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The Kids are Religious Right: Punk Rock & Pro-Life

By Justin Philpot

…lthy profit for Planned Parenthood. They cashed in over $50 million on the sale of abortion and birth control to teenagers just last year.” MTV’s inclusion in the Pledge is a direct reference not only to popular culture’s role in the creation and support of a culture of death, but recognizes MTV’s position as an influential youth media outlet. Rock for Life cites MTV’s College Invasion Tour, which included safe sex information, as “another example…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…ig-budget Left Behind reboot hit theaters, evangelical movie producer Paul Lalonde was fighting with fans. Lalonde was still editing the film. The score was still being written and foreign distribution deals negotiated. He had better things to do than take to Facebook and argue with Christians who had no clue about the business of movies but very, very firm ideas about how things should be done. Yet there he was, typing comments on an open thread…

Rape-Marriage of Nigerian Girls is ‘Biblical Marriage’

By Wil Gafney

…oductive autonomy. At its core, rape marriage reduces girls to objects for sale and barter to reproduce through torturous conditions, women who are compliant and accepting of their lot in life as household, sexual and reproductive slaves. Forced illiteracy is key. Boko Haram is as threatened by the doodle-covered grammar books and primers of schoolgirls as American slaveowners were by letters scratched in the dirt by the women and men they claimed…

All Candy, No Jesus: Halloween in America

By Mary Valle

…of the Castle Church of Wittenberg, in large part to protest the Church’s sale of indulgences. Halloween is a little troublesome to me as well—mostly because it’s just gotten so commercial. I like it as more of a handcrafted, neighborhoody children’s frolic, rather than an excuse to litter yards with icky vinyl inflatables and for adults to wear embarrassing, shoddy costumes. My aesthetic objections are not on a par with those who find the holida…

Catholics Choose Conscience Over Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…yee not the employer. Just as no one can tell an employee how to invest a salary or spend a bonus, neither can anyone prevent the use of money for birth control that is mandated by law. At the heart of the matter, as I read it, are two fundamental issues. The first is that the concept of religious freedom takes on new meaning in an increasingly secular society. This is the bishops’ nightmare, but it is simply a fact that more people are religiousl…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was in the line of the dreaded Judge Hathorne of Salem witch trial fame (and whose notoriety was the reason for the author’s addition of a “w” to his own name), said that he was proud that the Puritans once existed, and relieved that they no longer did. And yet during the horrors of the Civil War, the pilgrims took on a new symbolic role, as Yankee historians conceptualized the origins of America not in Jamestown, Virgini…

The Rabbis are Right to
Be Afraid

By Jay Michaelson

…did myself. After all, the New York Times coverage of the event notes the sale of “kosher” smartphones that limit Internet use. This is funny stuff. But on second thought, aren’t the ultra-Orthodox right? This is an insular community that has built real and virtual walls to shield itself from secular influences. Aren’t they correct to worry that if their adherents surf the Internet, the community will suffer? I think they are. One reason I write…

Racist Remarks by popular BYU Religion Professor Spark Controversy

By Joanna Brooks

Racist apologetics by a popular Brigham Young University religion professor are sparking controversy, as election-year scrutiny sheds a revealing light on the persistence of racist belief among LDS Church members. On Tuesday, Randy Bott, a BYU professor of religion, told the Washington Post that the LDS Church’s historic prohibition on priesthood ordination for men of African descent was a “blessing” to blacks because they were not “ready” for pr…

The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ix a signature/ to the paper of the enemy/ with its sin of annexation/ and sale of native civil rights,” the song insists, against Hawai’ian music so sweetly melodic that tourists are unable to hear it as tears. Certainly the world leaders did not. Neither, beyond a few curious glances, did the they seem much to register the low-key grand finale of the set: a 45-minute rendition of his recently released anthem in support of the Occupy Movement, “W…

Ponzi Schemes, Treason, and Cervixes

By Sarah Posner

…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 for her Christian right base which claims that the government should tell them how to take care of their kids, (2) pushing back against “big government” that was at once intruding on family’s privacy and promotin…