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New Book: God Favors Supply-Side Economics

By Gordon Haber

Religious people can’t seem to agree on poverty—they agree that it exists, of course, but they don’t know what the government should do about it. This debate was put on display during Wednesday’s House Budget Committee hearing with Rep. Paul Ryan and Sister Simone Campbell—both Catholic—addressing the issue from very different perspectives. Ryan believes that cutting government programs will help the poor, while Campbell, the face of Nuns on the…

Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating

By Beatrice Marovich

Some humans are deeply passionate about their meat. They love it, they gnash their teeth for it. In her 2006 spiritual travelogue Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert confessed a kind of affinity with the sensual Tuscan culture of meat. Shop windows in the Italian town, she writes, are loaded with sausages “stuffed like ladies’ legs into provocative stockings” or the “lusty buttocks” of ham. The net effect, she suggests, is the emanation of a “you…

For Conservatives, the Future Looks Dim… and Gay

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

It would appear that the only thing standing between equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans is a religious objection. But, according to a new poll from Pew Research, even those who object on religious grounds believe LGBT equality is inevitable. According to the poll, 52% of those who continue to oppose equality for LGBT people cited “moral objections to homosexuality, that it conflicts with religious beliefs, or that it go…

The “Mormon Moment” Yields… Not So Much

By Joanna Brooks

Even after Mitt Romney lost, Mormon media observers felt that his campaign must have yielded a net positive for public understanding of the Mormon faith. But new data released by the Pew Forum suggests otherwise. 82% of Americans surveyed by Pew say they learned little to nothing about Mormonism during the 2012 campaign. Nearly 50% said they still know “little to nothing” about Mormonism, a proportion unchanged from 2011. And only about 40% co…

Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

By Peter Laarman

Storm and flood, bad bishops, nones on the bus, vegan leather queens, God’s mom: in this list Peter Laarman plots the angles that were largely invisible in mainstream religion coverage this past year—and likely in our own. A road map for 2013—and a sign to us that there might be more important things to focus on this year than the launch of our signature fragrance, RD’s Apocalypse-Begone (subtle notes of ash, hints of ocean breeze, a wisp of sulp…

Hurricane Sandy Spawns Right-Wing Theodicy

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

As Hurricane Sandy heads ashore on the east coast of the U.S., far right-wing religious zealots are already calling it a sign from God for everything from U.S. policy on Israel to, of course, the gays. The conspiratorial World Net Daily says Sandy is a sign that God is angry with the U.S. for defying his will on Israel: In fact, in his book Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel, [William] Koenig points out that nine of the 10 cos…

Beware Mitt Romney’s “Softer Side”

By Joanna Brooks

Everyone is talking about Mitt Romney’s “softer side.” That’s how some reporters are characterizing a recent shift in Romney’s stump speeches. Because Governor Romney has started talking about dead people: the Navy SEAL who died in Benghazi. The 14-year-old boy who died of leukemia (profiled at the Convention). The long-lost friend stricken with multiple disabilities, who drags himself to meet Mitt Romney at a campaign rally. And dies the next da…

Let’s Make it Legal to Execute Disobedient Children!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

If this were to show up in a storyline for a police procedural—and by the way, I give that two months, max—it would prompt rolled eyes and audience harrumphs about cartoonishly implausible characters. But it’s real. Charlie Fuqua, a Republican candidate for the Arkansas House of Representatives who is an opponent of abortion, makes a case for the legal execution of disobedient children by their parents. The book in which he makes the case is call…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

There are many stories on which a Mormon is raised: narratives of the elect, America and the Constitution, the latter days, and free agency—all of which play a role in Mitt Romney’s “severe” conservatism. The bombshell release of video in which he trumpets his disdain for moochers, and reveals a remarkably casual approach to Middle East politics, all resonate with the Calvinist heritage of Mormon theology, as well as with principal Mormon narrati…

Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

For years, now, the press has been beating down the door of Judy Dushku, a Mormon feminist, global women’s rights activist, and professor at Suffolk University. It was Dushku who during Romney’s Senate run in 1994 broke the now infamous story of Romney’s pressuring a woman in his congregation not to have an abortion even though her life was in danger. That’s a brave stance to take in a community that prizes conformity and group loyalty. But Judy…