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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…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

…regularly priced tickets ranging between $250 and $500. It is arguably the dominant brand of today’s Republican Party. For good reason, a growing number of expert observers have begun sounding the alarm. I suggest it’s time we hit the panic button. The rally featured plenty of repugnant elements—from the relentless attacks on transgender youth consistent with fascist scapegoating, to the steady drumbeat of election fraud claims, to accusations tha…

Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ersal human rights on the other must be struck in favour of human rights.” Dominican Republic: Petition Seeks Removal of Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador A petition posted to the White House website calls on President Obama to remove openly gay Wally Brewster from his post as US Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, reports the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers. The petition — which an anonymous person posted on Tuesday — accuses Brewster of promoting “…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…ian conscience. These are the speeches that persuade, not the arguments-by-number. So why do we repeat them? One strategic justification is that we progressives are regrettably obliged to answer the barrage of speeches from the other side. If they quote those predictable Bible verses against us, we must reply with counter-interpretations. If they brandish natural law, we must correct their reading of Thomas Aquinas or do them one better by produci…

In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…government was proceeding with mass cremation in order to prevent the true number of deaths in and around Kedarnath from ever being known. One of the government organizations involved in rescuing survivors reportedly refused to assist with cremations. Even as the state government continues to conduct disaster relief there has been a wincing degree of political theater. A debate is developing about how the Badri-Kedar Temple Committee, the state go…

The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?

By Maren Haynes

…connection, once burning with possibility and joy, began to cool, as cell phone calls dwindled and numbers eventually changed or were disconnected. As our shared realities drifted apart in their likeness, like Pigpen, I also turned to technologies that promised connection to try to tamp down the yearning and temper that sense of loss. Where Pigpen called up the trusty telephone operator, I did my pining alone, with only the camaraderie of a searc…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…ually describe as conservative in the traditional sense. I do think that a number of conservatives are starting to wake up to this reality now. David Brooks and Joe Scarborough and Lindsey Graham have just recently fired salvos across the decks of the right-wing talkers, criticizing them for where they’re dragging the Republican Party. But unfortunately, they’re also in pretty deep denial about just how deeply entrenched the problem is. You know,…

House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…since they will be doing the job DOJ should have done, but refused to do. Rep. John Boehner’s request to use DOJ money to defend DOMA isn’t a done deal. He’s sent a letter asking for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s help in reallocating the money, but she shot back a letter asking how much it would cost. Previously, she had said: “No institutional purpose is served by having the House of Representatives intervene in this litigation which will…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…ook me to the core. I feel an enormous level of personal responsibility to represent Muslim Americans and Islam, and to present them both in an objective and relevant light. This responsibility and focus on the Muslim American facet of my identity has taken priority over other facets of my identity for so long that sometimes I forget that they even exist. I see this in many friends too. General Powell’s simple and honest words that October day too…

Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard

By Wendy Norris

…from his New Living Translation Bible. “There is no forgiveness in the Kingdom of Earth. The only hope is for the Kingdom of Heaven to invade the Earth.” The cracker barrel-styled reading of Acts—and of I Corinthians 13 at the prayer meeting the week before where 150 people reportedly swarmed his house—are emblematic of Pastor Ted’s uncanny, Zelig-like talent for reflecting the emerging Christian Right zeitgeist of the moment. In the mid-1980s, th…