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Memo To Kathleen Parker on ‘Father Sky’ Reference in Tucson Memorial

By Daniel Schultz

…eliefs. That’s all right, I understand. Religion isn’t your beat. Besides, New Mexico and Arizona are exactly alike. How is a major CNN contributor like you to know what they do out in the sticks? And sure, “Father Sky and Mother Earth” isn’t exactly “In the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit.” It’s downright weird, isn’t it? It’s almost as bad as “Brother Sun” or “Sister Moon,” or “Brothers Wind and Air.” Really? How about “Siste…

Left, Behind on Obama’s Warren Strategy

By Nick Street

…he openly gay chief operating officer of the Intrepid Museum Foundation in New York City, as Secretary of the Navy. Early in his campaign, Obama promised to dismantle “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” the sloppy compromise the Clinton administration cobbled together after its unskillful effort to repeal the ban on openly gay servicemen and -women inspired conservative revolt in Congress and the military establishment. While Obama’s timetable for allowing qu…

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

By Anne Eggebroten

…rch history,” declares the National Catholic Reporter in an editorial. The New York Times, which broke the story of abuse at the deaf school in Wisconsin, quotes a priest in Berlin as saying the crisis is “the worst in 100 years or more.” They Act Like They Don’t Believe in God It’s not that the faithful are leaving the Church—for the most part, they aren’t. It’s that the hierarchy itself is cracking. “What I would like to see is actually Christia…

Ponzi Schemes, Treason, and Cervixes

By Sarah Posner

…ts consume. Tonight, Bachmann hit hard back at Perry, not only over the intrusion of a government-ordered vaccine for “innocent little 12 year-old girls,” but because Perry had done the bidding of pharmaceutical industry cronies who had contributed to his campaign and profited from the sale of the vaccine. This was one of Bachmann’s best debate moments, where she could simultaneously look like she was (1) defending “parental rights,” a big issue…

A State Without a Mexican

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…Proposition 187. “We believe that immigration reform is the civil rights struggle of our time. It is a struggle that affects all of us with its impact on the economic, social and cultural fabric of our society.” I wonder if they could have anticipated the hatred and backlash against immigrants that would be embodied by SB1070. Tales abound in print, on radio, online, and television media of Latinos/as afraid to be out on the streets. There have be…

Judge Rules Law Prohibiting Picketing Outside Military Funerals Unconstitutional

By Julie Ingersoll

…fight to define what is protected by the First Amendment religion clauses. CNN is reporting that a federal judge has ruled a Missouri State law prohibiting is picketing and protesting outside military funerals is unconstitutional. The challenge was brought by the Westboro Baptist Church and its pastor Fred Phelps, who were the target of the law. In the 1990s, Phelps and members of his church began attending funerals of gays who had died from AIDS,…

Park51 and the Ground Liberals Are Forced to
Fight On

By Sarah Posner

…ms pretty significant. Why? Because it’s showing that more people are not trusting him. The trust issue is important. Plus, news flash: the last time I checked America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles so it’s kind of important when you see a poll that says a growing number of Americans think you might be a Muslim. The President continues to tell everyone he’s a Christian but yet the number rises. See that? Which came first, the thought he…

The Right Attacks Obama’s Religious Advisors

By Sarah Posner

…claims to have engaged in terrorist acts as a Muslim have not withstood scrutinty, says he abandoned his life as a PLO terrorist because he found Christ; now he’s a diehard Christian Zionist and crusader against “radical Islam.” The younger Shoebat is now trying to put Hunter in his crosshairs; he writes that Hunter’s defense on CNN of Obama’s Christianity is necessarily suspect because he, like Wright, fails to “fit the bill of the typical Ameri…

Focus on the Family Goes to Bat for Bullies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n analyst for Focus on the Family, said on the recently launched Web site TrueTolerance.org. Cushman appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday night on CNN, and tried to put a pretty face on their efforts, saying: “We absolutely think every child should be protected from bullying.” She went on to try to explain, and this is where I began to wonder if conservative Christians ever really listen to themselves when they speak—because she hit the nail…

Could The “Grand Old Party” Now Be The “Gay Old Party”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…gious right—and it always seems to survive predictions of its demise—but a new Associated Press poll released this week echoes an earlier CNN poll showing majority support for same-sex marriage (52 percent to 46 percent). The poll also shows 58 percent say gays and lesbians should “be entitled to the same government benefits as married couples of the opposite sex.” Only 38 percent opposed. It’s instructive to note that of the 1,007 adults intervie…