi Feldmans of the world from unprecedented, weird, and baseless speculation more befitting astrologers and palm-readers than legitimate Torah sages. Everything holds water until JONAH’s finger in the dike is removed. Once it’s clear that reparative therapy is neither reparative nor th…

Exit Polls on Religion

By Sarah Posner

CNN is publishing the exit polls, which provide some early information on the religious makeup of the electorate in the criticals states. Note that voters who were in line as polls closed are still voting, so final results, and final exits, are still some time off. Some interesting details, though, out of Virginia, Ohio, and Florida: Florida: 70% of white Jews, who comprised 5% of the electorate, voted for Obama. Another data point had all Jews,…

Anthony Weiner’s Achilles Penis

By Donna Schaper

…“over it,” we will continue to see one Achilles penis after another, probably online in covert caughtness. The women will still bear the letter “A” on their breasts, and the men will just bore us. Imagine, instead, how wonderful it would be if we could all be queer, even the Weiners of the world. Queer? Isn’t that a bad word? Nope. It just means a way of transcending gender, loving sex, enjoying the erotic. Very few Sunday Schools are teaching it…

How the Conspiratorial American Right is Spinning the Egypt Protests

By Sarah Posner

…t. The Muslim Brotherhood, Klein writes, “seeks to spread Islam around the world.” Get it? Obama’s a Muslim in league with the Muslim Brotherhood, aiming to install shari’ah law all over the world! Never mind that — back in reality — ElBaradei has criticized the U.S. response to the protests, and the protests remain a distinctly political, not religious affair. But don’t be surprised to find all of these ideas — that the Muslim Brotherhood is behi…

An Unholy Holy Week: Is the All-Male Rule of the Roman Catholic Church Self-Destructing?

By Anne Eggebroten

…is cracking. “What I would like to see is actually Christian honest people running the shop,” said Sinead O’Connor, speaking on CNN about her faith as a Catholic woman and the need for governmental change in the Church. “It seems to me that the Vatican don’t actually believe in God at all. They’re certainly not acting like they believe in a God that watches. A Christian is supposed to ask ‘What would Jesus do?’ and try to do it. Would Jesus have c…